There's currently an excellently written post in balance fu about Aquamancer's shortcoming as a class, but there is something else I feel needs to be addressed. Now, all of this is more subjective in nature, but it's something I feel strongly about.

I feel like Aquamancer is too specialized.

When I say that, the class as a whole is literally just water magic. It is an entire class dedicated to one type of magic, meaning there is very little room to fluff it or make it 'your own' so to say outside of Dark Authority, which was a welcome addition.

Let me expand on this. When it comes to the large majority of the rest of the classes in the game, they are not nearly as hyper focused on one single theme. Take Hexer for example. This is a class with a lot of dark magic, but it also supports a few different playstyles. You can be a melee focused Hexer with sadistic renewal and bloody karma. You can focus on the utility incantations, you can focus on inflictions and empowering those inflictions with hexes, so it's not really just a one trick pony class like Aquamancer.

Even with Firebird, which has a very strong theme, there's room for flexibility. While it defaults to fire, you can play a different elemental firebird with in-class support for it. The element of firebird's damage changes simply based on your active enchant. You can trigger ignite power with ice tiles as an ice based firebird, or light shafts as a lightning based one. The support for earth and wind is lackluster due to a way to generate these tiles, but the framework is there at the very least. It gives you more agency in regard to making the class feel your own, or mold it into a more fitting thing for your character.

Some people might point out classes that are focused around specific weapons, but even these classes don't feel as 'one trick pony' as Aquamancer. For example, looking at Monk, you have different elemental skills to pick from, which is a recurring theme when it comes to weapon based classes. Ranger and Magic Gunner for example have different elemental arrow skills and magic shells respectively. Even something like Kensei, which takes things a step further and works specifically with a subtype of sword, there are a few different ways to play it given you don't have enough skill points for everything. Some people go for sheathe sword gimmicks, and given you can't feasibly take all of the kensei attack skills, some people pick and choose different ones to trigger Sakki, Touki, etc. There's also elements that further change the way the class is played, even if lightning is currently overbearing due to its effectiveness.

A point of contention that might be brought up in response to this is Priest, but I feel like that class fulfills a needed class fantasy/role in the classic healer. Clerics of some kind are a staple of any RPG. Some tabletop RPGs offer ways to fluff priests with different deities for them to worship, and it would be cool if eventually Priest was allowed something similar in SL2, overall it doesn't feel like... wasted potential I guess, as a promotion.

One of the things I like the most about SL2 is that with the plethora of classes the game has, I can take them and have room to make them fit/work for my character. People are even given leeway to RP weapons as different types of weapons all together. For example, I've seen spears roleplayed as swords and so on. With a class like Aquamancer, however, that simply isn't an option. Aquamancer feels like something that could have easily been compartmentalized and fit into Evoker and Mage as another elemental tree of magic. This would end up making it more damage focused, but when it comes to a support, it doesn't feel like it brings anything new to the table that existing supports don't do infinitely better anyway. This is more of a fault of the Aquamancer skills being very underpowered, but I think it could be pulled off without dedicating an entire promotion to a single element of magic.

The elephant in the room when it comes to this post is Verglas, which is similar in regard to class rigidity. Honestly, everything I've said are also issues I personally have with Verglas, but at the very least it seems like even that class has different ways to go about it with skills that people build around specifically. 

All in all, I like SL2 for its fluidity in how you can make classes your own, so I personally would like to avoid another Aquamancer moving forward.

Applicable BYOND Key - Gogeto25
Character Name - Kennith
Request Type - Family / Character History
Request Details - I'm requesting to be related to/in the Majistra family, but I'm not seeking to be related to anybody important within the family. I'm going for the angle more of a bastard/abandoned child or anything really.
Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - My character has an interest in the void and teleportation and I also went in with little to no backstory and tried to make one as I went around the world roleplaying. He's set a very unreasonable goal of wanting to replicate the portals found in the mage's guild and I think that being part of this family would fill in the gaps in my backstory and why he doesn't mention his backstory as much, as well as his focus on void study.
(I'm pretty sure my ic goal is unreasonable/not possible, but I enjoy rping chasing a goal that is less than likely to happen)
Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - (not sure what to put here) 

Using anything mutated into a gun, despite in Debug stating 1 rounds does not activate one shot over charge for shell effects.

