As someone who's been playing this game since there were only two bosses in the clockworks, I've come to carve out a little niche for what I like and for what works best for me. And I've spread my teaching to my guild and those who'd listen, helping out all the aspiring gunner-types out there for what gun is best and how to do their fancy footwork. Like a devilite. And to that end I've noticed a few things I'd like to see, a few things I notice are either a bit wonky or just lacking in my sphere of the spiral.
The wonky part, the biggest wonky part, is the AP and Sentenza Owl. Oh, the charge Owl, how I love thee for your flying grace, your swooping knockback, your total lack of being able to fire when I'm against a wall. Or next to a brick. Or within earshot of a block. I love the charge shots to death, but they're not so useful when any little knick in the terrain makes it explode before it even comes out of the barrel. Just move the spawn point of that owl to the front of the character, please, so I don't have to forsake my poor owl in the midst of a swarm of lumbers.
On a side note with the AP and Sentenza: I remember the time when they were piercing/whatever. Was a pain to use them. The redo on the two guns makes them amazingly more useful, but there's still a lack of one thing in a gunner's arsenal. Piercing damage. We've got all of two guns (I know three, but with Blitz and Plague being the same gun type I'm lumping them together), to do piercing. And with the love of devilites and grievers and silkwings, gunners really do get the short of the stick on killing these (already painful and dodgy) types of enemies. It's either the Needles which leave us open if we miss or the Callahan which, well, honestly, needs a bit of a revamp. It's got far too many cons to make it of any use in the field.
My thought originally was to make a 3rd 5* Antigua line, one for piercing. It does make sense, considering the Antigua starts off as piercing to begin with, so it'd only be natural there's an end point that pierces as well. Color it Silver. Call it the Stratavarius. "This sound of this firearm's bullets flying through the air is like a symphony. And a death knell for devilites. But still a symphony." Same damage as the AP and Sent, same speed. Just SOMETHING so gunners don't have to cower and hide because our piercing offense is limited to two guns that leave us vulnerable for two of the most maneuverable and agile monsters in the game. Just something that'd make it much less of a hassle and put us on par with the sworders with their Rapiers and Snarby Swords and the bombers with their myriad of piercers.
Another side note to the side note: The Magnus line. I love the idea of it, it's just so.. so many issues. As I said with the Callahan there's far too many cons to make it a viable gun to bring into the fray. Even the Iron Slug gets beat out in usefulness to the Valiance or Supernova. Two shot clips, slow bullets, unable to move while firing, shorter range. The entirety of the gunner's life is to avoid getting hit by stray bullets, avoid getting chomped by Kats. The needles make up for the unable to move by being downright painful on a charge shot. The Magnus line.. well. The charge shot knocks you back on your rear for a few seconds. I dunno what would be best to make the Magnus line useful again, but either give it a damage boost to make up for all of the cons or let us move while taking those heavy-hitting potshots at people. Too many things dodge and block for us to be a stationary turret in the middle of a battle. And aside from the needle I can't think of another thing that forces you to stand still while using it. Even sworders get to move and weave.
There's just a lot of little things, but I think this is a good place to start without overwhelming you guys. xD I know you're working your glowy eyes off, but I figured I'd pipe up as someone who's been playing this for so long on some things that, at least personally, I'd like to see changed/fixed/revamped. You've got a lot of nifty things in the world, I'd just like to put some of them to use. This from the gunner who did whole guild catalyzer runs just to see the screen bounce and shake and the one who went into FSC toting himself a super stun gun, JUST because the charge shot star looked THAT cool.
Make me a 5* Uber Stun Gun, please. :D
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this is good idea!!