Arbalist Job Thread (Rad/Ramza Skillset Update!)

[tithin]

No stat raising, no status changes, no damage skills. Perhaps something passive then? Or is it an active battle skill you're after?

[Archael]

No stat raising, no status changes, no damage skills. Perhaps something passive then? Or is it an active battle skill you're after?

active battle skill

status COULD be OK

as long as it's not a magical status

(and one of his shots kills defending / charging status currently anyway, so that's out)

I'm gonna get to work on more skills for him soon though

[tithin]

Passion of the Arbalist

The Arbalist serenades a member of the opposite sex, wooing them to the parties side for only one round, due to the fact that the Arbalist never called back the next day. 100% chance.

Ok, it's a thief skill, but it's 100% chance to hit, and it has the drop off of only working on one gender, for one round. This way if you wanted to keep that person on your side, you'd essentially be taking the Arbalist out of the fight to keep them on Charm lockdown.

[Archael]

Arbalist is just a soldier trained in the use of killing using crossbows only

I don't think they are the charmer type at all

[tithin]

Barbed Arrow

The Arbalist fires a barbed arrow / bolt that pins the enemy to the ground, and applies a non elemental bleeding DoT. This shot does a small amount of entry damage.

[PX_Timefordeath]

Last Charge
Must be critical, inflicts quick and berserk on Arbalist

[Archael]

Last Charge
Must be critical, inflicts quick and berserk on Arbalist

WINNER

WINNER

WINNER


however...

couldn't he just keep quicking self in order to get infinite turns and move?

would be too broken / abuseable

but the idea is solid

it's like the "SPELL X ONLY WORKS WHEN TARGET HAS Y STATUS"

but on caster

good good

[PX_Timefordeath]

Adds berserk so the AI would charge the enemy and someones face off. Adding haste would make it better if you can line up the CTs

[Dokurider]

A problem with adding berserk to rangers is that their IQ drops.

[Archael]

then Self What?

[Dokurider]

I was thinking in addition to berserk Dont Move should be added.

[Archael]

What? No. This skill's limitation is that you have to be critical to activate it.

Self Zerk + something else

should be good enough

[tithin]

What? No. This skill's limitation is that you have to be critical to activate it.

Self Zerk + something else

should be good enough

Gotta agree with this, it already has its downturns. I'd personally switch quick for haste / regen, but thats my own take on the skill.

[PX_Timefordeath]

This is how I see the skill.

MUST BE CRITICAL: Unit almost dead so drawback
QUICK: Unit goes before chance to heal
BERSERK: Unit charges TOWARDS ENEMIES which means after he blows up a face, enemies swarm and kill him
Optional haste rewards you for timing the skill correctly but haste + regen instead of haste would break the skill. Also high mp cost would be good as Arbalist = low mp

[dwib]

i think just having berserk & quick is enough. no haste/whatever and DEFINITELY not regen. this skill should make him fuck shit up and then die. wasn't he once called a "glass cannon" after all?

[tithin]

I didn't mean haste / regen in addition to quick, I meant perhaps as an alternative?

[The Damned]

...Er...there are several problems with the idea being supported on this entire page. Not that it's a bad idea, but right now, without Razele doing some (massive) formula hacking, there's no way such a technique can exist:

• There's only one formula in the game that adds Quick--well, technically two since apparently Critical Quick isn't affected by what you do to the Time Magic spell Quick as Lasting Dawn has told me. This formula doesn't take any status on it AND is magical. (Quick isn't technically a status.)
• Similarly, since Quick isn't technically a status, you can't pair it with Berserk in the Inflict Status Code List.
• Speaking of pairing statuses, you also can't remove a status and then add one right after it. If you could, then there would be evil, evil things that I would do.

So...yeah.

Anyway, while thinking about this (I just saw this ten minutes after getting home from work) request, I did think of an idea that relates to status and affecting the caster:


Clear Eyes (is Awesome?): "The Arbalist, being a ranged fighter, always keeps a small bottle of medical liquid with which to cure and even prevent blindness." Uses formula 35, where X is 255 and Y is something reasonable like 10 >=, an Inflict Status Code that Cancels Blindness, and affects only the caster.


This is the only thing that I can think of that would be useful for Arbalist alongside all melee classes without being overpowered for other melee classes like Berserk plus something else is.

(Besides, I believe one of the Reliquian's abilities already does Berserk plus other things--it's the only Reliquian ability I have an issue with to be truthful.)

[PX_Timefordeath]

Haste, berserk, regen and zombie then?

[tithin]

Haste, berserk, regen and zombie then?

Good idea, but zombie is curable.

It is possible to create a new zombie status that is uncleansable though, correct?

[PX_Timefordeath]

Don't think a skill to cure it is in yet but that would help

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