Perhaps a sort of meditate function? 'Gain x MP next turn. x if you haven't moved.' Next turn just for balance, so you can still have a relevant action.

Originally posted on 2015-12-28 20:36:00

Here's a few ideas to make Mage Gameplay more interesting.
I'll make a poll for this, so...

1. NATURAL REGEN
All players get 1 MP Regen. A simple solution.

2. MEDITATE
Restores 50% of your MP rounded down, if you don't get hit this turn. Otherwise, you simply restore 2 MP. A risky thing to do, but it can have great payoff.

3. LOW MANA CASTING
If you don't have enough MP to cast a spell, BUT you don't have 0 MP, you can expend your remaining MP to cast the spell. You can't cast it if you're more than 5 MP off the spell cost.
(ex: you want to cast a 10 Mana spell, but you only have 5 MP left: then you can't. 6 MP Left would be fine, and you can cast it.)

Originally posted on 2015-12-28 21:19:00

... Okay, Bill's Cane needs reworking. As it stands, with my current loadout I have literally no reason to want the cane if we get +1 regen. Under the scenario of getting +1 regen, the Laser Pulse does less damage than the Beam/Wide Beam and stuns instead of piercing. (both would take 2 turns to recharge, beam taking 2 under the staff and +1 regen, and laser pulse taking 2 under +1 regen. if you don't get +1 regen than it'd take both 3 turns to recharge completely.) In addition, it scales worse than Beam does, since Beam does a flat 7+i damage, while Laser Pulse deals 10+i/2 damage, give or take. At this scaling, Beam catches up to Laser Pulse at... 6 int, I think(13 damage for Beam and 12-13 damage for Laser Pulse), at which point you also get Wide Beam. The passives are decent, but I don't quite think they catch up to the loadout I have right now.

Originally posted on 2015-12-28 23:33:00

Willow moves to E12 and attacks spider 1.

Wilson moves to J13 and guards. Again.

OOM! OOM! This is starting to get annoying...

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 01:25:00

HEY. WILSON. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MEDITATING YET? THAT MIGHT WORK BETTER THAN GUARDSPAM.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 01:28:00

Personally, I think people are just forgetting about Guarding. That being said, I think Meditate might work.

Speaking of which, rebalancing the Shield: Passive now grants +2 extra AC when guarding. Pretty simple. There might also be a magical equivalent weapon for similar reasons. (gain more Mana from Meditating, or ALWAYS get the half-mana boost).

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 01:32:00

A future ghost of Toast approaches Wilson and raises his eyebrows 3 times.

That's right. Toast becomes a guy in the future.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 01:51:00

No, Ire's rebalance was better. Go propose your own weapon plox.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 01:52:00

[H] Flumpty Bumpty: Taking a Stroll.

He's in the Forbidden Chamber. Might be of note if the Countdown gets too low.

Of course, he's also probably stronger than us. Best not try to off him...Yet.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 02:08:00

Hm, it looks like we're going to get passive mana regen, but for reasons that I'm too tired to currently type out in length, honestly I think the better idea is to have the passive mana regen for everyone, AND the meditation, because our spellcasters are still gonna get stuck if they have to rely solely on passive regen.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 02:18:00

Actually. Hold on. Low mana casting looks like it might have an exploit...

If it costs 5 mana to fire off a fireball, and you regenerate 1 mana at the end of a turn, that means you're always 4 mana away from regular cost, which low mana casting says allows you to sling another fireball.

HEHEAHEAHEHAEHAEH

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 02:42:00

Which is why no one has voted for it.
The thing is, presumably, the enemies will have whichever advantage we get.
I do NOT want enemies to be able to recharge-spam abilities like that. Nor, honestly, do I want them to naturally regenerate mana, since that puts us at a disadvantage.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 03:02:00

=TURN SIXTY-FIVE=

-16- turns until something something Bad Time.

