Did you derps miss me? Neither did I.

Most of this has been sitting around for months but I never felt like finishing the whole dumb thing, but I recently realized people have no idea this entire thread exists so when I post something they think nothing more of it than the ramblings of some idiot because clearly they are correct in every way, unquestionably, because they said so. I will devour your s-

Anyway, poorly set up transition to fiend rebalance. What can I say about them? They do fiendish things very fiendishly. My liquids that was awful. There are four (normal/common) enemies in the fiend family which have two different places in the battlefield. Actually, three. Devilites and Greavers are both fast in mobility and attacks, one having the advantage of range while the other can dash right into your face and backflip your face right off your little noggin. Trojans are akin to minibosses but are better defined as mini-mini bosses, with the ability to grant itself a damage bonus similar to Alpha Wolver but does not give its bonus to other enemies. Its allies, our enemies. Silkwings, the little moth-butterflies, are little medic bugs that have no attacking ability of their own. What defines this family if there are distinctly different roles being filled? Exactly. Fiends are tricky little boogers. You either have to step up and beat the solids out of them or play a little more defensively to set up an opening for a safe attack. I was originally going to save this rebalance for last since this is the one family which can still be considered challenging compared to everything except beasts which can hardly be called threatening to those with IQ ratings with more than two digits. Is it considered offensive to call less intelligent people less intelligent?

• Devilite
  • T2
  • T3
• Greaver
  • T2
  • T3
• Trojan
  • T2
  • T3
• Silkwing
  • T2
  • T3

Devilite

Guess what? No, not naked time. Save that for tonight. Devilites include not one, but four variants: the normal little booger, Overtimers, Yesmen, and Pit Bosses. Gosh golly gee this is going to be fun. And by fun I mean I will suffer an unholy pain greater than quadruple crucifixion on a Friday which happens to be the thirteenth day of the month while listening to the blasphemous rocking and rolling those young whipper snappers like so much while also committing each of the seven sins in the nude. The joke is this post is about fiends which are considered unholy so I do a bunch of unholy things to match the theme. Are we having fun yet?

T2

{Devilite}

These little, purple, obnoxious, round bellied, pointy eared, purple, evil little abominations of actually being difficult instead of standing completely still and unresponsive at least half the time are very basic fiends. In spite of what some people seem to think they do not have abnormally high health or damage, but if multiple hits land on an incompetent knight who has no idea how to define more complex patterns than single digit addition they suddenly have infinite health and impossible damage rates. Yet of all the "powerful" basic enemies they have yet to be nerfed.

Personally, I would leave these guys as they currently are. They do their job well and can be considered difficult in all tiers, including T1. In all my days, nights, and lunchtimes this particular breed of fiend is as close to the perfect combination of difficulty, pattern learning, and player-mindless-spam countering in a basic/common enemy as we have and I would not change it. Not even in T3. I started with this fiend so the people who expected a nerf can go home early since they probably have no interest in the rest of this.

{Overtimer}

You know the phrase "there is a fine line between genius and insanity"? That phrase is dumb. Not dumb as in stupidly wrong, but if you were to compare genius and insanity side by side you would only be able to tell the difference if you are either. Except that insanity is like a bridge between genius, stupidity, and an undefinable state of mind depending on which direction you see it from. This is going nowhere so I am going to skip to what you want to see.

• when an Overtimer is killed it drops a steaming cup of coffee which has varied effects
  • picked up by a normal Devilite, transforms it into an Overtimer
  • picked up by an Overtimer, grants +20% movement speed, +10% attack speed, and a 25% chance for its attack/dodge to fail (it falls forward onto its face and is unresponsive for ~3 seconds), the Overtimer will not drop coffee when it dies
  • picked up by a Yesman becomes "Coffee Boy", which can spawn coffee cups and bring them to other Devilites but is otherwise the same as a normal Yesman
  • picked up by a Pit Boss causes it to heal itself to full health and gain +20% defense against all damage types (the Pit Boss does not have to immediately use the coffee)

{Yesman}

• if a Yesman is following a Pit Boss, damage taken by the Pit Boss is redirected to all Yesmen following them (the redirected damage is divided among the Yesmen so they are all equally damaged, but the accumulative damage is the same that would have been taken for the attack which hit the Pit Boss; only the attack which hits the Pit Boss will activate this effect, area of effect attacks which hit both the Pit Boss and any Yesmen following them will damage the Yesmen normally); for each Yesman following a Pit Boss the damage is reduced by 10%, maximum of -50% damage from this effect
• Yesman can build a desk object (1 space vertically, 2 spaces horizontally) used by a Pit Boss for defensive purposes; multiple Yesmen can work on setting up the same desk which accelerates the process:
  • 1 Yesman: 20 seconds
  • 2 Yesmen: 15 seconds
  • 3 Yesmen: 10 seconds
  • 4+ Yesmen: 5 seconds

  desk rules:

