[EenKogNeeto]

I more or less consider my main characters a few Lupines, and a Felidae. While it's true that war cry is useless even built purely for sound damage and Felidae get +move instead of it, the existing racials combined aren't that bad for a Lupine aside from that. I can hit 110 str at low health from the instinct, and that really buffs the Sharp Claws and makes me feel pretty in tune with my character in that regard.

If a lot of people are of the opinion it needs buffed, I'de suggest looking to make war cry more appealing to slot.

Currently you get a free (Depending on your sanctity, each SAN lowers the FP cost by one I believe and it starts at 50) two tile wide aoe that does around 40 damage if you're being optimistic and built for it. It then rolls against their status res for inflicting Fear and a negligible hunted that is outscaled by equipping bloodypalms instead.

TLDR Examples

Example 1 (Indirect Method (Racial Prayer Tool Focus)): Lupine prayer tool now gives LV*10 extra damage on War Cry and reduces its FP cost by LV*2 - And possibly change the 5% physical DR. (I would LOVE the felidae sharp claw LV*2 buff, I'm not sure how people feel about the races claws though.)

Example 2 (Direct Method (Racial Skill Focus)): War cry now always applies Hunted and Fear if the target is not at max health, with increasing duration and LV based on their missing health.

Example 3 (Alternative Approach (Something else entirely)): Toss on some predatory instinct baby version of fallcall racial trait to Lupine that gives them 10% Damage buff to feared people or something.


What do you guys feel could be done to make Lupine more appealing to you?

I definitely do agree that the prayer tool is extremely weighted towards Chimeric. Faster ramping up of your tank stats is too good to pass up, and if your IC involves hunting you'll want the extra hunt LV for your bloody palms.