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5/5/2025 22:20:01   
neswii
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Hey there! This is a (probably) short thread of ideas that have wormed their way into my brain and I've had to write them down.

Weapons:
Atrophied Tempest
Bolt-Forged Guillotine
Grand Magi's Grimoire
Scared of Scarlet
Slayer's Supreme Musket
Snowpiercer

Armors:
Blight Crowhead
Fracturing Chronomancer
Languid Lifeguard
Raging Luminant
Slayer's Raging Mount
Stygian Farer
Unifier of Worlds

Shields:
Heartshock Buckler

Spells:
(None yet!)

Pets:
Waxing Candle

Miscs:
(None yet!)

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/23/2025 16:25:11 >
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5/5/2025 23:17:23   
neswii
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Raging Luminant

MC FO Earth with Light secondary armor. MC compresses a skill that triggers on-block effects.

Description: A friendly paladin taught you that a shield is simply another thing to bash your enemies with, and it's even better if your shield has some bite as it connects with their face!

Flavor effect: Takes +(10/1.4)% damage for 6 MRM.

MC compresses a skill:
Shield Slam!
2 hits. Standard weapon-based skill, follows the element of your shield* and gains elecomp to cost. (Uses shield elecomp calculations.)
Inflicts a 0-turn +(10/1.4)% Omni Elevuln and -6 MRM Defloss on the player to reduce SP cost by 20% Melee.

If at least one attack connects, do the following:

If equipped shield has an on-block effect, and triggers per block (like Xalkos Thrax Ward):
- Deals -50% damage.
- After each connected hit, trigger the on-block effect.

If equipped shield has an on-block effect, and triggers based on blocks/attempts (like Titan's Fall):
- Deals -25% damage.
- At the end of the skill, trigger the on-block effects as (hits connected/hits attempted).

If equipped shield doesn't have an on-block effect, or if no shield is equipped:
- If the enemy doesn't have Freedom, deal -25% damage to inflict Daze for 1 turn, subject to a save, STR/LUK vs. END/LUK.
- If the enemy does, deal full damage.

~~~~~~~~~
*Technical notes: this would check your current resists against the armor's base resists. The skill's element would be the same as the largest difference between the current and base resists.
If there are multiple elements that are tied with the highest resist difference (like with Mountain Talon Tower's toggle), determined element priority as follows:
1. Earth, if in those elements
2. Light, if in those elements
3. One of the elements, in the same way that eleseeking attack elements are determined
4. Earth (as a fallback)
~~~~~~~~~
**The first suggestion, and the one that I really had to write down.

I'm fully aware that this is probably infeasible from a coding standpoint, but I love the idea of items interacting with each other in a way other than FSBs or general synergies.

I initially had this as a spell-based skill with elecomp to cost, just because I didn't want weapon effects to trigger (because you're hitting them with your shield!) but it conflicts with the FO lean and spell with elecomp'ed cost doesn't really have a precedent, so ehhhh

I didn't have Lt. Lore in mind when making this, but it's fully in that same vein. Change the shield bash into a throw, make it ice primary, maybe add a flavor effect with Lt's Lore's Shield (and update it!), and it's perfect. (Maybe even add wings and make it wind so that it matches his successor?)

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/23/2025 16:37:38 >
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5/6/2025 0:02:32   
neswii
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Waxing Candle

MC Fire pet. Has a toggle that either modifies or takes advantage of enemy heal resistance.

Flickering mode: Deals no damage.
Attempts to apply a permanent Waning Light effect (renamed +heal res debuff) on the enemy. MC is spent on improving the save roll.
If a certain number of Waning Light stacks are already present, disables Flickering mode and automatically changes to Cauterizing mode.

Cauterizing mode: Deals 2x damage. MC gives a simple damage boost.
After attacking, if the enemy has >0 HP, heals the enemy for half of the damage dealt.

I love the idea of messing with enemy healing, so this was the result. Shoutout to Dardiel for the Cauterizing mode, which was way more elegant than what I had in mind.

