Nevarious Riff's second use is not doing any significant damage for how much it costs to use in terms of Momentum (3M to prepare the buff, 4M to use it for damage, basically a whole turn) and FP (thanks to Action Repeat changes, 15 then 22 for a total of 37 FP), given it doesn't ignore protection nor Evasion, the damage is kind of tiny. But I also believe it shouldn't ignore any of those because it hits all foes regardless of distance.

My suggestion for it is simple. Can its damage part also scale from Sound ATK? So it ends in something like this:

Quote:Nevarious Riff

Plays a riff off the guitar, surrounding you with electrical bats for 5 rounds. While active, attackers will take Lightning magic damage equal to Electric Axe's UL if they hit you. You can reactive the skill to send the bats flying at all enemies, ending the effect but dealing Lightning magic damage equal to your Sound ATK + Lightning ATK + Electric Axe's SWA.

These should be 'only negative' to prevent there being an epidemic of certain traits, or mechanical favourability of others. I would also like to see traits that are expressly negative, be always available and never take an unlock point to aquire- Allowing for players who utilised all their trait points to still buy into the feature.


-Diseases, these would help add to world building if done right, and could sell the Mercalan is not a catch all treatment that it is described as in lore. These could, for instance, increase poison damage or reduce specific stats; though the more original / less mechanical the effects the better.

-Physical disabilities / Limb loss. These could offer narrative permanence and could assist players in selling their characters better. Little things like missing fingers adding a small but direct loss to skill and strength, to missing an arm - Permanently removing two-handers / steady's effects until a followup trait is taken (Such as a prosthetic arm). The more indepth a feature like this, the more I feel players would be able to derive. The currently existing injury system is far too shallow, and even more temporary, often serving more as a grinding inconvenience than an actual mechanic imo.

-Curses. Cursed blood was an interesting addition, and it's interactions with ghost especially was an honestly nice tie in to the thematics of the class. I would like to see this expanded on, with more permanent cursed and hexed traits that could offer Hexer some fluff / fantasy power, and contribute to overall worldbuilding.


-Divine punishment. God specific traits that relate to the god offended, say an adventurer desecrated a shrine or did not follow Kaelenesian customs. It would help to bring relevance back to most gods, rather than them being a purely mechanical entity as they are now. Offending Glycon could result in HP regen being negated and being prone to disease, whereas Zera could make a person anxious, and being more prone to being critically hit, for rough examples.

-Age as a trait, allowing players to decide when their characters 'Peak' and when they start to decline.

These are just some spitball ideas, and I'd love to hear more. 

Hi! A lot of players (including myself) have wanted the Town Map in Lispool for a bit now. My recommendations for the Town Map would be:

Mage's Guild
Asago Bank
General Shop (Aka the Buyer)
Stave Shop
Blacksmith
Inn
Cathedral (or Church, but the Church seems more like a Cathedral)

Thanks! 

Title may be misleading but it's merely a small oversight. At the moment, the new tail, hoof and horn additions (Wyverntouched, Hyattr, Omina and Reaper/Appertaurus) cannot be used by Vampire through magic mirror for some mystic reason of death perception.


The missing racial icons for both Vampire and Wyverntouched are those:

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is this a possiblle new Wyverntouched SAN trait where they have barbed tails and can use it instead of biting????!?!?!? Haha! It's joke! unless...?

New Traits

• Spiritual Tattoo (Obedience) - 10 FAI, Race with Natural Skin.
  Spiritual tattoos infuse body and soul with certain refinements. -1% Maximum HP. Augment your Youkai contracts to make them more obedient, preventing Youkai from refusing Install requests or unsummoning themself (excluding lacking FP to maintain them), and granting them +30% status resistance versus Confusion. (Includes yourself if treated as Youkai via Install, etc.)
  
  
• Sadism
  To you, there's nothing better than watching them suffer. Increases the chance you inflict Wounds on enemies when dealing damage by 50% of its normal value, and upon doing so successfully, the enjoyment you feel restores 10 FP.
  
  
• Reckless Rescuer
  Someone's in trouble, there's no time to waste! Joining a battle mid-way grants +15 Scaled Weapon Attack as you bravely charge into the fray, but lowers your Phys. and Mag. Defense by 10% due to your recklessness. This effect lasts for 3 rounds.
  
  
• Pious Upbringing
  5 FAI, At least 1 SR in Prayer
  Your early life was filled with devoted worship and prayer to a specific God. Upon selecting this trait, you select a prayer tool of the God you worshipped. You receive that prayer tool, and if you do not have a God, it becomes your God and your God Loyalty becomes 40. Praying also requires slightly less mental stamina.
  
  
• Weapon Telepathy
  15 FAI, 15 WIL, 15 APT
  You have a strange connection with weapons that allows you to hear thoughts and feelings projected by it, although no one will ever believe you. You will sometimes hear thoughts from your weapons. If you have Sentimentality (Weapon), sentimentality builds between you and weapons twice as fast.
  