  • only Pit Bosses can use desks
  • maximum of one Pit Boss per desk
  • desks may not be within 20 spaces of each other
  • desks will not stop players from moving through them unless occupied by a Pit Boss
  • desks are stabilized/immobile where the Yesmen place it
  • Yesmen can only contribute to constructing one desk in their life

{Pit Boss}

• will approach a desk if one has been created by Yesmen, effects while a Pit Boss occupies a desk:
  • the desk stabilizes (negates all forms of knockback) and gives +30% defense against all damage types to the Pit Boss while they occupy the desk
  • complete invincibility if the Pit Boss has coffee "equipped" while at the desk
  • all fiends within 3 spaces of the occupied desk receive +20% damage and +20% movement speed
  • all Devilites (the basic ones) within 2 spaces of the occupied desk are automatically promoted to Overtimers
  • Yesmen within 2 spaces of the occupied desk heal 5% of their max health per second
  • Yesmen within 1.5 spaces of the occupied desk are immune to knockback from attacks which initially start outside of the 1.5 space radius (this means you can only push them away from the desk by running up to it and farting on their faces until they run away crying, Pulsar spamming will not work)
  • if the Pit Boss is demoted they will be automatically removed from the desk, all effects caused by the desk are removed, and the desk may not be occupied again for 5 seconds

T3

Did you even see the T2 stuff? My liquids. That should be more than enough for you people.

Greaver

Been a while since I had the "pleasure" of encountering those cyclops bats. I heard they were nerfed but I have my spinny eyeballs. Which have nothing to do with anything. Relevance. Mine is elsewhere.

T2

• if a Greaver is at <30% health, it can "attach" to a Devilite (the basic version, not Devilites in general) which allows its dodges to travel further and split the damage the created abomination takes between its bat and weird-purple-lump-thing bodies after reducing the damage taken by 20%
• the Greaver uses its eye to stare at a knight intently (the target knight must be at least 5 spaces close, 3 second warning of little waves emanating towards the knight before anything happens), decreasing their movement speed by 50% while pulling the knight towards it; the Greaver which is doing the pulling is unable to attack while staring inappropriately and it will still be unable to attack for 5 seconds after it stops this ability

T3

• either/both of the T2 abilities
• a Greaver can tag a Silkwing so if the little butterfly is attacked, before it gets hurt, the Greaver will instantly switch places with it and take the damage instead; only one switching tag may be applied per Silkwing, Greavers can only use this ability once in their lives
• if a Greaver successfully hits a knight with a melee attack, 50% chance to turn the knight 180 degrees so they are facing the exact opposite direction they were when they were hit

Trojan

We need more enemies like this. When people try to spam-projectile-vomit-all-over-everyone-especially-in-their-pants the shield deflects the attack. The one major flaw with this enemy is how easy they are to fool into exposing their back, but I have a trick or two or four up my sleeve. The punch line is I am not wearing a long sleeved shirt right now.

T2

Trojans in all tiers are essentially the same. A lot of enemies are like that. Too many. It makes my face itch.

• when a knight is within 1 space, in front of the Trojan, and attacking their shield, the Trojan may bash the knight in the face for minor damage (about a quarter of their sword-squish-your-face-off attack) and mediocre knockback (~3 spaces), cooldown of 15 seconds
• when the Trojan loses more than 30% of its health within ~3 seconds or is at <10% total health while projectiles are being fired at it, it will immediately transform itself into a statue which:
  • makes the Trojan invincible to all forms of damage and status affliction
  • allows the Trojan to be picked up like a statue but inflicts -40% movement speed to the knight picking it up
  • grants nearby (within ~5 spaces) fiends a defense bonus against shadow, normal, and element damage (15% each)
  • emits a repelling force which knocks back knights and enemies alike ~2 spaces away in a 2.5 space radius around itself (which still pulsates if a knight is holding it, so if you waddle around with the statue-ified Trojan it will bounce enemies away from you who are trying to lick your nostrils)
  • will return to its Trojan-y, still-alive-and-was-not-really-dead state after 30 seconds (a Trojan may only do this once in its entire lifetime so if it screws it up before anyone shows up it may as well commit suicide)

T3

Was that fake-death-statue-stuff not enough to make you cry yourself to sleep tonight and wake up in a cold sweat the next morning? Well, I better step it up a little. If I go up the stairs one step at a time like this it might take me a year to finally brush my teeth.

