Spiral Knights - New Battle Sprites

New Battle Sprites

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Sat, 06/11/2016 - 10:26

Defeat

So what are some battle sprites you would like to see added to the game?

My Top two picks:
For Valestone: torto drone pets! It could have a roll/charge/slam attack( or maybe ricochet because it would be so tiny), a crystal barrage anddd maybe a ground stomp shockwave.

For (edit: meant moonstone not lumite!)Moonstone: Owlite pet!! http://imgur.com/pxzufm3 ( <-- owlite picture) Possible attacks: fly like from pokemon :D first it flys up high in the air, after a medium delay it would come crashing down. Wind gust, big fancy wind effect with strong knockback and damage. Falling feathers, rains explosive feathers. (other optional 3rd skill would be a wind cyclone that would be like a one time vortex bomb with much larger range and leaving enemies stunned.)

Your pet ideas dont have to be for moonstone and valestone either, feel free to get creative!

Sat, 06/11/2016 - 12:40

Rhons

Moonstone

Forever useless.

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... Anyway, why do we need another Sprite for Luminite? The demand for that Mineral will surely rise and wreck havoc upon us all! In a way, it makes Seraphynxes completely inferior like the Obsidian Carbine has to the Sentenza.

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I just do not have any ideas for Sprites myself though, so don't take me seriously. Honestly. Find something for Moonstone, please.

Sat, 06/11/2016 - 13:41

Corporal-Shade

I'm a Wizard

They don't have any skills to distinguish themselves with. They just attack.

And Seraphynxes are probably better than those floating owls.

Sun, 06/12/2016 - 12:28

Ethrie

Owlite as skin

Personally I would use the Owlite as a skin for the Serapynx. And a slikwing based, and nature spirit based skin too.
The Drakon (dragon) has gun pup, divine, shadow and monkey skins.
The Maskeraith (ghost) has pumpkin, goat, fire, ice and Snarbolax skins.
The Seraphynx (cat) has black CAT, siamese CAT and tabby CAT skins.

Come on, they weren't even trying! The others have completely new models, poor cats just got some paint job (and a dumb sticker for the black cat).

Also, it would probably be easier to completely rework the sprites and balance them for 5 instead of 3.

Sun, 06/12/2016 - 18:56

Neekkoth

Well...

I actually intended to make a thread about an Owlite sprite, but now it'd be awkward :P

Actually, make it look however you like but it is build around the idea of manipulating wind and that owl would fit nicely.

1st Skill

Basic: Shoots out a low range disk similar to a Winmillion but switches out the Knights and the targets positions
Ultimate 1: Increases range
Ultimate 2: Increases number of targets (tightly packed)

(Note: I don't know if any puzzles would break by this, but it would surely make some of them easier and I think that's ok.

2nd Skill

Basic: Creates a wind barrier similar to the drakons 2nd skill that makes enemies turn around when touched. (Eg a retrode would fire its laser the other way around if touched while it is charging)
Ultimate 1: Reflects incoming projectiles
Ultimate 2: Puts incoming projectiles into an orbit around the knight similar to a flame barrier. They would retain it's properties, like damage type, and would be consumed immediately after you hit a target with it.

(Note: incoming physical attacks like a gremmlin charging at you would still hurt you. The gremmlin would turn around after that.)

3rd Skill

Basic: Creates an aura like the hexing haze and allows enemies to take friendly-fire
Ultimate 1: Enemies suffer damage from traps, spikes, etc.
Ultimate 2: All enemies aggro you

It would preferably eat valestone since owlites are linked to elemental defense and elemental damage is green. Hey, it's not empirical science but what can I tell ya, I'm a simple man. Made me think of this.

The idea of using the enemy's power against them is something I'd think the wise chozo-owlites would do.

EDIT: Forgott to mention that Fight-Beetle's http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/114486 suggestion of removing or at least to reduce the universal skill cooldown would stronlgy benefit this pet.

Tue, 06/14/2016 - 10:29

Defeat

oops!!

@ rhons, I meant moonstone my bad! Edited main post~
@ blazecat wot... and probably not since it doesnt exist yet why come to hypothetical conclusions haha.
@ ethrie haha yeah mewkat needs some reskin love. Even tho we have a spooky themed blak kat, I think it would be freakin awesome to have ghost mewkat reskins :3 So while I agree they need a different skin, I just think owlite deserves its own rightful spot in the game.

P.S. here's official concept art of what SK's actual owlite sprite would look like. http://imgur.com/pxzufm3

Tue, 06/14/2016 - 10:37

Defeat

@ neekoth

Nice I like the idea of catching projectiles in a wind storm and using them like a barrier xD will be awesome for howlitzers!!

You linking me that thread reminded me of an Idea I had but never commented there for some reason. Instead of removing/lowering cooldown I think that atleast one of the sprites abilities should have charges. Depending on the skill you could have 2 or 3 "charges", say for drakons fireball you can fire 3 back to back , but it takes each fireball 5 seconds to recharge, one at a time.

I would go farther to revise my owlite ability, for the primary ability it would have a grouping tornado/cyclone with charges. Keeping the vortex ability as the longest cooldown it probably wouldnt see much use. The final ability should be more heavily offense centered anyway instead of utility.

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