Spiral Knights - Cetren also presents: New sprite, Mercury! Updated!

Cetren also presents: New sprite, Mercury! Updated!

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Sun, 11/03/2013 - 08:34

Cetren

Since there are no longer gates we need some new sprites. Here's what I'm thinking.
A freeze sprite: Ponton first skill: sludge. Shoots out chameleon freeze balls in 360 that last 2X as long as normal chameleon sludge balls Freezes.
Upgrade with focus, more blobs, and longer effect.
2nd skill. Mist. Like sivermist. Freezes and causes dmg. Effects like trap but way bigger. Anything still trapped when mist is gone will get "frostbite" takes dmg like fire but when it moves. Range is about 2/3 size of shivermist.
3rd skill: ice shield. Causes your shield to be "frozen." (Add animation plz) doubles shield def. And causes makes shield bash does 3X the dmg. (Might be second skill) now for ultimates.
1st skill: one: gives frostbite status. 2 Makes a second ring further out.
2nd skill: 1 makes frostbite do double dmg. 2 Makes freeze last 2X longer.
3rd. 1 shield when bashed, sends feeeze spikes everywhere like maskeriths but in all directions. Deals dmg. And freezes. 2 freezes teammates shields too!
EDIT: Appearance: It takes the color of a frostfur in tier three with the same markings. Creature based off of a Fish with small wings keeping it up. Starts small with light snowfall around it. lv.15 Grows bigger and gets frostfur lines. Snowfall heavier. Lv.50 Grows even bigger and starts to have slight mist. (Ultimate skill appearances are pending)

(Ponton is Greek god of Fish and the sea, Not to be mistaken for Poseidon (Ruler of the ocean) )

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 08:39

Bitsbee

"3rd skill: ice shield. Causes your shield to be retarded"frozen."

wat

EDIT: You fixed it.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 08:37

Skyguarder

I don't understand.

Put the abilities on a separate paragraph so I (or we) could understand this.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 08:52

Kathrine-Dragon

Skill 1: not ranged offensive
Skill 2: obsoletes shivermist
Skill 3: what if you don't have a shield?

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 19:26

Cetren

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Sun, 11/03/2013 - 09:03

Cetren

/tell Kathrine-Dragon

1. Of course is not ranged.
2.Thats the point.
3.Then u better get one.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 09:09

Bitsbee

Yeeeeeeeah...

-1

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 09:12

Misty-Wellington

Skills 1 and 2 are just the same, except 2 is a harder-hitting Shivermist Buster which does lingering Freeze damage.

I do like the idea of making Shield Bashing a valid method of combat. As it is I seldomly use it because of the vulnerability to getting damaged mid-attack.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 09:18

Cetren

Change

Changed skill one for ice sprite

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 09:45

Cetren

BUMP

bump

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 09:47

#10

Bitsbee

Don't Bump in the Suggestions.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 10:07

#11

Thunder-The-Bright

gods ain't gonna help you, son.

ice sprite:
skill 1: seems ok.
skill 2: if the AoE is like firestorm, ok.
skill 3: doesn't seem bad.
ultimates:
skill 1: 1 ok. 2 OP. would cause everyone to bring blitz and kill anything while permafrozen.
skill 2: 1 depending on frostbite damage, it's ok or OP. 2 useless if I need anything else.
skill 3: 1 ok. 2 ok.

rockus: already seen that name in another thread.
skill 1: nope. would be equal to drakon's flame barrier. think again.
skill 2: nope. equal to seraph's shield. invincibility is ok, change the AoE.
skill 3: ook.
ultimates:
skill 1: 1 too similar to drakon's fire barrier again. 2 ok, but the skill is not.
skill 2: 1 ook. 2 see seraph's reference.
skill 3: 1 ook. 2 nothing bad.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 11:12

#12

The-Vindicar

>monsters killed with

>monsters killed with frostbite have an extra chance of dropping freeze based mats.

Absolutely useless, noone would ever choose that. And yeah, it renders Shivermist obsolete, which is not a good thing to do. I'd suggest shild akin to Drakon, but with longer range and debuff to enemies affected (slowing down or freezing) instead of buffing you.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 15:16

#13

Ankung

Mr Flibbles, the penguin, is my battle sprite idea!

He's got lazer vision as his first skill, telechinesis as his second and instant victory as his third one!

Ok everyone that thinks shivermist would be messed up with this idea, now think of maskeraith. Skill 1. Fire quills at a target that deals damage and poison when hit. Basically a rapidfire toxic catalyzer which can be activated by any shots. Drakon's Firestorm? Seems like (doesn't have it, don't really know) Like three fiery vaporizers being dropped. Hexing haze? It's basically a mist bomb that deals damage. Like a Ash o Agni, but harder to heal.

