Applicable BYOND Key - Finding Paradise

Character Name - Connor
Request Type - Character Abilities
Request Details - To start off, Connor is an Amalgama with six souls. I have multiple requests for him.

1) A constant warmth coming out from the guy's body, caused by spooky spiritual magic. He is also naturally vulnerable to the cold. (Virtue of Mared Flamilia and Mars Badge/Nerhaven enchantment)
2) Stronker and more intense fire, turning into a mix of white, black and blue the more it keeps going. Spiritual by nature. Perhaps also varying with emotions. (From Salamander Sword and Mared Flamilia and Devilia)
3a) This one is just me interpreting DAHKNESS, and a long shot. What about the ability to create solid shadows through Mared Devilia? i.e. instead of being a blast of dark energy, it's focused instead to creating constructs?
3b) Would it also be out of the question to be able to cloak himself with Mared Devilia? Just wrapping himself in shadows. And becoming a silhouette. 
4) The ability to ingest blood, and perhaps other things like small rocks, from the way he was made by his creator.

Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - Uhh other than it being cool I'd also like to have an interesting angle to roleplay certain aspects of my character. 

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - Connor is an Amalgama with six souls. He naturally has a high aptitude to fire and dahkness, and has leaned into said abilities to help him in combat for a long while now. (At least a handful of months of RP)

He has been and will continue to focus on improving his Amalgama-borne abilities as time goes on. He is technically a Hyattr/Salamandra lite in the way his Amalgama abilities rolled(30% fire resist, 30% wind weakness, 30% ice weakness from a badge, 30% burn resist).

Parting Shot does not seem to split round damage as if this patch for an unknown reason, in the following screenshot I have about 100 SWA, and deal more than intended damage by triple, I assume this means a quickdraw will instant murder someone.



First hit is against barrier.

This suggestion will likely be hated by Dev, given how much effort it always goes to fixing Protect, but I just want something functional.

In the end, this is a buff for both of those, but at least the chances of them breaking in the future will be nulled forever.

Protect (Soldier) - Revamped to a Shield Defensive Skill.
1M
2 FP (+2 per Rank)
5 Ranks (Increases Armor and Magic Armor by 2 (+2 per rank) per Protected ally in the party)
- Targets all allies within 1 Range, granting the Protected buff until your next turn.
- If the Protected ally is within 1 Range of you and takes damage from an enemy, you take that damage instead.

Sacrifice (Black Knight)
3M, 5 round cooldown.
4 Range (Doubled if you have invoked the Black Wind, or have a Shield equipped)
- Select an ally within 4 Range and mark them with Sacrifice. (Duration is equal to 1 + 1 per 25% missing HP from ally.)
- Every time the Ally takes damage from an enemy, you will invoke the Black Wind, swap places with them (once per round), and take that damage instead.
- If you have Heavy Armor and a Shield equipped, redirected damage is reduced by 50%.

This effect is, on paper, quite strong. But in execution? It's extremely weak and doesn't work in any meaningful way to save an Amalgama from being defeated.  I do think this needs a small buff.

Why?

Let's look at Phenex's From The Ashes. Their resurrection does:
- Depending on the build, can resurrect with up to 200-300 HP, given the heal is based on 50% of your max FP.
- Does not leave you Badly Beaten.
- Plays nice with Die Hard. (As long as it's off-cooldown, you'll come back any day, any time. So hard dying will be the key for you to heal up a massive amount on your next defeat.)

And requires:
- 1 FP minimum. (Really?)
- A cooldown that ranges from 5 rounds to 10 rounds.

And Phenex itself:
- No healing penalty on self.
- 15% Ice and Darkness weakness. (Which can be covered by SAN, which they do use for From The Ashes and Golden Eyes.)



Now look at Amalgama's Formidable. Their resurrection does:
- Revive and heals a static 50 HP. (Die Hard and Sal Volatile both revives you for more than that.)
- Leaves you Badly Beaten for 4 rounds. (Debilitates your Momentum, preventing you from fleeing in PvE scenario.)

And requires:
- 5 Spirits (Innately makes you weak to Holy, so any players can 100% defeat you with an item belt weapon swap. Boring.)
- Requires RNG to be obtained. (If the player is unlucky, several uses of the Memories fruit. (1085 Murai each))
- Doesn't play nice with Die Hard. (Since that will also revive you with Badly Beaten, so Formidable practically only happens once per fight.)

And Amalgama itself:
- 10% Healing penalty.
- 30% Elemental Weakness on either one or two elements, fully decided by RNG. (Amalgama doesn't use SAN, so that's staying there.)



