[Skullcatrons]

Let talk about other things that Ruler need improvement toward. Mainly the Offensive Whip-line skills.



This is Simple Shell. 
It's a single-target skill that doesn't qualify as a basic-attack. If it lands a hit, it'll inflict a debuff condition called Crystalize (-1 movement). This debuff is meant to be used in conjunction with the next skill:



Complex Shatter.
When an enemy has Crystalize debuff, you'll gain +15 additional hit vs them, and spawns 2 gemstones. Before immediately removing Crystalize afterward.That's it. This also qualifies as a basic attack for sake of skill check, and criticals.

So see the problem here?

Essentially Simple Shell requires you to land a hit on a target. Then you follow up with Complex Shatter which allows you to spawn 2 gemstones. You might be inclined to see that you're getting 4 Geomaterials (potentially 5 if you crits with Complex Shatter), BUT because it requires you to land a hit. Which depends on the whip weapons you're utilizing at the moment, if you can't hit the dodgie. You're not hitting the dodgie ever. Meaning that the +15 hit chance is redundant. 

On top of that. If you're a ghost/ruler, and were to simply basic attack, Stone Dragon, and then Despot drill. You get 7 geomaterials instead. Meaning that doing this method is only if you're a non-critical ruler.... And why would you want to do that when you could still just Stone dragon/Despot drill and get 6 geomaterial ANYWAYS?

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Personally Simple Shell should be changed from this two round cooldown to five round cooldown, be treated as Great Accuracy skill with baseline damage damage (100% SWA across 3 ranks), with only rank-up increasing the range of this whip skill. 

To which they would do a status infliction check to see if it crystallized. Then a person can use Complex Shatter to gain a hit on an evade character.

But that's just one of the few challenges that this class has a lot of.