to "Melee", "Ranged", and "area of effect" so people stop making stupid "New weapon type" threads.
All I am asking for is for the name to be changed.
The image for them can stay but the name should be changed to help people understand that they are more of a simplification of the three "basic" weapon types.
I'm all up for new weapons with new ways to fight but really those are the three simple types in this game and I find it silly how they are named.
Gun, sword and bomb are the weapon types in the game.
If anything, this would just confuse people even more.
Shovels, hammers, maces, etc. =/= swords. 000 is just lazy and hasn't renamed the categories yet.
Agree with changing Swords to Melee (because of the hammers and shovels and stuff), but the other changes just seem unnecessary. All the guns are guns, and all the bombs are bombs.
lime, talk to catalyzer charge attacks and to DR.
also, this thread should talk with DA/GF and blitz needle (come on, nobody uses it for spread damage).
Brandishes would fall under.AoE and melee for the charge
Polaris is a mobile bomb making it Ranged AoE
Triglav/Sudaruska would be AoE and melee
Every sword that mimics the Brandish charge also falls under AoE and Melee
Winmillion would be both melee and ranged
Now, get this, it gets better. Divine Avenger AND Gran Faust fall under Melee for the basic attack, AND BOTH AoE AND Ranged for the charge attack. Making these two swords have all three attribute tags.
All of the above, and some others I missed, fall under multiple categories as per their behavior and charge attacks.
So, being that Bomb bonuses are now "AoE" bonuses, Mad bomber would basically be Chaos for Polaris and Brandish, etc.
DA/GF can benefit from every bonus. Like Gunslinger. Ranged charge attack after all. And Demo stuff, too. Dat AoE.
How is this suggestion in any way necessary or convenient?
Except that swords don't inflict AE on their standard strikes, and guns don't inflict PBAE on standards shots. So no.
Winmillion's projectile is hardly ranged anyways, just sort of a long melee attack.
So no, point dumb.
You are over thinking this Whim. This is meant to be a simplifyed term for the three weapon types as not all swords maybe be swords, not all guns may be guns (a cross bow for instance), and not all bombs may be bombs (Something that could cause electric chain shock for instance in an area).
All weapons in this game function with aoes for attacks. Swords, guns, and bombs.
I don't see how making things more complicated makes things simpler.
The weapon classifications as they are now are fine.
And soon some guns won't be actual guns. Nick mentioned in a thread that I can't remember that they were thinking about cross bows.
Does this benefit OOO? Is this a bug that restricts user play? Do most or all players benefit? Is profit gained?
If none of the above can be answered with "yes", then the idea should be scrapped.