What it says on the tin. Let ambidextrous allow toggling between spellcasting tools. Thanks.

With the addition of the new damage type hellfire, I think it'd be more fitting for void energy to convert fire damage from cinders into hellfire. The skill Charred Void also describes it as "fire tainted by darkness", which I suppose fits a hellfire theme? Instead of the damage being purely darkness.

Mechanically, it always felt useless knowing you were switching from fire, a high resisted element, to darkness, another high resisted element, especially when you're wasting multiple void energies to create dark cinders.


I think it'd be also pretty cool if dark cinders got a 25% dark ATK boost atop the 25% fire ATK to really show the duality of the fire and darkness, but I understand if people are hesitant to Make Cinders Great Again, so I'm not going to push this idea, merely throwing it out there!

Two possible issues;

1) Soultures can be captured. Some other players have stated that this might be a bug.

2) Drain dry can be used on NPC enemies that are at any HP, not just 0. This causes the enemies to die the next round. 

Hope this helps. I would post screenshot, but I'd have to make a video to show how it works. Either way, I think you can figure out what's going on from the info.


Edit: 
Tested on Alruane boss, it works on bosses too.

Hey guys. I know I'm not around very often, but I do tend to poke around the forums/Discord and see what is going on. I've noticed that it has been a rather popular topic to address the state of the game when it comes to RP. Since we're in the process of addressing some of the common issues that I think we've all noticed with SL2 at some point in time, I would like to take the time to point out some things that I've noticed regarding the mapping.

I'm not here to bash anyone's mapping, cause effort goes into everyone's work. I think we all can agree that we hold appreciation for anyone who is willing to put their work on display for everyone to enjoy. I'm not expecting for everyone to chime in on this only due to not everyone being knowledgeable in this field, but chiming in to get a conversation going is always good enough. I apologize for any added stress onto anyone by speaking on this topic at this time. Anyways, time to begin.

Tileset(s):

This is probably the most noticeable issue when it comes to the game's design. Whether you're a new player or an old player I'm sure you have all realized this at some point. Simply put, there are too many different tilesets. What do I mean by that? I'm not speaking of tilesets that cover each environment / biome, I'm speaking of that there are too many tilesets that are clearly made by different authors. Going from the "Default" Cellsvich tileset to the Shrine tileset, Oniga to Lispool. You can just clearly tell that they do not fit in with one another.

Solution? 

It is most likely impossible to fix with SL2 due to how many maps are actually made with the game (Unless everything is remapped...). The game desperately needs a tileset pixel artist. I know there are some talented individuals who play this game who have the ability to make a tileset, though it would be very time consuming. If you look at Cuddlefish's game, Secrets of Grindea, it includes multiple different biomes but you could tell that everything was made by one person OR a group of people who was able to do the job in a similar way. It would definitely make the game look more polished if everything was more uniform and possible would attract more players who keep an eye out for detail.

Map Editor:

Probably the most obvious issue on the subject of mapping. I feel like this is one of the main reason why people usually give up on mapping for this game. It's a struggle trying to get what you're wanting out of it. Of course there is no one to blame for this one. The Dev has already given us the best possible way for us to map the game. The editor however is just a little clunky and hard to maneuver around for anyone new to it. It is very time consuming to get use to and to use it to the fullest of it's extent. It is not very user friendly. It's honestly a turn off knowing that I'm going to have to struggle using this program to map something.

Solution?

This one is honestly just a shot in the dark and most likely impossible. We either need a more user friendly editor or a way to convert maps from another tileset editor to Byond. Small maps aren't so bad to deal with in the editor, but the larger maps.... hah...

For comparison, mapping a 100x100 detailed Map on RPGMaker would probably take me 3 days. (Working for 4 hours each day for 3 days)
Making a detailed 100x100 Map on Byond would take me over a month. (Working for 4 hours or more in the span of that month. This mainly comes from browsing through the every tileset to find what I want. Making new tiles and editing tiles on my own. Mind you, I'm not very good at creating or editing tiles)

Miscellaneous Thoughts (Mainly my rants):

Teamwork:
One thing this game desperately needs is a team. It needs a team for all aspects of development. But since this topic is on mapping, I'll only talk about that. I feel like we need to get a group of players who are willing to learn, share ideas, take criticism from one another and able to come to a agreement on how they should map the game. #Mapping topic on Discord isn't really living up to 'a group coming together'. I'm speaking of an actual development team.

Criticism:
This one annoys me the most. This is more of a personal rant. As someone who mapped for this game, I need your help. The other people who mapped this game needs your help. I mean you, the Playerbase. There are people who actually have requests and help by pointing out mistakes and want changes done to something that do not seem right to them. Then there is from what I see as the majority:

• "Looks better than what we have now."
  
• "Looks good! (No other input included)"
  
• "Keep up the good work!"
  

An old document I made a while back that I'd like to post mostly even if the ideas may not make it in, I've made a few enchantment ideas for potential implementation, without further ado:

Weapons:
(Catalyst) Apple Blossom Petal:
(weapon name) of Zen - Lowers monster spawns in encounters, increases convert and show mercy's success chance. (Opposite of Bloodsoaked effect, minimum is 1 monster.)

