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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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Thor's Twin said:
Yes we could. It would be incredibly expensive but would make our dodge require an S rank attack to connect with us.
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JT is C rank, so it would more be a B+C rank tech compared to a B rank tech. I wouldn't say incredibly expensive :)

AbeoLogos said:
The trouble is, as worded, the user is either using a personal defensive perfect dodge with movement or a moderate-to-good ally defense buff after movement. SNR's Black Mirror does both at the same time, sans movement effects.

Now, SNR is a Heart art, so we can expect it to be better at ally stuff. The problem then is that the personal perfect in BM works against A rank techs, a full rank higher. The more personally oriented of the two arts shouldn't be strictly worse at personal defense.
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Part of the issue is definitely, I think, that WWS is dance, so it's suceptible to JT boosting. If WWS had a 'can dodge A rank techs' (so it can work against tankbusters A rank techs), then it would get silly with JT.

I do agree that the tech shouldn't be made weaker simply because it fit in Ling Qi's build, though.
Lena27 said:
Aren't you comparing LFWT 2 to SNR 3? I'm not sure if I'm correct but if so, it makes sense that SNR's techs would seem better at this point, no?
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SNR begins in G2 with SNR3 being the first level of G3 (and SNR5 being the last). Considering LFTW has the whole of SCS behind it, LFTW2 which is softcapped for G3 should be 'better' than SNR5 (the softcap for G3) even before we go into count art vs great spirit art.
Erebeal said:
This is how it has always worked. We had these discussions back with Deepwood. If you throw an armor-negating attack against a perfect block then they cancel out and it becomes a regular stat contest, depending on tech ranks.
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The point is kinda that BM is still better against unerring hits B rank techs than WWS, and is better against A rank techs than WWS for a personal defense standpoint, and is better in almost all cases for a support standpoint (the edge cases being when we want to move our allies with PLR, or when are allies are far from us).

From RAW, BM is equally good as WWS against armor tankbusters, too:
In response to an enemy technique that would include them as a target, the user may activate this technique. On activation, the triggering technique is nullified(If A rank or less) or reduced by one rank in effect(if S or higher)
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Now, I agree with you that it's not meant to be that way, but from text "WWS should never be used in combat" has a pretty good grounding. Well, if we dismiss JT combo, but I don't think an art should be penalised for fitting in someone's build.
 
[X] No Insight from Ephemeral Nights Memory

Hoping to get insights that better suit our domain once we finish mastering our other arts.
 
[X] No Insight from Ephemeral Nights Memory

We should find insights that would make us more fae like. Maybe we could roleplay as Mab. We just need darkness and air and it would be perfect. How we are going that is potential end of our journey.
 
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TimEd said:
Honestly, this Insight does make you mire fae like, since it plays on the "Truth is relative" angle.
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Yep. Thats probably why its the only one available I think, the ENM art is antithetical to much of Ling Qi's domain except via the fae-like angle of ever-changing-truths, which opens some ambiguity with the foundational insight that sincerity is the proper way to present yourself.
 
[X] The self is a story, and memory is the teller of tales.


Personal opinion here, but if Yrs meant "tales=story" he wouldn't have used different words. Especially not when something as small as capitalization so thoroughly changed the meaning of otherwise identical words in prior insights.
 
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Ehorin said:
[X] The self is a story, and memory is the teller of tales.


Personal opinion here, but if Yrs meant "tales=story" he wouldn't have used different words. Especially not when something as small as capitalization so thoroughly changed the meaning of otherwise identical words in prior insights.
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Or he could've just varied his word choice to avoid repetitive sentences. It's a common writing technique.
 
[x] No Insight from Ephemeral Nights Memory

We don't have to slot every insight. While the insight is to some degree true, I don't think it's a good fit for making it a core part of Ling Qi.
 
[x] The self is a story, and memory is the teller of tales.

I like it and I think that Ling Qi will need some insights about what makes people people as she transforms herself into a spirit slowly. She might have ideas about home and others, but not about what makes others people. I cannot help, but think about Zeqing and how she kept both husband and child as what amounted pretty much to puppet show of family frozen in a time.
 
So just want to let everyone know, I'm going to be updating things with some system tweaks tomorrow, mostly aimed at improving the range categories and balancing perfect dodge/attack effects
 
[X] No Insight from Ephemeral Nights Memory

I find it a odd that Ling Qi has a Disney princess 'I can fly' moment when she could already fly once she got the Cai dress.

I understand that she is flying under her own power now but I imagine the wonder of self propelled flight is a bit diluted when you already had a near weightless jet pack.

Especially when her response to flight from her dress was nowhere near this enthusiastic.
yrsillar said:
Her bedding was gone too, the bed stripped down to the frame.
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Obviously a karmic tribulation for when we murdered that old man by stealing his blankets!
 
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[X] No Insight from Ephemeral Nights Memory

Don't really want to slot in any art that had little to no narrative impact with its usage. Not nearly in the same weight class as the others.
 
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