Siodhan

I WANT to get mag to dan 3, but it's impossible :< I'm gonna try to settle on crash shot instead.

I agree. I feel a lot of bottled up anger towards this. Just look at it. 3 entire pages of spam in this section alone.

He's more than likely refering to the hydra+hide combo, which deals consistent damage if you can pull it off, but is really slow and doesn't work in phantasm due to the ambient 1 damage by the ghost thingies. That's the logic everyone who argues against hide uses. I've personally never liked hydra even after maxing it out and I wouldn't cheese anything with it because it takes for damn ever incomparison to how other races can clear stuff, even if it can be a sort of surefire way.

EDIT: To me, hide is just an aggro dropping skill like crisis escape, which actually requires preparation to pull off, so they have different niches.

Being able to use magic missile outside of trans at a dura loss, with trans without dura loss.
Buff its damage because it sucks.
Make it actually deal damage with a wand/staff equipped and make the damage scale with dex/magic attack depending on what weapon you use magic missile with.

Give final shot a timer like way of the gun instead of having to unload and reload the skill every single time you need to load a skill because for europeans that's a freaking 6s delay at times. Make it that you don't use dura while it's active. Make it just a tad longer because it's really short. At least as long as final hit.

Mirage missile is already lovely.


Increase elf magic balance on magic mastery.
Give them extra damage and faster charge on a few of the skills, particularly on the bolt spells, where we essentially get no advantage.

Adjust hide's cooldown depending on the aggro speed of the monster that hit you. If you got hit by something that aggroes very slowly - your fault. If you get hit by 33525023538 monsters that spawn around you and aggro at a delay of literally 0s, it better also let you use it again in 5s or so.

Allow elves to dual wield axes, but don't buff their damage with them. They do need a disadvantage.

Implement a cool-looking elf-only light-armor set that acts as a replacement for bohemian in terms of effects.
Implement an elf-only tribolt wand and elf-only staves which are each minimally better than the celtic ones.

Implement racial skill for earth magic that deals physical damage, but scales with magic attack.

Update existing elf-ally enchants and make them more useful, add some more that require elf-only skills that are actually good (both for magic and ranged)

Lastly, allow giants and elves to marry (if it's not possible already ; I'm not perpetually attempting to marry a giant to find out if it works yet, so you tell me) and allow giants to carry elves on their shoulder.

( I really want to suggest allowing mounted archery from the back of a giant, which would be hilarious, but I think that may be op)

Anyway, I think most of these changes would be balanced. With these changes made, I'd actually opt for keeping elf melee AS IT IS, because we're not meant to be good at it, nor is it supposed to be really easy to learn for us. This should also appease to everyone who wants elves to be good at magic, they will also have a niche (physical spells).
The rest of the proble mregarding archery is a problem with the game itself, not elves. It's way too reforge and combo card dependant to be easily efficient, as opposed to FH. That's another update entirely.

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