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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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DeAnno said:
If we are commissioning this weapon (and it seems like we are), I agree that maybe we should be more specific about it. Some things that I think would play into our strategy and maybe work with the theme of the shard:
  • Qi Drain
  • Darkness effect (maybe an aura around it, maybe people it hits just treat bright as low light and low light as dark or some partial blindness debuff)
  • Defense Pool Debuff, to let our minions follow it up
  • Semiperfect, perfect, or aggravated damage in some combination, to help us win long slogs against people with strong defensive bias
  • Phasing of some kind, so that other Domain Weapons have trouble blocking it
I'm not sure what the rules on things like this are exactly though, so YMMV.
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Some of these I like, but I have other suggestions:

Boosting our Dispel Resistance. This is actually really important, as one of the few final "holes" in our build, where it isn't quite up to par with the rest. Could have it thematically weaken dispel attempts by eating them or something similar.

Also the Thing has four main options max, and the fewer we focus on the stronger the effect. Based on the nature of the Umbral/Void Shard, Qi Drain is a very very nice thing we should stick in as Feature 1. I would then suggest a focus on spiritual offensive clashes as the second, with it shooting for semiperfect damage as the main focus as Feature 2. Feature 3 is a boost to our Dispel Resistance. And that's basically it.

That's my suggestion into the pot on it.
 
[X] Accelerate
[X] Ask Cai to commission you a Flying Sword with the Void Shard

The ideal would of course be that accelerate means Yrsillar writes the same amount but faster. ;)
 
[x] Domain weapon
-[x] Sword with void shard
--[x] Bonus to attack + whatever drain of void shard

This is the right format right?
 
[X] Status Quo

I am very happy with the current pace. It gives time for that sweet, sweet characterization I keep coming back for.
 
BungieONI said:
Also the Thing has four main options max, and the fewer we focus on the stronger the effect. Based on the nature of the Umbral/Void Shard, Qi Drain is a very very nice thing we should stick in as Feature 1. I would then suggest a focus on spiritual offensive clashes as the second, with it shooting for semiperfect damage as the main focus as Feature 2. Feature 3 is a boost to our Dispel Resistance. And that's basically it.
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Eh, not sure how well that works. Certainly all the examples that Yrsillar gave us were very offensive and tied to the sword in nature. I'm not sure that one can attach broader buffs like that.

@yrsillar any rulings here? What are the kinds of things that can be attached to the sword? Do some things work better than others?
 
NotAlwaysFanfic said:
[X] Accelerate
[X] Ask Cai to commission you a Domain Weapon with the Void Shard
I'm gonna point out that it's taken us four months to cover five weeks, (week 36 to 41), I feel we should just bite the bullet and accelerate at this point.
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Nemonowan said:
I really think that speeding up a bit right away instead of waiting for the new year will go better for the quest

[X] Accelerate
[X] Ask Cai to commission you a Flying Sword with the Void Shard
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Delcer said:
[X] Accelerate

The status quo is admittedly wearing me down, making me lose interest. Let's get things moving on.
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Yeah nearly 500K words for just one year is a little much.

Someone I introduced to the quest on IRC is even considering dropping it because IIRC "I have 3 or so pages of story only content left to finish and nothing is happening" and thereabouts.

Even though I have enjoyed (still enjoy even) the quest up till now he's not wrong now that I consider it. Outside of the Thunderdomes and events things are pretty slow.
 
BungieONI said:
Some of these I like, but I have other suggestions:
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Arkeus said:
Yeah, let's not ruin our 4th grade shard by trying to be clever. We aren't.
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I think it's like @Erebeal said, things tied to the Sword itself (and it's theme) will probably work well, but I don't think general bonuses unrelated to the Sword (like Dispel defense) are very appropriate; if we want those we should commission an independent talisman. Even giving the Sword a darkness aura is probably stretching it, I like the idea of an attack bonus in darkness though.
 
I can allow you guys to vote on the weapon details if it's clear that's what your ordering. Not like there won't be at least a couple days while I write up the rest of the week.
 
[X] Status quo.

I rarely vote, but I actually am enjoying the slow pace. Sure, it's just accelerating things until the tournament, after which there will be greater changes, I'm sure... But that's part of the reason I want this to last as long as it can.

It'll all be different soon enough anyway. I am sure I'll still enjoy it, because yrsillar if nothing else, and change isn't always a bad thing; but neither is what we have.

Granted, I'm not gonna be torn up if the other option wins, but I like all the extra fluff (not in the warm fuzzies sense, but fluff in the sense of content of little substance made to fill space).
 
Oh right, I guess it's time for me being a mean meanie, as I don't give a fuck about domain weapons.

[X] Accelerate
[X] Ask Cai to commission a general upgrade for our flute using the Umbral Shard
-[X] See if the Haunting Echoes ability can be replaced by AP effect as well as the general upgrade.

Also folks, it's called Umbral Shard, not Void.
 
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the advantage of accelerate has shrunk to single digits. however the voting is still in the early phase. this is very likely gonna be another 200 vote thriller.


Pls no sock puppets
Adhoc vote count started by Killer_Whale on Apr 12, 2018 at 5:14 PM, finished with 147 posts and 78 votes.
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Anyway, while trying to be clever about super specific abilities for a domain weapon is a bad idea, if you really want a domain weapon specifying the attribute/skill combo used by such a weapon is probably a good idea.

Say, Dex + Expression, or something.
 
Arkeus said:
Anyway, while trying to be clever about super specific abilities for a domain weapon is a bad idea, if you really want a domain weapon specifying the attribute/skill combo used by such a weapon is probably a good idea.

Say, Dex + Expression, or something.
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Strength and War.

We need some bait to attract the hunks after all.
 
Arkeus said:
Oh right, I guess it's time for me being a mean meanie, as I don't give a fuck about domain weapons.

[X] Accelerate
[X] Ask Cai to commission a general upgrade for our flute using the Umbral Shard
-[X] See if the Haunting Echoes ability can be replaced by AP effect as well as the general upgrade.

Also folks, it's called Umbral Shard, not Void.
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Why do you not care?
 
BungieONI said:
Why do you not care?
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I think that short term a very powerful domain weapon will have less of an effect as a very powerful flute, and long term using our nostalgic antique flute for the upgrade means being able to use till Cyan at the very least and will be our bread and butter till then, while a domain weapon is still something we don't exactly know how we will use.

We don't know if it's actually a powerful offensive tool, or a powerful debuffing tool, or if it has arts dedicated to using it (and if it does it influence how we will want to make it) and so on.

Basically, it's cool but basically useless to have a too powerful domain weapon right now, and the opposite apply for our flute.
 
BungieONI said:
Why do you not care?
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i'm not him, but arguably, our domain weapon would be negated by the opponent's for a very long period of time even if there's a quality difference between the two.
On the other hand, our flute improves our most significant Arts. AND is highly sentimental for Ling Qi, so beign able to use it for the whole Green period (and begining of Cyan) would be very nice.

-Ling Qi'ed-
 
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