Alilatias' Crackpot Ideas Thread

I was never that good with skill names. Or hell, names in general. It's why I haven't tried to name the Legends yet. Nor do I even want to. (The skill's original name was Crystal Eruption, before I decided to go overkill with the Geology theme, which may or may not have been a bad idea. You can see proof of it in Maping's first post, from before I edited the skills.) >_>

Maybe I could go with the earth theme as suggested earlier. I initally decided against it because it'd either require creation of a whole new element, or he'd be stuck with the generic poison theme again (and god would the F/P's rage). Fire was the next best thing that wasn't taken yet, and I tried to explain it by mentioning that his family was attuned to the element of fire (which I noted that it raised the eyebrows of some of the other NPCs when the Time Keeper decided to go Thief instead of mage or archer), although that's probably not a good enough reason.

I could have gone with a completely different route and make him Holy-based instead. I honestly don't know if that's so different it sucks or it's so different it's good. Then again, I could have just made him element-less too, but that seems quite boring, considering how Aran gets to wield ice and Evan gets to wield just about everything... Although one could argue that Fire is Evan's main element towards the end of the game. Hm.

The 'beginner' skills were just to start them off. The Archer Legend wouldn't really be able to function without the stances, as you have to activate the stances manually (they're like the Battlemage Auras in duration, and using one changes the key settings of your keyboard). Maybe I shouldn't have given the Weapon Attack and bonus lightning damage to the Archer Legend's stances (instead merging those effects with those already present in the 4th job stance mastery skill), and I could replace the Soul Arrow with the standard Recovery along with moving the Soul Arrow to 2nd job.

I'd think the Thief Legend's beginner skills would be justified though (except for the Endurance skill, I suppose it could be nerfed or replaced with the standard Nimble Feet, and I know his Sharp Object skill is quite redundant), seeing as he doesn't get a critical hit rate increase until 3rd job, not to mention that he doesn't gain any weapon attack from stars like Ilibis because his attacks don't use conventional throwing stars.

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EDIT: Thought a bit more about the Pirate Legend. Time to rant a little bit.

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I've finally decided that he should be element-less or a whole new Earth element would be created for him. The reason being, the skills that I thought up for him became less and less 'holy' as I went on, and perhaps the Holy element should also be something else left to the Adventurers.

In order to have an earth element in the first place, I would think that its logical Wind counterpart would be made into an official element too, which would give the Archer Legend effective control of two elements - so if I were to go this route, I'd have to revamp the Archer Legend's skills to scrap the Lightning skills, and replace the Thief Legend's Fire theme with Lightning, reason being that it could be argued that Fire is Evan's main element in the endgame stages.

Some of you probably want to know what I have so far for the Pirate Legend in terms of skills. I'm still running with that rough backstory posted earlier. His theme is still earth/nature based, particularly the growth of living things. Some of you likely remember that his Gunslinger partner inherited some power from the seed as well. I would think that it'd be important to the Pirate Legend's story, as his Gunslinger partner inherits powers that are the opposite of what the Pirate Legend does - the aging and death of living things.

- I recall Buccaneers/Vipers having a skill where, when transformed, they could grab onto a monster that's further away and bring it in front of them. The Pirate Legend would have a skill that's the opposite of that - grab onto a monster that's further away and quickly propel himself towards it.
- The Pirate Legend's ultimate would not only act like a typical ultimate in the offensive sense, but it would also absorb 3% of the damage inflicted, restoring the HP and MP of party members by up to a capped 50%.
- I had thought about a skill for the Pirate Legend that would allow him to instantly grapple his way to a member of the party in the same map that was the furthest away from him. It would be quite silly for him to generate a vine that could extend clear across the map, so I decided that it could be a skill in the beginner category that the Archer Legend gains after a Level 60 or so quest instead.