  
• Desperado Striker
  20 LUC
  Don't bet against you when the odds are down; you've got so much luck it's pouring out of your ears. If you perform a basic attack with a weapon that has exactly 1 durability remaining, that attack will always critically hit if successful.
  
  
• Animal Allergy
  Race with Natural Skin
  Animals have always made you a bit... sneezy. Being near an animal-like race may cause you to sneeze involuntarily sometimes. If this occurs in battle, the sneeze may have a special minor effect.
  
  
• Cursed Blood
  Race with Natural Skin
  Your blood has been cursed by some higher entity or vile sorcerer, impacting your health negatively in some way, but making you poisonous to some others. Reduces your Status Resistance by 10% and prevents you from donating blood. However, enemies who drink your blood or absorb your HP have a chance to have a status effect dispelled. May also interact with certain blood-based skills in a unique way.
  
  
• Serious Disposition
  15 WIL
  Disposition trait (only 1 can be selected). It's just in your nature to take things seriously, giving you a mental fortitude against certain distractions, such as lust and second-guessing yourself. However, you are a bit more hopeless when things go bad. +10% resistance versus Charm and Hesitation. -10% resistance versus Fear and Silence.
  
  
• Laidback Disposition
  15 WIL
  Disposition trait (only 1 can be selected). You could be described as 'going with the flow' or even 'airheaded', giving you less whiplash in scary situations. But such a mindset also makes you easily affected by someone's charisma and give a lack of commitment to certain courses of action. +10% resistance versus Fear and Silence. -10% resistance versus Charm and Hesitation.
  

• Custom Spell Tomes - All have had scaling changed to 50% WIL, 50% Element Stat
  
• Volcanic - Damage no longer ignores protection.
  
• Anchor Edge - VIT scaling reduced to 10% (from 25%). No longer Immobilizes on Critical Hit.
  

• Refreshing Flow - Duration changed to 5 rounds. Aquae Crest effect no longer consumes crests.
  
• Purifying Aquae - Now main class only. Aquae Crest effect changed to LV 6, consumes 3 LVs. CD time changed to 3 Rounds.
  
• Wild Waterfall - Generates 2 extra Aquae Crest LVs when invoked.
  
• Brine Blade - Aquae Crest consumption changed to 2 LV (from 3).
  

• Monsters can now be inflicted with wounds. When someone in battle is inflicted with a wound, the message will be displayed to all combatants.
  
• Buzz Cut hairstyle courtesy of TamakiKun.
  
• Poncho Mirror Shard courtesy of BIG GHST!
  
• Adjustments to item updating (validating scaling and item effects, etc.)
  

Eliminate is a skill that appears to be unfinished in its current state, for starters its an autohit in a class that rightly does not ever want to use them unless they serve a huge utility purpose (Such as with Vanishing Strike), given that daggers have really low SWA normally, and it consumes an incredibly potent and required resource, all (or half) of your void energy to even use it.

As it stands, with max void energy Eliminate roughly equates to 220% of your SWA, which is a big number, but dagger criticals often reach 2x multipliers, even going as high as 2.35x multipliers, so its actually not that much stronger than my basic attack, which can infer on-hits with twin dance or gain me momentum in doing so - Speaking of which.

The skill consumes the rest of your momentum on use, this means the sole usage of its airborne component, the gap closer is useless to a VA, as you will not be able to follow it up with anything else and will be left in melee range as a result.

I haven't mentioned that the skill has a sneaking usage as well which increases the damage, and while I do like that aspect, it requires some setting up to make work, while I am all for a VA setting up the perfect kill, the class doesn't have the SP to spare on stuff like this. (8 SP total if you want max eliminate + voidgate Rank 1 + Blind Spot)

And lastly the skill doesn't really have a very satisfying animation, this is supposed to be an attack on the likes of Checkmate or Ether Invitation I feel like, and instead it feels like two dinky little slashes which HONESTLY should belong to Fray instead.

I think this skill should be reworked into being a basic attack for starters, VAs appreciate basic attacks as they are the bread and butter of the class, and its only basic attacking skill still is cutthroat, I love the other components of the skill and I think that they should be kept in some way, so here is what I might suggest:

Eliminate:

-1SP Cost (similar to Checkmate)
-Becomes a Basic Attack
-No longer consumes 3+M, costs a static 3M
-Attacks twice for 50% Attack (This would be mitigated by armor twice)
-Damage increased by Void Energy% consumed
-Sneaking assures a hit/critical hit
-6 round cooldown, halved if the skill kills a target.


And thats all really, I've had a small gripe with this skill for a while, I'd love if it had the look and feel of something like checkmate, if it has to eat a main class requirement to obtain that I'd be down for that as well.