< Message edited by neswii -- 5/6/2025 2:39:26 >
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5/6/2025 21:11:46   
neswii
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Scared of Scarlet

MC Light Melee Sword. Has a toggle that pays for harm and autohit with HP.

Description: A honorable sword, gleaming bright! Just don't give it any blood, or the light will retreat, replaced with an empty hunger that tears through defenses!

MC: Has a toggle that changes the weapon to Harm damage and autohit. Charges HP instead of taking damage penalties for Harm and autohit.

Short and simple - I was genuinely surprised that we haven't gotten a harm autohit weapon yet, and I'm a sucker for HP cost items, so I decided to combine the two.

< Message edited by neswii -- 6/13/2025 2:03:26 >
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5/8/2025 0:02:32   
neswii
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Unifier of Worlds

MC FO Light armor. Has a toggle that increases mainstats based on other mainstats.

Flavor effect: When attacking or casting a spell while in the armor, eats Chromatic Poison on the enemy to increase damage dealt.
FSB: If attacking with Blade of the Unifier, increase the power of the weapon's applied Chromatic Poison.

Skill 1: Once per battle, change the armor's lean to FD, FO or SC.

Skill 2: Toggle. For each of the following stats, improve them by a certain amount, each capped at 50:
STR: MAX(DEX,INT)/5
DEX: MAX(STR,INT)/5
INT: MAX(STR,DEX)/5
Additionally, pays SP to change the armor's attack count to 4 and increase damage dealt.

Skill 3: Standard light skill/spell. Follows weapon type. If armor is SC lean, spell-based and gains elecomp to damage, weapon-based and elecomp to cost otherwise. Deals half damage to attempt Chromatic Poison.

I'm aware that having a stat drive that's dependent on other stats is a little wonky, especially with stat drives, but it could be something like checking the player's stats at the start of the battle before other items' stats are applied.
I also originally had the stat drive as (mainstat + mainstat)/50 for a maximum of 100, but an armor giving a ceiling of 300 in stats seemed a bit too much. (But then again, maybe it's worth it!)
I was thinking about also adding a damaging skill, but I know that 3 skills is meant to be a rarity for armors. Screw it, I did it anyways.

I've always been a fan of hybrids, especially after the stat revamp. I know that having an FSB with a package item isn't great for most players, but it felt too good to pass up.

< Message edited by neswii -- 5/8/2025 1:48:40 >
Post #: 5
5/13/2025 0:11:05   
neswii
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Slayer's Supreme Musket

MC Fire 100 proc Ranged Gun. Toggles between an inaccurate pure damage mode and an alternating status bomb/damage nuke mode, and can also sacrifice BtH for burn.

Trigger: If enemy has the undead or demon tag, damage and statuses from this weapon eleseek. If enemy is a Bun-bit, does half damage.

First toggle:

Berserker mode: Has a -15 BtH lean.
Point Blank mode: Alternates between the following:
Hook: Sacrifices all damage (1 token hit). Inflicts a massive fire def loss and fire elevuln for 1 turn.
Shot: Increased damage. Also inflicts fire burn.

Second toggle:

Damage mode: Nothing special.
Flame Belch mode: Sacrifices some BtH to inflict fire burn on attacks. Burn power is affected by lean and ranged adaptation.

Iinspired by the new Doom game coming out later this week! Shouldn't have to be said, but I wanted to try to capture what it's like to use Doom Eternal's super shotgun.
I also wanted to do a tongue-in-cheek reference to Daisy, hence the Bun-bit downside trigger.

A bit of a callback to Spacefarer's Frost Cannon, which had an interesting gimmick that I felt fell short in practice. I wanted the turn-pass to actually do something, and having a massive wind-up bomb of debuffs felt apropo to using the hook to pull yourself in towards the enemy for a point-blank shot.

< Message edited by neswii -- 6/13/2025 2:04:28 >
Post #: 6
5/13/2025 2:09:30   
neswii
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Grand Magi's Grimoire

MC Energy Tome. Has powerful spells that are only available against stronger foes.

Description: The most treasured spellbook of the mage from a party of Chosens long forgotten. Ordinary magic is enough for most foes of this era, so the book only shows its true overcharged power against the strongest!

