I thought it was a cool idea, but was disappointed when I saw that Turnover didn't have interactions with stuff like Ice Point or Gravestone.

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Well, back to two weeks. This ended up taking more time than I expected, though part of it was Thanksgiving eating up some of my time. Anyway, this update is Soldier's turn.

A lot of people said that Soldier needed class skills the most of all but I'm not sure if I agree with that sentiment. Sure, Soldier had a few meh skills, as well as some bad ones, but it also had some of the most broken skills on a base class in the game, specifically Shinken, Turnover, and Mad Chop (situationally). So, overall, Soldier got a lot of power shifted around and has a more defensive feel than before. That said, I didn't want to completely destroy its offensive capabilities either, so a lot of the weaker offensive skills got buffs. But you can read all about that below!

1.44
New Soldier Skills - The Soldier base class has received 9 new skills, including 2 main class only skills.
Soldier Skill Adjustments

• Shinken
  • Updated to the new Power formula.
  • FP scaling adjusted.
  • Damage is now always WPN Power + STR + bonus damage.
  • Projectile now appears behind targetted tile.
  • Projectile travel base range is now doubled if no attack target is selected.
  • Gained Charging Strike bonus effect.
  • Galren, Talvyd, and Redgull Elemental Impact versions have new, unique effects.
• Charge
  • Now costs 1M.
  • New animation while moving under its effect.
• Turnover
  • Updated to the new Power formula.
  • No longer knocks down by default.
  • FP cost slightly increased.
  • Gained Charging Strike bonus effect.
  • Turning over a target onto a field object will activate 'on hit' effects it may have, similar to if it collided with them via Air Pressure.
• Thousand Stab
  • Updated to new Power formula.
  • FP cost adjusted.
  • Charging Strike version cannot trigger Evasion.
  • Is now Elemental Compatible.
• Roundtrip
  • Updated to the new Power formula.
  • FP cost adjusted.
  • Total damage is now 100% STR + WPN Power + 2*Rank.
  • Gained Charging Strike bonus effect.
  • Redgull version can now lightning crit instead of dealing flat damage on the return trip.
• Mad Chop
  • FP cost increased.
  • Can only be used once per round.
  • Changed to deal a flat damage amount over a variable amount of hits; the damage is now STR + WPN Power, and deals 1% bonus damage for every 1% of HP you are missing.
  • Gained Charging Strike bonus effect.
• Fortitude
  • HP per Rank increased to 15.

Ok so I'm sure I'm not the only person to run into a treasure map like this...

It's just honestly impossible to find something like this on a 2D game. If we had a tool for help with this I wouldn't care but searching for a white tile on an all white floor is just...

Seems they do not benefit from Dark Imbue's hit and dark damage, but can still be cast with it.

I could go on a long spiel about how different people find different things scary, but that would just be met with "baaaw, someone's trying too hard to be hardcore," so I'll jump right to Shaitans are canonically and ICly IMMUNE to fear, and as such, maybe telling someone how spooky/creepy/etc YOU want your character to be in your alias/description may not be a very helpful alias/description to have. A better idea would be to be more descriptive and letting individuals decide how to react to you; I guarantee more people would actually act wary as opposed to being sarcastic about it. After all, who's the one trying too hard to be hardcore; the one not afraid of someone based on appearances alone, or the one trying to instill unease or fear based solely on their outward appearance? That's what an alias/description is, after all: What people see when they look at you.

If you want to be feared, do it via roleplay.

Show area for a custom battlefield shows one more tile than it really is, for both X and Y.

How are Swift augmented skills affected by critical chance?

Do weapon skills use weapon critical, and the expertise for that weapon?

Do axe skills benefit from Berserker Shell?

Fitting Form? Keyshot? Sakki? Backstab? Northern Wind? Veil Off? Serpent Strikes? Poise? Sarasha Gi?

I'm sure a lot of you know exactly what I mean by the title, but, I'll explain in detail.

Fire Altars, Crypts, Whirlpools, Black Doors, and Forests all suffer from this. Forests are less likely due to their wider hallways and lack of doors, but, it -does- happen sometimes, just not nearly as bad as the other dungeons.

I'm talking about this:



Segments of dungeon that consist entirely of nothing but 1-tile wide corridors, sometime spanning over 30x30 tile areas if not even more, and sometimes there /isn't even anything there/, or like in the above example, happen to be hiding the stairs in one dead end of it. It's much, much more prevalent if the dungeon gets the Giant prefix. I don't think I need to go on about why these are terrible.

As to how to fix it? Just look at the few dungeons that don't suffer this problem. Tunnels, Caverns, Castles, Deserts, and Bandit Dens all generate in a way that this never happens. Sure, there's small hallways, but they never loop into themselves and into other 3x1 repeating hellholes. The latter examples are just wide linear pathways, which are fine, too. Deserts are just big empty boxes, which are ALSO fine.

Some of the dungeons might be better with the more room-based generation (Fire Altars/Crypts) and some might be better off with the more open approach (Whirlpools, Black Doors, Forests). It'd be great if they got their own unique generations in the future, but, I'm just pointing out the issues with how they are now.

So, opinions?

As it stands, the turn timer lasts for roughly 5 minutes (I may be wrong but, that seems about right). In PvE, this can be excruciating if a person you were partying with just up and AFKs for an hour with no warning, or, worse, AFKs just enough to not warrant booting them (see: coming back after losing a turn or two).

In PvP, this can sometimes not be enough if people are wanting to write RP for every action they make while also trying to decide what action to take.

So, I propose two things.

1. A Turn Timer setting in Preferences, to be used in PvE. Probably just 'slow medium fast' or something, like Monster Speed.

2. A Turn Timer option when sending a PvP challenge. Pretty much the same thing, but preferably displaying the exact time given.

So, any thoughts, suggestions? I think this would be helpful for both PvE and PvP in the long run. Whether it be for longer or shorter timer expirations.

Aliagmato only gains 1 range if you have one bonded youkai, instead of the 3 stated.

It also has no delay before going to the next action, a lot like how Fleeing Spectres used to be.