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[Patrick Hunt]

I'll stick where I am.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I'm going to need to head up front for Tower Stance to do anything next player turn.

[Patrick Hunt]

Switch with Bob? Everything other then boar E is about to come after me anyway except maybes Kyle's if his attack stops my aggro working.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Point taken. I was looking to guard Ifeex, as Bradley has more than enough health to come out on top, but I think I may need two turns to reach him.

[Patrick Hunt]

Yeah your out of range, if the archers shoot at E to help the 2 on it then it won't survive our next turn. Oh yeah, Ifeex is a tank too I forgot that.

[kj1225]

You know, this is a pretty crap time to mention that my sword skill doesn't work.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Wait. How will Tower Stance work? Does it apply on Shiina and the protected player through player and enemy phases?

[Patrick Hunt]

It must, it's a sNags reduction so it has to last until the next player turn.

[Twinwolf]

You know, this is a pretty crap time to mention that my sword skill doesn't work.

Sword Skill... CRAP... I forgot about it... In that case, you're on E3, but not able to act next turn.

[ragnarok97071]

I need to us my ss some time just to see what the damage on it is, considering the rediculous requirements for it to proc.

Seriously. You lose your action that turn, and it fizzles if nothing attacks you, plus the stun even if it fails...

[Twinwolf]

I need to us my ss some time just to see what the damage on it is, considering the rediculous requirements for it to proc.

Seriously. You lose your action that turn, and it fizzles if nothing attacks you, plus the stun even if it fails...

It's a balance thing, even in the show. Otherwise combat would be a string of Sword Arts doing crazy damage every turn.

[Patrick Hunt]

Unless you put a 1 turn cool down on the skill itself instead. But I dunno if that'd be balanced or not.

[Twinwolf]

Unless you put a 1 turn cool down on the skill itself instead. But I dunno if that'd be balanced or not.

Then you're still alternating between damage and massive damage. There has to be some consequence, one that might make you not use a Sword Art every single opportunity.

[Patrick Hunt]

Yeah. I'm guessing we can use a turn to block/hunker down behind a shield for increased defense as a normal action?

[Flying Dice]

That's why the self-stun is there. Otherwise people would just SA -> back off -> SA chain forever. If using it didn't make you vulnerable, there would be no reason to not hammer that every time they came off CD. Once you had more than one, it would be an endless MMO ability rotation, which is pretty much diametrically opposed to Kayaba's intent with the skill-based system.