Quote:Burst Claw
8 Power | 85% Accuracy | 0% Critical | 6 Weight | Type: Slash
On Hit: Deals magic Fire damage equal to 50% of your Fire ATK, which ignores armor.
On Hit: Consumes Weapon Charges, dealing 50% more damage per Charge Level.

Potential Skill - Red Raid
Dash forward in a 4 Range line (+1 for every Weapon Charge level). If you encounter an enemy, you grab them and cause an explosion around them, dealing Blunt physical damage to all enemies in a 2 Range circle around them equal to 100% of Burst Claw's SWA, then your Weapon Charge level increases by 1.
90% STR
15% SAN

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This popup shows up after trying to load any character from this account (Lyn-Chan). It popped up once before mid-game with the third character, during the first phase of the black beast mountain raid after displaying the damage inflicted on the black beast from my burning bracers, and caused the game to freeze, forcing me to restart. After finishing the mountain raid, being given some valentine chocolate, and relogging to fix the screen being too small, it now does this on all three characters, and after a quick check on another account, they all have the problem as well. I've tried both reinstalling byond and clearing the cache to fix the problem, and neither have worked.

I think Smoke is a largely unfun mechanic to face when spammed, and given there are only 3 methods of actually clearing it (Cyclone spear, Air Pressure, Tile destruction) its harder to find someone randomly who just has the ability to clear it out and make it less of a nuiscance.

I want to start off by mentioning that Smoke tiles are not a largely broken mechanic, when you have the ability to just print screen things before smoke actually detonates or have a pretty great understanding and awareness of what might be happening around you, you will bumble around in the dark far far less, but that doesn't make it any less annoying.

I think instead of taking away the vision loss mechanic which is largely what makes it unique, we could probably just make do with more ways to actually clear it out.

I think attributing this to wind is thematic enough given that Cyclone Spear and Air Pressure currently can make away with it, but I'd also like to extend this to:

-Air Shafts overwriting Smoke Tiles, removing them when formed, and removing any further ones attempted to be placed within the vicinity.

-Typhur's AoE blowing away Smoke Tiles, giving LB a bit more utility in its kit.

-Piercing Shinken blowing away Smoke Tiles in its path

-Raging Crystal Rose blowing away Smoke Tiles in its path

-Gryphon Wing, a largely under utilized and underpowered summon spell, that could see use blowing away smoke tiles

And thats all I'll mention, any further additions are welcomed but I thought I'd just make this.

Drawing from my post in this thread, I believe Rune Magician is lacking in variety when it comes to offense, and ally-affecting utility. As a result, the class feels predictable and has a lower skill ceiling than it could. Because of how abundant skill points are for the class already, I think a few new runes could greatly benefit Rune Magician.

Chimera Rune:

To be as succinct as possible, I think it would be awesome if some classes got crazy high-rank invocations, such as Evoker.

Making them take forever to actually cast keeps them from ever being a dominant force in PvP, and allows a lot more fun, previously too-powerful effects and general class flare to be added to the game. Let us create black holes, torch the entire map, summon ungodly things, you name it. Even if it took six casts and 300 FP to whip out an S-Rank Invocation, I bet it'd be a hell of a good time.

We've seen a LOT of support for this in the past, so I'll just summarize with this:

I suggest adding Rank B, A, and S invocations to the game.

Yep. It's that time. The Balance Thread. The infamous. The one. The only. Pure Power.



Pure Power. A passive that next to no one uses. Why, you might ask? Reading it, it sounds decent. Now let's go over that. Or what I think it, anyway.

NUMBER ONE. YES. OF COURSE. It's pretty underwhelming for the cost of it.

One less slot for +5 Power when maxed. Which costs 5 SP. To really put this into perspective. Let's assume you have 36 SP to use and you're just so happening to run 2 elements. We'll assume Fire and Earth. Yeah.

Let's go over what happens.

• Instead of Flat Power, make it percentage based.

• Make the skill cost 2 SP instead of 5 SP. 1 SP to get the effect. 2 SP to make it not cost a skill pool slot.

• Make different equipment amounts increase your power more. Accessories and Offhands will be a 5% increase, Feet will be a 10% Increase, Torso will be a 15% Increase. This will make it so that you have to consider the slots you're giving up to maximize output without draining your SP horrifically for an okay bonus. This means if I don't want shoes, due to being an agile mech then i'll get a 10% Damage Increase to all my spells.

• Change Pure Power to only work on Mage and Mage Promo Spells. Otherwise, all spells might get a bit out of hand when combined with this. Greaper works with any damaging invoc (see: Divine Shower) however, so... I'm personally for keeping Pure Power to the Mage Tree though.

Style Seeds. They change what a spell looks like as far as animation goes.

Likewise, why not apply this to normal weapons as well? Basic attacks, special attacks and any skills that perform basics can have a little item that mechanically changes the attack animation of what they look like.


Now, you can argue. Yes. This will fuck up knowing what some builds are or what weapons people are using if they're special in particular. (i.e vorpal fang having changed animation pretty much gives you minimal way to know it's a vorpal fang) but at the same time, concealment exists. So the animation at that point is pretty much the only real way we could know.

So how about it? Who's down for this? I can see how it's a good and bad idea, so I WANT OPINIONS.

Avantgarde is that one Legend Journal/Extension bonus that gives you extra outfit slots the more you invest into it. I see people often mock it and say it's only something you take if you literally have nothing else to invest to.

A lot of people like cool moments, and some really like aesthetic. I happen to be both.... so here is an idea I had.

How about making it so Avantgarde also gives you the option to choose an outfit slot you can swap into mid-battle? Like a 0M or toggle skill that changes your icon to that, likely. This wouldn't be anything that empowers a character, but gives it the possibility to add some cool fluff instead.

It would only be one outfit, I imagine. Unless it's somehow possible to choose the one you want to switch into mid-battle, and this would probably make Personal Wardrobes more appealing to grab. Not that they're lame, but I figure it would be a collateral effect in that regard.

What do you think?

For some reason, every now and then, you color from a different character changes to your must recently edited character.

Example: Slot 1 changed to blue, slot 2 changed to yellow (RECENT)

You play on slot 1 and use wemote, you'd find your color being changed to the color of slot 2.

More info on this bug; via the chat setting, if you change the color on slot 2 recently, if you open the chat setting on slot 1, the recent color via slot two remains and force the color change to slot 1.

Example
[*]Load slot 1
[*]Change slot 1 color to something.
[*]Close it, type to ensure it saves.
[*]Log out and switch to slot 2.
[*]Load slot 2
[*]Change slot 2 color to something.
[*]Close it, type to ensure it saves.
[*]Log out and switch to slot 1.
[*]Load slot 1
[*]Open slot 1 chat settings.
[*]Witness as slot 2 color is forced onto slot 1.