Currently there are 3 types of traits

Type 1: Must-have
things like stability, +1 skill point, sentimentality, etc. Straight up buffs that everyone simply takes because they can

Type 2: Good on some builds
Lovely face, spiritual sensitivity, some racials. Stuff that isn't an autopick but is useful to some degree

Type 3: Flavor/useless
Disposition traits, chivalry stuff, mantra, arrow catcher, allergy. Stuff that doesn't give you much of an advantage but might be flavorful

As it stands, most people simply have enough points to get literally every must-have and good traits they can get, then have space for some flavor ones. Cool in theory when said like that, but it's a very strange system. What it means is that trait points aren't actually valuable at all, you always have at least one point of "eh guess I'll put it there cause there's nothing good". Instead, I feel like traits should be about making choices that make your character unique.

Do away with the staple stuff like stability and history traits and replace it with a system that makes you take choices. Since gr1, stat points in traits have become functionally meaningless. Skill points and health regen are all things that should exist as a choice, not generic buffs. Because all it does is add bloat to character creation. Talents suffer from the same issue but at least those have more choices involved.

Thus, I propose a new trait system

At level 1 and every 10 levels, you make a choice between a selection of powerful boosts to your character. These should be focused only on things that make you stronger in combat (no PVE-only traits). Make characters more unique in a way that compliments their preferred playstyle

- charisma except it lasts at least 2 rounds
- blow kiss but without the guile req and it can scale from guile OR will (would need some balance)
- strong trait for each weapon type that deepens their niche, for example +1 bow range, spear attacks hit behind your target too, etc.
- heal on kill
- mitigating flank hit bonus / KD evade loss etc
- bring back stuff like charisma aura for supports
- guardian spirit but a bit better

At the same time, parallel to this, we should have PVE/flavor traits that work off of different points, reminescent of many of the current traits

- bonus healing from food and such
- bigger shout range, maybe traits to make your shout text bigger or something like that
- don't lose spirits on death
- durability help
- monster hunter
- etc

Then we should have racial traits that are a choice starting from level 1 and aren't linked to the non-racial traits!

- vampire: fasting or not? What status on your bite?
- naga: garden scale or whatever
- oracle: preordinance frequency
- papilion: insanity type
- etc

autopick traits like painful grip should just be added to the race because as it stands they basically are just part of the race, it's a trait point tax that has basically no bearing on the final build because trait points are so plentiful.

I'd say the most egregious part of traits is that they add a lot of decisions to make that aren't impactful. In reality they should be distinct from talents and be more rare but very significant. Talents should probably use some work too but that's another topic (who doesn't take 3 fp regen?).

So, in conclusion

Traits as they are now are simply not a very useful or engaging part of build creation. It's generally more of a pain than anything. So even if my solution isn't used, I just want to get the ball rolling on discussing this. Because I'm tired of being forced to pick sentimentality and I'm tired of getting the same 10 traits every time I reroll or LE. I'd like to see traits reworked so they are actual traits, things that make your character stand out, and have you make choices that impact your build and spice up matchups. While also reducing the amount of things you pick when creating a char to hopefully reduce bloat (talents are a bit more guilty of this). When I get a trait point, I wanna be like "Oh yay, a trait point! I wonder where I'm gonna put this bad boy. Let me think what would be good and fitting for this char". But right now it's usually like "Oh I guess I should put this trait point somewhere uhhhhhh this one I guess, since it's better than nothing"

Add two new sub-talents to Preparation.

Move Up - Adds a togglable skill. When starting fights on a back-attack with Move Up, as many enemys will be in melee range as possible.

Move Back - Adds a togglable skill. When starting fights on a back-attack with Move Back, you will be out of melee range of any enemy, but within range of your weapon. If your weapon is melee range, it would function as a normal back-attack.

If both are toggled on, you'll spawn against the edge of the battlefield with as many enemies next to you as possible.

This suggestion is mostly so I don't have to have half a talent point slotted in to getting disgusting inn slop.

Kadouha's rank got reduced to a max of 3. Well and good for our skill point enthusiasts, however, an issue arises:

Kadouha can now only ever use a max of 20 Ki. The calculation seems to be 5 base, +5 per rank - and we lost two ranks, meaning we lose out on 10, meaning we can't get the 30 Ki bonus.



The 30 Ki bonus is pretty good. Sort of makes Kadouha worth it.

The skill description doesn't state that the max Ki used is affected by rank, and by all means it shouldn't be. The old skill description, or at least the one I could find on the player-run wiki, states that it "consumes Ki up to a max (based on Rank)" so I assume this is just an oversight of the SP changes.

A recent fix was introduced to cause non-standard damage-type tomes (such as slash/blunt/etc.) to default to the Fire element when using Elemental Rune. This currently applies only to Engraved Runes; Runes that are Triggered use the non-standard element and do not gain an increase to damage from elemental attack. 

This was tested against various mobs in singleplayer combat. The weapon used was a Cleaving Clarinet enchanted with Mutation to become a 'Tome' weapon that deals 'Blunt' damage.

