In light of the recent update a reason was given to actually try to fight mobs in the Minotaur Labyrinth.

I am all for this. The only problem right now is that with the drop rate seeming to be the same on all the mobs in the Minotaur Labyrinth compared to say, a Jaki Imp that was added to the same pool, there still stands very little reason you'd want to subject yourself to over 6-7x the eHP per mob for the same rewards (while having a non-negligible chance of failing the encounter if you weren't well prepared).

So I suggest this:

Make the Dark Shard drop rate on Wild Kerberos, Minotaur Masteraxe, Minotaur Spearman, and Hungry Fungus a base 75% instead of the presumably 5% all mobs that had Dark Shards added to their drops got.

This would provide greater incentive for those target farming Dark Shards, and make it so that those only wanting to farm for Dark Shards don't need to go invade far easier dungeons to obtain them in a reasonable amount of actual time, and thus make life harder for those who want to farm for EXP or certain 10 stars.

Perhaps I am still feeling the alcohol, but thinkin' about SL2 the last couple of hours has made me feel strangely happy. I generally only spoke up on the forum when the opposite was true, but, I figured that some positivity never hurt anyone.

Dev! Thank you for making this wonderful game so many have found a home in. Making a place where people across the world can connect with one another and enjoy their time is no small feat. Especially considering you're stuck using BYOND. So sorry for that. Also thanks for introducing me to Caligula 2 that game rocks.

GM's! Sorry for all the vitriol that gets thrown your way, and thanks for keeping SL2 a safer place than 99% of other online communities. Making an online community where I don't want to immediately disengage from any public forum is hard work. Y'all do good work, don't forget that. Take care of yourselves, too!

EM's! Thanks for creating so much content for people to engage with, and for helping those with ideas see them come to life. Can't say I have much experience, but all my friends who've run eventlines generally say y'all are fantastic to work with, and I'm generally inclined to agree! I'm sorry about your tools I really am you have my sympathies.

(People who are both GM's and EM's should seek medical attention. Y'all work too hard. Good work, though.)

Anndddd th'players, from th'ideas folk, to the lurkers, to the antags, t'the protags, to the people who just wanna grill for god's sake, thanks for keeping this place alive, and thanks for all the fun. Even if I don't know'ya, I'm sure the game would feel a little bit worse if you weren't around.

And t'those who've left, I hope you're all doing well, and I hope you've found somethin' you enjoy doing t'do.

That's about it. Sorry if this is sappy or rambling. In that sort of mood.

I for one think destinys are rad as hell, and i love the combos some classes get thanks to it (looking at spellthief’s max spells by default, engineers stronger bots, grandmaster bk tact) though i feel some classes dont get all that much, and i feel as if archer gets the least due to how their classes mainly contradict with eachother.

I feel like two additions can be made to improve destiny. As magic gunner and ranger are at a conflict with weapon types, the change should be focused on arbelist, which i feel is straight forward - change the mono benefits to destiny benefits, mono arb is not in a good place, the downisdes of just being an arbelist outweighs the upsides of shooting any weapon as an armament (this only really benefits fists, as tomes can be made range via tactitian and daggers have throwing knives, and even then theres barely a reason to use fists as an armament)

The second change for pure destiny could be an addition to dynamic shooting, that being a parry. Arbelist has a good interaction with parries, and I feel like a sort of countershot type of parry could be fun, perhaps something that could only work outside of 1 range of the enemy? That and potentially +2 more range would be perfect for someone who’s a destiny archer. The parry could of course be different, and arguably lucky fortune is a form of damage reduction, but that can be ran with any class combo with magic gunner as a subclass.

The trees in the Sunken Forest seem to be having a bad day/year. Their icons are missing in a few select areas.

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Sanctuary tiles (and probably tiles that block other tiles, like Pillaged) now kills Roundtrip from even occuring.

Sassy the Beast using their songs procs other Dark Bard's moshers, making them detonate.

Quaking Roundtrip seems to be only going 3 tiles.

At least, when used by Minotaur Axemen.

You cannot trade Dark Shards to other players.

If you relog midfight, WASD mode ceases to function entirely, as well as the entire hotbar shortcut.

Using the arrowkeys to navigate the menu does it at double time.

Applicable BYOND Key - Mycoplasmas
Character Name - Messalina
Request Type - Character/RP Ability/Youkai
Request Details -  I'm gonna be asking to violate a lot of the norm behind Corruption and Youkai installing/shapeshifting.
Specific Request - I want to introduce a new Youkai, and confer some of its benefits through shapeshifting to my Oracle. Granting it the Youkai's set of eyes to allow my character to see through its eyes but at great costs.

• (Can a Youkai completely possess someone via Install or Shapeshifting?) It's rare, but yes, that's one of the dangers of both the Install technique and shapeshifting. You are giving the Youkai some measure of influence over your physical body - if they're too powerful for you, they can take over if they will to do so. Usually, this doesn't happen, as summoners and youkai usually have a bond of trust and understanding, and the summoner can always null the contract if the youkai acts up. But in short, yes, it can happen.)
  
• (Does installing change your physical appearance?) Slight appearance shifts are possible, but nothing dramatic like your head turning into a dragon's or growing fairy wings. But your skin might appear harder or 'scaled' if you had Dragonscale while installed, for example.