As it stands, spear's unique bonus from talents is to provide the spear bonus power by SR x 1.5 when you are attacking an opponent that is melee range that is also facing you. This is absurdly specific, and I think the talent could easily just provide that bonus power at all times and it would match the bonuses axes and swords get. Swords are supposed to get extra hit, axes get extra crit and crit damage, with spears getting the power bonus.

The problem is, axes get 7 crit and 5% crit damage entirely unconditionally. Swords get 7 hit entirely unconditionally. So... why are spears limited to such a specific scenario to get their boost? A boost of 7 power might seem large, but it's arguably less powerful than what axes get in terms of raw stats, and spears typically have lower power anyway.

Currently, base duelist is unable to use axes as a weapon inherently and also possesses no skills specific to axes whatsoever. However, when you upgrade to Ghost, axes have the most skills specific to them, even if only by 1. Axes have Dark Imbue, Cut Down, and Reaper scythe compared to sword's Sanguine Star and Ghastly Strike. 

Despite Ghost's axe skills (aside from Dark Imbue) being very strong, and arguably the best skills for axes in the game, it feels awkward to use because your base class has no interaction with your weapon. You're left with many points that are useless if using an axe as a ghost. 

Conversely, Ghost cannot use spears inherently and has no skills that are exclusive to spears. For at least Duelist, it would be nice if a line of skills were added specific to axe so it doesn't feel as bad to play Ghost and have almost no synergy from your base class. Magic Gunner suffers this somewhat when upgrading from archery, although at least some of the bow skills there are gun compatible too.

A case could be made for Ghost having spear skills as well I believe, although that's not as important as base duelist getting axe synergy. While Firebird and Kensei exist as specialist classes for spears and swords (katanas specifically I guess) respectively, Ghost was never tied to one specific weapon out of axe and sword. Having it be the upgrade that uses all of duelist's weapons by incorporating spear skills to it would be nice QoL in my opinion, especially since some spears play very nicely with ghost otherwise such as Fellgrant Drinker.

So I said this for SS, it was argued with the fact that chaotic shifting shouldn't be toggled for the sake of how dangerous the art is, fair, new thing.

Can crest empowerments get a toggle for "Crest surge" where you no longer spend crest levels to empower a spell if you choose not to, in this case scenario it's likely someone might not want to spend their 6 hard earned crest levels to instant cast rainstorm, since crest break relies on max crest it would be nice if it were an option without limiting spell usage because you're not quite ready for the buffed rainstorm where it can be one turned

Quote:hey dis is SCINS FINZ and yeh all gonna celebrate fishmas. it's FISHMAS right NOW and th' best way t'celebrate is gonna hafta be to SCREAM in the sewers

did it yesterday, gonna do it again wit more holiday bells or fuckin' somethin

here's th' false-answered questions:

1. when dis this event happening?

2. RIGHT NOW

keep it real

Leader of da Tunnel Fish, Scins Finz

So this is a simple thread, I'm not even going to meme the title

So as it stands the aquaphobia tome is kinda underwhelming due to its scaling choices where it could be an amazing 10* tome for its effect.

I think all it needs is to have its cel scaling changed to vit, since it's a water tome with ice theme for its skill

So just, 35% skil 35% wil 35% vit scaling

I don't think that's too much to ask for, thanks for coming to my ted talk

At present, Grand Smasher doesn't target your own battlefield objects (Tested with traps, Stones from Stone Dragon, and Gravestone from Ghost) for the purposes of its effect. This feels unintentional given the nature of its effect.




To Reproduce:

Equip Grand Smasher

Attempt Grand Smashing

Be very disappointed

You can't use Mixed Martial Arts to use Bare Fists when using Martial Lawbreaker to perform Reaver or Soldier skills, no matter what. Ambidexterity doesn't work. You're using whatever is in your main hand.



In main hand is a dagger. Ninshi Shuriken.

I used Brine Blade to test it out with mercenaries and it's currently using their own water attack on hit instead of the caster's.

   
   

Shouldn't they all be hitting for the same damage if they all give the same level of on-hit? 

Also for reference my mercs had 49 water attack against the combatant's 41 res. 
49 water attack x 0.6 from brine blade:
29.4 damage x 0.59 (41% reduction from resistance): 
17.3 damage and then after magic armor reduction, it ended up hitting only for 13/14 water damage while mine hit for 46 due to having almost 3x their water attack (a little over 140 at the time of casting.)

They should all be doing the same damage if it was scaling off of my water attack, right?

Okay so the reason for this suggestion is the fact that when you're at the edge of the maps (Overworld, battle and indoor) it cuts off what you can see from the face selection button. So I'm suggesting another button. Just like the next and previous page buttons, one that points down which moves the selection from over head to below the icon.