You have two Perfect Defences, one that works in Step 2, another that works in Step 7. If something is a Bad Touch effect like poison, you Perfect it with your Step 2 defence. If not, you try to stop it with just your DV, and if that fails you stop it with your Step 7 defence. This means that you don't have to Perfect every attack, because you're stopping some of them with just your DV, so you spend fewer motes.
What do you mean by 'hints of HEROISM and MATURITY'?
Actually, it's worse than that. Guns tend to do more damage with a higher rate, yes. They also have smaller ranges. For example, the assault rifle has a base range of 100, compared with 150 for the self bow(the worst of the bows). The second best mundane gun, the hunting rifle, has a range of 200, which only matches normal bows, and is still beaten by composite bows. The sniperrifle is much better than the mundane bows (+2 accuracy, nine lethal damage, range 400!), though it is pretty slow (speed 6, rate 1).
I think the intent is that neither of those would be offensive charms, as the first isn't focused on hurting the enemy at all, and the latter is more of a defensive charm.
I dunno about the former, actually. Sidereal charms are sufficiently wonky that I'd give Generalized Ammunition Technique a pass, personally.
Generalized Ammunition Technique is one that normally focuses on hurting an opponent; making an arrow you then fire at someone is an offensive action. GAT is a bit of a context sensitive charm in this regard, so while making an arrow to fire at someone would qualify for overdrive, making a message to fire near to someone would not.
They did, in the discussion of the keyword.
At least setting wise, this looks to be intact, based on the few bits of setting info that are actually due to appear in the book and have been revealed (Wyld Hunt, Beastmen Kingdom). System wise, fuck if we know.
Plague of Hats (one of Shards writers) talked about firearms a bit post Shards. Basically, yes, they were balanced against bows, and he did gripe at the ridiculous range on bows. But to really do what your talking about, you'd need to basically overhaul the entire ranged combat system, which was probably more then could reasonably be expected out of Shards. There's also the fact that, well, guns are not supposed to be a thing in Exalted, so any addition of them to the system (particularly modern guns) is going to be an add on, with all the issues that inspires (unlike Aberrant, where guns are assumed as a baseline assumption and can be incorporated as such).
Mostly its more of the same issue Exalted's weapons have always had: some weapons are just hyper optimal. Ridiculous range has been touched on (that number in Range is actually 1/3 its maximum range). Archery weapons hilariously outperform thrown weapons in general: similar damage, massively better range, as well as just having more ammunition (Artifact weapons tend to bypass this). The exception to that is the fucking Sling of Deadly Prowess, which is hilariously out of touch with every other ranged weapon statted in the core (as in, it out performs short power bows easily at artifact 1).
My eratta PDF does not have "offensive charm" listed as a keyword
Well I just failed again at reading, thank you for the assistance,
Total Annihilation hand-grenades.
It's not in the errata. It's in the actual discussion of the Overdrive Keyword. Try the ink monkey compilation, which is where Overdrive originates.
well that would be why i had to ask on SV. You'd think they'd put in an explanation when they introduced the Overdrive keyword in the errata.
