The additional effect where you slash all nearby enemies should use your main weapon, so it properly tags enemies for things like Hidden Cut.

I also think the effect's damage should be able to critically hit, to add a little more RNG to Kensei and value to building LUC. This is also to streamline it with the other balance request involving All Fight. (https://neus-projects.net/forums/showthr...?tid=11503)

Incredibly minor and kinda funny bug, but will be confusing and misleading for new players so it should probably get fixed.

The description for the Kensei passive, "Katana Master", has a bug where the word, "Needless", hyperlinks to the, "Needle" status effect from Priest's ability.

How do you do fellow corrupted players

This has probably been discussed ever since corrupted got their cool traits and despite this trait being nerfed from its first inception eons ago, it's still being touted as near universally disliked due to how boring thematically it is versus the more unique racial abilities available right now.

I'm thinking that painful grip should outright be removed from Shaitans so that Dev won't have to balance/tweak every single new item/ability just for shaitan that revolves around the grapple status but still replaced by something powerful enough to make the 10 Skill shaitans from quitting the race. 

I believe it could be replaced with two traits that a shaitan could pick between, weighing offense vs defense utilizing their carapace.

This is going to be an extremely specific bug so lemme do my best to explain it:

Kick does not consume Electrocharges when triggered by your main-hand attack with the Like A Dragon set bonus effect, meaning it does not allow the kick to critically hit, and it does not give you extra momentum, normally I would think that this is a quirk with how the skill works given that it doesn't trigger something like Gunfighter's Boots effect, but it does actually trigger the electrocharges on Sub-Attack specifically, only your main-hand attack is exempt from the momentum refund.

To replicate you must:
-Equip the Like A Dragon set
-Equip Thunderhooves
-Gain 20 Electrocharges
-Trigger the Kick trickery effect with your main attack and observe it does not consume your electrocharges
-Trigger the Kick trickery effect with your SUB ATTACK instead and observe that it does consume your electrocharges, giving you momentum back and allowing Kick to crit.

I hope this explains the issue.

I think a part of the appeal of Korvara is that the open world nature of this big map allows people to hang out and hide in various places. However, as time goes on, more and more of the empty places of the world become used. If you go around, there's almost no places left. Even caves have people living in them, large swathes of empty territory is claimed by Geladyne, even containing a military presence. And there's a lot of tents and other such things in remote locations.

It's pretty hard these days to have your own corner of the world. I think that's a bit of a shame. Maybe it would be good to just have a bit more wilderness, you know? I think the Tundra (poorly named) is one of the few places that isn't claimed by a nation. The lava lake is geladyne, the haunted forest is telegrad (and has inhabitants). The worsong canyon isn't a great place to live but it's not particularly claimed.

Having a bigger map with empty space would allow people to make their own new groups in remote locations without having to fight a nation tooth and nail to exist there. A bit of a neutral ground if you will.

Also, I think it would be good if there was a sort of claim system, as in, if you live somewhere you should put down a sign. But if a place has nobody active there, then the area should be cleared to allow new people to settle there.

Having more neutral ground on Korvara would really make it more interesting. I think there should be a hard rule as well that nations cannot expand to occupy these areas. What always happens in these situations is that you get some expansion and a bunch of things put in place, even though nobody rps there. The biggest example is the badlands. This huge stretch of formerly empty land is now filled with NPC soldiers. It just feels kinda wrong doesn't it? Like, it belongs to geladyne, but they're not even using it :v

I'm all for war, and I think we could use more of it to be honest, but I think transforming empty areas into "occupied" zones that aren't used is not great. We should try to be minimalistic as much as possible. Place a tower and a few guards there, but you can't just occupy an entire piece of land. At this point, almost 50% of the geladyne territory is "guarded" or visibly occupied in some way. That's not very realistic... Let's also be realistic in terms of how much rp a given thing is going to result in; if it's not going to be actively used by people rping, then it probably doesn't need to be anything more than a small thing. Too much stuff being put down that is never interacted with only makes the world feel more empty. Each subsequent building and npc becomes more meaningless as the bloat stacks on.

And if something isn't used, it should probably be removed. I think we should probably have a system in place to clear up the map of unused things. Maybe buildings that aren't being utilized could fall into ruin like those ruins we had at the start of korvara. We quickly ran out of those when people settled in them.

Wouldn't it be cool to have new ruins too? In new areas? Even if there isn't that much going on there- like, we don't need a bunch of new dungeons and enemies for an expansion to be awesome. One or two cool lore features and it'd be even better, in fact. For instance, one area could have a ruined library. One other could have these elemental crystals or a leyline or something. Another could be full of tall cliffs overlooking the sea, with bird nests and high peaks... Then the people could go there and make new things happen, or it could be used for events, or there could be new things added later.

A big world only feels empty if there's a lot of things that suggest activity (buildings, people) but there is no activity. A large world that has empty areas of untapped nature does not feel empty, it feels vast.

Same exact item, except the frames for moving north are still animating incorrectly. Every other direction is working fine.