• either/both of the T2 abilities
• as a second version of the statue-ally-buffing state, the Trojan:
  • grants a +20% damage bonus to all fiends within 10 spaces (which is toe-tickling huge in range)
  • is invincible, same as the defense version of this ability
  • spawns six dark violet crystals around it which retract into the ground and pop up again nearby (the crystals are always within a 5 space radius of the Trojan, the crystals are destroyed with a single attack regardless of damage similar to normal blocks); the Trojan will return to its normal state when all of these crystals are destroyed but they regenerate by one crystal every 8 seconds (will not exceed 6 crystals at a time) which gives you/your party 8 seconds to destroy all six crystals
  • if there are no Devilites or Greavers within its damage buffing radius and the Trojan has sat for 10 seconds without either showing up for the party, the Trojan will become mobile and responsive again but will still be completely invincible unless you destroy the crystals which have the same patterns as above; if this effect occurs all knockback attempted on the Trojan is halved but it becomes unhealable
  • same as the defense version of this ability, Trojans may only do one per life; but since there are now two different versions of this ability it can do one then the other before dying just to mess with you
• when projectiles fired from knights hit its shield, the damage is absorbed into its shield; 50% of this absorbed damage becomes "armor health" for the Trojan and is lost instead of its real health when the Trojan is damaged (if someone uses Blitz on its shield which would deal 1,00 damage the Trojan gains 500 "armor health", then someone hits its back for 500 damage, all 500 of that damage is paid with "armor health" and the Trojan will still have all of its real health if otherwise unharmed), "armor health" does not help against status related damage taken by the Trojan and is not counted as real health so if a healing enemy is following the Trojan it will not allow infinite health stacking

Silkwing

Medic is fairy princess.

T2

• the Silkwing can attach itself to the only vulnerable area of a Trojan by attaching itself to its back over the crystal, all damage taken is redirected to the Silkwing; the stupid butterfly can still heal but will only restore half the health per antennae wiggles as it normally would, statuses inflicted to the Silkwing or Trojan are applied to both
• the Silkwing can cure statuses on another fiend (only on fiends, not enemies of any other family) but is unable to heal for 5 seconds; cooldown of 15 seconds before the butterfly-moth can cure statuses again; may not cure statuses inflicted to itself since it is unable to heal itself
• if the Silkwing loses more than 50% of its health in under 5 seconds, it releases a cloud with a radius of 1.5 spaces which inflicts curse for 20 seconds but is unable to heal for 10 seconds, the cloud lasts 3 seconds

T3

• the curse-fart-cloud ability above
• same as the first ability above, the Silkwing can attach to the vulnerable area of a Trojan and take hits for it; its healing ability is still halved while protecting the back of a Trojan, but in T3 damage taken is reduced by 20% and statuses taken by the Trojan will be pushed onto the Silkwing
• the Silkwing can cure statuses on another fiend, cooldown of 10 seconds for this ability; its ability to heal is no longer disabled upon using this ability
• if the Silkwing loses >70% of its health in under 8 seconds, it can make itself invincible to all damage and statuses for 15 seconds but is unable to heal or create the curse cloud; it can still be pushed around while invincible but since its only abilities are disabled all it can do while invincible is float around and get in your way

Now people are going to think they have to read everything in here because this thread is on the front again.

Disclaimer, Luguiru is not responsible if you die of starvation/thirst from reading this thread. If your brains explode out of your nostrils I am still not responsible for that. If your pants grow teeth around the waist and gnaw at your hips I might be responsible for that because it would be too strange not to enjoy taking credit for, but things that would remind the orderlies to take me back to my padded room are no fun.

And while I am here I may as well share something one or two of you might care about. Lately I have been trying to set up a schedule between Speerul Newts and Wikfoo since it drastically helps refresh my patience and keep the insides of my noggin clear of debris I keep shoving up my nose. From Friday, through the weekend, and Monday I will basically be focusing on Wakfu for most of the day except when I log in to use my mist which will likely be for crafting and only be for a couple minutes. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I set that aside for some Sparring Gnats on the foorims, doing runs in the game instead of crafting my gas away, and starting this upcoming Tuesday continuing on stuff in this thread. That stuff will not necessarily be posted at the same day but those three days will be when I focus mostly on this game so keep your eyes soggy and your socks on your ears and make some elephant noises.

Another thing before I go back to blowing up trees with eyeballs and giant mouths. During my Wukfuh time I will still occasionally watch you all from a secret peep hole in the ceiling. Big Box is watching you. Always. Always. You need to brush your teeth more thoroughly.

My new compootur is scheduled to come tomorrow evening. Tuesday will involve a lot of redownloading games but while that goes I can go back to the drawing board to update and clean up stuff which I was supposed to do last week but the dumb Lockdown threads going on around that time put me out of the mood. I really want to finish that shovel weapon idea I had rolling because of how hilariously strange it is but I have procrastinated on the Glacius and Acheron rebalance for stupidly long.

There are things. Things that are flying around everywhere. These three consecutive sentences have begun with words which begin with the sound "th" which makes me want to repeat the noise audibly for several minutes until my tongue goes numb and my head goes dumb while I smell my thumb after having plunged it into a plum. Yes. No.