So as of recent I've noticed that Dullahan has been more oppressive in odd ways. Moreso than usual offering very little in the means of counterplay, and potentially nullifying certain CEL based builds. Especially with their resistance to Interference and general durability they are able to abuse gameplay loops that most if not all classes have little to nothing to answer it with in their arsenal.

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• -Stun + Mayelia is a combo that even at the most optimal times is unnecessarily difficult to deal with. Very few avenues for silence, and gunner's null shell can stop it but that's gated behind a single class.
  
  
• -The stun effect doesn't leave the person a sitting duck in fact because of the new turn system they just go on like nothing happened, so they get their HP back without much tradeoff. 
  
• -Dullahans stun effect when they run out of FP's interaction with the new turn order system is making it so they end up going first, so it's much less of an issue to even run out of FP, in fact you can guard with 7M just as you're about to run out of HP and get a full 70 percent damage reduction, and then once the stun wears off, they start the next turn, as if almost overriding the fact you dared to put Cel in your character.
  

If you give a custom mob Spirituality (from Monk) via event tools, it will make statuses last infinitely in a fight it's in. As in, they will not tick down their durations.

You can test this by giving a mob Rank 10 Spirituality and putting it in a fight (or controlling it yourself.)

Skills compatible with Excel Crash that also perform basic attacks behave in an extremely counterintuitive manner.  Because Excel Crash consumes all charges before delivering the attack, Ritual Sword and Aliagmato lose out on the bonus damage of Excel.  

An example of this is shown below, with a normal Excel hit with three charges:



And then, with Aliagmato and three charges:



Aliagmato's bonuses include:

LV1 - +15 Hit to all attacks.
LV2 - +15 Critical to all attacks.
LV3 - +15 Damage to all attacks.

There exists almost no world where +15 Hit/Critical/Flat Damage would ever outweigh the normal 250% damage of a fully charged Excel attack, ultimately resulting in a situation where using the compatible skills is almost always suboptimal when the character has charges present.  

Because we have no way of choosing not to consume charges with Excel Crash compatible skills, skills that are both compatible and perform basic attacks should not lose the damage bonus a basic attack normally gets from Excel.  Even if that would make using these skills strictly better than basic attacking, to my knowledge there are only two.  And since one of them has strict positional requirements, and both of them cost 4 momentum, that hardly seems like it would be a big issue.

yeah that's it really.  I don't wanna make an argument one way or another, just feel like maybe some positivity goes a long way in balance talk.


I like guns, if you hadn't heard asdf.  I especially like the ones that shoot a lot because it gives a really solid kapow-pow-pow-pow combo feeling.  Same reason I like twin dance, honestly- especially with stuff like sharp claws.  Split damage isn't really optimal or anything but it just looks v cool to me to have a lot of different damage procs all at once.

That's not the only thing though.  I love the different combos and playstyles you can work with in pvp.  Sometimes, certain strats rise above the rest, but once something becomes meta, that's plenty more reason to start working towards something that can topple it- so it's kinda something I don't mind thinking about an all.  It's nice, more than anything.

I still remember being a newbie to the game, as I'm a relatively new player, and not being able to do much of anything in PvP.  I got tooottaly trashed, had to work on things from the ground up with my build.  But it was honestly a lot of fun honing that stuff and finding where my character was headed to.

I think where it kinda peaked is when I really started to get into pvp mindset.  Thinking about your opponent's next move, what their tools are- niche interactions you might be able to catch them off guard with, and stuff like that.  Even in short battles there can be a lot of chance to mess up or catch your opponent out when they mess up, and it's just kinda a good time.

What do you guys enjoy about PvP?

No need to get too into anything particularly, this isn't anything 'specific' about balance- just, what about the balance and mechanics feels fun?

the sequel to where's my HAND.  When attacking or sub attacking, you can get an extra shot or two off with akimbo, but parting shot, for some reason, will not allow such freedom.  I'd kinda like to see that change.

Really simple topic.  Twin dance only applies on basic attack and sub attack commands.  No skills, like Cuthroat, Hanging, Pinball, Warp Strike, Sidecut, Sillcut, Geldoren, or many many more have any effect when used with twin dance.  We just kinda magically forget that we can attack with two weapons if we're performing the slightest complicated maneuver.

I'd really like to see this change and I don't see a lot of reason for it not to change, though my ears are open.

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• Sign up and complete quests on the public quest board.
  
• Earn a bit of extra murai through the crafting requests. 
  
• Employment some with fluff salaries, others with some actual murai payout. 
  
• Become employee/adventurer of the month for IC recognition and rewards. 
  
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• Have a long-term stay at the Inn. (No mechanical murai to stay, only fluff. This is mainly for players/characters without homes.) 
  
• RP with others in a beautifully put together setting. (Thank you, Shibe! You da MVP. I'm sorry for enabling you with more planners.)
  
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Alright. You might've read the name of the thread, and you might just have thought to yourself: "But Kiseki, what are you thinking?! This would be OP!", or something along those lines.
Honestly? Don't blame ya for thinking that! But if you thought I wouldn't make a wall of text to really put things into perspective and maybe even convince you...

• Add the ability to cast spells to existing materials when applied to a weapon. Conduiz and Rotwood already exist and should be proof enough that such a change would not prove overpowered, especially when lightning was theoretically the most dangerous possibility. Additionally; bonus power and skill slots from tomes, as well as bonuses from other materials, are forfeit in the process, providing further reason to offset the idea of adversity to balance.
  
• Allow players to create Rotwood kits and apply them to weapons. The existing Huggessoan domain spells are not strong enough to be a concern for balance.
  
• Potentially change/rework Spelledge weaponry, as well as Reaper / Apertaurus's Affinity passives. This change would most certainly make them slightly obsolete, moreso in the case of Reapers and Apertaurus, warranting a change to those abilities.
  

I know that there are several guides for this already, but I wanted to post an updated one that I think will be the easiest method for most players. This guide assumes you have found a “playby”. You’re going to want to likely pick something that is a character from a series so that they’ll be plenty of art available for the sake of making face icons. There will be a lot of pictures since I wanted to make this as follow-able as possible for those that are not tech savvy. 

I found a character I like, now what?

Gather art of the character! There are various sites that you can use. I would ask around to see what other's use, but a good one is zerochan.net since there is no nsfw content on it. Just maybe swimsuit pictures at worst.

Now that you have all the art open for said character, save pieces that you like to your computer.

Part 1: Cropping the Face Icons

There are a few methods to go about this. I will cover the most accessible first,

Using the built in tools on Windows 10. (Only works with this OS):

You CANNOT delete or add any FIs as you please to the .dmi you just made otherwise it will completely undo the compression. You will have to redo the entire thing. 

In order to reorganize the order of the FIs, use cut + paste shortcuts aka Crtl+z and Ctrl+v. 

If you do not have a perfect square number of FIs you will get blank spots. DO NOT DELETE THEM since it will mess up the compression! Just cut and paste them to the back of the .dmi and don't think about it.





IF you compressed the .dmi down to 256kb and it DOES NOT upload, odds are it is actually larger than 256kb by a little bit. The way you can check is to right click the .dmi file and hit "Properties". If this happens you need to compress it more or remove FIs to make it fit.