Headshot appears to be adding weapon damage twice when used with things mutated into guns.

Dungeons can rarely spawn on Bai Kai and prevent you from entering them since if you try to, it'll take you to Bai Kai instead. I have never seen this happen with any other Static Dungeon, so I'm assuming it's only a problem with Bai Kai (as I've no way to test if it could happen with other ones.)

Okay so, thank you for the ability to download out FI! This indeed help us out a lot considering a few of us lost out data.

There is one more think I'd like to ask for; the ability to download Portrait (Your own ofc). You get to realized that there are times you actually edit/made/customize beyond recreation some of your portraits and times the images is almost unfindable.

Is it possible to get a download option for that as well? It would be greet.

Can the donation item Chaotic Key let us choose the prefixes the spawned dungeon will have if a Massive Spatial Core is used for it? Usually people don't want to deal with Stylish being always thrown into the list and it's part of why it doesn't get used often. Don't have much to say about it other than it would be a nice quality of life thing to have, though!

Aquamancer has been out for 3 weeks now and by now enough time has passed to see that there's been quite a few issues in terms of skill useability and gameplay. Let's start off with the central point that's leading to the class feeling clunky/lackluster: resources and (later on in the post) cooldowns.

Most classes operate on a 2 resource system (FP and Momentum) with a few operating with a third (Feathers for Firebird, Ki for Monk, etc.) while also having their skill usage limited by cooldown timers for more powerful spells. For aquamancers the third resource is:

• Water Dragon: Extendable line AoE damage, minor heal, flooded water tiles. Soaked at 3 crests without consumption. 
  
• Jet Stream: Single target damage and knockback. Effect increased at 3 crests without consumption.
  
• Water Pillar: Single target damage and airborne. Soaked at 3 crests without consumption.
  
• Ring of Pearls: Increased evasion success and damage reduction. AoE knockback at 3 crests without consumption.
  
• Water Wall: Adjustable line that acts as a solid wall and collapses into flooded water at the end of its duration. Increased duration at 2 crests without consumption. Only 1 SP!
  
• Crest Surge: Grants 9 crests and a status that generates 1 crest per round for 5 rounds.
  

• Wild Waterfall: Small AoE damage with knock down and flooded water tiles. Soaked at 3 crests without consumption. 
  

• Steam Sear: Deals fire damage, attempts to inflict burn. Only useable if the targeted tile has water on it or if the target is soaked/frozen and consumes it. +10% status infliction and +25% damage to jammer enemies at 5 crests or higher without consumption.
  

• Cold Splash: Plain ice damage. At level 9 crest, consumes 9 crests for a chance of LV100 frozen for 3 rounds. 
  

• Drowning Chant: Attempts to silence an enemy for 2 rounds. If successful, also silences you for 2 rounds. +1 duration and +10% status infliction at 8 crests and consumes 8 crests.
  

Well, this may be slightly controversial, but it's a spell that I feel like pointing out. Also fairly short, mostly because there isn't much to say.

There's a particular Hexer attack spell called Eternal Darkness. The effect is... interesting, to say the least - it deals dark damage to 1 enemy within 4 range, and if they're inflicted with Blind, it extends the duration by 1 round. Those that looked at a handful of other spells might be able to note that, quite simply, it isn't worth it in almost any circumstance.

To start with, it costs a whopping 32 FP. For a skill that only hits one target in a short range, it sounds absolutely unreasonable, unless the effect is good. And in this case, the effect is... to extend a Blind status by 1 round? It doesn't really do much of anything for most hexers as a result. Heck, there's things like Altera, that instead inflict Blind. Re-inflicting it still refreshes the duration, after all, effectively extending it by another 1-2 rounds. And basically every single Blind inflicting ability costs less FP to use.

To Eternal Darkness' credit, it has 140% Dark ATK for scaling, which is pretty okay, but it doesn't make up for everything else being fairly underwhelming, especially for a class that's supposed to specialize in status effects.

My personal suggestion would be to lower the FP cost and make it inflict the status through the usual infliction check, and if it's already on the opponent, then it doesn't do an infliction check and instead automatically extends the duration by one round. That way it can at least be used without having to include an external way to use Blind and effectively invalidating any reason to use the actual spell.