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"Edge" weapon class alteration

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Sun, 07/13/2014 - 21:07
Fe-Tarkus

...Basically just a new weapon suggestion... I really like the "Edge" part of the name of these weapons :<

Instead of being modeled after the Brandish, the Edge class of weapons would be akin to a Katana. Those that originally have these weapons would get replacement ones with different names.

  • 1* Dull Edge
    • 2* Sharp Edge
      • 3* Refined Edge
        • 4* Severing Edge
    • 2* Hot Edge
      • 3* Searing Edge
        • 4* Blazing Edge
    • 2* Static Edge
      • 3* Shocking Edge
        • 4* Surging Edge
  • Severing Edge(default) line is Piercing/Normal, Blazing Edge line is Piercing/Elemental/Fire, Surging Edge line is Piercing/Elemental/Shock
  • The Edges' retain the chance to inflict status on the 3rd strike, but the replacement low tier brandishes don't (I have always thought that was funky)
  • Attack Pattern/Movement is akin to the Spur, but doesn't have the extra knockback
  • The 4* Charge Attack is a single diagonal/upward slash dealing comparable damage to that of a GF and has a similarly slow animation and same reach, but has less width and instead steps forward with the strike.

...The best my brain can come up for the replacement low tier brandishes are:

  • 1* Toaster
    • 2* Toasty Toaster
  • 1* Shocker
    • 2* Shocking Shocker

(my brain refused to think further after I thought of the laser knife that toasted bread as it cut in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Why?

  • My thoughts spiraled out of control... ...pun not intended.
  • This ties into the 1* thingyamajig piercing defense set
  • "Edge" is more apt for a Katana name than a blasty sword thing
  • The Katana model exists as the Acheron, and used to be in the other colors too :< and I thought it looked good, but beyond the looks of them, they aren't Katanas
  • I like Katanas
  • Waffles
Tue, 07/15/2014 - 06:45
#1
Dracora-Speaking's picture
Dracora-Speaking
+1

I like the styles. And yeah, those different colors...please come into the game. Plx.

The charge could be similar to the mechaknight's spin attacks - those nasty perpendicular projectiles make me cry sometimes. I only think this cause the blades mechas hold kinda look like the current edges. You could have a branched alchemy tree of these - one ending in your charge attack design, with different blade art, and the other would pretty much look the same as the mecha's edge but get added projectiles and so on with increased star rank (and different base attack/status types - probably standard pattern).

I hope you always have a towel with you.

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 20:20
#2
Fe-Tarkus

I don't have a towel in this game though :| it'd be too useful.

Those'd be cool to have. So basically your idea would add a bunch of elemental Caliburs with fundamentally the same moveset, but a spin attack that shoots bullets. That'd be pretty interesting in practice... For instance, if the charge attack didn't apply status immediately and the target was pushed back, a freeze-based bullet could follow and freeze the enemy away from yourself (and thus fulfill a suggestion for CiV to have delayed freeze application on the charge).

I suppose we could have more weapons that emulate enemy attacks (DA emulates gun puppy bullet spread, brandishes emulate cyclops, troika emulates lumbers). They could make the Wrench Wand copy the old mender attacks, make the Thwack Hammer be used as a hammer instead of as a heavy sword (perhaps the Warmaster Hammer too)... Stuff like that.

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