After not-careful deliberation, I have decided that we'll run both option 1 and 2. Foes will get the benefit of Meditate, but not the natural regen. Anyway, Insert performs a respec, and becomes the God of Regen and almost no actual MP Pool.

=BATTLE: THE ENGINE TESTING ROOM, TURN FIVE=
The battle is complete, as a present dropped down and decided to insta-gib the Scale Behemoth to save time. The Engine Testing Room is now safe to explore. Some of you have BRAND NEW SHINY skill points, so use those!

=BATTLE: FOE RUSH ZONE ONE, TURN FIVE=
Well, there's been plenty of damage on both sides, but all you need to know is that the Unstable Present is about to explode and you'll die very very soon unless you flee / push it away.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 05:57:00

Toast moves to D5 and uses Shifting Sands on the Unstable Present. PROBLEM SOLVED BOYS. NO NEED TO WORRY. Toast then Guards.


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Originally posted on 2015-12-29 06:50:00

QUOTE (DoctorsHateHer @ (time=1451371834))

While not as impressive as the others, here we have the demonspacemudguardiankipcrab BONUS Miniboss/Elite. Tremble in fear of it's awesome beauty. Assuming you can find the elusive beast (and I know you all want to).

((I gamed the system by quoting it. No amount of spoilers can hold me back!))

((waiting on fullupdate))

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 15:54:00

I thought we were voting on meditation and it wasn't a thing yet. Well, because the update hasn't been finished yet, change guarding to meditation.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 18:15:00

Safe code for all y'all down in the engine place: 9-6-8-3.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 18:56:00

Random idea for some status effects:
Damage-based debuffs. These don't have a duration, and aren't cured by standard 'cure' effects, instead they are automatically cured if: a. the victim has more than a certain percentage of the MHP healed by a single action, or b. the victim has more than a certain percentage of their health left.
Crippled: Damage-based debuff (25%, 75%). Player permanently prone until status removed.
Hamstrung: Damage-based debuff (25%, 90%). Player loses their retreat movement until status removed.
Bleeding: Damage-based debuff (1%, 100%). Player takes 1 damage every round until status removed. Gives vulnerability to certain other abilities.
Disarmed: Damage-based debuff (40%, 80%). Player is unable to attack or use skills until status is removed.
Concussed: Damage-based debuff (10%, 90%). Player grants mini-crits to all attacking enemies, and has 50% extra miss chance.
Petrified: Regular debuff. Victim is turned to stone, unable to act or move, but gains +4 AC until effect ends.

Anyways, on to proper posting!
I run up to L4, looting the spaghetti on the way (jumping out of prone of course), and then guard because I really shouldn't have switched to mace form quite yet.
Unless!

Never mind, toast got it. Thanks toast.
The unstable present does not make it all the way up to E5, in which case I buy a Telekinesis scroll, and quickly slingshot the present to F6 if it hasn't been moved yet, or to E5 if it has, then quickly loot the spaghetti and blockade myself in spot L4.

Both actions will happen last out of the player actions.

@everyone with telekinesis: SWEET! A NUKE!
Everyone with telekinesis, drop that present on square E5.

Notes: Darkside, toast, you guys need to be careful. Darkside, regardless of the situation, you need to move out of the nuke's range and not be prone next to spiders. Toast, if the nuke makes it all the way to its destination, you'll need to move down a bit, otherwise you'll want to stay put, because at F6, you're currently in pretty much the only safe spot available to you currently. See if you can catch the teeth present in the blast either way.

@ire: I removed the poll for you if you don't mind.
If you need the results for some reason, you had 4 votes for natural regen, 3 for meditation, and 0 for low mana casting.
Also, did my ploy to give the turret a battery/hotwire it to make it friendly work?

Edit: Engie. You should get spin slash.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 19:34:00

Update finished!

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 21:55:00

I enter 9-6-8-3 into the safe.

Originally posted on 2015-12-29 23:14:00