Hey all! I know there's threads on this site about ideas and all for Grey Havens to look at, but I wanted to make the ultimate thread where ALL ideas can be seen in one post. So yes, please, rewrite your ideas and suggestions here for all of the fanbase (and hopefully Grey Havens) to see!
This post IS to get Grey Havens to do something. Nothing like an aggressive push of "Hey! Update!". Just a nice thread about people's ideas. Grey Haven may do better if they took ideas from the public.
So post all your ideas and suggestions for this game! Discuss em too here! I want all of us to talk about how cool this or this would be.
I'll start out.
> Daily Logins
I think there should be daily logins to Spiral Knights. These login rewards would give a set of crystals depending on your tier or maybe 1 untradeable orb at the end of the month. Just something small to keep people coming in. Daily Logins may not keep somebody completely attached, however, they will make people rethink if they wanna play the game since they're already on it getting a Daily Reward.
> Rework Curse
Curse is, well a hard status ailment, and I get that. I believe it could be used by us players though if the status was reworked. Curse should not last for long. My suggestion for curse is that everytime you attack or use an ability and take Curse damage - the timer for the status should decrease 30 seconds. And if the timer for it is lower than 30 seconds, the damage should not be the same, but less than what you would take for a 30 second decrease. The damage should also decrease in general for how much damage you take.
If we did this setup for curse, curse could be put more into the game. You might be wondering what about SL Vana? Well - Lets start putting curse clouds in the game. These would pop up randomly during SL Vana stages in set areas. Curse stages could be made too.
> Add a "Pet Bomb"
This idea is that you plant down a box like a bomb, and when it sets off, a set monster comes out. Like your own Wolver, Scuttlebot, or maybe even Devilite. The max of these pets being out would be 2. They would do their respected damage types, and would disappear in one hit. Just a small idea.
> More Bombs in General
Self-Explanatory
> Different "Buffs"
Like MSI, there should also be Shield Recovery Increase (SRI) and Dash Timer Decrease (DTD). SRI can be a UV on shields while DTD can be on a trinket.
Maybe there should also be Critical Hits? Not where something would do extra damage, but where one of your strikes could gain you an attack boost for 1 sec or so. Or defense boost or MSI.
> Give more PVP Options
Looking through the past of SK, There was a PVP Game called Ultimate Super Brawl. Where it was a free for all, no thrusters, guardian shields, or recons. Just pure free for all with the equipment you had. Maybe something new like that would be great? Also where you can play with preset loadouts of weapons and armor - So everyone can be even and not worry about UVs of others.
Ahh Bomb Network. I miss it. BN should have different rewards to it. More Bombheads! Different currency than Krogmo coins maybe? Bring it back please, it was so fun, and everyone could play it no matter what.
(Also Tier 2 LD was the best LD, nobody can change my mind - bring it back - but thats for the fanbase to decide)
> Buff Normal Type Weapons
- Weapons like Leviathan should deal more damage. To show this, overlap another bar of damage over the already existing one with maybe a blinking bar or gold bar to show it does more damage. Weapons like the Brandish Lines still do more damage against resistant enemies than Leviathan does to any enemy.
- Cutter special should be one slash, and then a bunch of cuts at the place you slashed at.
- Pepperbox should straight up be elemental, like cmon.
- Turbillion should deal more damage.
- Amputator should deal more damage. Even with the Slime H.
- Cold Iron Vanquisher should deal more damage.
- Triglav and Sudaruska - LITTLE bit more damage
- Most Guns are Fine like Iron Slug and Supernova.
- Neutralizer though, and even Biohazard, need a buff of some kind.
> Upgrade a lot more weapons
Turbillion and Amputator: Awesome. Thank you for this addition. They're fun freaking weapons, even if they are not good at all. I love it. However, we still need more upgrades to existing weapons!
- Deconstructor
- Proto Weaponry
- Thwack Hammer (With throwing charge)
- Wrench Wand (With limited healing charge - Ex. give a status effect where you can't be healed from the wand until you take a certain amount of damage)
- Hot Edge and Static Edge should have a line that completely makes them different than the Brandish Lines. Perhaps a special that makes a small bomb cloud.
> Add different shields that do different things
You did it with the thrusters. Now lets make shields that have different effects too. Shields with lower defenses and such, but heal status ailments when shielded for long enough. Maybe a shield that spikes out when attacked and does a knockback, but not stun, to enemies with a cooldown. How about a shield that can cause status effects if hit? A shield that increases MSI but decreases damage. Theres so much you can do with shields, GH! They are hidden gems to this game!
Now those are my ideas and suggestions.
@Bopp, @Fangel. You SK vets, i'm sure you can say some stuff from the Discord and put it into here for the rest to see!
Spread your ideas, we're all creative if you put your mind to it!
Here are some of my old ideas, for what it is worth:
UV revamp - Gem Sockets
-All weapons now start with a single UV slot, the two extra needs crown to purchase.
-You can use the minerals you gathered to create Gems with UVs that can be upgraded the same way as Diablo gems. Small gems provide low UV bonuses but combine them can give you a med UV if the gems are the same, this ends at 5* gems with ultra/ max UV bonus.
-This allows the players to have more control in what UVs they want and not just a RNG crown sink, though this revamp does require more time and thinking from the players, I think it is worth the trade off.
Make prestige another form of currency
-This one is there for the veteran players who have earned all that prestige and now have nothing to do with them, there should be a shop/NPC where you can trade in your prestige for cosmetic items and give veteran players a reason to come back. Even if it is just fashion knights.
Make heat more useful
-Heat is one of the most useless resource in the game after the forge update, giving them some other use(s) would be nice. Such as buffing your knight's damage slightly per heat level for the duration of a level or allow heat to be collected in heat tanks to be crafted into heat crystals later, it is actually lore friendly.