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a while back i got very annoyed because i couldn't see at a glance whether my songs were active, and the desire to correct that spiraled into a whole Thing and a half

so far, i've done icons for what might be EVERY bard status, as well as a few for solblader (because it also annoyed me)

in order:



Singing, the four songs (plus performer's enhanced statuses), Warmonger's Drums, Volume Up, Dark Distortion (two vers), Darkness Hype, Freak on a Leash (and freakish frenzy)
Accelerated Spell (generic), Accelerated Spell (Mercana), Flash of Light (alt for Acc. Spell Mercana), Holy Aura, Dancer's Agility, and Doble Pirouette

(Honestly, it feels like Flash of Light should just give you a HUD counter for its accelerated spell level anyway I spend too much time peering at status effect text for it)

(edit: also big props to whoever made the icons for the performer/dark bard skills i sampled their palettes for consistency and their colour choices are WONDERFUL)

.dmi file is 18x18 just as initially specified when I started this project

Attached Files

  pilcrow_bard_status_effects.zip (Size: 2.91 KB / Downloads: 86)

Currrently, the racials provided by Reapers and Apertaurus got very power crept by the addition of new enchantments and material types, I prefer these additions over locking people to a specific race but it would be nice to have these races be updated to have a few more things added to them. 

This thread is mostly just here to mention that the race has had it's tools spread out to the wider population, I will throw forth a couple of ideas as I feel a little obligated to, but it should also be mentioned that it doesn't really matter if the races go this direction for me, as I could stand for any amount of useful buffs that may be thought of for the races to have.

My personal thoughts and suggestions would be: 

1) I believe that the SAN scaling determining if they can cast with Axes or Spears now should just be removed, given that investing SAN to get what is effectively your enchant slot is not all that worth it, the SAN scaling of the race can be moved to some other benefit for axes and spears respectively, such as extra power or hit.

2) Inspired by the minotaur's Child of Venus passive, I think it'd be cool to have a trait for Reapers that effectively gives them the effects of Kraken or Galren respectively, I am also contractually obligated to mention that Papilion could potentially get one for Saturn as well.

Applicable BYOND Key - Pittotwo
Character Name - Presently unnamed, while I considered using the name 'Titus' in honor of a previous char who I deleted due to a mistake (I don't know if we're allowed to reuse names though), I have also considered Kortan, Zillah, etc..
Request Type - Soul made up of potentially unusual picks.
Request Details - The amalgama in question would be made up of souls from failed homunculi; chimeras and salamandras who had come to life only to rapidly succumb and die due to unexpected complications, alongside a few fragments from monsters- specifically dripping corpses or other undead ideally.
Specific Request - This amalgama would be made up of four souls and a 'fifth' that acts as a binding agent; A salamandra who's organs froze solid, a chimera who's body violently rejected it's own parts and tore itself apart in a blind fury, another chimera who unexpectedly mutated gills and suffocated, and finally a second salamandra who rapidly overheated and had to be terminated before they died with explosive results. Due to their souls being salvaged it was decided to bind the four together, the 'fitfh' soul is simply multiple fragments from various undead that haunt Korvara or such, used to attempt to stablize the four souls.
Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - Primarily because I find the idea of an amalgama who's souls were that of failed homunculi interesting, due to the lack of growth of its components making it impossible to guess what mutations the amalgama may have.
Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - While I'm not sure if any roleplay would support this, I know R&D in Geladyne are prone to experimenting, and I would guess not all homunculi survive even if they are 'successfully' created and come to life. This character would be the result of needing to re-use whatever possible from them.

Applicable BYOND Key - The mom sexer
Character Name - Mordrain Meade (Kaminah Monk)
Request Type - Unique character appearance
Specific Request - Several birth defects/mutations that set the character apart from other reapers, as well as an age that makes him older compared to most Korvaran characters.
Request Details -  

• Excessive horn growth, causing the growth of several deformed horns across his head and face, as opposed to the simple set of two most Reapers have. This excessive growth has led to Mordrain being blind in one eye from a young age, and has since gone blind in the other due to simple old age. 
  
• As his alias implies, he uses to the same method as the monks described in the description of the Kaminah Robes to see, despite being blind in both eyes.
  
• Meade is 190 years old, and is rather close to simply passing of old age, due to the reduced lifespan of Reapers outside Lazarus.
  
• Meade suffers from a hypertrophied Pituitary gland (not as if he knows this; the man is so old, he probably still thinks of medicine in terms of humours), and as such grew up to a staggering eight feet and five inches tall. However, though decently fit, he is nonetheless built somewhat lean; this, combined with his old age, rarely if ever puts him at significant advantage over most other humanoids. He has used his meditation, Ki, and Solmancy to alleviate (though definitely not eliminate) the complications of his massive size and age.
  

• Less of a lore thing and more of a justification for his massive height, but the largest man in real-world history, Robert Wadlow, was 8'11, his size attributed to a hypertrophied pituitary gland as well.
  
• The description of the Kaminah Robes implies that 'beyond sight' is attributed to some form of spiritual method the monks use, not the robes themselves. If I am mistaken, and this technique is indeed tied to the robes themselves, I will be more than willing to try and obtain Kaminah Robes ingame purely to justify his IC Beyond Sight.
  
• As far as I'm aware, there's no concrete lore for mutated/defective Reaper horns. However, as both his parents were from pre-federal Telegrad, it's not unthinkable to imagine some arcane contaminant in the magical forests of Telegrad caused some kind of defect whilst he was in the womb.