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Which bloodline specifically? I thought I combed through them?
I may have possibly stopped after the first page due to time, to be honest.

Everything but the Shades, Phoenixes, and Dullhan are being revamped as we speak.
I edited the three of them just now.

Draconians are being reworked by myself, I should be done with them in a few more days once I finish up the last few skills.

Hello smile I'm considering coming back to the guild, I've been away for a LONG time, I see that things have changed and I have a couple of questions about my potential character.

1. The classes have me slightly confused in regard to subclassing. I see that there are main classes and then specializations within that class. Are the specializations subclasses? Or do you begin with a specialization?

2. The magic revolt on the human character interests me, but I assume blood magic would be off limits as it's part of the reaver specialization correct?

Idk about the rank of weapons hitting techniques anymore with the new system. Im gonna assume it doesn't now and it's based on strength. For the second question, if an attack of SS rank hits a barrier of A rank it doesn't hold.

Str/Spd system is back u/c, and no everyone wont be a berserker because even with the system standing as it is they both still fall pray to the same things they did before lol, and for every bit of power they gained from this i can name a weakness they still have that cancels it out.

Idk what steel forms you're talking about lol. But with stuff like carapace shield from the dreadnoughts(At the time of writing this) , if its an energy based barrier then your dr doesn't affect it. DR only responds to the damage done to your body. So if the "Steel Form" has C rank power, C rank cancels it out, B rank penetrates it.

Sure ill write in that if a skill buffs your allies it can apply to you as well lol.

As for your first question give me a specific skill so I know what your asking.

Donno if I'm allowed to post here to answer but eh. For the SS technique that lasts a certain duration (like dealing fire damage every post for five posts) , if the actual fire damage was SS damage every tick, you'd essentially be doing five SS techniques for the price of one. Techniques that give barriers that have no fall off count do nothing until damage is taken. As for the shield vs damage reduction, I believe all techniques that give DR states that it gives an actual damage reduction, like Blood Augment Body Armor does.

I think I understand what they're attempting to do, though I may be wrong. There are techniques and the like that mirror your strength. For instance, there is a spear technique that is more powerful the stronger you are. A nice choice for a Stat Monkey, right? The problem is, as with other systems and descriptions the growth tag on of the technique is subjective. 'Just how powerful does this technique become if I gain strength?' 'Is it just flavor or just a minor boost regardless of how strong your character is?' I feel like this is what the stat labeling is for. It would be kind of rediculous of someone who has literally reached the top of which a mortal can obtain speed wise, being second only to gods and boss-class mobs that use speed, for this speed to not have an effect of their physical attacks and movements. Yes, for a physical oriented character or a Stat Monkey character it is not at all unnormal for the stats to reach around 10 or even 12. If going up against, say, a Bard, then yes the punch from the warrior would feel like a ******** car hitting them. In the same vein, using their magic spells with a little brain power would make the warrior deal with a torrent of pain, lowered visibility via mists, elemental damage that is more effective against them, people who can create minions to wear out the warrior, people who can heal people from actual lethal damage.

The balance is that while your set stats are not hard to have in the double digits, boosting them farther requires specific character builds (Such as the Stat Monkey stated previous, a character that is aimed at building stats us as high as possible). At the same time, as other classes increase in rank, their ability to destroy the masses with magical destruction, debilitate people into actual retardation, or be the beacon that prevents their allies from falling also increase.

With everything else, power is objective and clearly stated how powerful or weak something is. Something that blinds for a certain amount of posts blinds for a certain amount of posts. Something that heals wounds has the power of said heal clearly labeled in terms of what rank heals what kind of injury. But with stats everything has been subjective. Is someone who is 10 strength able to hold their own in a grapple with someone with 12? How big or small of a gap is required until the difference is actually relavent in RP and in combat? This kind of vagueness and subjectiveness is something that has been in Axiom for as long as I remember. The Mods going through and trying to make these details specific and objectively effect the RP is something that I actually appreciate.


Uh... TL;DR:
If the technique says it reduces damage, it adds DR. Otherwise it's probably a shield not effected by DR. Ranked techniques that do sustained damage would be kind of rediculous if they did their technique's rank worth of damage. For instance, an SS technique lasting five posts dealing SS damage every post is rediculous. Stat changes are being made to probably make stats objectively effect RP rather than subjectively and have value to techniques that pull from said stats (such as a technique that is more powerful the stronger you are)