Trigger: Against enemies with <200% power, 2 spells are disabled and a third is replaced with a different (weaker) one. Uptrigger is increasing the infliction potency of the spells when they’re not disabled/replaced.

Contains the following spells:

Surge of Suppression*
Overcharged Energy spell. 5 hits. Sacrifices damage to inflict a permanent Strength Drain/Offbalance/Brain Drain.

Torporshock*
Overcharged Energy spell. 3 hits, with an additional “other” hit to SP. Sacrifices damage to inflict SP->MP drain poison.

Ordinary Bolt**
Efficient Energy spell. 3 hits.

The Height of Magic**
Overcharged Energy spell. 1 token hit. Sacrifices all damage to inflict Fragile.

Draw Mana
Standard MP heal. Can lucky strike.

* Disabled if the enemy's power is too low (<200% power)
** Ordinary Bolt is replaced by The Height of Magic if the enemy's power is high enough. (>=200% power)

A stroke of inspiration when rewatching Frieren for the third time - I love tomes, especially ones that compress an enormous amount of utility in them.
Having multiple overcharged spells on a tome has no precedent, but the flavor behind is that since the previous owner had so much mana, resource management was secondary to spell strength.

I also like the concept behind Illustrious Saviour of Battleon, even if it's frankly pretty plain. The statuses were specifically picked out as having utility against bosses, either reducing their mainstats, disrupting SP-related attacks, or taking chunks out of their health.
In terms of nitpicky things about visuals and such, I want all of the spells visible to the player when using the tome but having the unavailable spells be greyed out, with the exception of The Height of Magic, which normally not displayed and would replace Ordinary Bolt when available.

< Message edited by neswii -- 6/3/2025 2:15:06 >
Post #: 7
5/13/2025 14:17:33   
neswii
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Atrophied Tempest

MC Wind Melee Sword. Has a toggle that changes which resource bar (HP, MP, SP) attacks damage.

Effect: Toggles between the following modes:
Normal mode: Nothing special.
MP damage mode: Attacks exclusively damage MP. 1.5x damage.
SP damage mode: Attacks exclusively damage SP. 1.125x damage.
If in MP or SP damage mode, if the enemy has 0 MP/SP respectively, automatically switches back to normal mode.

MC: +5% damage.

Huge fan of resource denial weapons, specifically Eternal Chrono Dagger and its various clones and Rune Breaker Mace, but it’s hard to justify running both of them outside of fringe scenarios. This compresses those into a single weapon, and in an element that (I think) doesn't overlap with the existing calendar weapons.

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/21/2025 4:01:21 >
Post #: 8
5/18/2025 1:21:21   
neswii
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Bolt-Forged Guillotine

MC Energy 100 proc gun. Normally only attacks every other turn but can instead spend HP to bypass that.

Description: Legends speak of the Slayer, a lone warrior that cleaved through Heck with burning lead, screaming steel and sheer force of will. The deadliest weapon in his arsenal, the BFG isn't just a gun - it's a declaration of extinction.

Trigger: If enemy has the undead or demon tag, get +5 omni status potence.

Toggles between the following:
Charge Up: Skip your turn and pay some amount of SP.
Blood for Blood: Instead of skipping a turn, pay the equivalent in HP. You still pay the SP cost from Charge Up.

Shoot for the Demon King: Massive 4 hit attack. Sacrifices damage to inflict burn and bleed. Only usable after a turn of Charge Up, or if HP was paid through Blood for Blood.

Another reference to Doom! This time going with the classic BFG, I wanted something colossal to represent the iconic weapon.

Also another throwback to Spacefarer's Frost Cannon's mechanic because apparently I like the concept more than I had initially thought. I didn't want this one to have a "normal" mode, since that felt like a flavor fail.

< Message edited by neswii -- 6/10/2025 12:56:19 >
Post #: 9
6/5/2025 1:30:02   
neswii
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Slayer's Roaring Mount

MC FD Earth Rider armor with weak Fire/Dark secondaries. Changes to FO lean and is elelocked to earth when dismounted; inflicts burn and rewards heavy burn infliction.

