Frankly speaking, over time, a significant amount of people have asked me to make sword basic attacker builds for them, usually requiring something for Ghost or Kensei. There's two things I've noticed that tends to stand out in this process, more often than not:

1. They're asking for a Tarnada build.
2. They're wanting to use a sword, but it turns out that running Tarnada tends to be the much more optimal choice, so they abandon their original idea and instead shoot for that.

Without context, maybe one would think that people just like shooting tornadoes out, but it turns out that's not the only thing that has been making people flock to Tarnada. Here's Tarnada's pros and cons:

PROS:
- High base stats in Power, Critical and Accuracy.
- Split STR/CEL scaling, 50% each.
- 24% chance of casting an invocation (Vydel) on critical hit, when at maximum upgrades.

CONS:
- And this is where the core problem is present. There's hardly any drawbacks to Tarnada, which makes it the go-to choice for most dodge duelist basic attackers 9 times out of 10 if they are seeking to be majorly optimal. The base stats it dons are far greater than most other katanas, if not all of them.

Here's a few examples of what I mean with base statistics:

TARNADA: 15 POW, 95 ACC, 10 CRIT
SOGENSARA: 11 POW, 80 ACC, 0 CRIT
AKUJIN, RAIJIN, KOUENJIN, SANJIN AND YUKIJIN: 9 POW, 85 ACC, 0 CRIT

As you can see, Tarnada overshadows most other katanas with ease. Sure, it could be argued that since it's a 10*, it's meant to be powerful and worth the effort when it comes to upgrading it.

... But it has high base stats. It casts an invocation on critical, or rather, has a good chance to. That means you can get a huge load of critical, hit rate and damage with it, on top of the occasional Vydel that knocks down an entire party after dishing out roughly 250+ Wind magical damage. Because people tend to pair it up with Talvyd.

Even without the enchant, pulling out an invocation on critical is a pretty big effect. This is currently an optimal Tarnada set up, for the record:



So here are a few propositions:

A) Change the scaling of Tarnada to 45% STR 45% CEL, and reduce Vydel's activation chance to UL/2%, giving it the Skullcaver treatment from a long time ago. Skullcaver is a 10* Axe club that has a UL/2% chance of stunning on crit, for context. It used to be UL%, but got changed due to the effect being too frequent and overbearing.

B) Change the effect to a special version of Wind Slasher that goes off 100% Wind ATK 100% SWA and cannot inflict lingering damage or be boosted by Charge Mind. Additionally, lower its base power to 11.

C) Change the scaling of Tarnada to 45% STR 45% CEL, and its base power to 11 like Sogensara.

Keep in mind that the part of high base stats in general should be fine, since it's a 10* item after all.

Is it possible for player controlled monsters/youkai to lose total control when under the confusion status? That'd serve as a huge check to some youkai, and make the skill able to serve its purpose in a lot more fulfilling way. As suddenly your izabe or asrai might just hit you when you're too close to them.

Engineer still needs their turrets to be more viable for atleast PvE. I'm making a new thread because the last one didn't yield any results and it has been over months already enough for any attempts to reply end in necropost, so...

Assuming what I requested there was troublesome to implement, I have a couple of new proposals for each one of the turrets, those will be additional skills that will pretty much cover what they're heavily lacking right now, and will also make me shut up for real about the class's most iconic pre-GR gimmick that got overshadowed by the upgrades. They feel like they don't do anything but look pretty and give the Engineer headache or make them question why they haven't invested in bombs instead.

I'll post each extra skills the current Engineer bots should have:

Quote:(Turret)
Gattling Mode - 3M - Becomes immobilized for 5 rounds and grants "Gattling Mode" for the same duration, which increases the power of their Gun weapon by 40, the base amount of rounds by 5 and base range by 2. May not react well to Interference.

Precision Module - 3M - Uses 10% of the Bot's HP - Increases the Turret's Hit by 100, lowers Critical by 100, cleanses Blind (and grants immunity) for 3 rounds. If the Turret is under the effects of Interference or Confusion, the Hit bonus will be halved.

Quote:(Medibot)
Refresh - 3M - Uses 15% of the Bot's HP - Restocks your Medibot's Item Bag. If used on an Ally, it may restock one of their potions at random, but it will put this on a 5 round cooldown.

Smart Treatment - 3M - 1 round Cooldown - 10 FP - Targets an ally, heals them for (Medibot LV * 1.5) HP and grants Regenerating LV(Medibot LV). May not react well to Interference.

Quote:(Metalaegis)
Crystal Refraction - 6+M - Uses 10% of the Bot's HP - All allies within 3 range of the Metalaegis gain Spirit Mirror for 2 rounds. May not react well to Interference.

Etherium Dispenser - 3M - 10 FP - Targets an ally and releases a cloud of Repair Powder and Etherium dust. Repairs the durability of all weapons by 15, and recovers 15% of their FP. The same target cannot be targeted by this again for 3 rounds.

