I know this one has been kind of an issue for years and I should have brought this up much, much sooner but...



If you have way too many skills, Toggle Skills can move past the game screen and become hard to tell whether they are truly active or not. The current workaround for this is unequipping skills until you can see the ones you care to put in your hotkey list. This is a pain specially when you have several toggle abilities.

I think they could get their own battle menu section, similarly to how magic in general gets their section as Spells, or Runes, or Magic Gunner Shells. It would make it much less annoying to keep track of when your battle menu is a long list.

With the recentish change to Bonder making Shared Pain a main class skill, I feel like Bonder could use an extra tool or two to throw a bone towards encouraging people to fight alongside their youkai.

Could Auto-Summon be moved to it's base class summoner or alternatively give Bonder a skill of it's own that does effectively the same thing but only summons the first bonded youkai in your list? Bonder in it's current state hardly encourages summoning your youkai outside of cases like abusing Drowned Woman for damage reduction which has been trimmed down a bit in recent times with the main class changes to Shared Pain and other sources of DR.

I realize this could lead to some Fight as One and Synchro Summon round 0 shenanigans but there could be adjustments to make it more bearable if it becomes an issue.

Its no surprise that currently in the new turn order system that dodge is left kind of weak, the main benefit of Celerity before was that you moved faster than tanks did which was important in assuring your survival as a whole, this is not the case anymore really for a lot of reasons, mostly in that if you're not first in the turn order, your Celerity is practically useless right now.

You can make the argument that dodge is a lesser, more risky DR with the higher reward being that you can often times dodge basic attacks with, and while this is important in keeping things such as Narcus in check, it fails in the current team scenarios given the presence of basic attackers is at an all time low, and magic is VERY strong. As with this most dodgies end up turning towards Cobra Stance's Snake Dancer for added protection vs mages, and it functions as excessive protection as mages actually often struggle vs Cobra, and its really unfair in a lot of cases.

I think maybe a raw numbers buff to Evasion is perhaps in order, we learned from Verglas' ice point guard that a larger evasion number is not the end of the world, and with initiative's current state as a stat, Celerity/Dodge characters REALLY need some hard number tweaks to at least make them more viable feeling, a drastic evasion tweak while nipping at Cobra's Snake Dancer would probably be perfect.

A lot of people feel as though evasion cannot be used by classes that aren't a select few, its not entirely wrong to think that as currently the kings of dodge are the only ones using it.


One last thing, knockdown is simply too good of a counter to Evasion, I'm not going to argue evasion ignoring attacks as that are what they are supposed to be good versus (as such they have lower damage or restrictions currently.) So I think that Knockdown versus Evasion should also be looked at.

TL;DR: Celerity as a stat is not overly powerful given the initiative changes, and may need some number/usage buffs to make up for it currently.

Anyways, heres some ideas to consider:


--Knockdown no longer removes the ability to proc evasion, instead it HALVES Evasion's DR. (Quick Rise from Rogue would make you completely ignore knockdown's evasion penalty)
Reason: Knockdown already removes a portion of your evade, making it easier not to trigger evasion already, in an organized team effort, you can burst down a dodgy in so little time that they REALLY need this lifeline. Without it they will easily perish.

I want to note that the knockdown change is the least that should be considered potentially, this would easily circumvent a lot of issues dodgies have in team fights currently, but I would also consider:

1) Increasing Evasion's DR baseline from 30/15% to 40/25%, this would come along with a nerf to Cobra's Snake Dancer, giving it only 1 charge instead of 2, as well as slightly changing Ice Point Guard, making it grant 10% Evasion DR instead of 15%.

2) Giving evasion DR increasing effects to other classes, but not allowing them to stack, such as:
-Rogue's "Evasion" skill increasing its DR by 3/6/9/12/15%
-Ranger's Light Armor Mastery increasing Evasion DR by 3/6/9/12/15%
-New Kensei Skill that increases Evasion's DR, currently they are a high DPS class with absolutely no staying power in a fight, they, like verglas did once could definitely use better ways to stay in a fight.

Now, i'm gonna be honest. I haven't cared to use Earth Elemental Impacts but. What if I told you that I don't care if they get changed or not if they get animated in a cool way?

Namely, delayed impacts and screen shaking sounds proper for 'Quaking' moves. i.e if I Quaking Sidecut someone, I want to see the sidecut line, then literally see it viscerally tear sunder the ground as the screen shakes and the damage hits. Do you know how fucking hype that'd look?

Tremors, moves taking a bit before actually hitting and it hits with some POWER seems like a great addition overall to the elemental impact. I'll leave the care for balance for another day.

That's all. Please consider. Thanks.

Wretched Oil from Hexer is currently only targetting 4 range instead of 5 as its skill description states.

PvE isn't totally blah, absolutely boring from the get go, but I think it gets kinda bland, eventually.  Especially since people always need grinding for their new characters, or you need to grind to eventually hit that 15th legend extension some day in the future, or what have you.  It can be pretty spiced up by having a friend with you, but- then-

...Where'd all my money go?

Following a recent step-up in patrols from guards in the forest, a horde of corpses under the leadership of a lich of some sort were discovered roaming quite a distance away from trade routes. Upon notice of their presence, guards were on the scene - followed quickly after by adventurers.

After a brief bit of time, the masses engaged the horde of corpses, with the first wave proving somewhat overwhelming for some. People recovered, however, and the second wave seemed to mellow out a little, proving to be less of a hassle for the gathered groups.

Some groups resolved to finish off the rest of the corpses, while the guards engaged with the lich itself in a four versus one battle. The odds were obviously stacked against this lich, though - and in the end, it seemed like their efforts, though it had surely managed to cause harm, led to what was inevitably it's breaking point. A large explosion rippled through the forest, leaving a small impact crater and causing serious injury to the guards, as well as causing chaos for remaining groups.

Once all was said and done, the lich was nowhere to be found. Perhaps it escaped, or perhaps perished in it's own explosion. Though people can speculate, nobody can truly say for certain. Not that it matters, though - creatures like that often have a tendancy to not stay dead long.

[This is the summary of the event that took place in the forest. People are free to post their accounts of the event down below. Note that this is not for feedback, just expressing how your character handled their part in it.]

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