Trigger: If enemy has the undead or demon tag, incoming fire and dark damage is reduced (like One Storm Armor)
Flavor effect: Pays MRM to gain initiative bonus and Burn+Panic potency.

Mounted: FD lean.
Screaming Blaze: Weapon-based skill; gets elecomp to cost. Does reduced damage to inflict an Earth burn.

Dismounted: FO lean; weapon attacks (including bow attacks) are locked to Earth and gain elecomp.
With Bare Hands: Weapon-based skill; gets elecomp to cost. Consumes burn to improve damage dealt. After consuming a certain amount of burn, further consumption instead goes towards gaining Regeneration and inflicting Panic.

Yet another Doom reference, yes yes

I was inspired by Sweater Dragon Mount being able to freely swap leans, and I wanted to explore that in a controlled way.

As for the weird burn eat on the dismounted skill, I wanted to explore something with rewarding the player for eating a huge amount of a status outside of pure damage, since damage caps can discourage doing so. I'm not sure how good this is in practice, but this was interesting in my head.
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6/13/2025 1:49:08   
neswii
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Heartshock Buckler

MC Energy shield. Has healing res and has a "healing" skill that gives you Barrier. Inflicts self-burn as a flavor effect.

Description: This galvanic shield supercharges your healing and can even deliver a shock to your heart to give you a Barrier! Careful, it leaves a nasty Burn...

Flavor effect: Has a quickcast spell that pays SP to give the player Barrier. This also applies a Harm burn to the player equal to 5% Melee.
MC: -6.25% Heal Resistance.

I know that it’s weird to have an HP cost attached to a “healing” spell, but it fit the flavor of a defibrillator, and I prioritize that for these suggestions.

Inspired by both the Wish / Wingweaver shields and the release of the Sleighward Imperial Shield clones (the Family Tree Ward shields), this is a selfish request disguised as a suggestion to round out the last few elements that are missing Barrier shields, preferably one with heal res so I don’t feel too bad about eventually dropping Nickelclad Knight Defender.

< Message edited by neswii -- 8/30/2025 22:44:32 >
Post #: 11
6/20/2025 3:45:52   
neswii
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Snowpiercer

MC Ice 100-proc Bow. Always crits but takes dramatically reduced damage to compensate.

Flavor Effect: Always Lucky Strikes. Deals 0.4x damage.
MC: +5% damage.

The damage penalty is intended to even out the damage to standard values (ie: a normal non-LS bow attack) and was given by @CH4OT1C!.

Something inspired by the announcement of the LUK revamp! I'm very excited to see what support we get in the future, and so I wanted to suggest something that's easy for players to understand.

< Message edited by neswii -- 6/23/2025 13:52:13 >
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8/30/2025 22:35:36   
neswii
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Stygian Farer

MC Dire Lean Ice armor with Water secondary. Has a skill to increase the power of damaging statuses at the cost of reducing their duration.

Flavor Effect - Freezing Undertow: Pay 6 MRM for +10 damaging status potency. (Bleed, burn, poison, spiritual seed)

The Campfire Wavers: Quickcast skill. Usable only once per turn and only if the enemy has at least one damaging status. Replaces all damaging statuses on the enemy with an identical status with double the power and half the duration* (rounded up). Water and Ice statuses also get a small increase in power** (Alternatively, inflict Water and Ice Elemental Vulnerability). No save on the status replacement, since the enemy is already inflicted with the statuses. Water/Ice damage boost is subject to a save, Mainstat/LUK vs. END/LUK.
(Permanent statuses and statuses with <=1 turn durations are unaffected unless they're Water or Ice, in which case they get the aforementioned power boost.)
(...don't ask me what happens with bleed.)

* The light in your foe’s eyes starts to freeze over…
** The light in your foe’s eyes starts to freeze over, and they see visions of a boat...

