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Something feels a bit wrong about 5-10 monsters on Grind/Crysfest getting a win credit and dropping thousands of credits worth of stuff you didn't even have (e.g. a binding of slaughter) when you ran out of mana fighting the previous rounds of monsters, the "victors" did absolutely nothing, and you fled under Spark of Life and made it away alive.

It should be like everybody keeps suggesting - if the monsters actually win, they pull your equip off, then cut you up and make low-grade leather out of you, and bring that to their masters. That would make more sense.

You underestimate the need for hit chance for a mage. ET is vital to a mage's success.

I don't think a mage will want dex at the cost of losing int/wis

we use to have 4 PAB on some gear and it was removed along with other stats. Now its back or a chance to be back.

why can't mage gear have a base int/wis and a chance for other PAB. It then could have 2 changes to have int/wis (base + 2nd roll) The same could be done for Heavy gear, base STR/END and a chance for the other PAB

if you had phase/fox
phase could have a base amount of INT/WIS then since its of the Fox it gets more INT and if it were to get +INT as one of the random PAB it would get even more INT

How much do you use ET outside fighting gods? I like my mana bottled, it tastes much better than raw ether (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif). Let's say the staff has no INT or WIS PBs and really amazing physical stats and PABs. I don't think it deserves to be called even Fine in that case, because one point of INT is worth its weight in gold, while one point of DEX is not. You're right accuracy is useful, but the stats need to be weighted for quality calculations I think.

Just ask all the other mages. And once you get to End of Days you'll learn to love/hate ET (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Random idea (i.e. didn't give it too much thought or care about it much):

- Reduce monster attack/skill dmg
- Reduce Regen 1/2 power
- Halve the power & mana cost of Cure 1/2/3
- Increase Spirit Shield mana cost

The aim is to tone down the 'jumpiness' feel of the game by a little bit. Also enable Cure 2/3 to be reasonable & make sense to use. The increase to Spirit Shield mana cost is to compensated for the lower SP consumption due to lower mobs dmg. Alternately, SP consumption rate of Spirit Shield may be increased instead.

Dunno if mage will like this:

- Increase the 'Elemental proc' power (ex: Damage reduction of Searing Skin) of the elemental offensive spells, maybe with the power based on how many point of AP put to the AOE spell.

Maybe this will enable it to be more competitive with the Holy&Dark spell. I kinda doubt it, though...

This post has been edited by buktore: Jun 24 2012, 02:27

Random idea (i.e. didn't give it too much thought or care about it much):

- Reduce monster attack/skill dmg
- Reduce Regen 1/2 power
- Halve the power & mana cost of Cure 1/2/3
- Increase Spirit Shield mana cost

The aim is to tone down the 'jumpiness' feel of the game by a little bit. Also enable Cure 2/3 to be reasonable & make sense to use. The increase to Spirit Shield mana cost is to compensated for the lower SP consumption due to lower mobs dmg. Alternately, SP consumption rate of Spirit Shield may be increased instead.

Rather than a straight up reduction, it would be better to greatly narrow the range of the damage. The maximum damage shouldn't be so many times higher than the minimum damage.

I'd also suggest letting Regen 1/2 being put on IA then, and allowing health to regen in battle like spirit and mana (yeah I know it practically does nothing, but it would still be nice to have.

Almost forgot this:

- Monster with Chaos-upgraded (exclude the 2x gift upgrade) have some kind of 'Rank' display in battle. Ex: every 20 upgrades, the monster get 1 star displayed somewhere in the monster's name box thingy... (what is it called, anyway?), maxed at 10 stars (200 upgrades)

I kinda want to see some visual indication of how souped up the monster is apart from their health point. It might look nice, too! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

Dunno if mage will like this:

- Increase the 'Elemental proc' power (ex: Damage reduction of Searing Skin) of the elemental offensive spells, maybe with the power based on how many point of AP put to the AOE spell.

Maybe this will enable it to be more competitive with the Holy&Dark spell. I kinda doubt it, though...

You know, I'm not against this idea, but right now it seems to be in balance. If those elementals get too powerful, nobody will use holy/dark (because it's mana consuming).

You know, I'm not against this idea, but right now it seems to be in balance. If those elementals get too powerful, nobody will use holy/dark (because it's mana consuming).

And it's like asking the monsters to kill you with a handgun instead of a rocket launcher (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Either way some monsters are able to oneshot a mage with a single crit and would continue to do so even if you drastically improved the Searing Skin damage reduction proc. Mages kill or die within 2 rounds usually. I used to love Shield when it flatly reduced damage like the scroll.

This post has been edited by DarkDespair5: Jun 24 2012, 05:12

I dont think that searing skin should be superior to blunted attack, but thats just me. Mainly cause dark costs so much.

I dont think that searing skin should be superior to blunted attack, but thats just me. Mainly cause dark costs so much.

I totally agree, was just saying that the procs don't really help our paper thin defense (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

was just saying that the procs don't really help our paper thin defense

Exactly.

What I have in mind is actually to replace the current proc entirely with a new one that actually meaningful to use (and still explode-able of course), but perhaps with the proc chance reduced, perhaps not. Maybe for Holy and Dark, too.



The point is: I want mass Confuse! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) ... But you guys just wanted to blast stuff. Oh well...

but perhaps with the proc chance reduced

Absolutely no

I knew you would say that! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) ... Exactly is why I added this:

perhaps not.

If anything, proc chances should be always when a crit, and improve with proficiency, maybe even capping out at 100

Before all that proc discussion, channeling should get fixed first.
Stop letting those monsters evade/resist/fail-to-curse with channeling, that's supposed to be powerful as hell, damn it! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

And it isn't like channeling is happening every turn now!

This post has been edited by varst: Jun 24 2012, 06:33

I started using channeling purely for self buffs when I saw the resist shit. It makes me end up with pretty much every buff in the book though, with the important ones lasting ~102 turns.

Before all that proc discussion, channeling should get fixed first.
Stop letting those monsters evade/resist/fail-to-curse with channeling, that's supposed to be powerful as hell, damn it! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

And it isn't like channeling is happening every turn now!

Couldn't agree with that statement more.

Right now Channeling is mostly useful for loading Mana Heavy Supports/Healing. After all its better to have Arcane Focus active for 180 turns, not 90.

Anyway

I just thought about that yesterday and if it is possible it would be cool to upload small avatars (80x80 or something) for your own monsters. Probably tough to implement, but who wouldn't want a personalized monster(s)? E.g. monster 'Spanish Inquisition' with avatar of 3 Monty Python lunatics next to it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Bring it on!

With the monster naming system turning out the way it did, it's probably not a good idea letting the userbase upload avatars for their monsters. You'd probably end up seeing avatars consisting of diseased genitalia every other round or something. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Anyway

I just thought about that yesterday and if it is possible it would be cool to upload small avatars (80x80 or something) for your own monsters. Probably tough to implement, but who wouldn't want a personalized monster(s)? E.g. monster 'Spanish Inquisition' with avatar of 3 Monty Python lunatics next to it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Bring it on!

No thanks. I don't want that.
I really don't want to see every frigging stupid monster that people created. Plus it would look like crap because every monster would look different in size/style/quality/etc.

So if you want avatars for monsters there should be ground rules. First of all that should only be viable for a small part of monsters. So a level or upgrade requirement.
Secondly. They should match in style. To name an example: there's this 8bit NIS game (Classic Dungeon). It let's you customize pixel characters like this:
(You basically fill in the squares with colors. Very simple.)


(Disregard that this is a riddle for now..)

Results would be based on your effort though.

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This post has been edited by Death Grunty: Jun 24 2012, 12:47