The latest article from your favorite bard reviewer, Krissy V. Izzy, has come in! This time, it's about a new hit group that's taking the lands by storm!

The thread is mainly to do with this:



It seems there are a few spots where BDPs can spawn (either through Chaotic Key or via natural means, not sure which caused this) that either don't add up or are an annoyance/trolling gimmick. The main issue I see with this is at areas that are 'bottlenecks' for the lack of a better phrase (spots on the map that only feature one tile wide areas to travel through, think of both bridges on the Sigroganian continent).

I'd say there's room to argue that spawning a BDP within a 1-tile range of a town or city shouldn't be allowed, but ultimately it makes more sense to me (mechanically and RPly) for them to spawn near these settlements than on a bridge over water out of nowhere.

After a recently added change to Sanguine Crest, I wanted to test the water by asking for the Lupine's WIL bonus gained from Instinct to be accounted for outside of Combat as well (so they can actually make use of the bonus FP from it).

The main reasoning behind this are the typical issues that arise:

-You have to account for a sudden drop in percentage of FP (as it gets raised by a flat 50 if you're sitting at 40 SAN) later in a fight against a Greenscale user, when the both of you have sizeable chunks of HP and FP missing, who gets increasingly buffed by the fact.

- As is, it's a 'token' buff. This being said in the sense that it only activates after battle begins and serves no actual purpose.


The trade-off I can see happening, if others feel like it's too much, is for only the (SAN/10)+1 bonus to WIL to become a static fixture and for the doubling effect to be removed from the equation entirely. Speaking personally, this is probably the option I feel is a bit more reasonable.

Or conversely, if it's deemed appropriate, to just have the 2((SAN/10)1) bonus be active outside of battle as well.

Bosses knocked out of the battle by Grandupper aren't treated as being knocked out of the battle, continuing to attack and be attacked. Also pretty sure they never actually land.

These numbers are at level 29. Character has 30 Def/Res and 251 Max HP. Armor is a Carapace Breastplate, no upgrades.

Animated Sword's turn.
[REDACTED] takes 65 Pierce physical damage.
[REDACTED] is now suffering from a moderate stab wound.
Status Infliction: 60 VS Status Resistance: 42
[REDACTED] was inflicted with Lingering Damage!

... Skipping Ahead

--- ROUND 1 ---
[REDACTED] recovered 2 FP.
[REDACTED] recovered 2 HP.
[REDACTED] recovered 8 FP.
[REDACTED] takes 55 Pierce physical damage


50% of 200% Scaled Weapon attack may be a biiiiiit too much. As in, the lingering damage is more than DOUBLE per turn than what most of the other enemies were doing, and even than the Animated Sword's basic attacks were coming up significantly short.


Compare to:

Souls Tainted By Darkness's turn.
[REDACTED] takes 22 Sound magical damage.
Status Infliction: 40 VS Status Resistance: 42
Souls Tainted By Darkness's turn.
Souls Tainted By Darkness attacks [REDACTED] with Ectoplasm and hits them!
[REDACTED] takes 22 Darkness physical damage.

Ghost Dog's turn.
[REDACTED] takes 24 Ice magical damage.

Animated Sword attacks [REDACTED] with Self Strike and hits them!
[REDACTED] takes 35 Slash physical damage.


Yeah. That's just too much. It could stand to be adjusted to a smaller number.

If you get the finishing blow on a player with Grandupper (8 sturm) to the point that they don't come back down and the fight ends, their icon will reside several tiles higher than it actually is. You can then fight the person and repeat this process to constantly move their icon higher and higher and higher.

There's a lot of situations where 'optimal' play means using this skill every turn. At worst, the enemy can't throw out an attack that invalidates one of the types, and you always gain a momentum advantage if they want to fight back. (This is most common in Boxer versus Boxer, where the only choices are Korken, Felsmanege, and Asura Fist(?) ). At best, it's a constant mind game between deciding whether to throw out a skill or basic attack.

I suggest giving Geist Schritt a 2 round cooldown, so it can only be used every other turn. Using any Geist Schritt will put the others on cooldown as well.

Can Asura Fist only provide Schwarz Sturm if it hits an enemy? The class fantasy -- and a good chunk of balance, given the class is supposed to be a constantly revving engine -- is invalidated by constantly throwing out dark shinkens at thin air to stack Sturm while you're far away. It's also used to hit 8 stacks for Grandupper, but because the latter is 4m it's common to just chuck it off into the nether instead of aiming for your foe, for fear of hitting a resist and making Grandupper impossible.

Engineer's Turrets are even more abhorrent than they were pre-GR, due to guns now going against Defense.

They only have the accuracy to land shots against tanks, who, incidentally, they do very little damage to.

Being stationary targets that destroy themselves to attempt attacking, I think their weapon could stand to ignore Phys. Def.

Currently, all 'until next turn' effects expire at the start of your turn. While this obviously makes sense, Skip creates a massive disadvantage for slower characters, to the point that these effects are entirely worthless unless you're faster than the opponent.

1. Round 1, Player A takes their turn normally
   
2. Player B uses Castling to invoke the Black Wind, and finishes their turn normally
   
3. Round 2, Player A skips their turn
   
4. Player B loses black wind before it can be used