This is another short thread for rebalancing classes in the game. There is only one suggestion that me and several others have agreed on.

1. Fight As One stat bonus changed to +10 hit/evade/crit/crit evade. (+30 if one bonded Youkai)

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Not much to say this week. I'm mostly going through requests and working/planning stuff in the background. This week are something requested recently in the form of hit checks for skills that perform basic attacks. Enjoy!

1.48
Dungeon Indicators - Added an indicator for random dungeons near expiring, as well as a message when you enter a floor that has been cleared of monsters.
Skill Calculation Display - Skills that perform a basic attack on enemies will now display an estimate of the damage, hit chance, and critical chance, including most unique modifiers.
Adjusted - Install is now a main class only skill.
Adjusted - Added a small delay to empty_z checks.
Adjusted - You can now right-click active dungeon cores to use them, like many other objects in the game.
* Bug Fixes
- Cyclone Spear should now pull towards the spear's location instead of the tile enemies are already standing in.
- Battle rings should face the correct way when knocked back against a wall now.
- Eviter now uses the proper weapon priority for parrying. (Sub, then main if not valid)
- Knockdown evade penalties for Heavy Armor and Unarmored were accidentally switched around.
- Devotion wasn't giving its success bonus to certain enchantments.
- Retreating Swipe's Redgull elemental impact now only triggers when you actually have Redgull active.
- Flottement now properly applies when you trigger Evasion.
- Chained Boomerang now properly applies a hit penalty instead of a hit bonus.
- Dungeons were incorrectly setting themselves to have a lowered lifespan if the first floor was cleared of monsters instead of after the boss was defeated.
- Meditate has gotten trendy and will receive reduced minimum Momentum costs in Stylish dungeons.
- Unbarring users from player homes should now work if you have the permissions to do so.
- Crippled Arm's STR and SKI penalty should be its proper value now.
- Two Souls Beyond's effect now only properly apply if you fulfill the conditions for having Bonded Youkai.

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Another balance thread, also extremely short. Only two changes were thought necessary by me and several others discussing it.

1. Silent Prayer now provides immunity to silence for 2 rounds.

Justification:

This is the third balancing post in the long list. It is only a single suggestion me and several others agree on.

1. High Speed Divine Words invocations now suffer from repeat action penalty. It costs 3m to initiate the invocation, then 4m to cast it. In total, it takes 7 momentum to cast an invocation with this ability up.

Justification:

This is the second thread on rebalancing the classes currently in the game. I have discussed these ideas with several people, and these threads are the things we all agreed on. This thread covers Archer.

1. Cripple Arm now only removes access to the subweapon slot on a critical strike. Cripple leg only causes the target to lose Move on a critical strike. The stat subtractions for str/ski and cel apply even if it does not critically strike.

Justification:

This is the first thread of many to come that deals with rebalancing classes in the game. I have discussed these ideas with several people, and these threads are the things we all agreed on. To make discussion easier and less cluttered, I have separated the suggestions based on base class. To start off, here is Martial Artist.

1. Light Tomahawk's Urawaza bonus no longer has a chance to stun. It now has rank * 20% chance to guard break. Guard break skills now deal full damage when striking guarding opponents.

Justification:

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If you have Evasion in the Rogue class and Flottement in the Duelist class, you will 'dodge' area of effects. However, because some of them seem to grow out from the center, it causes you to 'dodge' into the spell again, and again, and again, until you finally get out of the area. This results in taking a boatload of damage, like so.

As of recently, SL2 has been experiencing major lag spikes. To the point that the game ceases to function for about 30 seconds at a time. What doesn't cease to function though is click-to-move and anything involving 'talking' (Say, OOC, Emote, etc) for one command. Which then it promptly stops working. Normally, I wouldn't report this, however this has been a common thing for the past few updates, and has only now started to get worse and worse. I'd ask if it were simply 'loading' times for certain dungeons, or something you've implemented, but it's getting a little out of hand as of late.

Can we get any confirmation if this is applying to anyone else (if it's just me), or if there's a function that's stopping practically all game functions for a time.

Rank 5 Chaser is either only doing Rank 1 bonus damage, or ignoring weapon power with bare fists.

Normal hit: 49 Damage
Chaser hit: 52 damage

If it matters, test was performed on a Monk/Dh with Rank 5 Empty Palm. Either an incorrect rank bonus or ignoring the bare fist power (Base + 15 from Empty Palm) would result in the exact same -20 damage than expected.


EDIT: Finally got my axe back out of the bank to test further; damage was indeed +23 instead of +3 with an axe. Meaning that, when 100% unarmed, it treats Bare Fists as 0 power.