Frozen Fangs (Dropped by Fenrirbus):
Bittering - Weapon: Applies or worsens Celcius 1LV on-hit (Up to LV5 max), attacks against targets already inflicted with Celcius take WPN Power + 100% Ice ATK Unresistable magic damage. (Can occur only once a round)

A cloaked figure has been, recently, frequenting Loyrwell for unknown purposes.  His face is shrouded by a hood, typically, and a wreath of black spirits heaves around him.  Approaching this figure is difficult, as he seems to detect the presence of others from unreasonable distances...  But it's certainly not impossible, given the right conditions.

Accompanying his arrival is a host of black spirits; plenty of them recently slain.  This could prove useful for anyone utilizing such materials.





This is a post relating to a character on the Wanted Board, Maksim.  I'm not available or interested in doing RP constantly so I don't hang around places, ever, but people are welcome to reach out and look for Maksim and I wanted to affirm that here;

Anyone looking to encounter Maksim, either in a passive way, communicating in some form- or an aggressive way, hunting him for the bounty- can message me on Discord at Kit#6944. He's currently lurking around Loyrwell, and the Kyisan wilderness surrounding that area.

If you're interested in updates on the condition of this Cloaked Figure, stay tuned; follow-up posts will be made based on those he interacts with here in this thread!

I said I would keep an eye on the thread, and I did, so now I will be responding to it as best as I can. First of all I appreciate everyone's candid opinions, even if they caught me a little off-guard, so thank you for that. I'm not going to be able to respond to every single post, but I did read through it and gather up what I feel were the general takeaways of the thread, so that I could give my personal thoughts and have a discussion about what positive changes we could make in regards to them. These are in no particular order.

OOC Characters/Existing OOC

• Characters that exist in the game environment in an 'OOC' fashion undermines the RP environment and can create confusion about when and where it is appropriate to try to start RP with someone.
  
• Similarly, people behaving in an OOC manner or polluting the IC channels with memes and OOC jokes are distracting and have a negative effect on RP.
  

• The process for getting things approved and requesting them is vague. It is hard to see when someone gets something approved and for what reason.
  
• For this reason it is also hard to know if someone actually has some aspect of their roleplay approved, or if they're just making things up.
  
• Sometimes the lack of transparency creates a feeling of favoritism when someone is denied something, but sees others get things approved.
  

• The game often breaks down into friends only wanting to be around their friends instead of RPing with others they are less familiar with (for whatever reason).
  
• Could partly be caused by people breaking down the RP environment with OOC-like behavior or 'memeing'.
  

• People perceive the world as incapable of being changed or affected in any meaningful capacity.
  

• People perceive that there is a lack of place for their character to go, and positions in the existing world that their character can fill. (Not just mechanical Roles.)
  

• Rules for expected etiquette in situations of conflict only exist in vague terms.
  
• Playing as an antagonist character carries a lot of risk with very little in the way to bounce back; a single failure often carries extremely harsh punishments, including long times in jail away from meaningful RP.
  
• Other parties, including guards, can often feel like an insurmountable, infinite, and at times omnipotent force, stifling antagonist encounters and RP.
  

When you go into the smithing kit, tailoring and woodworking appear to be missing, and are not available in the standard smith menu, also as a note smelting doesn't appear to be there either, which is less of a bug and more of a statement.

The class itself is kind of a mess, apart from being split up into essentially 2 classes that only share the similarity of using the same resource there are many problems with it as a whole, I will be going over quite a few of its issues like I did with Black Knight some time ago in hopes that some or all of these may be fixed:


Perceived Strengths:
-High physical damage when successfully landing hit and critical checks
-Superb multi-class synergy with dagger dance.
-Massive critical steroids make this class the monarch of crit rate.
-Vanishing Strike and Cutthroat+Breakdown alone are enough to carry the class.

-Decent supporting options in the form of regen healing, eastern wind, blotch, refraction
-Base Rogue combined with voidgates provides high mobility
-Fairly high and satisfying magic DR with baked in RES in class stats to give a magic sponge feeling.

-Situationally high magic damage vs a lack of dark resistance
-Impure Element provides an insane damage roid, and ends up being the core gimmick of many builds.

Weaknesses
-Lack of hit steroids cause this class to rely on other classes to supplement its needs when basic attacking.
-Lack of basic attack gap closer causes this class to suffer to high 1 time evade buffs such as disengage and miragewalk, perhaps incentivizing it to specialize into options that might help against that such as dagger dance.

-Class resource requires taking magic damage to replenish

-Lack of usable projectiles within its own class for refractions
-Dark Resistance diminishes the class' magic damage capability severely.


Issues:
-No synergy amongst itself for building both magic and physical, it is impossible to build a dagger VA with WIL RES GUI and still be a proficient character.
-Severe lack of AoE in PvE cause this class to be a little slow at mob clearing when utilizing daggers.
-Black Bolt/Detogate are almost entirely useless to a physical variant VA, perhaps enabling them to be cast with daggers could be good.
-Most of its dagger skills are autohits, which scale from a stat daggers lack severely.

-INSANELY high SP costs, probably the absolute highest total SP amount in the game currently.
-Lacks a way to replenish class resource without taking magic damage.
-Requires to be topped up on class resource before starting any fight to be the most effective.

-Its magic requires setup to be effective, and is diminished heavily by a common resistance type, a basic void projectile with no VE cost could synergize VERY well with the rest of the magic variant of this class I feel, and wouldn't create refraction hell we had with fray.

Its my hope that the issues are fixed rather than the weaknesses, to keep the class currently in line with many others, thanks for reading I may make more of these in the future.