Currently Oracles are seen as an incredibly high risk but high reward race, with a passive +10% to evade and +10% hit rate to enemies in 1 range they can achieve the highest hit/evade rates from racials in the game, the problem arises when they are not targeted in 1 range, which nearly everyone can do now that hit rate matters for more than just basic attacks. Take for example any base class ability like Shinken or Couloir.

This -10% is so punishing to the oracle themself that you are basically griefing your own build if you attempt to build dodge on one, it's fun for sure, but you are far better off not playing the evade game against people who know your own short sightedness, which is loudly proclaimed to the rest of the battle when Pre-ordinance kicks in to let everyone know "ORACLE RIGHT HERE"

This leaves you as a race with an incredibly strong close range game, in the past this was fitting for oracles to have as they would have the option of being a basic attacking monster, but also be allowed to be more traditional in what an oracle's role may actually be, usually a mage of some sort to fit the 'guidance' or 'counselor' motif that is spelled out in their lore.

Long story short, I believe that oracles are in need of another rework of some kind, I really dislike the current risky playstyle of oracles, and while I do believe some people like this, I also firmly believe that they are far better off in a different state, there could likely be more fitting options for them to have as well.

For one I'd like to abolish their close and far ranged hit/evade penalties, I think these are the forefront of issues for oracles, both in balancing them healthily and for making them not feel too limited in most cases.

Secondly I think there are a lot of good alternative options for reading off future vision such as:

Quote:-A chance to automatically turn towards an attack
-Increased parry chances
-Increased chance to bypass parries

Quote:-Forces the next attack made on the oracle to Glance and then expires the status (activates every 2-3 rounds similar to now), if this status is active then the oracle's next attack is evasion-ignoring, also expiring the status.

Between gem staves and all the new casting tool materials, one of reaper's main racial passives in polearm casting tools has been made almost completely obsolete. It can be a consideration over a casting tool material on occasion, but only if you were investing in san anyway and having a global casting tool rather than domain locked matters to your build. Add gem staves into the mix though, and the reaper racial is almost always the worse option.

In order to have any relevance with gem staves and an abundance of casting tool materials now in the mix, reaper needs to not only unlock polearm casting but buff it. I think the best way to go about this would be their racial adding a small amount of san scaling to polearms, but only if you have the required san to 'activate it' for casting. This would prevent reaper from being used simply for a few extra swa on your polearm weapon even if you're not investing in san at all, while also incentivising the heavy san investment required to cast with the high star polearms by giving you more swa for the investment.

I'm also of the mind that remains should give them more than 2 elemental attack per piece. If only because remains give no benefit outside of weapon and armor, meaning you have to trade any other benefit for that +2. This is particularly relevant when the casting tool passive is pushing you towards magic oriented classes, and mages using enchant spells often value the element resistance on their equipment much more highly to cover the elemental weaknesses those enchantments bring.

Hello,

My suggestion is quite simple:

Add a Preferences menu setting to disable harvesting other people's/guild's crops.

If you have it on, and try, you get a chat notification that it's not yours.  Doesn't tell you who's it is, just that it's not yours.

Why do I want this?

I planted some crops in a public Korvara field, went to bed, and went to pick them the next day.

Same types of crops that I planted, so I went and just clicked em all to pick em.

What's this?  My 180 max stamina depleted?  Oh dear, it seems someone else picked my crops and planted the same thing atop of them.

I've made this before but I wish to suggest it again, if only for the chance it be considered.

In regards to weapons of the same rarity designation as what a mutation seed would mutate into I suggest that odd numbers gain +1 and even -1

This is what it would result in

A 1 star dagger would become a fist
A 2 star fist would become a dagger
A 3 star sword would become an axe
A 4 star axe would become a sword
A 5 star spear would become a tome
A 6 star tome would become a spear
A 7 star bow would become a gun
A 8 star gun would become a bow

This would add more niche uses across the board to a number of weapons

In order to stabilize the difference between Korvara and Mainland when it comes to 10 star items, since the +1 upgrade stamp is not available there, there are certain upgrade tiers that become unavailable to certain items there, particularly it is more impactful to the following items I've compiled a list for, everything else isn't quite as impacted. Namely they're the items that scale in increments of 6 instead of 5, which would be more preferable for Korvara without impacting Mainland at all.