When you compare both side to side, you see how Amalgama's resurrection effect is severely underpowered when compared to even baseline reviving effects, such as Die Hard or Sal Volatile, let alone compare to Phenex which has a similar effect? I do hope this gets addressed. I can only throw in this short pitch for ideas (they're all separate, either A, or B, or C, etc.), but anything other than what we have now, Dev:

Quote:A- Formidable could resurrect you with 60 HP, but only up to X amount of times per fight, one per spirit possessing you. This revive would not leave you Badly Beaten, since it's limited. (Upon reviving through Formidable, you gain a stacking debuff that lasts 5 rounds called "Spirit Exhaustion" which caps at LV5. When its LV equals (or more) than the amount of spirits you currently have, Formidable will stop reviving. This also reduces health recovery relative to LV (30%/35%/40%/45%/50%).)

B- No changes to the heal amount or Badly Beaten, but upon being resurrected by Formidable, you gain the Dead Soul debuff for 3 rounds. (Dead Soul makes you unable to be brought under 1 HP for the duration, but chance of being injured is doubled and health recovery is reduced by 75%. Taking damage from a mutation weakness ends the status early.)

C- If no new effects are desired, nor the removal of Badly Beaten, the heal should be changed to 30% of your maximum HP.

D- Alternatively, increase the heal amount to 120 HP and have it so Amalgama's momentum does not get affected by Badly Beaten, through a Trait or Homunculus Physiology, since this is what currently makes this resurrection option so unenjoyable.

E- Formidable becomes a chance to negate damage (except mutation weakness), which increases the lower your Max HP gets. (1% chance per 2% HP lost)

Last Chance will not activate if a race has resurrection effects that requires them to be at 0 HP.

The skill description does clearly mention that "upon taking damage that would leave you at 0 HP, you ignore it and remain at 1 HP", but From The Ashes and Formidable both ignore that, activating before Last Chance has a say on it.

This can likely be fixed by increasing Last Chance's priority over other effects, like I mentioned in the post I deleted since the info was wrong in it (many thanks to Autumn for help-), it could help if you flagged those effects as "Deathblow Denial" (Last Chance) and "Resurrection" (Everything else), so they know where they should stand in the pecking order. Might future proof it too.

Amalgama's healing spells and effects that restore or interact with HP don't fully restore the number listed, due to Homunculus Physiology.

Is it a bug, or topic for Balance Fu? The ones I noticed weird behavior are listed are the following:

Quote:Mared Litam - The heal doesn't cure for 60, but 54.
Mared Matil - The heal doesn't cure for 120, but 108

Mared Litam

Mared Matil

Protect is not working at all. Tested in various ways such as the following examples:

- Tried to make the Knight with Protect come by my side without Guard. Failed.
- Tried to move next to the Knight with Protect without Guard. Failed.
- Tried both above, but with said Knight using Guard instead. Failed.

All those tests were done in the Testing Server, against Fenrirberus.

I suppose it's due to how antiquated the code for it may be. Best to update it to the likes of Scapegoat Shield and Sacrifice, since those do work as intended, for example.

Hello! KitKat here. 

My house is completely buggered. I haven't lost furniture, but I'll enter a floor and it'll be completely black. It's not always the same floor as well. Sometimes it's the second floor. Sometimes it's the third. Sometimes it's the fifth. I don't know where else to post this, so it would be SUPER awesome if someone could get back to me asap.

Key/Slot: Katarine1420.slot2

Would be super duper A+ to get this fixed! ^u^;;

Green gloves and boots should be given to you by that weird shrine girl upon LEing for the first time. I will not be typing her name as it would be rude.

The latest in a long line of cinder abuse is to use Relent Gale/Astral Belt to proc the cinders without splitting the damage, leading to a one-turn kill possibility when combined with CM Sear. I won't go into WHY cinder and frostbite has been constantly nerfed not to do this, everyone already knows.

Basically, if you use either of them ON THEIR OWN, they split the cinder damage properly. But if you use Astral Belt to pull them into the auto knockback of Relent Gale, then they will take double damage from each tile as if they walked over them twice at the same time. Consistent even if they are not knocked down at the same time.
Gale or Belt on its own:

64 per tile traveled

Walking:

194 per tile traveled

Point blank belt into gale knockback

388 per tile traveled.




Extremely consistent across all testing.

Is it obscure? Yes. Is it being abused? Yes. Is it broken? Yes.



Just for fun showing it being done consistently back to back rounds.