Thesis: Omina is in a problem spot right now.






There are a few notable traits about Omina that keep them from greatness. Their stat distribution isn't terrible, but it is lackluster compared to other species and, lore-wise, doesn't totally match up. Their racial abilities are screwy and they lack a racial identity that makes them stand out as an option.





What follows is the result of a detailed discussion between three Omina players about how to resolve the issues with Omina and breathe interest into the class as a whole.






Approach One: The Stat Switcheroo





This is the easiest approach to implement, but too many changes risks invalidating the work that players have put into their builds. Hesitance when it comes to stat redistribution is definitely warranted, but Omina are desperately in need of adjustments.




Lore-wise, what kinds of stats work well for an Omina? The answer feels easy, but a quick overview of each stat and where it sits for then right now reveals complications.




Omina favor evasion builds. They have CEL 7 and LUCK 4, both of them justified as having 'supernatural senses for danger'. These together are so overwhelmingly strong that any attempt to build outside the paradigm of the species (I run a Destiny Mage myself!) is fighting against their statblock... but what does their statblock do for them? They have GUI 2, which means they can't use guns very well. STR 4 gives them access to some Ranger approaches, and WIL 4 means that they have magic options open to them. Even so, nobody plays Omina to be good at dodging; they'll play species like Redtail or Felidae to maximise their ability to dodge. They won't play Omina for their damage output, either. A crit-based build could find success, but at what cost?

Quote:While many Omina see their curse as that and nothing more, there are those who manage to become intune with it, learning to harness its potential and managing to assert some amount of control over it, having it target those who they wish to inflict with ill-fatedness, ranging from a simple inconvenience, to something potentially fatal.

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For a bit, I've been working on a program to allow you to convert logs into a more human readable format, and now I have a first release candidate for that. I plan to maintain it as long as I'm active in SL2, and if I'm not, it's primary Github is here.

Basically you can load any log file you save from `Help -> Download Latest Chat Log` and boot it up in the program to suit it to your settings. Having a character who runs therapy, logging can be kinda rough sometimes, and I wanted something to make that a lil easier.

Within the program, there's little tooltips that let you know what to do.

Any logs should generally be placed in 'put_logs_here', which will let the program autoload them on start, but when in the program there are ways to open them from just about anywhere.

As with the Calculator, Any suggested/requested features or bugs should be sent here, in PMs, or on Discord. With Discord, if that becomes too much, I will let people here know that.

Anyways, here's your...

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Applicable BYOND Key - Illuse

Character Name - Safia

Request Type - Character (Magic)

Request Details - 


I would like to have a character use ink based magic to keep it simple, primarily for flavoring purposes but I have other things planned that are rp centric such as simple creatures and the like that have a very short duration, tattoos and naturally art. For the purpose of entertainment and empowering others with short-term tattoos for more exciting and chaotic fights using EM aid.

There were plans for fights to be setup in which I wished to icly create very short term creatures to fight, or to use things such as tattoos with magical ink (That take time, much focus and effort to prepare) for very short term and limited boosts as an in lore excuse for buffs and the like for more fun in such fights for others or for creatures to excuse stronger creatures or animals.

Such things are intentionally limited and draining so as to have limits in place and to not extend it to other things for something more impactful. It is very intended to be contained.

The description for the PEARL describes the constellation as being close to Venus, when it should say Mercury.

As a prolific Lupine player, in recent years the addition of Will to Lupine instincts has always been a little strange to me. When it activates, you gain some max FP, status inflict, and 1-2 Elemental Attack. Out of that, you'll probably be making the most use out of the Status Inflict, but that's not that helpful most of the time. People either have 0 or 130 Status Resistance. 

My proposed changes is one of the following:

WIL -> GUI
This helps focus improving the non-magical killability of the Lupine, giving anywhere from 2 to 10% more crit damage. 

WIL -> Power/SWA
This makes it so the Lupine is more damage focused upon lower HP, but also assists the rare mage Lupines. Since there is no softcap/hardcap to these, it never feels truly useless to invest in Lupine instinct. Power would be slightly more useful as it can play into other things like Rampage compared to being pure about damage.

WIL -> Armor/M.Armor
This plays more into making them difficult to kill. As they lose HP, their natural defenses become better, so that they can stay in the fight for longer. Although unless one really invests into SAN, 4-6 Armor & M.Armor won't be game-changing.

Out of these options, I would personally prefer the SWA increase to keep up with the theme that Lupine Instinct has of being Damage Stat, Damage Stat, Defensive Stat, Defensive Stat. Mages (who want WIL) and Bards (who probably just enjoy the bonus Sound Elemental Attack) would also suffer the less from the change to WIL with this.

With the recent update allowing for raid fights, it was noted that healing would apply between all parties. It appears to be working for most heals, but Radiant Solace from Solblader does not heal raid wide.

Was tested during a mob test, where Radiant Solace on an Expanded Solsphere only healed party members and not other nearby raid members.

I am unsure if any other heals have this issue as this was not deeply stress tested due to the ongoing testing of mobs/mechanics at the time, but at the very least Radiant Solace is having this issue.

If other people notice this issue with other abilities or spells, feel free to put them in this thread as well.

So this is a G6 only issue, but it appears as if whoever enters a dungeon and is the one to generate the floor has their controls lock up. You are still able to interact with the game, such as examining other characters, opening inventory and changing equipment, but you are completely unable to move or turn, or even click move.

Tested this between two people, and it happened reliably whenever one of us would be the one to generate a new dungeon floor in a Black Door.

Relogging seems to fix the issue, but it is rather annoying to have to relog every floor.

You can stand on these sacks here. Not the bottom tile, though - just the other two.

Also under the dock tile the yellow stuff sack is on is a grass tile despite being under water. This problem is also mirrored, meaning it occurs on the other side too.

It also seems that the dock edge used visibly changes to a different piece (or something odd stacked underneath) when it reaches land.



You can walk under this fence tile (the one aligned with the floating pet).



You can also fish on the dock! Literally.

The bottom left of this sink in the new inn over in Duyuei Outskirts is now a fence!

Heaven Kick is so ancient and decrepit that it counts tiles that you move over in the animation (When you go down) as being moved over in some instances.

The most egregious of these are Firebird Feather's are expended and placed upon every tile that your icon moves over, potentially draining you instantly. Furthermore, if there is a Solsphere, you actually proc it. As a victim of it, you take damage.. And I imagine if you're the one who owns it, you probably trigger Holy Aura.