Similar to Autumn's latest post, this is another instance of that happening. Just figured out today while using the skill for fun.

It does not face the enemy when you teleport on the second condition, of 'teleports to a random enemy'.

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.

Given that mages can give their allies elemental enchants to also grant them elemental augment, it'd probably be a good idea to slightly tune badges to be more friendly to random compositions for Ruler's to be a part of. I of course refer to the following scenario:

If you were to enchant someone like a firebird with Nerhaven, while they already have a fire badge, they would gain a -50% ice weakness cause the weaknesses stack together, I think that badges should have the following exception put into them which doesn't change much except allow a Ruler to enchant their fire buddy with the buff that gives them fire ATK.

Quote:Elemental Badges changed to have their -25% elemental weaknesses apply if the user is not already enchanted with an element (Such as Nerhaven/Galren etc.)

Since Tactician out of the three Soldier classes do not have a parry, I had a small idea on how to make something unique for the smart boys, through changing how the bloated and worthless 'According to Plan' is to something more usable.

Quote:According To Plan (Innate, Main Class-only?)

Studying the enemy's movements is essential for your own survival. You gain a chance equal to 30% + (Scaled GUI/2) to glance any damage from enemies you have marked with Watchful Eye, Analyze Weakness or Enemy Evaluation, reducing damage by 30% (+5% per Tactics Rank).

Additionally, hitting enemies with a Tome or Sword's Basic Attack will restore FP based on Rank (Swords will only restore half).

Rank 1: 6 FP restored.
Rank 2: 8 FP restored.
Rank 3: 10 FP restored.

Can we please make a new "Medical Station" map icon.

The only thing craftable at these crafting stations will be medical supplies, which will be Each of the Injury fix kits, and potentially bandages.

And also throw this as a new 'listing' on the Portable Science Kit. Please. I'm begging thee. It's silly that mappers have to put a MIXING BOWL in the hospital just so we can get burn ointment.

This thing heals so little for being a single target melee heal unlike most other heals in this game. Besides, Tactician isn't really a healer class so it's fine to make this a little stronger.

Give it a touch-up on the numbers.

Quote:Field Medic

Sometimes, there is no time to move someone to a safer location; they need treatment then and there. Targets 1 ally within 1 Range (or yourself), restoring HP based on Rank, plus (Tactics Rank * 2)% of the target's max HP.

Rank 1: Base Heal: 40
Rank 2: Base Heal: 60
Rank 3: Base Heal: 80, can revive defeated allies.

Byond Key: PeepPeepPeepers
Character Name: Termina
Request Type: Ability Fluff/Backstory/Height
Request Details: This request in particular is being re-done to better spread out what was originally approved and what is being re-applied for. I'll list them, here.

Backstory - 

Pretty simple one, ranking up Earthbound Fog doesn't seem to actually increase the duration right now.
Tested with EBF at rank 5 (with accel, hence the turns here), cast at round 1, ended at round 6.

As a note, I was first trying it with a higher rank via EM tools, only to see it end after five. Lowered the rank to the normal cap to test again. After a relog, and equipping hexer with rank 5 EBF as a class rather than loading it on, this issue persisted.

When it comes to melee weapons, typically the ones that you require building STR for, they often fall behind GUI scaling weapons due to them not quite dealing enough damage when you don't invest much for GUI, even building for 30-40 GUI can be a serious tax for a lot of melee critters when they should be focusing more on what's important and what differentiates STR weapons, and that's their SWA for the most part.

Axes are a supremely good example of what melee weapons should sort of look like, barring their accuracy of course, starting at 125% critical damage does them a lot of good as they only need to invest half as many points as Swords, Spears or god forbid Fists do to gain a respectable crit damage number. While axes can focus on the big number, they don't always have to, and have options when it comes to their builds.

Swords, Spears and Fists are not afforded this luxury unfortunately, given their extremely base critical damage, they can't just invest into STR, LUC and accounting for SWA, they have to be able to multiply that SWA too, given that crit damage scales very linearly I think raising these numbers will do little to overpower them, especially given that half of the damage of fist and spear basic attackers tend to be magic from on-hits anyway.

Therefore I propose raising the critical damage of Spears/Swords/Fists to 125% to match Axes, Axes will still have Deadliness and Spiked Axehead to differentiate them as the defacto critical damage weapons of the game, going from 125% to 140%, still 15% above the other 3 martial weapons, thus justifying their accuracy loss. (As for Keen weapons such as Wo-dao/Hisen/Duodent, they can be raised to 140%, remaining 15% above non-keen counterparts, this is where Battleaxe also sits at.)

I personally think this change will help STR critters feel more comfortable with their stats, and not always have to resort to 40 GUI to feel like they're dealing enough damage, instead you'd see 20-25 GUI be more common place on them, which considering you have to build a whole other additional stat than Daggers, Guns or Handshot gets? Seems like a pretty light investment enough to not make STR crit builds so hard to build in the first place.

Using Forced Move, I was successfully able to trigger a whole line's worth of rook's counterattack tiles in a single move. Considering the change made to these interactions to make it so that this only happens once per action, it still working this way seems like a bug. This is likely the case for all other counterattack tiles, too.