TOME OF GIANTS
This is a funny weapon that is meant to be used by a black knight, or a build that wants to use Book Smack. It is very heavy so requires at least some strength, despite being a WIL weapon. A good candidate for MoWA as a result, and an alternative to gem staves for luminary users, but still an opportunity cost to wield that kind of weight. The book smack component is a bit of a wild card...

Worth: 150
Power: 12
Critical: 0 (110%)
Accuracy: 80%
Attack Range: 1
Material: Paper
Weight: 40
Durability: 40/40

Type: Large Tome

Description: A tome of unreasonable size. The text inside isn't particularly long, but has a massive font size. Favored by those who work out at the library.

Special Effects:
Counts as a Great weapon for the "Grandmaster" skill.
Can benefit from the "Full Swing" subtalent from Two-Hand.
+2 skill pool size.
When used for the "Book Smack" special attack, deals 3 extra damage for every equipped spell.

Stat Scaling - Basic
100% WIL



Muchigatana
In the vein of other weapons that are whips and something else, I think a whip katana simply makes a ton of sense. Ruler and Kensei both share something in common: they have a large "Crescent" shaped attack. This rare attack pattern is very much reminescent of a large swing of a blade, or a whip... A whip sword would thus be ideal for performing these moves! Instead of a mere 2 tiles, it would be 4 tiles thick. This allows the user to hit enemies in a much more reliable aoe. As a drawback, this katana does not boast any good stats, relying on its versatility, range and aoe.

Worth: 50
Power: 7
Critical: 0 (110%)
Accuracy: 85%
Attack Range: 3
Material: Metal
Weight: 12
Durability: 40/40

Type: Medium Sword
Subtype: Katana

Description: A katana made from blade segments that are connected by an elastic membrane.

Special Effects:
Also qualifies as a Whip weapon.
"Crescent" targeting abilities made with this weapon have a thicker crescent pattern.

Stat Scaling - Finesse
70% STR
30% SKI

Since a lot of monsters typically have melee weapons, I find that using this skill has limited scenarios in where its actually useful, though I think that Performer is pretty strong atm, I see no issue buffing a skill's useability from extremely niche to just a bit less niche.

Bloody Ball should make Confused enemies move towards the closest target if they aren't in attack range, this can be exclusive to monsters for all I care but I don't think it'd be too much of an issue of a difference in PvP either, and give a reason to play for this skill's maximum potential value, rather than only be available if you choose to use Conductor's Direction or have enemies with mostly good ranged weapons and basic attacking stats.

Applicable BYOND Keys - FableComposerAlt, EdgeCRA1, EdgeRP, and EdgeKB
Character Names - Hirazuki Kinuko, Koizumi Kireiko, Kobon Kinuko, Kazuma Kireiko and Yunon Kireiko
Request Type - Character Lore & Creation
Specific Request - Family-run and Papilion-run shadow organization lore, and Papilion-specific indoctrination of said shadow organization's existence

When one of your summons gets to play their turn, the camera makes a jarring shift to center upon them. 

An option that makes all units you control skip they turn by ending it right away.

This would be very useful for summoners leveling their youkai, and other applications like just grinding and wanting to use pawns as meat shields for instance. In general the quality of life to dev time ratio would be pretty big.

Let's talk shop about Arbalest

Well, I think we can all agree Arbalest just isn't good enough at the moment.

The class revolves around cannon skills. The idea is that you use a big aoe skill once every few rounds.

The problem with this concept in its current state is two-fold. One, the cannon skills have a big cooldown, effectively a CD of 4, or 2 with firing posture. This would not be a huge issue if these skills were particularly powerful, but at the current time, their damage is simply not that good. The scaling is high, but it doesn't really beat a spell that has ele atk scaling on top. A wind mage with air pressure can do the same damage as a blowback cannon, without cooldown. Of course, when crit comes into play, the damage of cannon skills gets fairly good. But it still just lacks a little bit of oomph.

Buster cannon's debuff is amazing. It really helps deal with tanks, but I feel like that's the only strength of the class.

Furthermore, the class has no defenses aside from a short duration buff. It ends up being quite squishy if you're not using BK main class.

Here are my suggestions:

1: Add armament weight to cannon damage

A simple but needed change. This would give the class back its identity as a weight user. I don't know why this crucial part of the class fantasy was taken out. I think Arbalest could benefit from more raw damage, and this would make... Sense

2: Make shore up 3m

This is the only skill that lets you quickly reload. It's criminal that it costs 5m. This skill has a huge cooldown so it should be no problem.

3: Make mighty wall a passive

Mighty wall should be always active, but only give 3 def/res. If the arbalest has not moved last round, make it twice as strong. Just an idea. The counterattack could be included in a skill that gives temporary DR%, not stats. These two changes would make arbalest actually feel like it has tankiness on its own.

4: Make any melee weapon usable as armament

A simple change. Why not? Shooting an axe out of a massive arbalest doesn't sound any more far fetched than shooting a rocket punch out of a cannon or a dagger from a crossbow.

5: Make arbalest as a whole work with guns and bows equally.

Rifle arb is very sad right now. Why not give guns the passives? Biggest one is the +power for heavy weapon innate, and the armor piercing.

6: New passive: active reload

Using a chain skill reduces reload time by 1. You can use chain skills while reloading

Let me know if you guys have more ideas.

The talent Red Skies for herons and phenexes gives Gain Air passively, as well as an equippable skill, meaning it shows up twice in your skill menu. Between the two, I'd prefer the passive one be removed so you can better arrange your skills how you like.

The effect of Nephel and Sothis shards are swapped in the tracker menu. See attached.


https://imgur.com/a/TKWkluA

If you have Zerotrain's potential ability unlocked, and walk as a Verglas with Ice Boots on, you yourself will take the damage from the ability.. Which.. I feel like Might Should Not Be The Case.

While under the effects of Soaked, lightning doesn't spread from an ally hitting another soaked ally while in melee range of them, you can see that I am able to spread the lightning damage here but vice versa it does not apply. (Both targets were in melee range of eachother and soaked)