02-12-2024, 09:19 PM
All of the new whip weapons have been pretty fun to use and build around, some even being best in slot in my opinion until any major changes happen to them.
But the one that's been confusing me a little is the Endless Handkerchief, it has one of the most unique effects and scaling modifiers I've seen on a weapon and yet it feels extremely underwhelming to use outside of it being kind of a joke weapon.
The high San scaling make it really fun to build for, but you're then left wondering where to even use all this san for? It's not an instrument, so nothing in Bard really will work with you. It's a sword so it won't have much to do with crits or high damage. It qualifies as a whip, so I suppose you'd be obliged to use it with Ruler— But at that point, you might as well just use the other stronger variants.
The strength of it comes from how much range you can get with it, but to then suffer from far-shot penalty feels kind of harsh.
I'm not pitching for a major rework, but I think maybe it needs something else on top of what it already has? I've been told maybe a 1 tile-pull, an inflict based KD or even reducing Guard by 1 lvl (Because you tickled your opponent) could be interesting.
But the one that's been confusing me a little is the Endless Handkerchief, it has one of the most unique effects and scaling modifiers I've seen on a weapon and yet it feels extremely underwhelming to use outside of it being kind of a joke weapon.
The high San scaling make it really fun to build for, but you're then left wondering where to even use all this san for? It's not an instrument, so nothing in Bard really will work with you. It's a sword so it won't have much to do with crits or high damage. It qualifies as a whip, so I suppose you'd be obliged to use it with Ruler— But at that point, you might as well just use the other stronger variants.
The strength of it comes from how much range you can get with it, but to then suffer from far-shot penalty feels kind of harsh.
I'm not pitching for a major rework, but I think maybe it needs something else on top of what it already has? I've been told maybe a 1 tile-pull, an inflict based KD or even reducing Guard by 1 lvl (Because you tickled your opponent) could be interesting.