Spiral Knights - Drill Based Weapon path

Drill Based Weapon path

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Sun, 04/24/2011 - 16:42

NeoCyberman

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When I first heard of spiral knights I was like "Oh look my newest addiction!" I read up about it and I was leaning towards thinking that exploring a plannet would involve drilling downwards towards materials. I was wrong but I am pleased with the feel and atmosphere of this game. But I was anticiapating some sort of repurposed drill as a weapon.

I know what you are thinking and yes I love gurren lagann. Hearing the words Spiral Knight make me think of epic space battles spanning the space between galaxies with superweapons powered by shear badassery. I'm not going to suggest wild kind of things that would make this game based upon anime references like some other games *cough*GetAmped2*cough*. But I would like to see a weapon based upon piercing damage. Also I find that if it were lance shaped it would fit in with the whole knight theme.

It would be a sword with a three part slash-slash-stab attack. The stab involves the drill spinning. The charge attack would have the knight step back and then thrust forward. This would change with level.

The first level of the weapon's charge would stab forward as if with a lance, as it levels up there would be multiple stabs while the lance glows. This of course deals piercing damage.

I'll try to draw it up and come up with a name. Any comments would be appreciated. Also, ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!!

Sun, 04/24/2011 - 18:19

Metaknight

we did have a thread about

we did have a thread about added a lance class of weapons, that would differ from swords though because it would be just lunge type attacks (maybe with some backward thrusts as well), so the damage would be longer ranged but narrower, leaving you open to attacks from most directions. i do like the idea of a drill type weapon for that attack model, or even if they implemented it with the patten you described. so, what i mean to say is, cool idea.

Mon, 04/25/2011 - 16:16

CrashFu

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If I may add to the

If I may add to the suggestion, I can think of two different options there could be for later upgrade paths of this weapon. :)

One upgrade could be the Rocket Drill, a faster model whose charge attack would use tiny rocket boosters on the sides to help them lunge a great distance across the room, shoving enemies aside and damaging them as the knight plows through. The damage each target would take would be only a little more than the basic attacks, but it would be easy to hit many different enemies in one pass, and also help the knight break through walls of foes when he is cornered.

The alternative path would be the Vortex Drill, a slower, more damaging one, with a charge attack that would be incredibly deadly but also highly risky to use. A vortex generating device on the drill would pull enemies from a forward arc directly into the drill and trap them there while they take massive damage... the only downside is that the knight is completely vulnerable to counter-attacks (especially from directions the vortex doesn't cover) during this attack, which would last a couple seconds. Think the charged attacks of the autogun series (for those who don't know, yes, they pull targets in) but even more brutal at the cost of not actually damaging things UNTIL they've been pulled to melee range.

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