This is not a balance post, just to stress - what I'm asking for here is not out of desire to add or detract from these classes when it comes to their power within the game - I just think that overall, Archer is pretty empty and MG is stuffed full of points. So, with that in mind, why don't we take some of these things on MG, and put them into the base class instead? Frees up skill points in MG, and allows gunners to actually make use of their full SP in archer, too. Heck, it would also give reason for people to take certain skills they wouldn't normally, in some cases - while others are just because the ties specifically to the MAGIC part of the class aren't particularly strong.

So, here are my suggestions for stuff to move from MG to Archer:

=- One-Hit Wonder and Akimbo -=
For these two I justify it with the fact that archer already has boosts being offered for bows only, so room to allot points here instead rounds out the class, without taking anything from the identity of MG as a whole. Akimbo is about in line with an MC ability in base rogue, so I wouldn't call it out of place as a base either, and one-hit-wonder is just power steroids for shotguns.

=- Parting Shot and Covering Fire -=
Not sure I know anyone who uses these, and for good reason. Who's taking them over padding out their shells, and stuff like charged shot and overshot, which are more key to the class as a whole? These are arguably base-class level gun skills slapped in the only gun-focused class there is, so I'd say they wouldn't have problems in archer. If you have spare points left in that class, you might actually consider taking these just because you can, and there might be some people who actually have them as a result.

Hopefully people feel the same way about this idea, honestly. I feel like to me it just makes sense, in lieu of trying to create whole new base class gun things to balance around.

Pale lauder infestation should have a limited duration, and when it expires you get a serious injury

Because this: - (How do they reproduce?) Fission. Once they've consumed enough focus, they'll chew a cavity in the host and split apart.

Black Knight seems to be in a very very strong position at the current moment, it has its weaknesses still that it cannot overcome, but its still excelling at too many things at the moment.

First off lets go over Black Knight's identity:

1) This class' foremost and central feature is its defensive qualities, particularly those against physical damage specifically, it does an excellent job at this with Indomitable and Negation, as well as having useful stat padding passives like Iron Wall and Fortitude from Soldier.

2) This class has tools that lock down opponents and lull them into making incorrect moves, the tools that assist with this are crowd controls such as Board Shaker's clumsy, and directional parries such as Stalemate.

3) Situationally high damage opportunities in extremely close range with cooldown reliant skills, excels at using martial weaponry effectively without the need of relying on taking more actions than their opponent typically.

4) Its weaknesses would typically include chasing people down due to heavy armor's movement restrictions, issues contesting anyone fighting them from a high to extreme range, and having movement abilities beyond 5 range. The class also tends to struggle with finding ways around other movement restrictions such as Clumsy, Immobilize and Frozen, having only 1 method of blinking a set distance.

These are what I identify as staples with Black Knight, and for the most part it holds up to all of these tools very well, however I think Black Knight is excelling a few things it should not be excelling at in the current moment, those being:

1) Black Knight's current damage output is insanely high, checkmate has a very low cooldown and FP cost, making its spamability incredibly consistent with effectively no cost. Crescent Rook and Bright Bishop currently deal as much, if not more damage than spells due to the way they scale and allow them to flip on magic damage mode against other tanks. Board Shaker's damage is arguably high but is justified by it's extremely long cooldown.

2) Heavy Armor choices currently are stellar in comparison to many other torsos, what not with Bellplate, Terrasque Shell and Dragon King Armor all being solid choices in today's current scene.

3) The armor change recently that allowed it to take place after all other DRs massively benefitted this class, the class is impossible to physically damage effectively anymore, even with defense reductions such as burn and rampage, Indomitable is doing way too much reduction in conjunction with the high armor these classes typically sport.

What should be done to address these issues that I've brought up? Here are my suggestions so far:

1) Black Knight's damage numbers can use a simple tuning down, if Crescent Rook and Bright Bishop need to stay as magic damage, then they can't have as high numbers as they currently have, lowering the elemental scalings down will cut down on gaining too much damage from lightning/earth augments imo, if you lower them to 60% elemental scalings with 120% SWA ratios at max rank, these skills will still perform very well.

2) Heavy armor and shield choices currently need to be addressed on their own, those being mostly Bellplate and Fang Faced Shield, as both offer far too much value now that they apply to most effects in the game, and cannot be simply avoided anymore at a cost of dps.

3) This change needs to be addressed in a separate thread about armor, which I will eventually write up most likely, so this can be ignored for now.

Obviously anyone else is free to share their thoughts and contest my suggestions, I encourage it and want to know what other people think right now.

I should make it a point that I don't think 'Bard' should be the name of the base class for musicians.

As is right now, 'Performer' is the best name for the Base Class, since while a 'Bard' can be a 'Performer' alright, it feels weird for a 'Bard' to evolve into 'Dancer'. However, a 'Performer' can easily become both Dancer and Bard, nomenclature-esque.

Note that this is only the name of the classes, I don't wish for the gimmicks to be changed in any shape and form, so yeah. Dev pls! Make it so we have:

Performer -> Bard
Performer -> Dancer
Performer -> ???

