Okay. I get it. The intent is to go "Level up your damn spells instead of leaving them at 1 for lower FP costs."

Here's the major issue, though. Who lacks the SP to sink into it? Lower levels. You know, the ones who have the pathetically poor FP pool by comparison?

I think the absolute highest FP I have on a low level character is 197 FP on a level 24 Wyverntouched Evoker with nearly perfect will growths, Exceptional will, and various FP bonuses from gear. Remove all those bonuses and suddenly 3 spells has it completely drained.

"Oh, Arcane Tattoo!" Sure, that should always be the first point you spend on Evoker anyways. But when the choice comes down to a 40 FP Magaisendo vs a 45 FP Isenshi, where would you rather apply that percentage based FP cost reduction?

Long story short, this guarantees that spells ideal for levelling... can't be used without sinking many levels into them first. Which is counterproductive.

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Version 1.04! You know, when I wrote the notes for this update, it felt like a lot less work than it ended up being. Some polishing effects to come, namely animations/etc, but for now, every Promoted Class except Tactician (because they're too new) got 2 new skills! And some other stuff. For example, Battle Weight.

Battle Weight is a new experimental system. Previously, armor weight was very important because it meant the difference between being able to dodge and just tanking everything. Conversely, weapon weight was usually only a positive quality; because people had more than enough Strength to exceed the weight, all weight did was become an additional damage modifier for Arbalests. Now, the total weight of your Main Weapon + Armor + Sub Weapon is now your 'Battle Weight'. Your Strength is your threshold; exceed that threshold, and for every 1 point you exceed it by, you suffer -2 Evade and -2 Hit. (You do not receive any benefits for going under; this may change if the system is successful.)

Some of the subtext here is that certain materials, namely Galdric (which reduces weight), and certain enchantments (namely Floating), have gotten better because they can dramatically reduce your Battle Weight. Rogues and other typically 'dodgey' types that are known for using weapons like daggers now have a reason to do so. Your Battle Weight is displayed below your HP and FP; the number on the left is your current Battle Weight, and the number on the right is your threshold. So 5/12 BW would mean you were under your maximum before you began taking penalties. While 24/20 would mean you are 4 over, meaning you suffer -8 Hit and -8 Evade.

As always, I'm open to feedback on this new system, so let me know if you like it or hate it.

1.04
Added - 2 new Arbalest skills have been added.

• Heavy Tackle - Use your weight against the enemy, getting them away from you and knocking them down if you're heavy enough.
  
• Buster Cannon - Don't just shoot your enemy; leave a hole big enough to drive a towncar through.

• Crescent Rook - Cut your foes down with the black wind and appear next to them at the same time.
  
• Stalemate - Parry your foes and negate their damage... if they're using a martial weapon.

• Deploy: Metalaegis - Set out a machine whose only job is to make you safe. Laugh at enemies who stand next to it.
  
• Bashfix - Beat on your machines to fix them.

• Highwrath - Invoke the power of anger to increase your lightning critical hit rate.
  
• Pure Power - Discard unneeded items to push your arcane power to even greater heights.

• Dark Imbue - Turn your axe into a scythe, increasing its ability to hit enemies and causing it to deal extra dark damage.
  
• Painproof - Hurt yourself to become harder to damage.

• Aegis Shift - Give the power of the Astral Aegis to one of your youkai temporarily, while losing it yourself.
  
• Encourage - Let's positive thinking for a stat boost!

• Counter Edge - Make your riposte even deadlier.
  
• Reflect Shots - Turn deflected bullets back on your enemies.

• Bask in Light - Stand still to increase the power of your eternal flame, giving allies protection from its element.
  
• Guiding Light - Show an ally the light, curing them of blind.

• Akimbo - Two guns means twice the fun.
  
• One Overload - Boost the power of one-shot guns loaded with magic bullets.

• Terra Strike - Slam the earth to damage nearby enemies and magnetize them.
  
• Sun Flare - Blind all your enemies like a certain three-eyed warrior.

• Chimera Style - Combine the multiple disciplines.
  
• Insulate - Protect your friends from the cold.

• Advancing Flow - Take advantage of your ranged opponent's misses to get yourself closer.
  
• Obscure - Re-hide yourself from pinpointing status effects.

A small list is tacked up on the message board To whom it may or may not concern A minor setback in custom parts has occured as typical fees and what not Please see Nibaki yuisen for part requests the standard fare is two hundred mura a part

I think i solved the vanishing shopkeep mystery, as i know exactly what i remember doing and my shopkeep is vanished it isn't not in inv or on the stall where it was in cellsvitch beside blue and yellow goods you see i set it down a bout 7 hrs or so ago payed for the stall and set it down as usuall for 2 days ic time well i placed it down and two days icly went past and i think what may be causing it is that it returned to my inv at the exact time the reboot took affect i am probabally sure that is the case and may in a void somewhere Key name Anna Puma Char name Nibaki yuisen Shop name Nibaki's custom shop . I really dont want the asagos for another shop as this is the second time it has happened to me as i feel it may happen again and to prevent this mess from happening again ill just not get a shopkeep and post my shop on the forum boards for custom parts and sell them that way .

