Excel weapons are a curious beast as far as their usage is concerned; on their own they're blatantly worse than their standard equivalents due to their more punishing scaling and a single usage of the 3M Charge Weapon on a 75% scaling excel weapon will only grant a 75% damage increase over their 100% equivalents. (100 Vs (75 + 50% = 107.5))

The saving grace of this however has always been two items which can give a semi-reliable free charge point; the Shock Collar + Conversion Gloves combo. However, sacrificing both the off-hand AND an accessory slot is a pretty steep price to pay for at least one slightly amped attack per turn, so...

How about we make the conversion effect an off-hand enchantment instead? By doing this, a far greater build variety is made available to Excel Weapon users as they can now freely use gloves and shields to synergize with their chosen playstyle (The previous loss of shields generally gave Excel fighters a dodge build bias) and makes the weapons far more accessible as a whole.

As for the existing gloves, they could possibly be reworked to extend weapon charge duration instead or something to that effect, as allowing 2 weapon charge procs per turn for free might be a little too powerful.

Sender: illusionaryheiress@l-net.grm

I am curious about somthing, and as I heard that they dont only operate in sigroganian soil, I thought I would ask for what peoples' opinions on the Blades are.

What do you think earns them their government sanction to do as they currently do?

Do you think their existance might affect relations with, say, Oniga?

Do you think their existance affects businesses?

What do you think their relationship with the guard is like?

Do you think the secrecy of their operations has a place, despite being so public as an organization?

Do you think they are competent?

I suppose most importantly,
Would you say that they are just? or corrupt?

So in preperation for possibly making a bunch of suggestion/bug posts in the future, I was looking through some old notepads of mine. One of which was from the great reckoning beta, ages ago.

One of the things I had listed was:" Hanging lowers hit instead of raises it at range." I decided to look into it further today, years later.

So what I found out is: Hanging is affected by the farshot penalty. Which is a lot higher than the hit bonus, unless you have some guile. Which many black knights do not.

As a result, Hanging often lowers your total hit, over tiles. Instead of increasing it.
(Note that these pictures are from hanging level 1, to show the most radical difference possible. Generally the hit subtraction will be around 3 or 4 per tile, because rank 5 hanging is +5 hit per tile, where as the rank 1 hanging is only +1 hit per tile. )





How to replicate:
Obtain hanging on a black knight who doesn't have much guile. Check your hit% from melee range. Then check it from beyond melee range. It will likely be smaller, per tile. Than higher as intended.


This seems like an oversight more than an actual bug, however. My personal recommendation would be to make hanging ignore the farshot penalty. but if that's impossible, you could just raise the hit boost slightly.

Another note is: Hanging seemed to always hit behind my character when it was used against me. Causing eviter and checkmate to never trigger, as well as putting them in prime range to cuthroat me. I'm not sure if the direction you face matters for hanging, or if I was just one to the tenth power unlucky for it to always hit behind me. But, an enemy who is 3 tiles away, and facing me, is able to use hanging. and instead of appearing in front of , or to the sides. He takes the furthest possible route, and attacks behind me. Which stops any checkmate or eviter chance.

Seems unreasonable that it would target he furthest tile next to them, 4 times in a row. So i'm not sure what's up with that.

So for me at least, the soldier skill watchful eye doesn't work on most things. You have to be facing them to start with. But if they use moves such as sidecut, attacks that move them. Watchful eye doesn't keep track. I never found somebody to test with crane hop or winged serpent. But it seems that for sidecut and silcut and the like, watchful eye does not track them.

I'm unsure if this is or is not intentional, since it says some movement skills, not all. But if it only tracks movement from people you're facing, it seems a little narrow for a 3m skill. Its only use is for cobra as a result, and even then its very niche.

(Wouldn't mind seeing a hit bonus on it against the focused target or something.)

The soldier passive toggle skill "Protect." Isn't working against special moves.
I tested for awhile with another player, as well as taking in feedback from many players who had similar issues in the past.

I had a shield equipped. But sidecut wouldn't ever trigger protect to activate. Though basic attacks did.

How to replicate:
Be a soldier or promoted soldier class.
Have a shield equipped.
Have protect active.
Be next to an ally or summon.

Have an enemy use sidecut against them.
Notice as protect never activates.

The majority of modern MMORPG have a simple verb: Unstuck which typically has a many hour cooldown but sends you to a guaranteed safe location. It's used to fix stuff such as being stuck in a battle map without admins needing to get involved. Yeah, it might be a little bit abusable, but it beats waiting 50 minutes for an admin to get on and yank you out of the bugged battle map or so on.

So the suggestion: Add an Unstuck verb with a suitable cooldown or whatever so that we aren't reliant on admins to save us when we get stuck in a bugged battle map.
What it would need to do: Force your current location to outside cellsvich or some similarly reliable location. Could even give it a log post or something so that people can report if it's used to avoid RP.

Attached is a few examples of the bug in the 15-20 times its happened to me over the past few months.

   
   
   

The reason I ended up making this is losing 3 hours of BDP progress due to it happening 50 minutes before a reboot and no admins being available to save us so we could get the clear.

Power Gradiation's usefulness has died down over time, what not with most weapons being able to interchange magical and physical damage on the fly, hell, swords just got a new skill in duelist that also does magic damage.

The only reason its not useful imo right now is because it costs 4m, it only fits into a vent petale build this way given that its a basic attack, I'd love to see it receive the same treatment as most 4m relics from pre-GR do, and cost 3m with a cooldown instead, a small change like this would help put in line with the rest of the sword basics on Duelist's bar, duelist SP is so tight nowadays and Power Grad's FP cost is really high unless you can max it anyway.

So here's what I think, Power Gradiation should be changed to a 3m cost, but receive a 2 or 3 turn cooldown, I think this would suffice.

Its not technically a bug but its a really annoying issue, nulls can cleanse off the "Invoking" status, most nulls in the game are 3m while invocations are at minimum 6m, this seems hardly fair and not even really thematic really.

I think like food/prayer buffs, Invoking should be an un-nullable status, cause as long as you have access to little rocks in your pocket, everyone has a null now.