Silent Winter: If holding a Melee/Ranged weapon, overcharged weapon-based skill. Elecomp goes to cost. Standard cost spell-based otherwise; elecomp goes to power.
Several token Ice hits; follows weapon type. Pays all damage to inflict a 4 turn Ice Burn, Ice HP->HP Siphon Poison, and Bleed, subject to a save, Mainstat/LUK vs. END/LUK.

† The silence takes its toll on your foe!
†† Your foe shivers, but manages to hold on!

Shamelessly similar to one of @CH4OT1C!'s old suggestions, this was something from a discussion about how future dire lean armors can lean into faster damage output to keep up with standard FO armors.
I added the water/ice boost to the first skill to help justify giving it a cost (not unlike the recent elelock armors) and because it makes sense flavor-wise.

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/5/2025 22:55:24 >
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8/31/2025 4:16:53   
neswii
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Blight Crowhead

MC Dire Lean Wind armor. Has heal resistance and can inflict siphon poison to benefit off of that.

Flavor Effect: Pay 6 MRM for -12.5 heal resistance.
Toggle: Pays 100% Melee split between HP and SP on attack/skill/spell to inflict a HP->HP siphon poison at end of turn. Element of poison follows attack element; inflict with Mainstat/LUK and resist with END/LUK.

Something simple that would lean into the natural synergy between dire lean and siphon statuses. I chose wind just because Fungibushi Suitou would further improve the damage and healing output.

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/8/2025 16:11:39 >
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9/18/2025 0:29:11   
neswii
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Languid Lifeguard

MC Dire Lean Water armor. Pays 6 MRM for initiative but funnels initiative damage into bonus infliction on turn 1.

Flavor Effect: Pay 6 MRM for +initiative and the following effect:
- If the player goes first, instead of the damage bonus from initiative, at the end of the first player turn, attempt to double the power of all Bleed/Burn/Poison statuses on the enemy. Inflict with Mainstat/LUK and resist with (END,DEX,END)/LUK respectively.
- If the enemy goes first, at the start of the first monster turn, attempt to inflict a 0 turn Water Siphon Poison. Inflict with Mainstat/LUK and resist with INT/LUK. Elecomp increases status power.

* The sudden riptide drags them in the deep waters, but you weren't paying attention!
** The currents are powerful, but your foe manages to plant their feet ashore!
*** Your foe didn't wait for your whistle, and they gagged on the saltwater!
**** Your foe knows better than to swim against the tide and successfully navigates the tricky waters!

MC compresses a skill:
Exhausting Currents: Pays an additional 25% Melee in HP. If holding a Melee/Ranged weapon, weapon-based skill. Elecomp goes to cost. Spell-based otherwise; elecomp goes to power.
Several token Water hits; follows weapon type. Pays all damage to inflict 2 statuses:
* 200% Melee in a standard 2 turn Water Burn, subject to a save, Mainstat/LUK vs. STR/LUK.
* 25% Melee in a 2 turn Water Burn that targets SP, subject to a save, Mainstat/LUK vs. STR/LUK.

† You leap into the waters to save your foe, but you "accidentally" dragged them deeper!
†† You jumped into the waters to save your foe, but they managed to keep their head above the water all on their own...

Kinda riffing off of Festive Legionary Guise, I was trying to come up with a way to incorporate initiative bonus into an armor that doesn't really care about armor-based attack damage. I'm not entirely sure if the math lines up, but the general idea should be there.

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/18/2025 0:34:16 >
Post #: 15
9/23/2025 16:24:29   
neswii
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Fracturing Chronomancer

MC Dire Lean Dark armor. Gives enemy Celerity in exchange for massive burn infliction.

Screaming Sands: Standard spell-based skill, attack type follows held weapon, elecomp goes towards skill & status damage.
Gives enemy Celerity; no save. This and -25% skill damage (so 159% or 190% Melee, depending on standard) goes towards a 6 turn Darkness Burn, subject to a -20 save, Mainstat/LUK vs. END/LUK.

Yet another dire lean armor, yes yes
This came from discussion around Fungibushi Moocelium's speed spores, so I wanted to do something similar here.

< Message edited by neswii -- 9/23/2025 19:25:09 >
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