right?) ..... if we'd originally gone Extinction Knight, maybe with Enhancement first cross-training or something, would fighting an Endbringer hand-to-hand have been a reasonable strategy?
Yes, it would have been. Even the Breaker-tier ability the Extinction Knight has is technically more of a mid-range ability, so you still would have been close at hand.A clarification for pure curiosity and hindsight (its not a spoiler unless you plan a sequel
They were plays on the ENE names, but not exact copies.
And that's fine. If you want Undaunted to stay on theme or for a tactical benefit to non-Endbringers, go for it. I just didn't want to deal with any salt from people who assumed "defensive buffs" meant "we can take a Behemoth punch to the face" and subsequently made asses of themselves.
Let's see, Nanoha is a long range fighter with some close quarters skill to fall back on with a ton of defense, as seen in the sheer bullshit she survives relatively unharmed in Detonation.Though @LancerisDead I therefore expect you to vote for Laura to become a melee fighter since that is the appropriate Nega-Nanoha, got it?
. I just got to thinking and thought it would be cool if Laura got something different from the templates.
Why would she need an Intelligent Device to be an in-your-face fighter? If anything, that would be a perfect reason to give her an Armed Device.
Actually non-template Devices have an advantage in that their mages get a bunch of spells upfront rather than needing to remember them one by one, plus you get to mix and match more freely after A-rank so that you get someone like Fate, who combines close and long-range abilities, without needing to wait for a template to get to S-rank.Now that it's been mentioned, I wanted to talk about Templates vs. Devices. It's probably been brought a dozen and a half times already, but looking at the benefits one gets compared to another I feel there's little incentive to giving someone a Device against a Template, except being stuck in IAE for a few days.
Comparing a Templates skills to a Device's, even an A+'s, makes it feel like giving someone a Device is a detriment in the long term. It also takes away from a Linker Core's ranking, given that even if you have an AAA ranker a Device would give you only six spells versus a Templates many, many more.
I know there's the story reason that a Template is actually remembering the original skills and abilities through use, but I want to ask if you could revamp how Device mages work a little. Like, maybe they're slower than Templates at reaching new skills, or get less starter skills, or they need to put more effort to pump up their abilities. They could even work with the old roulette system that Taylor used way back then!
Sorry if I'm intruding and telling you what to do
