Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
I don't think we ever stopped focusing on knives though. I mean, we got training in throwing knives in every single week except week 15 and the weeks before we got our first knives, I think.
Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
[X] Bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
I'm going for these are due to our debt we're going to be serving in an army, so rather than individual combat we're are much more likely to be facing group combat and formation fighting. And in war, the bow and the polearm are by far the two best weapons available. They also allow us to excel in our support focus.
[X] Heavy Polearm
I'm going for these are due to our debt we're going to be serving in an army, so rather than individual combat we're are much more likely to be facing group combat and formation fighting. And in war, the bow and the polearm are by far the two best weapons available. They also allow us to excel in our support focus.
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I just did chain whip instead of unarmed so people who want a weapon to win wouldn't feel forced to pick heavy polearm. The idea of a second vote for specific polearms was mentioned if it wins so hopefully that'll happen.
[X] Bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
[X] Heavy Polearm
[X] Heavy polearm
[X] bow
[X] bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
[X] Unarmed
[X] Unarmed
- Location
- Singapore
If you like swording a lot, may I suggest you check out AGG: Rise, by Sage of Eyes? I got enough swording from that, so I'm hoping this quest will use weapons other than a sword 
- Location
- England
So, let's have a bit of analysis of the leading options!
[] Bow
The ranged option, and the one everyone seems to want. It beats the knives we've currently got at long range combat, but its specialization makes it useless up close, where the knives are still useful. On the whole, a good choice of primary weapon - if you have a backup plan for when they get into melee range. If you don't have a good grounding in melee, though, you're going to have a bad time against anyone with the ability to close unless you can take them out very rapidly.
That said, however, it's especially good for ambushes when combined with stealth, and its armour piercing neatly solves our main weakness right now.
On the whole, this weapon benefits from being paired with a specialized melee weapon, and projectile and damage enhancing combat arts, but it's good for us.
[] Unarmed
Well, its main draw is that it can't be taken away from you and never truly becomes obsolete - as its dv improves with your skill, unlike every other choice, as long as you invest time into it, it will remain relevant. On the other hand, while it's never truly obsolete it's similarly never truly great, as its damage is capped by cultivation (as cultivation level caps skills, and unarmed skill caps damage), so we're likely to be outperformed by our peers, and I'm not sure about the status of damage enhancing gauntlets/gloves.
It avoids us the cost of upgrading and altering weapons, but, really, it's the same problem as the knives - you sacrifice damage output for convenience, and as a result you get a mediocre weapon, at least compared to more specialized weapons. On the other hand, damn near everyone has hands, so unarmed focused arts are likely common as muck.
Though, speaking of being common, it is a peasant's weapon. No, really - choosing it as our main melee is going to get us sneered at. Not sure we really care about that, but it's worth noting.
Not a bad choice, but... eh. Actual weapons beat it where it matters.
[] Heavy Polearm
I'm honestly not sure what this is supposed to be. I mean, do you guys mean a guandao? I'm just going to assume you do.
Decent choice, a bit atypical, but it's a specialized melee weapon so it's going to be good at melee. Probably a high damage choice, given the weight of the weapon, and it's supposed to be good at fighting a lot of enemies at once - sweeping attacks, constant movement, and such.
So, if you pair it with the bow you've got a single target ranged weapon, and a melee weapon that's good at dealing with being mobbed. I actually like this choice.
On the other hand, it's main weakness is that we might struggle in duels when compared to a a more traditional weapon like the jian, and it might not have many arts specifically focused on it due to its atypicality.
On the whole, I'm kind of liking the options that bow/guandao gives us. I'm a little sad that the Dao hasn't gotten any love, as it's not a typical Xianxia protag weapon, but it's nevertheless a solid and culturally acceptable weapon, but fuck it, let's swing a sword on a stick around.
[X] Bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
[] Bow
The ranged option, and the one everyone seems to want. It beats the knives we've currently got at long range combat, but its specialization makes it useless up close, where the knives are still useful. On the whole, a good choice of primary weapon - if you have a backup plan for when they get into melee range. If you don't have a good grounding in melee, though, you're going to have a bad time against anyone with the ability to close unless you can take them out very rapidly.
That said, however, it's especially good for ambushes when combined with stealth, and its armour piercing neatly solves our main weakness right now.
On the whole, this weapon benefits from being paired with a specialized melee weapon, and projectile and damage enhancing combat arts, but it's good for us.