Quote:Fox Paw - Current effect is UL/6, should be UL/5 to match Korvara

Buzzing Chakram: Attack Range increases by 1 per 6 UL, needs 1 per 5 UL to match Mainland.

Spine Leash: Attack Range increases by 1 per 7 UL, needs to be 6 to match mainland, could also be 5 for slight buff.

Carteblanche: When airborne attack ranges increases by 1 per 6 UL, needs to be 5 to match mainland.

Vorso Verso: Increases Contract Maximum by 1 per 12 UL, needs to be per 10 UL to match mainland version.

Quickdraw: Gains 1 round per 6 UL, needs to be 5 to match mainland.

Dancing Shiv: On Attack: If you are behind your target, inflict Fray LV1 + UL/3, inflict lvl 8 Fray on G6, inflicts lvl 6 on Korvara.

Thunder Hooves: Effect currently grants up to UL/2 charges when moving, effect triggers at 18 charges, to account for 6 upgrade levels of mainland.

Anchor Edge: Attack size increased by 1 + 1 per 12 UL, needs to be 10 UL to match mainland

Hands of the Giant: On Hit: Knocks the target back UL/6 Tiles. (Needs to be 5 to match Mainland)

Overgrown Staff: Creates 1 flower at a random tile per 6 UL, needs to be 5 to match mainland.

DISCLAIMER: I don't really expect this to make it in or plan on pushing for it too hard, but I wanted to throw the idea into the wind.
 
I've found that with working a job and being in college, it's gotten increasingly harder to find time to grind up a character in SL2. I want to ask how you guys would feel about the idea of a donation item or a mechanic where you can pay real money to be able to level cap your character. The way I'm currently imagining it is that whether it's a donation item or a mechanic, it would probably have a long cooldown period (like maybe 1 or 2 weeks) or is only usable once per character.
 
I've got a few reasons to throw this out there:
1. As I previously mentioned, I get quite busy with life, and find it hard to open up time to grind up a character in SL2. Frankly, I'm also a little tired of doing it after 9 years! I imagine this would help other people in similar circumstances.

2. Sometimes, there are types of characters that are really odd starting out at Level 1. I believe this was a concern brought up a while back when Korvara was launching too, the whole idea that somebody of an important combat position or something along the line starts out as a Level 1 warrior fighting Jammers is very weird. This could probably help people that are making a character along that line.

3. Some games already let you pay to skip the grind, such as FFXIV or World of Warcraft, so I think the idea doesn't seem too weird.
 
I was wondering if you guys think it'd be worth considering. Thank you for your time.

I think every nation should have a dedicated sparring area with an inn npc. It's such an important part of the game in my opinion, allowing people to have fun with pvp casually.

Geladyne: Good
Vale: Good
Meiaquar: Sparring area but no inn
Telegrad: Sparring area but no inn
Duyuei: ???


No need for map requests for this imo, it's downright important on an ooc level

As it stands, Skill and Celerity are the two stats most affected by diminishing returns as you want to at least have 55 scaled in them, at least when you're a dodge build in the case of cel. For this reason, racial stats are very important in those categories.

If we look at racial stats, we'll see there's many outliers such as papilion's high ski and many races having down to 1 singular CEL, making them really bad with evade builds.

Now, I think it's fine to have certain races better at certain things, but that difference is actually a huge deal. Especially in pvp.

I would suggest every race have at least 4 in both ski and cel, and probably at least 5 ski, thus making it possible to make competitive evasion builds with suboptimal races (that's up to +6 whole evade), and allowing everyone a chance to get decent hit. No need to nerf the ones with high stats, just make the crappy ones usable

Can the item description window have an option to be bound to game window? If you have multiple screens, it opens on main screen (or not at all because it doesnt open on top of non-sl2 windows)

There's a great thread posted by Possum about boxer in general.

It's a much larger bit of balance. In the mean time, can we at least let Geist's min range be 1?