There's a noticeable lack of difficult bosses that let you grab a party and use your hard(I guess)-earned stats to their fullest extent while making you go "Oh man, that was a close fight" aside from getting back attacked by spatials in a crazy dungeon. So I've attempted to come up with a boss that can't be solo'd (even the tips say parties are fun!) and is difficult in the sense of "if you don't deal with this stuff correctly you're gonna have a bad time" but not too difficult like "you messed up, party is dead". It could be used in an optional dark themed dungeon or just for future reference something (pls).

So here's what I have. Long post incoming.

Darky The Dark (Name is a placeholder cuz I'm bad with names, also goes for anything else with a name in this topic, numbers also subject to change if not reasonable)

Hp: 10000 (intended to 4 people wailing on it)
FP: 10000
0% in all elemental resistances

Abilities -

Deathbringer (passive): As the name implies, this being wastes no time in killing everything in front of it. They have 10 momentum.

Nightmare Blade (passive) - Normals attacks will do dark physical damage. If the target is feared they will do magic damage instead and gain +100 to hit.

Lord of Darkness (passive): All dark damage dealt will ignore any elemental resistance or absorbs. They are also immune to blind and silence.

Immovable Casting (passive): When an S rank invocation has started, this skill will grant the user "Immovable" status for 3000 lvl. This status makes it so the user's invocations cannot be interrupted and any damage taken will not lower their HP for x rounds or until the invocation has ended. X = to level. X is reduced by damage taken and "Immovable" is removed once X is 0.

Ruinous Torment (passive): Every 6 rounds the tiles under all non-pet/youkai enemies will leak darkness in a 3 range from-the-center AOE for 2 turns. During the 2nd turn, the tiles will explode dealing heavy darkness damage to anyone inside. When below 30% HP, this occurs every 3 rounds.

Damnation: Focuses on a target (like jammer omega) for 5 turns and chases after them until it wears off or they die. Applies hunted level 30 as long as they are focused.

Physical shield: While this is up, the user's HP is not reduced by damage and they must take 500 physical damage to break this. Lasts for 3 turns and if not broken, the shield explodes and deals dark damage to all enemies. Can only be used once and cannot be used if below 80% HP.

Magic shield: HP is not reduced by damage while up and must take 700 magic damage in order to break. Lasts 4 turns and the shield will explode if not broken, dealing dark damage to all enemies. Can only be used once and cannot be used if below 70% HP.

Almighty Shield: HP is not reduced by damage while up and the user gains a random 50% elemental weakness. They will only take damage from elemental weaknesses and the shield needs 1000 damage to break. Lasts 5 turns. Can only be used once and only if the user is above 40% HP and below 70% HP.

Night Terror: Casts a debuff on all enemies inflicted with hunted, immobilizing them for 3 rounds and disabling their skills and silencing them. Has a 6 round cooldown.

Gaze of Huggessao: 6 range. Inflicts dark damage on a target and fears them for 3 rounds along with any other enemies within 2 tiles of them. Will not use on a target already feared.

Scorn of Huggessao: S rank Invocation. Can only be used once when below 51% hp. When cast, it will deal unresistable dark damage to all enemies equal to 80% of their current health while applying 50 lvl hunted and (whateverlvl) burn for the rest of the battle.

Impending Death: Can only be used when below 40% HP and only twice. Marks an enemy with Impending Death, lasts 2 rounds.

Dreaded Earth: Can only be cast on an enemy marked for death. Deals 700 unresistable dark damage to the target in an AOE 1 tile around them. Damage is divided equally among all enemies hit. Enemies killed by this cannot be revived.

Currently, great successes during alchemy only work with potions, as far as I'm aware. I just crafted a piece of paper, but it didn't really do anything special. Could we get great successes on all alchemic crafted items double like with potions? It'd be really nice and help us save some materials in the long run.

Just lost a brain food yesterday, even though 1.03 is live and has
been for some time. As donation items, they're remarkably hard
to trade for.

Could the thing where we eat in Preparation use available food in our inventory, in order from top to bottom, and then when available food runs out, we could use the basic food it provides?

Scarebear's turn.
Tara Weiss-Etrama takes 47 Sound damage.
Tara Weiss-Etrama was frightened by the bellowing!
Scarebear's turn.
Scarebear's turn.
Tara Weiss-Etrama takes 123 Sound damage.


Fallcall passively does... double damage when the opponent is feared, right? As in... double of 47... for... 123- I'm sorry wait what!?

Yes. It was two different scarebears. No, I didn't get to examine their exact stats because I died. But this is closer to triple (141) than double (96), which seems a tad outlandish to be chalked up to simple stat variance (nearly a 1.5x difference!?) Yes, I know bellow gives the user "Roar" but this second scarebear was not under the effect!

EDIT: Confirming that I checked again. Bellow is 10+ Level. The scarebears on that floor were level 66. Considering I likely had 27-36 res at the time (Based on installs, etc) the above damages actually seem fairly okay despite me being too lazy to crunch the numbers. The issue came, once again, from the description throwing me off by saying "double DAMAGE" and not "DOUBLE BASE BEFORE MODIFIERS." You know, my usual "aaaand invalidating resistance" argument.

Going to mark this as solved without deleting it in case someone else finds something IS wrong with it,

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Level 51 Giant Crazy Black Door.