My apologies for not understanding Shield Break's properties. The skill's description for the proc was just misleading as hell to me. I knew that if you attacked an enemy without a shield, it'd resort to damage instead. I just was completely caught off-guard that it additionally triggered a second hit and never personally experienced it doing so when playing vanilla myself. I now that's of my own ignorance and lack of understanding the mechanics of vanilla for fuck's sake. Again though, I admit I'm very vocal and quite often get pissed whenever I lose a match in a tournament setting, but it's not like as if I'm doing so without warrant and insult my opponents whenever that's the case. I don't go out of my way with wearing a trollface saying things like "'YOU"RE AND ASSHOLE FOR BEATING ME X' 'HOW DARE YOU'", and "NO, THAT DOESN'T COUNT AND I'M GOING TO GET WHAT I WANT QQ". If I really were a poor sport about losing Toshiko, I would've still kept on arguing to push for a rematch right now, but I'm not and have conceded that it was due to my lack of incompetence in game mechanics.
The only thing I take to terms with is your claim that I make excuses everytime I lose a match. It's inaccurate and a serious case of spreading misinformation. Before you edited your post, I briefly saw the chatlog you listed, and all I have to say it's pretty sad some people are getting severely worked up and are dramatizing this claim on the FFH Chat (I guess a couple people picked it up on ID, but w.e., nobody should care anymore) over the fact that I make comments and am upfront whenever I lose a match in a video game (Not that you're a part of this group of people). Can you see how ridiculous this is? That's not even taking for granted what you just expressed "every time you lose a match, you make a post explaining why it's not fair, and I get hours worth of chat erupting over how childish you are for never accepting a win gracefully, and for treating every loss as a slight against you by the game's programming, because you're too perfect to lose" Pointing out simple facts =/= an excuse, pouting, or whatever jibberish people are throwing out. After the S1 AI Tournament, more than a year ago, I've only made 10 posts (including this one) and a few comments in YT vids on FFT Arena content. And honestly, the only things I said in regards to the matches I lost since then were...
Dokurider's Updated "Stone Frogs" and "Quackening"
"'*Roll of the eyes* You hard-countered my team design. Doesn't say anything significant."
I'm not saying that's not fair or BS. I'm not even remotely insulting him. Hell, these are very deadly and unique teams. Props to you my man.
Barren's S2 Team and Doku's "Dorter's Most Wanted" from youtube
"Barren's team was a hard-counter with 2x Angel Rings + 2 Defense Rings. Nothing I could do with this version to cope with the immunity to Berserk & Darkness"
"Cursed Ring makes me cringe. Even though it was a counter, at least I almost won both of those rounds. Luck played a role too."
I'm just pointing out the obvious for the losses like I did with Doku's two teams. I didn't harp on them and go on a crusade about it.
Vs Angelus
"Why is a squire doing 300+ damage from a berserked two-handed weapon by doing occasionally two hits to someone who reduces the physical damage output by 58%? That's not fair and bullshit. It's not designed to do that. I want a rematch The master guide doesn't say anything about getting two hits when using shield break with a one-handed weapon. Oh, that's not the case? I'm surprised."
This is pretty much the only one I got close to before starting to pout like a sore loser because I refrained from carrying this on and conceded that's actually how it's supposed to be with shield break even though I personally disagree with a unit being able to equip two-hands and by using this weapon getting access to ''pseudo two-swords" also.
tl;dr spoiler ^, I firmly believed and argued upfront that the Shield Break mechanic wasn't designed that way it currently is asking for a rematch only to be proven wrong exhibiting a complete misunderstanding of one mechanic, and people lumped this into the category of "I always complain when I lose", when that's wholesomely untruthful.
It's very apparent, but I'm only addressing this notion Toshiko because you brought the subject up and I needed to set the record straight. Well, that's pretty much everything I want to say, and that should clear everything up.
The only thing I take to terms with is your claim that I make excuses everytime I lose a match. It's inaccurate and a serious case of spreading misinformation. Before you edited your post, I briefly saw the chatlog you listed, and all I have to say it's pretty sad some people are getting severely worked up and are dramatizing this claim on the FFH Chat (I guess a couple people picked it up on ID, but w.e., nobody should care anymore) over the fact that I make comments and am upfront whenever I lose a match in a video game (Not that you're a part of this group of people). Can you see how ridiculous this is? That's not even taking for granted what you just expressed "every time you lose a match, you make a post explaining why it's not fair, and I get hours worth of chat erupting over how childish you are for never accepting a win gracefully, and for treating every loss as a slight against you by the game's programming, because you're too perfect to lose" Pointing out simple facts =/= an excuse, pouting, or whatever jibberish people are throwing out. After the S1 AI Tournament, more than a year ago, I've only made 10 posts (including this one) and a few comments in YT vids on FFT Arena content. And honestly, the only things I said in regards to the matches I lost since then were...
Dokurider's Updated "Stone Frogs" and "Quackening"
"'*Roll of the eyes* You hard-countered my team design. Doesn't say anything significant."
I'm not saying that's not fair or BS. I'm not even remotely insulting him. Hell, these are very deadly and unique teams. Props to you my man.
Barren's S2 Team and Doku's "Dorter's Most Wanted" from youtube
"Barren's team was a hard-counter with 2x Angel Rings + 2 Defense Rings. Nothing I could do with this version to cope with the immunity to Berserk & Darkness"
"Cursed Ring makes me cringe. Even though it was a counter, at least I almost won both of those rounds. Luck played a role too."
I'm just pointing out the obvious for the losses like I did with Doku's two teams. I didn't harp on them and go on a crusade about it.
Vs Angelus
"Why is a squire doing 300+ damage from a berserked two-handed weapon by doing occasionally two hits to someone who reduces the physical damage output by 58%? That's not fair and bullshit. It's not designed to do that. I want a rematch The master guide doesn't say anything about getting two hits when using shield break with a one-handed weapon. Oh, that's not the case? I'm surprised."
This is pretty much the only one I got close to before starting to pout like a sore loser because I refrained from carrying this on and conceded that's actually how it's supposed to be with shield break even though I personally disagree with a unit being able to equip two-hands and by using this weapon getting access to ''pseudo two-swords" also.
tl;dr spoiler ^, I firmly believed and argued upfront that the Shield Break mechanic wasn't designed that way it currently is asking for a rematch only to be proven wrong exhibiting a complete misunderstanding of one mechanic, and people lumped this into the category of "I always complain when I lose", when that's wholesomely untruthful.
It's very apparent, but I'm only addressing this notion Toshiko because you brought the subject up and I needed to set the record straight. Well, that's pretty much everything I want to say, and that should clear everything up.
/end discussion.