pfft...fell asleep as I was writing my post

Regendorf said
pfft...fell asleep as I was writing my post

GG

Little_ninja said
Lances work in different ways to spears, except for their thrust. Spears can be used more versatilely, whereas lances are more fixated. Glaives wouldn't be an impossible weapon to exist though. They might not have been mentioned or seen since a lot was skipped over. However, there was for a fact that Agil used a Halberd (I think) or Battle Axe of sorts. These two are similar polearms, unlike spears, which are generally classified as a separate type of weapon. Spear --> LanceBut AlsoPolearm--> LanceToo variable
many possiblities

Irl lances and such do admittedly work very differently from one another however games tend to generalise to avoid having too many skills and you'll often see any vaguely similar weapons under the same skill even if they are used very differently (note the animations tend to change in order to faciliatate this). I mentioned the glaives not because I didn't think they were in the game but because I saw some on background characters about mid game (in reference to the SAO arc of the anime) and they generally didn't appear so much later on. Instead I noticed lances tended to be the long weapon of choice so figurd they might be a level progression of the earlier long weapons due to the very diverse range of weapons that tend to fit under one skill in mmos. What I thought this would probably mean is that the low level equivilent would be some form of polearm. From a rpers perspective too I know I would appreciate some versatility in my skills rather than risk being locked into one very specific variation of a weapon.

Little Ninja said
With your stat specsI mean, sure, 9 str and 19 agi isn't a great start for a tank, however, if you go with the next 10 levels with strength, it would balance quite nicely.

i know ideally we would preserve the continuity but I would really be more comfortable respecing... I am going to have to change skills anyway if I want to go down the planned path.

Little Ninja said
I don't think there was anything with shields really, just a higher shield skill meant greater reduced damage when guarding. I don't think there were any shield bash skills, I think that would just be a non-system attack, which may damage slightly and push enemies away.

It is the guard moves I am referring to. There would almost certainly be skills, even passive ones, regarding blocking. Of course you and Caits have the final say in this.

chukklehed said
Hail, I'm uspet that you haven't said Hi to me.

Hi chukkle! Long time no see!

I'm only a little less upset now.

*does a song and dance about chukkle*

*Plays the electric guitar in the background*

I really don't think there were "guard skills" per say. Just that guarding got better in general with the higher <<Shield Equipment>> skill.

SAO has been said to have had an unlimited number of skills, so .... I think they would separate the spear and the lance. Although what you say is true for typical nowadays RPGs, that is not so for them.

Hailfire said
*does a song and dance about chukkle*

Pics or it didn't happen.

Hm.

I would say that there is just a shield skill. You don't need skills really, because how would that work? I think you just need "block"

Regen ...
I was adding two to make figures right
Because you said 6, but I said 4, so I made two more go to actually make it 6 =.=
*sigh*

....aww crap, need to get my eyes checked
written numbers don't pop up for me...

gonna make it right both posts

I think I just double posted -.- sometimes replying on your phone is just a hassle lol

I thought it was a 5% increase in exp, not 50% ....

Yes. Yes. Do not ask how it changed to 50.

I haven't been on recently due to an MST and assignments
Sorry

I should of said something about this earlier ... but with the quest you two are doing, weren't there supposed to be a group of Large Nepents? Why were there Little Nepents being fought and like two larges only?

Also, sorry this post is a bit on the short side.

We fought 5 large neptents and 3 little ones i kinda messed up with that sorry.

mmm. Oh well.

No wait we did it right. I didnt look back i just sort of quesed but now i looked back. We killed 2 large neptents and 3 little neptent before finiding Hina and after we found her we fought off another 5 with the large flower neptent coming up right now sooooo.

that works!

I'm just going to post my party is in tolbana