Spiral Knights - Idea for a new weapon: the Scythe

Idea for a new weapon: the Scythe

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Sat, 05/04/2013 - 04:50

The-Emerald-Shadow

I made a few designs for a new weapon for SK.Its the scythe,and alot of people really want it ingame. Have a look,rate and comment. And yes i want OOO to put it in the game.So the scythe will start out as a 2 star weapon then you will alchemize it into 3 star ice,fire,shock,poison or shadow scythe.then you just continue evolving it till it reaches 5 stars.I thought that it would do PURE ice,fire,shock,poison or shadow dammage.The speed...well its a scythe so it has to be fast...like Spur maybe or maybe even faster.I still am not sure about the charge it would produce and i havent made any pictures of the weapons movement.Thank you for your support :) !

-The-Emerald-Shadow

Fire Scythe :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=453664734717881&set=a.3645643702...

Ice or Shock Scythe(cant decide):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=453664738051214&set=a.3645643702...

SHADOW SCYTHE(my fav):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=454914804592874&set=a.3645643702...

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 05:57

Little-Juances

You're mixing statuses (shock, fire, freeze etc) and damage (shadow, piercing, elemental).
A weapon can't do "pure ice"

And images on facebook can't be seen publicly.

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 12:58

Aureate

oh look it's this again

a) Status is not the same as damage type. A weapon may deal damage as well as inflicting a status. One does not simply inflict ice damage. (Unless you have a haze bomb, but then that's entirely different.)
b) How many swings? How much damage per swing? What status infliction chance? What charge?
c) Exactly how many are these 'alot of people' who are interested in having a scythe?
d) Having shock status on fast weapons is generally considered a Bad Idea because of how overpowered it could (very easily) be. How would you work around this?

I would say that this should go in the suggestions forum, except it isn't really so much a suggestion so much as a basic seed of an idea. Try again, and please add more detail. Pictures would be nice if the links actually worked. Try Photobucket instead.

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 20:01

Blaze-Breaker

Well, I have to admit I have

Well, I have to admit I have a few issues with this weapon.

Number one is that this isn't the section of the forum where such ideas go.
You're looking for suggestions.

Two, is more of a personal thing. I am not the sort of person who goes into
a suggestion with an idea like "I want a dinosaur that is capable of simultaneously
emitting large quantities of electromagnetic radiation and sound vibrations." And then what?
Okay, so what does your dinosaur do? It shoots lasers beams and roars? Simultaneously?
Well, what does it mean? See, creative idea, no idea to how it could be practically used.
Now then, sometimes an idea could come around like "I need a weapon that is capable of fulfilling
both the roles of killing foes and performing crowd control" Or maybe I did start out with the
Dinosaurs that Shoot Laser Beams When They Roar, and I came up with a useful role for it
part way through. Anyways, yeah. I do have an idea for how a scythe could work. Good grief
would I like a scythe in here. I might actually start playing again if such is the case, I have Dread Skelly
armor and that would be pretty cool looking, but yeah, they could be through more.

Good luck with the scythe thing.

BTW Dinosaurs that Shoot Laser Beams When They Roar is a pretty fun game.
Look it up on kongreagate!

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 07:15

Purifier-Dragon

adding to what Aureate

adding to what Aureate said:
-is it a sub section of swords, or an entirely new weapon type?
-is it one handed, or use-able with a shield?

apart from that, i can't actually see what they look like.

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 07:31

Viorayne

There's just no place for it...

The Scythe so could be used for 2 situations, which wouldnt be great.

1. Crowd Control, which would put the Big Swords out of use.
2. Elemental Damage, which would put the Brandish lines out of use.

The 2 niches you want to fill with the weapon are taken.

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Idea for a new weapon: the Scythe