I'm not sure this is intended or not, I just don't see it as 'normal' and it's very disturbing

World Map Battle:

Accellia vs Excel Weapons
- Autohit vs Hit Check
- 75% per charge vs 50% per charge
- No WPN Power vs WPN Power
- Shoe slot vs Weapon slot

Current Formula - 75% per charge
(60*3.75)-10 = 215 damage

Changed Formula - 30% per charge
(60*1.90)-10 = 104 damage

Average strength of 60, average dodger's defense of 10.

There is so much to say about this single item. It became the unnecessary medium that quite literally stomps standard dodgers. I've no clue how it somehow ended with -75%- scaling per charge, but the logic that 'you're using 3M anyway' is a major source of this game's imbalance. Just because someone charges, doesn't mean their momentum has to be (over)compensated for. And it's often we see these type of items (BiS - Best in slot) having zero player input before implementation. Not to completely steer the blame on Dev, because it also seems like most voices are hush-hush about these things. Flipping defense before the scaling will still severely harm standard dodgers, and the new scaling balances the job without butchering the standard formula. As it stands now, there is little to no incentive for a character with decent strength to not wear these. The excel series are items, NOT core skills, and should be treated as options. And again, this is a shoe slot, what exactly should it be compensating for?

I've found out that you can get up on the bushes by using side cut or any other skill that has similar move set (kensei's skill, aligmato, inferno summon).
After you get on the middle part of the bushes, you won't be attacked by the monster (duh) but you still can cast spell. So it's very abuseable.

So during our(me and my friend) training day practice. I founded that you can't Cutthroat someone/something if he/she/it has been pulled by Forced Move until his/her/it's turn or for about 1 round.

I made a new character purely to explore a "twinkless playthrough" so to speak. While I respected the old Stars*5 rule, it goes without saying that I know better than to try to change Dev's mind on things like this. (Monster dens, anyone?) So I tried to see how well it can go purely on your own merits.

It took a lot of patience, but I somehow managed to get to level 40. Without ever getting a single piece of gear my class combo (Arb/Ghost, so Bows/Guns/Swords/Axes/Spears, basically anything but Tomes, and no heavier than Medium Armor because Ghost) could actually USE. I was using gear from NPC Shops. "Oh, why don't you invest in crafting skills?" RP purposes, this character doesn't do that. Also, personal reasons, it's a goddamn bore to level those skills up to the point you can make anything worthwhile.

And don't get me started on trying to get anything from player shops anymore. Today's sample prices are....



And...



That axe for 900? 25 Murai from the Arena. Exact same one. Damaged and not even repaired. For 36x the normal cost. 36x. And that was the cheapest shop in Cellsvich.

"Just get it RPly through someone else!" I'd like to point out one massive fallacy with that. My last character before this one was a Monk/MG. Their "guns" were not guns; they were bursts of Ki. Think hadoken or Kamehameha or whatever the hell floats your boat. I needed a Jackhammer, to function similarly to a Spirit Bomb from DBZ. As such, they would not ICly be seeking out a missile launcher, nor would they have any reason to go "Thanks for the weapon, now I can inexplicably do this other thing!" That would just be bad RP.


If we're no longer allowed to OOCly pass along items we'll never use on one character that are absolutely crucial to another character's concept and build, could we at least have drop biases geared towards our equipped classes? So we at least have a chance to get something we'd actually use?

EDIT: Oh, and don't get me started on trying to unlock hexer. At least weak Katanas/heavy armor/weak guns can be bought.

The emoticon things (CTRL+S, CTRL+A, etc) are being hidden by most bits of furniture and other objects since the addition of moving furniture layers. Could they get moved to a bit higher than the max layer for furniture bits?

This is a rather long running issue, but, when in a party, it seems interacting with chests when you -aren't- the party leader, occasionally causes you to be unable to move outside of combat, or in combat via Movement, and any screens you open will be uncloseable.

I'm not sure if that's the exact cause, but, it seems that whenever I'm in a party in dungeons, after opening a few chests, someone suffers this bug and has to relog to fix it.

So I'm pretty bad at this intro stuff, and thought I would just throw out some ideas for new trait ideas, to maybe give more selection and expand onto some we already have. Also I'm pretty bad at names.

Mastercraft (Insert Name of Craft here (i.e., Tool Creation, Metalwork, etc))
Req: Level 6 in (Insert Name of Craft here)
Increases the success rate of items over your craft level by 10%, or increases chance of great successes on items equal to or less than your craft level by 10%.


Murai Hunter
Req: Haggler, Scout R3
Increases Murai drop from battles for the party by 5%.


Convenient Find
Req: Murai Hunter, Scout R5
Increases Item drop rate from battles by 5%.


Master Class
Req: None
Increases the Power of your class' preferred weapons by 1.5x while mono-classing when using Basic Attack, Sub-Attack, or a Skill that performs a Basic Attack.


Carry On
Req: 40 STR
Increases Item Belt limit by STR/20.


Efficient Casting
Req: 40 WIL
When using a spell for the second time in the same round, that spell's FP cost is reduced 10%.


Concentrated
Req: 40 SKI
Increases Hit, after all modifiers, by 4%.


Afterimage (Just think it should be moved to this)
Req: 40 CEL
Whatever it does now.


Stand Your Ground
Req: 40 DEF
Reduces the effect of Knockback by 1 tile, to a minimum of 1 tile.


Resistant
Req: 40 RES
Negative Statuses last one less turn (round? Whatever the proper vocab for that is.)


Image of Health
Req: 40 VIT
Increases HP, after all modifiers, by 5%.


Pilgrimage
Req: 40 FAI
Increases Move of self and summoned allies by FAI/20.


Luck of the Draw
Req: 40 LUC
Increases Critical and Critical Evade, after all modifiers, by 10. (No percent, just 10.)

The Phenex is really neat race that has a lot of fun RP potential. But like many things in the game, most people stray from using classes or races that have nominal benefits. IE something else is better.

In this case, I'm proposing changing it from

Quote:The power of the Phenex clan was shown once by Heldonis, and his people are not much different. When the Phenex is reduced to 0 HP, if they have FP equal to their maximum possible FP, half of that FP is consumed and the Phenex restores that much HP immediately. This effect can only trigger once per 10 Rounds.

Quote:The power of the Phenex clan was shown once by Heldonis, and his people are not much different. When the Phenex is reduced to 0 HP, if they have at least 50% of their full FP, half of that FP is consumed and the Phenex restores that much HP immediately. This effect can only trigger once per 10 Rounds.

It appears that the new writing indicator only works if you write using this input bar.


Could we have it for these as well?




That'd be appreciated for us few that use them.