Still I don't like these ideas. The freeze one could be okay with some changes, but I've got a better idea myself for an ice battle sprite, but the rock one is just wierd. Two of the skills does kind of the same thing, but one of them is directional and the other is an angelic aura with shorter range. The third one is ok, but how does it aim? Like a slime? Then it'll miss about 60% of the tries.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 16:10

#14

Misty-Wellington

Skill 1. Fire quills at a target that deals damage and poison when hit.

But they don't deal damage, or at least not directly. You can't cut down minerals with them. They poison and deal added damage when hit by a weapon and loses a quill each time it's hit. With its wide spread it's more of a damageless Toxic Needle with the effects of Catalyzer charges.

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 16:32

#15

Cetren

Tweaked.

Changed Rockus 1st and 2nd skills and changed Freezus ultimate, skill 1 option 2

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 17:07

#16

Skyguarder

@Cetren

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/88832

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 17:14

#17

Cetren

oops

All the more reason to add it right?

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 14:22

#18

Skyguarder

Sun, 11/03/2013 - 17:20

#19

Cetren

BTW

Don't forget new sprite food

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 00:12

#20

Ankung

Misty-Wellington...

I meant that. My point still stands.

And Skyguarder. If you two have two compleatly different ideas for a sprite named Rockus. Why shall one of them be erased?

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 00:30

#21

Draycos

"Freezus"

Subtle...

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 00:39

#22

Ankung

^^^^

Well, I could expect that if it's from the same Biotech that named the other battlesprites. Though this will probably not be a starter sprite so who knows who found them...

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:10

#23

Cetren

Alternitive

There could also be a shock sprite. Do, S +1/-1 and I'll post up a new sprite

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:03

#24

Cetren

BTW again

Skyguarder. I like my idea more. Just because I likethe idea of the sprite being regular

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:33

#25

Hexzyle

When you're this swag this world just bows at your knees

Since I already made a thread about Rockus, you made another sprite idea for Rockus. So could you erase the Rockus battle sprite idea from this thread please?

You haven't copyrighted the name, it's public domain. Regardless, Rockus and Freezus are terribly uncreative names anyway.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 20:01

#26

Pepperonius

-1 on the rock sprite, we have a defensive sprite as it stands

The names are quite frankly horrid. I do like the idea of it being wolver/frostifur styled, but you would need a better name. Also, if wolver styled, instead of spit for the first attack, consider a bite attack (think of the alpha wolver's attack in this instance). Second attack could be a burrow, then pop out of the ground and create ice crystals that do damage and possibly freeze, and third could be your shivermist style attack (i'd advise having it be balanced, though. Shivermist still needs to be more effective.)

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 06:59

#27

Cetren

Ill be thinkin

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 12:24

#28

Magnum-Frost

GOTTA CHATCH EM AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL

aren't you forgetting registeel?

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 13:57

#29

Mordenius

im not sure this is okay...

reading this i don't think these'll be very good sprites...

also cetren, of course you're gonna like your idea better. its YOUR idea. but i like skys better.

also what bothers me most is that you don't seem to care at all about making the shivermist obsolete with the freeze sprite... no sprite will ever be meant to out do one of the already existing weapons. EVER.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 14:24

#30

Ankung

^^^^

Once again. Toxic Catalyzers. Maskeraith.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 17:46

#31

Cetren

obsolete

Dude the range at MAX is about 1/3 extra they size of 4star bomb

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 17:47

#32

Cetren

Might as well bury this thread if no one likes it.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 17:50

#33

Cetren

good win

Nice one sky. Good game. Your sprite wins. You might as well come up with a substitute for my freeze sprite as well.if anyone needs this forum better let the popularity win. Just make it gainable like a regular sprite plz

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 18:11

#34

Skyguarder

@Cetren

Don't feel bad about it. There was no contest to determine which sprite idea was better. Remember, this is a suggestion. ;)

Instead of suggesting 3 sprites, you should focus on your freeze sprite. Give it a different new name, then start balancing the moves. For example, the 3rd skill "ice shield" is the same as Guardian Aura for Seraphynx. So you should change that skill.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 19:22

#35

Cetren

leemme

Lemme get rid of rockus

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 19:27

#36

Cetren

and no

The ice shield literally turns your knights shield into ice

Wed, 11/06/2013 - 10:12

#37

Bluencool

@Ankung

Except a charged catalyzer shot deals twice the damage a quill deals with appropriate harness. Charged shots have AoE and you can stack as many orbs as you like. Quills are better at situations, but they certainly don't obsolete Catalyzers.

Thu, 11/07/2013 - 11:08

#38

Cetren

Update

Big update soon. Watch for it.

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Cetren also presents: New sprite, Mercury! Updated!