Engraved:

Short and simple:

Thunder Steps recent nerf to go on cooldown for being outside of 3 range of an enemy doesn't work well with PvE.

If you kill a monster (and thus remove it) with thunder steps, it goes on CD as if you used it for movement and not damage as I suspect the CD is meant to punish if no other monsters are left nearby.

What I'd suggest is making an exemption that if a monster is damaged that the cooldown won't apply.

Twinking is the act of sharing items or gold or things like that between your own characters.

Here are things you can't do:
- Give yourself murai
- Give yourself items
- Party with yourself for fights/grind
- Support yourself in rp

Here are things you can do
- Give yourself donation items
- Sell donation items for real murai (but then you can't trade that murai of course)
- Use your alt's publically available crafting station (I remember someone asking and being allowed to do this)
- Have someone stronger give you money and items at level 10
- REPURPOSE CHARS aka retire a char/die ic but change it to a totally different person. Aka the only way I'm able to play antags without shooting myself

So I ask thee: please let us transfer murai and items. It would save tremendous headache and unnecessary repetitive grind. Like it doesn't feel good to get a good drop on one dude but it'd be better on your other char. But oh if your party member was the one who got the drop he could trade it to your alt. Also professions, I can't trade myself hi potions even if I'm an alchemist, so everyone who plays an alchemist needs an alchemist friend etc. A funny thing is when you trade patrions over to an alt then you sell those patrions.. But couldn't just give him money even though functionally it's the same thing. And it doesn't take away enjoyment, quite the opposite, cause look I just don't enjoy farming murai.

So all in all... I feel like the benefits of the rule (making each char get its own stuff for progression) far outweight the positives of saving people tons of pain.

Also I'm just gonna say it, people circumvent this rule all the time. Especially when you're on your 43rd char and you are not feeling like grinding for days again while your other char sits on exactly what you need. Not me though I never break the rules.

I just think it's time to legalize murai and item trading between alts. I know it would make me enjoy the game a LOT more. Especially when so many adjacent acts are allowed it feels like a dated rule.

Applicable BYOND Key - Pollyl
Character Name - Pyong Nyong
Request Type - Four Arms
Request Details -  Fusion based Chimera within Korvara that possesses two additional arms. No mechanical advantages and is for the purpose of roleplay. Image Here
Amount of Legs is still only two. Character has a lot of fluff but is clearly (mainly) humanish
Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - To have express permission in having a four arm fluffy looking Chimera
Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - 
Just like most products of Geladyne, Pyong Nyong (A name she stubbornly chose for herself) was a Chimera brought about through fusion, with the base compromising of additional structures within it's figure to accommodate two extra appendages.
The many monsters that went into what they are now...
Insects, Vorpal Rabbits, Scarebears, and even small portions of a Fenrirberus all went into making them into a inhuman ball of fluff and hate. (Refer to the Image above)

From inception they were outwardly hostile, but with behavior correcting shocks from a high voltage collar Pyong was eventually 'coaxed' into properly performing their given duties, as is typical repayment for their creation.
A result of their treatment up to this point, they are especially on edge when dealing with several humanoids on a physical or emotional level.
There's still something human about Pyong, it's up to IC interactions to see if they lean into the persona of a monster they were built to be or learn what it's like to be a person as they are finally free of their restrictive duties.

First, Class traits. They give +1 to [Class + promoted variants]
I'd like to suggest changing these to a Legend Extension option, [Class mastery] ill call it for lack of a better name.
As a trait, You grab it, Get your +1 to class, spend the point, etc. But you're probably going to LE back to level 1, you lose the trait, but you retain that +1 skill point effectively giving you +1 free trait point.

Or, Just remove them entirely. Most classes have been reworked from 5/5 to 3/3, Do we even need them anymore? Plus humans racial exists.

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I'd like to also suggest [Weapon telepathy] requirement be changed slightly. Fai/Wil/Apt to Fai/Apt.

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I'd like to suggest a Trait to proc [Intervention] talent under the [Devotion] Section, Without an active prayer.
I'll call it [National Pride] with the same 5% chance to reduce damage at the trade off of "Reducing damage by half your scaled faith"

Not sure if this has been asked for before, or if it is even a thing that has been thought of and all but here we go.


I suggest we have some way to make Gunpowder in Alchemy, since we have all the means for making bullets and bombs, it would only make sense to have the ability to craft Gunpowder. 

this mostly comes from how just...rare I've noticed gunpowder to be in Korvara as it seems to only drop randomly from chests(?) and Pale lauders.

if it's because bombs are broken in terms of damage, and this helps to regulate them, then might I suggest bombs requiring more to craft to mitigate it slightly?

Okay so the only way to regain lost white spirits as a destiny rogue on stolen spells is to Legend extend and spend TWO inks to disable and re enable destiny then Re-level to 50 again on those classes

Could we please allow White spirits to Select stolen spells as candidates for enhancement.