Guns and Daggers are in an absolutely abysmal state in the current crit market. PRIMARILY Guns.

With recent changes, STR weapons get to build their offensive stat, and get HP and crit for it, alongside SWA. Guns get to build their offensive stat and get flank for it (Pseudo-hit).. but where they're really lacking is crit.

The thing that made crit on STR weapons awful was having to build LUC and CRIT-- and realistically? The main problem child was Boneheart giving 25 crit evade for a torso slot and being able to wall out Critters. Now? STR Critters don't have to really touch LUC at all, since they get (generally) about 20+ crit for existing.. Which counteracts Boneheart (and to a lesser degree, makes Crit Evade a joke)... While GUI Critters are building everything they can and 40 luc and barely cresting 110 crit.

My No-Luck Str Critter is sitting on 116 crit. Just for existing with Purity Edge.

My GUI 40 luc critter w/ Sarasha Gi & RoT+ gets 100 crit, 130 with serpent strikes (Raid Cannon). Maybe this is just a problem of Raid Cannon having zero innate crit and not being able to add parts, upgrades, tools, etc.. but. Zamn.

Crit is BLEAK for gunners at the moment.

Edit: My solution?

Genuinely can we just kill Boneheart at this point? This thing is absolutely overperforming.

Is Pacifist Boon supposed to extend the duration of Brighten's negative status effect when applied to enemies? (See: Glowing lasting 6 rounds)

Applicable BYOND Key - ThousandSpears
Character Name - Cannoli
Request Type - Character Height + Appearance


Request Details -  A 8 foot tall Homunculus (Amalgama) with a deformed appearance based on the Nemesis from the original Resident Evil 3.

Specific Request - A deformed Amalgama with a big and bulky look and burn scars across his body. He is 8 tall and his imperfections are mostly visible on his head and face which are stitched up, and he only has one working eye. If it's possible then a useable tendril on the arm but no mutations like the game Nemesis.

His height and scale make him an imposing threat even despite his flaws. He mostly wields ranged weapons but can fight hand to hand with crushing strength.

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request - Homunculus can have a history of being poorly made or kept and it shows in some cases more than others. This would be a patchwork job that creates a strong and powerful, but unkempt person as a result. It stays humanoid despite the deformities.

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Animal Totems have a health.

You can target them with a basic attack.

Doing so actually does nothing.

Ancient Song (Heron) is counted as an offensive skill. Despite it being VERY CLEARLY a support skill.

How can you tell?

Well my poor wittle heron friend kept proccing Earthbound Vengeance for daring to sing.

Mastery of Weapon Arts does not seem to be applying on Monk's Priest Staff. Mastery of Weapon Arts lists that it provides 15% extra STR scaling to any weapon that does not use STR as its primary scaling. Monk's Priest Staff is a Faithful Scaling weapon, with 50% STR and 70% Faith scaling, would I take to imply means it is a Faith primary weapon. Please let me know if I'm mistaken somewhere or if this is not working as intended.

please, god. you don't know how much i go aughughuh when i see an lfg but the person isn't there anymore. straight up. just gone, but they left their lfg up. like, sure, people can be forgetful but it'd just be good to have it delete your lfg by itself if you leave the map you posted in it, just like how player props work. i know that systems in place, so it should be possible to have it apply for lfgs.

please. no more lfg scamming.

When an Amalgama dies and revives (Formidable) it doesn't activate Grudge despite the potential saying that it activates if you die when you don't have Badly Beaten.

The reason I think this might be a bug (?) is because Valkyrie Ring/Rapier of Resent's Rensetment activate if you proc Formidable, and those also require you to die.

Earthbound Vengeance saps your momentum whenever you hit a resistance to it, despite being bonus damage now.

So! I've been playing Druid/Priest for a while now and while plants aren't as awful as people make them out to be, they're definitely a more-than-invoke-level momentum investment for their payoff which can.. kinda vary (11M to mass > BB > invig, mass > quickness is ROUGH and I would NOT be doing it if not for wildshape/animal bennies). 
Sometimes it's really good! Sometimes the enemy mobs get yote out of their range every round because of your allies and that momentum does NOTHING. Sometimes your opponent smartly refuses to stand in the splash zone and it also does nothing.

But.. that's if the plants LET you buff them in the first place.

The way that Druidic Tending prioritizes plants is currently a little arcane. I'd briefly been led to believe that it prioritized earlier-placed plants over later-placed ones, but after dropping massed nature's bounty and then trying to quickness buff my previously-placed burning bushes I realised it's actually just a madhouse and there's no clear pattern to it.
Worse, spawning devil vines at ANY point means you can't buff anything, because it's gonna get eaten. Drop nature's bounty and wanna invig it in a crowd of devil vines from 3 turns ago? lol, lmao.

This isn't really workable for any kind of strategy.

So! Solutions!

A) Uncap it. Just let me buff my plants indiscriminately. It'd actually be pretty nice to be able to get my choice of two plant types out round 1 and then buff them ALL round 2, even IF there's devil vines in their number. I'd kind of just prefer this the most.
B) If not that, put Devil Vines on the rock-bottom of druidic tending's priority at LEAST. Skip over them and have a whole separate check for them if you gotta. I should not have to see red lines on my devil vines instead of literally anything else. Nobody is using vines for the damage I'm 1-pointing them next time I restat.
C) Give it some logical prioritizing? Something you can plan around. Oldest plants, newest plants, closest plants, already-buffed plants, whatever. Also! Prioritize the caster's plants first, PLEASE. I don't mind helping other druids out but I got my own strategies over here, too.
D) Admittedly, if we aren't gonna get uncapped tending it'd be nice to have the cap be 1 + buff rank so you can catch four plants without spirits. Spirits are a MASSIVE cost for that.

(Edit: Also, it's just occurred to me to mention this, but it's been brought up a few times before that DT is kind of a weird thing to be MC-only and stifles subclass plant druid gameplay. I think if you were going to uncap it you could realistically have the uncapped version be MC/Inno only, with it behaving like it is now when subclassed. But that naturally wants the priority changes to come with it.
No comment on if anything else should get MC'd instead, this isn't the thread for it.)