Currently, the main form of experience for leveling up comes from dungeons and other sorts of combat related things. There are other means of experience, of course, but in comparison they're not nearly as valuable. Some people prefer being able to RP, instead of spending their time grinding - and while we can't really have a button that sets us to level 60 and skips the grind entirely, I do think we should have more powerful ways to earn experience via RP instead. (so people can get out there and RP without worrying about the grind too much)

At current, you CAN get experience from RP, but it's not exactly all that significant. There are ways this can be changed:

The experience from RP being more frequent. This means that people will be able to gain experience more often from interacting with other people and will also mean RPing will contribute more to bringing a character to a higher level. It will encourage RP for those who aren't quite full level and want to feel competent.

Experience from RP being a larger amount. No, I'm not suggesting all of these at once. They're just possible solutions. But, of course, another option is to make the experience you get from RP a more significant number. I couldn't exactly give a reasonable estimate - I'm not exactly the best at balance, but I'm sure someone can.

Experience from RP scaling with the amount of people in the area. More people will be encouraged to join one another in RP at an underleveled stage if RP based experience took into account the people around you. It would become rewarding to interact with more people at once, and perhaps encourage more people to meet with one another - possibly creating new bonds.

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Of course, I'm not trying to make dungeon grinding useless. Whatever comes of RP experience, if we ever get more out of it, should be a good supplement to make RPing worth more, but in the end killing mobs should be better. I just think that an "RP mandatory" game, as it is advertised, should reward people for roleplaying more - instead of just the people who spend time in dungeons only.

Let me know what you guys think of this suggestion.

Crazy Coyote's move and shoot (I think its called Rolling Shot) skill copies the range of your main hand gun instead of the coyote's range, IE: if you were using a seed sniper with 11 range you'd have 11 range on Rolling Shot.

It still uses the Crazy Coyote itself for the attack however.

There has been a bit of an issue recently that I'll like to adress:

Naming Rules
1 - No names copying characters from popular media, games, etc.

2 - No names with numbers or special characters. (I.e., 'Duke Nuk3m 123'.) The only exception would be for diacriticals[1] in appropriate names. Mechanations can, within reason, use numbers in their names (for example, listing their model number or something else like that).

3 - Names should be actual names, not names based on single words or nouns. (I.e., No characters named 'Shadow' or 'Sexy'.)

4 - Don't give your weapons inappropriate names. (I.e. calling your weapon "Pelvic Thrust&quot

“By Jove, Poirot,” I exclaimed, “did you see that young goddess.”

Poirot raised his eyebrows.

“Ça commence!” he murmured. “Already you have seen a goddess!”


Source: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

When you have mercenaries off, but your other party members have mercenaries on in their preferences, the monster mercenaries you have will still appear, even if you don't want them to.


At the moment, it can be worked around if everyone remembers to turn off mercenaries. Not everyone remembers to do it however, and can't really blame them- It feels like a roundabout way to work around it.

Before we begin, I'd like to mention that I know there's other threads like this, but I really want to throw out my opinion on this subject.

Grinding is something that everyone does, but. . . it's also something that nearly nobody enjoys doing. Before, people used to simply towergrind their way to 60 and get full books in a short period of time; and while I do agree that it's not good for it to be -that- easy, it's also not a very good idea for it to be this hard to grind. Yes, I understand: ''omg but u cant jus lolbe as powerful as others who have been play for so much longer on a character u made a day ago!''

However, hear me out.

Grinding is an absolute hassle, especially for someone who doesn't have all day to grind, or logs in at a stranger time where there aren't many people online. It's the only thing that's stopping me from playing more than just a very limited amount of characters; you now need far too much time to properly get your character ready. B.D.P.s are a hassle and a waste of time that nobody actually enjoys doing until the first or second LE, even with full exp items/brain food. Either buff exp items and brain food, or increase B.D.P. exp rewards, or make B.D.P.s easier, or -something- that can make it faster and/or less boring.

I would not complain, but it's an absolutely boring, time-consuming process in a Roleplaying game, even when you do it with other friends. Isn't it counter-productive to make it this hard and, more importantly, boring? Should new characters-- and on-top of it all, new players with no friends to help them-- have such a hard time with properly getting into the full action? Yes, there are full RP characters, but does everyone truly want to play a full RP character? Yes, not everyone has to start out strong and whatnot, they should work for it-- but it's a game. People have lives, and simply want to get into the game. Grinding is overly boring and provides absolutely no fun, unless you like pressing movement attack stab sidecut attack movement attack stab sidecut (just an example of how grinding feels like).

That said, my main character has a full book. The reason this bothers me is because of how difficult and BORING it is to make new characters now, even when you have friends helping you out.

Thank you for reading this far.