[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Runespider]

It seems you're not up-to-date Runespider.
The 14 new WSs are already on the test server and they are unlocked through merits.
Each WS can be upgraded up to 5 times, total upgrade of the category is 15 atm, which means up to 3 maxed-up Weapon Skills.

Oh I didn't know that, thanks for clearing it up. Love the way they did it too, needed a reason to merit again.

[Zaknafein]

Camate, I shall give you my Chocobo's first born if you get those other weapon skill videos soon. :Q

Get your @$$ off of skyrim..my duchy earring only has one charge left. This is an emergency!

[Dragoy]

I do hope the Hume one will be better than Blade: Hi.
Never liked that one; it's just awkward. :[

Wish they changed that while at it!

[Zhronne]

I would have liked single different quests for each weapon more, but that would have been too much work, they have limited resources and chose to spend them into developing new animations.
There's also a quest to unlock them, but it's a single one you need to gain access to the new category.
Overall not bad, still better than having them bound to rare and exclusive weapons.
They also made them widely accessible to a lot of jobs.
Examples? SAM on Archery, THF on Markmanship, SAM and WAR on Polearm, MNK on both Club and Staff, etc.

You'll see me whine quite a lot about the current category cap though, will be really hard for me to pick just 3 of them... Really hope they're going to increase it to at least 20 sometimes in the future.

[Zhronne]

I do hope the Hume one will be better than Blade: Hi.
Never liked that one; it's just awkward. :[

Wish they changed that while at it!

You mean the animation or the stats?
Blade: Hi is just Blade: Ten with different special effect (the fire thingy instead of the Tornado one)

[SpankWustler]

H2H: Shijin Spiral Five-Hit WS, Additional Effect: Plague. TP mods chance of Plague.
Dagger: Exenterator Four-Hit WS, Additional Effect: Accuracy Down. Duration of effect varies with TP.
Sword: Requiescat Five-Hit WS, Non-elemental damage. TP mods Attack (Not sure what it means by this)
Great Sword: Resolution Five-Hit WS, Damage varies with TP.
Axe: Ruinator Four-Hit WS, Accuracy varies with TP.
Great Axe: Upheaval Four-Hit WS, Damage varies with TP.
Scythe: Entropy Four-Hit WS, restores MP based on damage dealt. Damage varies with TP.
Polearm: Stardiver Four-Hit WS, lowers enemy critical hit evasion. Damage varies with TP.
Katana: Blade: Shun Five-Hit WS. TP mods Attack (Same characters as sword)
Great Katana: Tachi: Shoha Two-Hit WS. Damage varies with TP.
Club: Realmrazer Seven-Hit WS. Accuracy varies with TP.
Staff: Shattersoul Four-Hit WS. Lowers enemy magic defense. Chance of effect varies with TP.
Bow: Apex Arrow Triple Damage that ignores defense. Amount ignored varies with TP.
Marksmanship: Last Stand 1-2 Hits, based on ammo remaining. Damage varies with TP.

Assuming this is accurate (and it sounds very accurate to me), the damage of the new weaponskills will pretty much depend on their respective modifiers. Which makes sense, given that modifiers are apparently the bit additional merits will affect.

[brayen]

I really dislike the way they did these WS. The fact that you are stuck unlocking only 3 or if you are to unlock more you rightfully gimp them all. You can only be on one weapon skill table at a time so this is just trying to force players to specialize on fewer jobs.

[Werewolf]

I don't think any freebie WSs should ever out perform ultimate weapon WSs or even be in the same league as them.

Someone should have told them this when they made Blade: Metsu, it was just a fancy Blade: Jin with a nice but now useless aftermath (seeing how easy it is to cap Subtle Blow now) way before Blade: Hi ever came out :\

[Zhronne]

I really dislike the way they did these WS. The fact that you are stuck unlocking only 3 or if you are to unlock more you rightfully gimp them all.

That's not true, you can unlock them all and have a free upgrade to spend on one of them.
What you can't do is get them all to max level, which is something I don't like either but I guess we'll learn to accept.

Really do hope they'll increase the category limit from 15 to something higher though, 20 or 25 for example.

[Lessina]

Anyone with the French or German test client feel like making a video?

I personally just want to see what the others look like.