Trying to keep this short, I feel like there's a lot of different stances people have on Korvara and how it should be handled. I'll leave long rambling paragraphs of what I'd consider supporting arguments in spoilers and put abridged versions below.

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Me and many other people who have made PVP capable builds look at it and think, 'huh, I guess now I have a reason to carry a red letter around that isn't just to make me feel more masculine.' Most people look at it and think that they'll just do their usual standing around and casual RPing in a new set of pixels with maybe a fight here or there. Small groups are already planning on which factions to secure to make some neat RP empire. Some people are bemoaning that this will ruin SL2 and turn it into Eternia. Somewhere in the middle of all of those groups, like four guys are talking about bards. Bards sound hype. We're all happy about those guys and how excited they are.

But this new direction is a hard pivot from how SL2 has run for years now. It's felt more like RPing in a AAA MMO. You have space to do it, it's designated as the 'RP-ZONE.' But every major storyline is mostly player run. The game is designed to function without player input and would look the exact same if you palette swapped it out to be just a strict RPG MMO. The people would probably sit in the exact same place, right there next to the fountain. This new direction makes it sound like this game will have actual stakes and consequences. There are a lot of BYOND games that achieve that since the low budget requirements of making a game on this platform means that developers can get creative with their game design and formula, but SL2 has never had a situation where the mechanics of the game would be forced to mediate or moderate player behavior. Players moderate it between each other, but that's next to impossible now that there are going to be positions in the game open to a specific and limited amount of players.

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Some of the faction leadership spots seem easy enough to handle without too much trouble. Votes can be set up mechanically, are somewhat cheesable, but people caught cheesing them could just be handled. Well and good enough. Then you run into Geladyne. Geladyne's only listed method of turning these player held positions down to someone else is through succession. This means one of a few things. Either someone can hold this position indefinitely, someone can hold this position indefinitely or pass it down to one of their friends as they wish, this lore needs to change, or we need to figure out and endorse creative ways to facilitate handovers between individuals. Maybe you can make it so it becomes a bidding war between the true successor and the crown-stealer with money or other resources to simulate bribery or getting support after the crownstealer pays his way to getting the official successor paperwork muddied up. But that's only half of the issue.

The other half of the issue is that this implies that you can merc that successor. Me and three of my friends could find any single person on SL2 today and beat them in a PVP fight. There needs to be balance, moderation, or a lot of rule updates to make this not the meta, even if it's for that one position that's marked as character consent for death...

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If you make it so that it's straight successor and players have to leave the role mostly willingly to pass it down, it's really just an unimportant soapbox for one person and their likely friends to hold for the duration of Korvara's existence. If you make it so that players can steal it with PVP, you run into imbalance issues. If you make it so that it's the former but storytellers or GMs or something are allowed to overturn the succession for story arcs made by players, you're just going to make those moderators a target for grief and complaints of bias. The solution I would propose instead is that succession for these positions is turned into a more understood process or ritual. Coding it would be work, but if it was coded in then that would just be better. As long as it is arbitrary in its decision making process and isn't tied to someone's interpretation of how politics should work, people can make an RP around whatever gameified ideas might be implemented.

When you force a Youkai to target any random mob by click-dragging him onto it the AI will start behaving strangely, such as:

Not moving or attacking if the target is out of range but there's something else in range.
Attacking whatever target they want when both the target and other mobs are in range.

Or at least that's how I think they're behaving right now after my limited testing. I'd also like to point out that the feature used to work properly when I last tested it a few years ago.

Youkais I've seen behave this way: Upgraded Seiryuu, Upgraded Suzaku.

Applicable BYOND Key - The Fourth Tactician
Character Name - Andrew
Request Type - age limit
Request Details -  A 10-year-old orphan oracle (4’6” is dead average for that age and above the height limit) 
Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - Since one of my characters is almost completely settled down I wanted to make a character to be their adoptive child (since biological isn’t an option for the two) and also I thought it would be interesting to see how a younger oracle would handle their corruption as they grow up. 
Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - Since humans can be born as oracles and orphanages do exist I don’t really see any lore that 
(this is my first time doing one of these so sorry if it's not formatted correctly or is missing something)  Thought of this after posting but also would it be possible since one of his adoptive parents is a summoner, for him to have a contracted youkai (specifically killikeny) that can serve as his eyes

The Hit debuff has to go. What was once a funny autohit meme is now worthless since there's no autohits to abuse this with anymore. And 1* items have only Basic (100%) scaling for the most part, alongside its horribly low power, so...

Could it be changed to:

Quote:Rebellious Spirit

Rebellion (Special) - +2 Power and Weight for every 1 Rarity below 9.

Custom Tome spells cannot gain a domain to them, which disallows them from interacting with certain features, such as cheapening the FP Costs or interacting with other things.

I would like to suggest adding seeds that give a domain to a spell, either for the Extra-slot or for a small-seed type, sold somewhere in the world.