I have no idea if this was patched yet or reported, or fixed but still bugged but yeah. You can spawn ontop of the door and not be able to move.

Shaitan's Black Rend is supposed to be an 'unresistable' form of damage, yet it seems that it can still be evaded as per 'spell evasion'. Given that its damage is already relatively low (to counteract it being unresistable), I think this is not intentional.

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Due to some rather strange circumstances (a tree was falling on the building I live in!) we ended up skipping a week, but now we're back again. This update was still rather tedious to do, and is mostly polish, bug fixes, and QoL stuff. But some of the stuff was rather long overdue, so I think it was time well spent. I also managed to get some work done on background stuff that will be coming out in one of these updates eventually.

1.30
Absolute Pace Visuals - A technique that gets a boost from Absolute Pace now has slightly changed visuals in the form of a blueish tint and faster animation speed.
Fade-To/From-Black & Results Screen Improvements

• The fade effects are now much smoother looking.
  
• Win quote display text is now animated.

• House Editors can now rename and edit signs.
  
• House Editors can now dig holes, plant seeds, harvest crops, and place scarecrows.
  
• House Editors and Owners no longer need a key to lock/unlock house doors.

• The tutorial has been given a once-over and updated to have modern information. (It still referenced green arrows for leveling up skills, which has been a year or so outdated...)
  
• Professor Pink now talks about Recent Events.
  
• Professor Pink now includes a small summary and link to the wiki page on Keyboard Shortcuts.

• The signboard now displays the full rankings for the fishing contest instead of only the top 3.
  
• The way scores and places are stored has been rewritten to avoid odd bugs. (Some new odd bugs may have been introduced, so please report them if you find anyway.)

• Auto End Turn; On by default. When off, selecting End Turn will display a target selection, meaning you will have to press the accept key twice to end your turn. Good if you accidentally end your turn a lot.
  
• Status Expiration Warning; On by default. When on, status effects displayed below character portrait bars will slowly blink if they only have 1 round duration left.

To me, trying to obtain the Boss' Catalysts (or items found with their enchants) is simply not worth the effort.

Even though things like the Mutated Jammer Core are awesome and allow for some creative builds and I would love to test them out further but... I know the odds of me finding one are very slim and trying to actively grind for one would frustrate and bore me to tears.

And even then if I get lucky enough to find one, it being so rare and not being able to be broken down to maybe get it back means I have to be very careful about what I do with it making it less of a thing I can just experiment with. So overall, it ends up being a disappointing experience instead of a fun one for me.


So to alleviate that I think the odds of bosses dropping a random item with their special catalyst on it should be greatly increased. Even though you can't break them down, it would be neat to come across something interesting that you wouldn't make yourself but that very rarely happens at the moment.

And of course, I think the likelihood of the catalysts themselves dropping from bosses should be bumped up.

Now I don't know the numbers exactly but I've heard they have a rate identical to Black Beasts dropping their Black Books however I don't think that really works for Bosses because:

- You fight multiple Black Beasts at once. (2-3 per battle.)

- You can fight several of them fairly frequently during a Black Beast invasion.

- Bosses on the other hand, you have to clear the bottom floor before you fight them. While a higher level a boss means the more likely you'll get one, it also means the more clean up you have to do before you can face them which I feel works against that idea.

- Alternatively you can stumble across one in a static dungeon but there's still a delay to how often you can find one that way.

- Even then it's usually only the one per fight. (Gigas Rex in a Crazy being the exception.)

Using parting shot will not give you the extra low damage 1 or 2 shots from Akimbo. It only fires base rounds.

If the enemy is standing on top of a voidgate while the void assassin uses Fray on them, instead of the enemy being targeted it automatically targets the voidgate causing it to go unstable and release the four bolts which will all hit the enemy causing obscenely high amounts of damage along with the damage done by the Fray, as if they were targeted.

A quite plain note is attached to the board in Cellsvich.

Extended Grip doesn't seem to be increasing the weight on handguns.

Now before I go through this, I still think that Evasion's problem lies in how large it's number is and I think the recent Voidveil nerf went about things the wrong way. Rather than halving Voidveil's Reduction, I think that halving Evasion's Reduction is the more sensible option. Now that said here's a list of skills that I think should outright ignore Evasion for mostly balance reasons.

Thousand Stab -
It's a fast attack in my mind and it would give it a little more purpose since it's a somewhat weak skill right now.

Aerial Razor -
The so often forgotten Aerial Razor. I think it should have this mostly because it's lacking nowadays. Might see some more use with this change. But then again, with other options Archers/Arbalests can have this may not be enough to justify it still.

Traps -
Fire Trap, Ice Trap, Gust Trap. Because you can already 'avoid' them by not walking into them. Logically, traps aren't things you see coming, they take you by surprise so I think it's fair that one cannot simply 'evade' them.

Lantern Bearer Spells -
Salamander, Fenrir, Golem, Typhur and Altera should all ignore Evasion since they are basically 'light', making them difficult to avoid in the first place and they do somewhat low damage compared to their peers anyway.

Are you faster than the speed of light, Rogues?!

Explosion -
You can already avoid this particular spell by staying out of it's Range. Also it's an explosion and despite what movies might show you, it's actually pretty hard to come out from one of those unscathed.

Ryemei -
This is so Evokers can have a powerful option to outright bypass Evasion. Why Ryemei? Well, it's lightning so dodging should be pretty difficult anyway, right? And it already has a 'counter' per se. It counts as a projectile, so you can at least reflect it with a Spirit Mirror.

Divine Shower -
It's an invocation and it doesn't really do much more damage compared to other Priest options. I don't think Rogues can or should be able to get out of the rain.

This is kind of a convoluted scenario, but it also reminded me of stories I've heard about one particular member who got banned in the past, and was so hated that everyone still remembers them. So much so that even people who joined after their banning, such as myself, know about them and their BS. so I wanted to run this by the staff and more experienced members.


- Guild 1 Targets Guild 2
- Member of Guild 1 sends member of Guild 2 a challenge in front of 4 witnesses from Guild 2
- Challenge is to take place inside a house. The witnesses wait around for a signal, expecting foul play.
- House is locked. A group of level 60s with maxed out classes cannot ICly break down a door to save their lives.
- Alternatively, if the house isn't locked, people get kicked/barred.

On a personal note, this seems like rampant abuse and exploitation of the mechanics, and absolutely scummy. I just wanted to see how others weigh in on it.


EDIT: It has since come to my attention that the one particular instance of it that happened tonight was consented upon, but this is still something I've seen happen numerous times before, and it is complete and utter BS.