RE: Power-ups
03-23-2013, 07:08 PM
Steal
Magic +3
Dark Pulse
Gnarled Staff
Speed +3
Name: Renji (For old time's sake)
In this incarnation, Renji is going to build more towards a spellrogue playstyle than the more traditional sneaky thief from last time. The ability to steal is useful, and frankly fairly necessary to keep the team as a whole strong and supplied with good powers-up, but it needs to be backed with some damage-dealing potential so he's not a fifth wheel when the boss rolls around or an enemy has had all its stuff stolen already.
To that end, he's linked steal with a dark-element spell, just because it seems like the most appropriate element for being a thiefwizard. He originally considered Linking steal with Dark Pulse for a damaging spell with a chance to steal, but decided not to tie his stealing ability to his limited MP pool. He likes the idea of being able to cast less often but more powerfully more than having a larger MP pool that would hit harder over the long term, because a few good hits up front is THE ROGUE WAY, not some big battle of wizardly attrition, so he went with MageUp rather than MP+.
All in all he'd be a first-tier thief and a second-tier caster, primarily focused on roguing until he couldn't rogue no more. As he leveled, he'd balance his advancement between other ways to steal and cripple enemies and expanding his elemental repertory to diversify attack types. He should have decent damage-dealing potential for those times he's not busy enriching his allies with a treasure trove of stolen powerups, but it's not his focus.
Magic +3
Dark Pulse
Gnarled Staff
Speed +3
Name: Renji (For old time's sake)
In this incarnation, Renji is going to build more towards a spellrogue playstyle than the more traditional sneaky thief from last time. The ability to steal is useful, and frankly fairly necessary to keep the team as a whole strong and supplied with good powers-up, but it needs to be backed with some damage-dealing potential so he's not a fifth wheel when the boss rolls around or an enemy has had all its stuff stolen already.
To that end, he's linked steal with a dark-element spell, just because it seems like the most appropriate element for being a thiefwizard. He originally considered Linking steal with Dark Pulse for a damaging spell with a chance to steal, but decided not to tie his stealing ability to his limited MP pool. He likes the idea of being able to cast less often but more powerfully more than having a larger MP pool that would hit harder over the long term, because a few good hits up front is THE ROGUE WAY, not some big battle of wizardly attrition, so he went with MageUp rather than MP+.
All in all he'd be a first-tier thief and a second-tier caster, primarily focused on roguing until he couldn't rogue no more. As he leveled, he'd balance his advancement between other ways to steal and cripple enemies and expanding his elemental repertory to diversify attack types. He should have decent damage-dealing potential for those times he's not busy enriching his allies with a treasure trove of stolen powerups, but it's not his focus.