1. I think it would be interesting to add new craft recipes for katana's involving sayakensa, creating new dark corrupted katanas that still fit the niche sayakensa provides while freeing up the wrist slot. These new katana's would be darker versions of their original form.

A) The 5 elemental Jin katana's could gain darker effects, impure/dark versions of their elemental effects that change all the kensei elemental impacts to dark corrupted versions as
well.

B) non elemental katana could gain recipes as well more themed around applying a special curse for each of them on hit

2. A purification recipe for the Akujin turning it into a light elemental Katana.

3. A combine all the elemental katana's into one crazy katana that randomly changes its element on hit.

Similar to how some skills have conditional skill quotes, like turning for Eclair, Ether Invitation should have a skill quote for if it critical hits.

I'd love to see the ability for a trait that lets you become a dark based curate class, in the same way the aquamancer skill lets you have darkwater rather than regular water if you take it. 


It'd be something like.

Dark Agenda: For whatever reason you've given up your faith, channeling your magic through darker sources, all healing skills now scale off Dark Attack rather than Faith, but healing is reduced against those of the faithful by Scaled FAI% and only healing living targets the same as Mercala heals vampires, as well as your healing causes debilitating effects to those it touches, weakening them in exchange for extending their ability to fight.

something like your heal, well, heals but causes an effect akin to curses and hexes from Hexer class, or giving them status' like blind, fear, etc..

I think it'd just be a nice little addition since we seem to slowly be moving toward dark priests, and to be honest, I feel like the darker arts of curate need to be touched on with the addition of Aquamancer being able to do just that.

A fairly simple glitch, in this case, and one that's come up in the past as well - Titan Gale, when used with the emerald Talis deployed, shows the range as coming from the Talis, but then gets used from the actual caster instead.

I haven't personally found any other skills of that kind, though it's possible someone else might have. So, hopefully, someone can also fill this in with anything others have missed.

Make two-hand apply to strength scaling, not axes/spears/swords. That way, daggers/bows/fists/etc with strength scaling can be more useful.

Pious Upbringing doesn't reduce the mental stamina required to pray. You still spend 25 mental stamina with or without it, at least according to the game. I think it may have to do with the fact that I already had a God and God Loyalty to begin with, but still chose the same God anyway.

Also based on how the trait is explained, this part may not be a bug but worth mentioning: if you already have a God before taking Pious Upbringing, but do take it and then choose that same God, and your Loyalty is below 40, it does not shoot up to 40. You also still expend the same amount of stamina (25).

It appears that Youkai are gaining the skills "Motivate (Charisma)" and "Exaggerate" from somewhere, I believe it to be the youkai summoner's traits somehow, but here is some evidence:

I've made a list of youkai and what I would believe to be their general power levels of summoned youkai (Not-installed) in order from highest to lowest to use as a reference when balancing them in the future, I am hoping that this list will come into use.

This might be a bit of an extensive read so feel free to consider this thread at some other point to help identify a lot of the issues of summoner as a whole with no drabble over which youkai are extensively overpowered, instead this thread is mostly to assist with helping the lower end of the spectrum.

I've had much experience with all of the youkai in the game, so I would like to think I know what I am talking about, I've also put down explanations as to why I might like or dislike a youkai underneath each entry.

Without further ado, this is the list of youkai in their entirety, their usefulness or uselessness combined, as a forewarning since I cannot get spoilers to work this will appear as just a giant list, and for that I apologize.

"Perfect":

This is where Ascended youkai should sit at in my honest opinion, if a general non-ascended youkai has made it up to this level then there is a problem, but so far none have.


Ascended Seiyruu:

Ascended Seiyruu is the picture of what in my opinion a youkai should be from a mechanical standpoint, it has tools to help the summoner or their allies and give the illusion that it is fighting alongside the Summoner, and its stats are incredibly good which allows to to serve a tanky role for the summoner, being able to withstand a lot of physical damage and even a little bit of magical damage. 

It also synergizes perfectly with other dragon youkai given how Daisangan works, this is most likely the ideal youkai, and what other youkai should look like in the big picture. Its no wonder that so many people use the thing currently.

They've been changed before, but after extensively testing them I don't think STR is a status that should be appended to daggers at all, especially the ones mentioned in the thread. The reason?

Quote:Hikage/Tsukikage
11 Base Power
80% Base Accuracy
5% Base Critical

75% STR/40% GUI

Quote:The STR scaling gotta go from these two daggers. They should probably be changed to these to be any usable by actual dagger builds, not omniclassing swordsmen:

A- 70% GUI/40% SKI
B- 70% SKI/40% GUI
C- 40% SKI/ 35% CEL/ 35% GUI (which I believe would be best for them)

Currently Turtle Shell feels quite underwhelming in my opinion. Before the parry changes, turtle shell had a niche use on parry characters because their back was their only 'unprotected' area since parries could trigger from side facing attacks. Now they they only trigger from the front, turtle shell will often just not provide any use for you since people are already avoiding attacking you from the front if they know you have a parry and it's very easy to see a sudden surge in crit evade if they try attacking you from the back.

I think turtle shell could provide half of its rear bonus to sides, similar to how it functioned before its nerf, just without it affecting the front this time.