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If polearm is in the top 2, why not just have a secondary vote to determine if people wanted the ji version or something like the guan dao? Since it ended up a bit confused as to what people wanted.

... Actually, does the guan dao count as "light" or "heavy"?
 
Arkeus said:
... Ling Qi trained her throwing Knives mastery more than nay others beside Dodge, and she only ever upgraded knives, not any other weapons. Knives are also her only weapon that's supported by two of her arts.

I'm not just sure what is going on here.

Polearm is not just DV, it also it's AoE, it's its reach, it's also it's style. It's like saying "this weapon's only advantage is that it's a really good weapon". I mean, if your argument is we should go bow/unarmed, fair enough. But as long as you want to vote for an actual melee weapon as one of your choices, polearm is not any worse than any of them- and arguably much, much better for what it does.
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Nah, I meant that Ling Qi's physical combat side is kind of set aside for the spiritual combat side. We upgrade Arts more than we upgrade weapon (which we only have those knives).

About AoE, I mentioned the possibility of sweeping attacks and reach, but if it is relegated to the side like the knives did, it is simply not as good as expected when faced against cultivator or weapon talisman of the same stage as Ling Qi. It is probably still good for lower level mooks, if we invest enough on polearms.

But still, we probably would level our debuff and buff Arts faster than we can do with weapon arts, because of Exotic Talent.
 
Chain whips? That's weak, we should try out a qi-fueled chainsaw!

Eh, not particularly enamoured with a bow or, God forbid, a sword.

[X] Knives
[X] Unarmed
 
unarmed and sword/jian = 34
heavy polearm = 36
Adhoc vote count started by Katreus on Jun 8, 2017 at 3:45 AM, finished with 354 posts and 101 votes.
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Grosstoad said:
But still, we probably would level our debuff and buff Arts faster than we can do with weapon arts, because of Exotic Talent.
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Well yeah, I really want to get some nice spine/heart techniques that hobble enemies when we hit them with our pole arm/bows/etc. Sadly people are trying to turn Ling Qi into some kind of cliche protagonist.

The point of the polearm isn't to get arts tailored to it, but to get arts that include both it and knives/bows incidentally. SCS already does some of that, and a lot of heart arts might do that too if we look right. We shouldn't look for polearm-specific things, really, just things that help our polearm as much as other stuff.

Spine/heart self-buff as well as debuff on enemies are the kind of things that can work well on that.
 
True be told I don't like the standard gambit of weapons for the most part. Which is why I tend recommend unusual weapons. I have to wonder how do you guys think Ling Qi actually fights hand to hand?
 
[X] Unarmed

Switching vote. Decided against the heavy polearm...I think I'd prefer a lighter more agile polearm type weapon. Don't want sword winning and theres nothing else I'm interested in.
 
Frankly, if Heavy Polearm wins we should have a secondary vote simply because of the confusion surrounding the vote. I had intended to vote for Spear, but by the time I got around to it, the polearm voters had consolidated around Heavy Polearms and Spear had no chance. Still, I'd have preferred a Ji to a Jian or anything else, so I voted for that. Then, it comes out that the ruling that created the Heavy Polearms category in the first place was incorrect, forcing a further consolidation.

The same should probably happen for the Sword vote if it wins, since it doesn't make a huge amount of sense to split the jian and dao when they belong to the same class of weapon.
 
Bass11 said:
True be told I don't like the standard gambit of weapons for the most part. Which is why I tend recommend unusual weapons. I have to wonder how do you guys think Ling Qi actually fights hand to hand?
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Acrobatic dance-like kicking martial arts, and if pressed, aikido-style minimal-touch throws.
 
Heavy polearms are cool and I can imagine them having good stats but I just can't imagine them being something a 14 year old girl who's already insecure about being too tall and muscular would pick.

[x] Jian
[x] Unarmed
 
Arkeus said:
Well yeah, I really want to get some nice spine/heart techniques that hobble enemies when we hit them with our pole arm/bows/etc. Sadly people are trying to turn Ling Qi into some kind of cliche protagonist.

The point of the polearm isn't to get arts tailored to it, but to get arts that include both it and knives/bows incidentally. SCS already does some of that, and a lot of heart arts might do that too if we look right. We shouldn't look for polearm-specific things, really, just things that help our polearm as much as other stuff.

Spine/heart self-buff as well as debuff on enemies are the kind of things that can work well on that.
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True, if we can get non-specific weapon Art that adds some manner of debuff on enemies...

Hmm, Spine is enhancing something, Lung is constructing something, and Arm is to project them? Well, either Lung or Arm, since FVM's Lung and Heart can apply debuffs.
 
Hmm, changing vote.

[X] Sword
[X] Unarmed
Adhoc vote count started by Kai Merah on Jun 8, 2017 at 6:25 AM, finished with 367 posts and 102 votes.
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+coughs+

It's, not that we won't be training Unarmed anymore, you know? This is just asking what new weapons Ling Qi wants to get new Masteries with, or what old weapons people want to keep focus on.

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Hmm, not much interest into refocusing on Knives.
 
Grosstoad said:
+coughs+

It's, not that we won't be training Unarmed anymore, you know? This is just asking what new weapons Ling Qi wants to get new Masteries with, or what old weapons people want to keep focus on.

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Hmm, not much interest into refocusing on Knives.
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I like knives and I imagine we won't immediately buy new weapons to replace them but if we do need better alternative might as well have some say in it

[x] Sword
[x] Chain Whip

C'mon people, let's not force Qi to wield the most yang of all choices, she has nothing to overcompensate about

38 heavy polearm
37 unarmed (not including my old vote)
33 sword
Adhoc vote count started by Arbit on Jun 8, 2017 at 7:16 AM, finished with 374 posts and 104 votes.
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