[] Unarmed
Well, its main draw is that it can't be taken away from you and never truly becomes obsolete - as its dv improves with your skill, unlike every other choice, as long as you invest time into it, it will remain relevant. On the other hand, while it's never truly obsolete it's similarly never truly great, as its damage is capped by cultivation (as cultivation level caps skills, and unarmed skill caps damage), so we're likely to be outperformed by our peers, and I'm not sure about the status of damage enhancing gauntlets/gloves.
It avoids us the cost of upgrading and altering weapons, but, really, it's the same problem as the knives - you sacrifice damage output for convenience, and as a result you get a mediocre weapon, at least compared to more specialized weapons. On the other hand, damn near everyone has hands, so unarmed focused arts are likely common as muck.
Though, speaking of being common, it is a peasant's weapon. No, really - choosing it as our main melee is going to get us sneered at. Not sure we really care about that, but it's worth noting.
Not a bad choice, but... eh. Actual weapons beat it where it matters.
[] Heavy Polearm
I'm honestly not sure what this is supposed to be. I mean, do you guys mean a guandao? I'm just going to assume you do.
Decent choice, a bit atypical, but it's a specialized melee weapon so it's going to be good at melee. Probably a high damage choice, given the weight of the weapon, and it's supposed to be good at fighting a lot of enemies at once - sweeping attacks, constant movement, and such.
So, if you pair it with the bow you've got a single target ranged weapon, and a melee weapon that's good at dealing with being mobbed. I actually like this choice.
On the other hand, it's main weakness is that we might struggle in duels when compared to a a more traditional weapon like the jian, and it might not have many arts specifically focused on it due to its atypicality.
On the whole, I'm kind of liking the options that bow/guandao gives us. I'm a little sad that the Dao hasn't gotten any love, as it's not a typical Xianxia protag weapon, but it's nevertheless a solid and culturally acceptable weapon, but fuck it, let's swing a sword on a stick around.
[X] Bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
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- Location
- Brazil
[X] Bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
From what snippers we got, the better the actual weapon is by itself, the better they seem to scale as cultivator gear.
So throwing knives are almost gimmicks, short swords are respectable, two handed heavy weapons just naturally wreck your fucking face.
[X] Heavy Polearm
From what snippers we got, the better the actual weapon is by itself, the better they seem to scale as cultivator gear.
So throwing knives are almost gimmicks, short swords are respectable, two handed heavy weapons just naturally wreck your fucking face.
No no, clearly the largness of the weapon draws attention away from her height. It's taller than her! A smaller weapon just makes her look huger by comparison.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Not only Ji Rong, but Gu Xiulan uses gloves for her unarmed fighting style. She just uses more Spiritual style, while I suspect Ji Rong uses a more physical style.
Also, there is no 'scrub tier' types of weapons. They are just good at different things.
- Location
- England
Can't change it, might as well own it.
Remember that the tonfas we sold a while back had a dv of 10, and the sabers a dv of 7. Unarmed's dv is calculated as either strength or unarmed mastery, whichever is higher. We're currently at 2 in both, so that's our dv. Now, if we train really hard, we'll eventually get to 6 (where we'd be capped until we hit Green), at which point... we'd still have a lower dv than the sabers.
Now, you raised the idea of cestuses, and they could mitigate the disadvantages of unarmed, certainly, by allowing us to up our dv and use a weapon talisman. And even if we don't have it at any given time, we still have our normal unarmed, so being caught without a weapon is less of a disadvantage.
However, we don't know how effective they are. There's almost certainly tradeoffs to it, after all, such as having to choose between having good damage enhancement or good qi reduction, where with proper weapons we could have both. And, really, if we still have to buy and upgrade a weapon, we might as well have just gotten a weapon.
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- They/Them
It's not just a matter of height though, having such a large heavy weapon is too aggressively yang to be in character. I could see her using a spear though
What image do you think Ling Qi would rather be associated with
- Location
- Nebraska
[X] Bow
[X] Heavy Polearm
New vote
[X] Heavy Polearm
New vote
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
This is basically caused because what 'heavy polearm' was was retconned three times over the vote, so it caused people to be forced to settle for something else that was voted.It's not just a matter of height though, having such a large heavy weapon is too aggressively yang to be in character. I could see her using a spear though
What image do you think Ling Qi would rather be associated with
I honestly thought that 'light polearm' would have been stuff like Javelins or Japanese spears, and not some rather heavier spears like this:
This is basically what I understood by 'heavy polearm', but sadly the efforts by some people to have its definition changed three times over the night didn't help.
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Um, ignoring her Arts, Ling Qi IS aggressively yang in character.
[X] Heavy Polearm
[X] Knives
[X] Knives