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5th Class - the Fury!
Aurelius
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Aurelius
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Also, the class sounds really awesome. I love the whole battleflow and rage, that sounds like something really cool to see. T'is dope.
With the addition of all attacks working against denizens, will some attacks/set of stances work better against different types of mobs? Can we change the color of our blade?
Why is it the hardest to effectively play?
There's no plan to have different attacks work differently against different types of mobs. One thing to point out generally is that while most attacks work against mobs, that's not the same thing as saying that there's a reason to use most attacks against most mobs most of the time. Bashing is still going to end up being fairly rote, because there's not actually a way around that. (However, on that note, we intend you to have to do less bashing here that in, say, Achaea.)
We could have you change the color of your blade, but it'd all be colors achievable by heating metal up really hot.
That is all..
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Like, would they form a rough cycle that you transition through... like a > b > c > a with each part of the cycle having a few different options.
Maybe the opener, combo, finisher/three-part combo style?
Oh and like, would every single ability you can use be it's own separate command? (Like, the upward slash that takes you into ember stance being a sepecific command.)
Or would it be something like... "slash" outside of a stance does the upward slash, then "cut" from ember stance does the leg cut, but if you did "cut" then "slash" it'd do something different (cause you'd be doing cut outside a stance and it might take you into a different stance)
Each ability is its own command that has a set stance requirement and stance transition.
(Well the post isn't specific enough, but it doesn't actually say what the stances DO, meaning they don't have to be additional attacks but things like temporary buffs, status effects, bonus damage, etc. Just that New Stance = Currant Stance + Battleflow Attack. This means that some stances can be gained based on different combinations instead of being a linear (a -> b -> c -> etc) but more like (a -> b/c/d, b->e/f/, c -> d/f/i/j, etc etc) . Plus some stances (probably high-level ones) will have fewer combinations to be able to reach them.
I'm more curious about Fulmination, as it's description is kinda bland and doesn't really give me an idea of what the skill does other than "you use it to attack with but not in the combo". All the descriptions of the class skills in the blogs don't tell much but at least they sparked my imagination of what it could be...)
I guess if I were to ask a question it would be, do the rage arts give the various effects, or do the stance attacks?
(Rage seems to me to be more of a combat utility skill. The description seems to be about buffing your character, adding status effects, or changing the environment. And given what @Tecton said above:
I THINK the stances aren't actual attacks by his quote, but idk at this point)
but maybe that's not a thing?
If not, it seems like each attack could just be used whenever and that moves you into a stance which then has a follow-on effect.
Which, if there are less stances than attacks, could mean you could use an attack to bring yourself into a stance repeatedly?
But, if it's like Lusternia's monk stances (but more free form) then maybe they give you a buff that lasts for a certain amount of time?
So you cycle into a stance that gives you a damage buff, then into one that gives you a defense buff, then on to one that slaps a debuff on your next target, and then back into the damage buff to refresh it?
With enough stances and incentive to use them, you may even have down times. Like, is it more important to have those buffs/debuffs up 100% of the time, or can you let them drop to 80% uptime but you get an extra buff/debuff in your cycle.
Start in a standing/neutral stance, you do a roundhouse kick, which puts you in a spinning stance. While spinning you could:
a) Spinning backfist (which returns you to a neutral stance)
b) Drop down and sweep the legs out (putting you in a crouched stance)
c) Leap and do a flying spinning heel kick (putting you into a jumping stance)
If you pick the crouched stance, you could
a) Do an uppercut (which returns you to neutral)
b) Lunge and tackle them around the waist (putting you prone)
c) Do some matrix-like backflip kick to the face (putting you into a jumping stance)
And so on and so forth for jumping, prone, and many other possible stance options. Each ability has a stance requirement and will transition you to another stance. So the matrix-like backflip kick to the face, you can only do it while you're crouching, and then it transitions you to jumping. Then you'll have 3 -4 other abilities available that are available only while jumping.
I hope this helps explain how the stances and abilities work.
Thanks for the info though, Tecton.