Well, shields seem to be lacking some variety, they are all completely defensive except for quickstrike which gives aspd, and scarlet which gives 2 health (which are quite useless given the stats of the shield)

So how about:
A shield that return a % of the damage it shields to the attacker. And has some subpar stats compared to most shields.

Yes/No?

There are a few things about the community site that I wish were a little more cohesive and modern-looking, and I think could be easily changed.

The colors used on the forums don't match the rest of the site well. Specifically, message and edit boxes. They're too bright, compared to the rest of the site's relatively dark color scheme! It's almost blinding on a bright monitor.

The wiki could also make use of the Vector theme, recently added as the default to MediaWiki. It's a very nicely done theme, and it would be very easy to put the game branding on it.

We should be allowed to use forum signatures to add a little bit of color to these forums =)

These may already have been suggested, and I hate making people read walls of text.
so here is one:
Armor Preview -
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee150/Mirokux1337x/ArmorPreview.png
Edit: forgot text. Because those menus only show when moused over, making so when its in your "shopping cart"
It previews the armor in a box. It could even be below or above the merchant art.
For multiple items in your cart, previews the latest one.

Guild Announcement Board -
http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee150/Mirokux1337x/Guildannouncmentbo...

Guild Mineral Deposits -

Why not just change the font color of the damage text to grey/blue/gold if you're doing poor/normal/well against an enemy?

What was the point of removing damage text?

i think i came up with a way to make inventory management easier. give the player six slots for dungeon consumables, but make slot 1 only for health and slot 2 only for cures. 3 - 6 for bombs.

I'm a new player, so this may be an issue that irks me to a greater degree than it does folks that have more experience in the game.

I really dislike the fact that it's hard to get hard-and-fast numbers for damage or defense for items in this game; it makes it very difficult to plan out what affect equipment will have. Items have different bars whose length determines how strong they are, but it's hard to translate that into real-world damage.

Whenever I enter an arena or a danger room, I'd like there to be a number displayed somewhere that would tell me the total number of waves of enemies left before I'd cleared the space.

Arenas are currently my favorite part of the game; I love the challenging and claustrophobic feel that they represent. I always hate, however, when I've been struggling to down the last of what I'm SURE must be the last wave at less than one hit's worth of life left only to have an entirely new wave of gun pups/gremlins spawn. Very demoralizing.

Hey! First, let me say that I really like the game so far. It's really fun. I don't really like the energy-based playtime limit in general, but I understand why it's implemented. That's not the problem.

Since we all share gates, we have to convince people to put certain minerals where.
Unfortunately, there will be uneducated masses who will simply press autosell, not knowing that the amount of minerals changes up a gate's stratum.

So here's what I propose.
We should be able to buy out stratums for private creation.
You could buy it for yourself if you wanted to do some... private researching.
Or you could buy it in the name of your guild, and direct your members to put certain minerals in their right spots.

This is the next best idea, other than guild exclusive gates.