Delenne Arran
Ivory Hounds
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Posted - 2013.07.20 02:12:00 -
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Hm... variety is good, but I'm not sure they'd really fit in with the setting of DUST. ((EDIT-- By which I mean, we barely use swords now. It's a bit hard to believe they'd use them in the far off "Hey, we colonized other planets" future of the EVE universe. With Nova Knives, you can at least kinda halfway argue that you can use a knife in ways other than as a weapon, but even that falls apart when you consider how they work...)) Also, I think your fitting requirements are a bit low, but that may just be me overestimating what's a fair amount. It "feels" like they should have relatively high reqs based on how I've gathered the Nova Knives work-- by using an internal igniter and gravity field to make a "blade" of plasma. But then you look at the Nova Knife reqs, and they've actually got the second-lowest requirements of Sidearms, so... I dunno. No real opinion on swords, I guess.
I personally probably wouldn't use them, but I suppose they could be a pretty fun weapon to have on the field. Maybe give them something other than "better reach" to differentiate them from Nova Knives-- Compare the Flaylock and the Mass Driver-- the former fires straight, quickly, with a tight blast radius and high splash damage, while the latter arcs and has a larger clip and blast radius and much less splash. Perhaps a Halo Plasma Sword-esque "lunge" attack. It'd have to drain stamina quite a bit to prevent spamming for the quickstep.
As an aside, I always thought it was "wakazashi", with three As. |
Delenne Arran
Ivory Hounds
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Posted - 2013.07.20 03:30:00 -
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Shijima Kuraimaru wrote:
I've based the suggested fitting reqs on the differences of the light arms and the comparative fitting reqs of the nova knife. Also, the nova knives aren't plasma blades. When charged, the edge of the blade carries a high energy plasma charge to facilitate shield/armor penetration.
Ah. Most likely I just misunderstood the description a bit. I don't use them myself, and have rarely if ever been hit by one from the front, so don't really know what they look like beyond the picture.
Quote:The differentiation is not just a larger blade, but a slower attack speed with a higher damage. Really want to differentiate it and generate a river of tears, give it a sweeping strike that hits all targets within a 165 degree ark across the aim reticule of the wielder's visual plane at full reach distance.
That could be pretty interesting, actually...
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Nope. It's actually wakizashi with an "i".
Huh. So it is. |