Insane Difficulty: FFTA X Upcoming Changes (1.0.4.0) - Insane Difficulty

With college coming up, and not much free time (till now), I haven't been able to put much work into the mod. To add to this, there is a lot more work here than I originally thought.

That being said, though - I have begun work on this again. I want to keep a log of some of the changes I'm making every couple days, just so you guys are well informed (and so I can get input from the community).

You will also be delighted to know that Hance has worked out ALL of the Playable classes stats, as well as monster stats. I will hopefully have those posted on the site as well.

And due to the fact that we had a post dealing with double shot, I will submit the changes for sniper first. Any ideas are welcome! I also felt like snipers were in need of a slight buff - the skill "aim - wallet" wasn't worth anything.

Global Passive Changes

• Concentrate is now a 10% accuracy increase.

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Sniper

WP: Great bows, Guns
HD: Hats, Ornaments
BD: Clothing
SH: No

Double shot (Reason: Doubleshot is now guaranteed damage)

• Second shot is now 100% hit, .5 damage.
• MP cost increased to 12.

Beso Toxico

• MP cost increased to 12.

Death Sickle

• MP cost increased to 24.

Conceal

• MP cost increased to 12.

Doom Archer

• MP cost increased to 12.

Aim Armor

• MP cost increased to 12.

Aim Weapon

• MP cost increased to 24.

Precision (Reason: if no mages are available - for flans/ cutting through tanks)

• Skill deals percent damage based on enemies current HP.
• Skill deals 25% of enemies current HP.
• MP cost is 24

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Assassin

WP: Knives, Katana, Greatbow
HD: Hats, Ornaments
BD: Clothing
SH: No


Shadowbind

• Accuracy is now 25% base.

Last Breath

• Accuracy is now 25% base.
• MP cost decreased to 24.

Aphonia

• Accuracy is now 50% base.

Nightmare

• Chance to add doom is now 25% base.
• Chance to add sleep is now 50% base.
• MP cost increased to 24.

Ague

• Accuracy is now 50% base.

Rockseal

• Accuracy is now 25% base.
• MP cost decreased to 24.

Oblivion

• Accuracy is now 25% base.
• MP cost decreased to 12.

I like the idea behind Precision, is it replacing Aim: Wallet?

For fluff reasons I personally don't like snipers using guns. Viera strike me as being very Wood Elfish, so I don't like the idea of them picking up high tech weaponry.

For game play it is a good idea tho, so I am kind of torn. Gameplay trumps fluff anyday tho, so overall I like it.

For Precision, I think 25% of max would be better honestly. 25% of current is very underwhelming.

Kjata, on 03 August 2014 - 09:51 PM, said:

Was thinking 50% of current as a possibility as well. I'm not so sure 25% of max is possible. What do you guys think of doubleshot?

I really do think these changes will make sniper MUCH more viable, at least skill set wise. Precision (as a true damage, ignore armor skill) will be very strong.

Also, yes, it will be replacing Aim: Wallet.

So Doubleshot will deal 2x hits, and the first one will be 100% and second will be 50%?

Flying_Poodle, on 04 August 2014 - 01:37 PM, said:

They both hit for .5, but the second hit is 100% hit chance. The first hit is w/e the initial hit chance is.

FFTA, on 04 August 2014 - 04:31 PM, said:

It's incredibly unexciting, but fine. All I ever used double shot for was getting 2 chances to kill somebody at very low health.

Kjata, on 04 August 2014 - 05:34 PM, said:

It might be replaced. Not sure what I want replace it with yet.

With this Doubleshot will cost 24 MP total or 12 MP total? Each shot costs MP currently. Normally "Guaranteed" hits have less power and this one would hit above average, but 24 MP makes Doubleshot cost prohibitive,just my two cents maybe make it cost 9? 18 total MP. My primary Use for it is accuracy enhancing too.

Also 25% current is almost always never worth the MP (quarter is terribad), if it's possible 25% max or 50% current would be OK.

And last but not least, most(if not all) skills involving money are bad, barring guaranteed 30 damage at very early game from jugglers.

I like the skillset like this. But I'll just put down some other ideas.

I'd like doubleshot as a powerful damaging skill, if put to two default 100% attacks it's actually a 200% damage skill that retains the problems of normal ranged attacks, specifically it's harder to hit enemies with guns if there are people between the character and the target and it might miss enemies that are in higher positions. I actually like it a lot more as a powerful gunner-only damage skill, so that the player actually has to consider the position of enemies and allies without cutting through everything with a skill, and has a reason for doing that.

Death Sickle, Checkmate and Nightmare are annoying repetitions in the viera skillset, I would change 2 of these 3 to do something else.

I hope you managed to fix conceal because right now it's a very disappointing skill. If enemies could use it too and it also did something like boost or whatever, it would be interesting to use. It might work with some kind of invulnerability until the next turn comes. In that case it's better in the skillset of a character that normally walks between enemies with few hp like the assassin.

Doom Archer is a skill for tanks and it's annoying to no end that it's in the sniper's skillset, I would put it in the fencer's skillset with another name (soulbreak maybe?), and give to the sniper something more hpweak oriented.

I love Precision doing % damage. Thank you for the work you're putting in this, good job :3

I have updated OP with assassin's skill set.

Now - the reason behind some of these changes. I believe the nerfs to assassin are not to severe. There is a chance that concentrate's may modify accuracy to 15% or more. That being said, Last breath should hit around 35% to 45% with concentrate, which is a pretty damn good percentage. I personally love the skill concentrate, and I do not mind making it a must have for an advanced class such as Assassin. 100% KO is strong, but with enemies having actual sandbagging abilities, it won't be quite as bad. Therefore I've decided to reduce the MP cost a little, as Last breath, Nightmare, and Rockseal are somewhat of a gamble.

Ultima Masher has not been evaluated yet.

Doubleshot didn't have an mp cost in vanilla right? I'm not so sure giving it an mp cost with the effect now is really worth it. Going through, I may want to opt out of wasting the mp for a doubleshot when I can save it for beso toxico which will give a constant effect.

Flying_Poodle, on 07 August 2014 - 02:21 PM, said:

Beso Toxico isn't 100% hit.

These MP costs are fairly weak considering you gain 5 (or 6?) every turn.

Ohhh yeah I forgot about that in this one. I remembered everyone started at 0, and forgot they regenerated mp per turn. Having Viera's high speed means they'll get more too.

Flying_Poodle, on 07 August 2014 - 05:48 PM, said:

Actually that is in FFTA2, FFTA has always been start with full regen 5 per turn taken

Immac, on 07 August 2014 - 08:34 PM, said:

Yeah you start with full and regen it every turn.

It's why MP switch is broken as hell in FFTA.

Kjata, on 07 August 2014 - 11:21 PM, said:

MP switch is fixed now. The actual damage will spill over to HP, thanks to darthatron.

Wasn't it MP Shield? Maybe I missed something.
edit::
Damage > MP was the thing, I've always read that Damage to Mp

Well, now it's a high risk high reward character, Assassins used to be sure-kill, now it's more of a gamble unless you have sleepers/stoppers, in which case you are adding more resources to kill a unit anyway.

This post has been edited by Immac: 08 August 2014 - 03:49 PM

Immac, on 08 August 2014 - 03:47 PM, said:

Sleepers/ stoppers will also have reevaluated formulas. But generally, an instant kill shouldn't be that horrible as the enemy will sandbag now (they are actually given white magic spells >.>

Immac, on 08 August 2014 - 03:47 PM, said:

MP Switch is the FFT name for it.