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Hello! This is my first time posting here in years. My name is Lain, I am a shitposter. My shitposting efforts have been directed here through both Reddit and Discord. Consider yourself to be blessed by my presence. Also, thank you for clicking on this post.


Let's begin!

TALENTS
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Nearly 74% of all talents have been recycled from Original Sin onto the second game. While many saw improvements to create a more meaningful talent system, the majority of them were left to dry and be abandoned by the player.

I'll list a few examples of this with ways I think they could be improved. This is NOT all of the ones I have things to say about, just some examples.

- Ambidextrous
- "Holy shit". That's what I said when I saw this because
this is an absolutely amazing talent but there are 2
major issues. (Guess I'm not formatting since nobody
can tell me how to fix this)
- No. 1 - Crossbows, Staffs, Greatswords, Anything two
hands works with this skill. You do not need one hand
empty, you need the *right* hand to be empty which
with 2 hands is technically true.
- No. 2 - This brings us to the second issue. This talent is
most beneficial on grenade oriented classes. Archers or
assassins. Archers can't use this skill because both
weapons require two hands (bow and cross). Assassins
can (and should) give up dual wielding in exchange for
this talent, that is fair. However, what if you just want a
shield with no weapon? You can't although it fits the
definition of the talent. You are stuck with a sword and
nothing on a build that is designed for long range combat
(see slingshot)

- What A Rush
- Improve. Why not 1 AP per 25% or so. I have no reason
to go below 50%. I know AP was made more valuable
but that doesn't mean this should be an empty talent.
Maybe add a movement bonus? Just do something.

- Unstable
- New and cool talent. That's all it does though? This
seems only appealing on warriors and even then, most
people would take comeback kid and the pawn over this.
(I'm not claiming that all skills need to be top tier but
this is not going to be taken by anybody even with a specialized build.)
- Give us a small burst every time we get hit with the
burst dealing light damage? Enemies in the blast radius
have their resists lowered to that of the blast - scales
with loremaster. Leaving it at this is boring and a
waste.

- Torturer
- Give us unique dialog options please. Have the statuses
become greater the longer they are left untreated.
Burning for 2 turns doesn't just go out anymore, you get
advanced burning perhaps? This needs something.
- Slingshot
- Great talent with the new height advantages. Allow
crits with grenades without savage sort.

- Picture Of Health
- Reduce Health bonus to 1.5 or 2%. Too much HP as it is.
- Also the user is granted a small second bar that
cannot be regenerated or refilled in combat, this is made
up of the HP gained from the bonus.
- Pet Pal
- Give us a quest to learn it. Make it a learn-able like
spirit vision. There is zero reason for to cut content out
because of a talent.

- Parry Master
- Make it a 15 % or 20 % with a single weapon aswell.

- Ice King
- Bleed frozen blood on hit.
- Immune to slipping. Make Nail+Boots 50% chance not
to slip
- Lock it behind 4 points into Hydro. NOT GEAR

- Guerilla
- Scale damage bonus with sneak. +20% per level and
+5% per finesse perhaps?

- Five-Star Diner
- Doubles the effect of foods.
- All dinners can be crafted in a frying pan

- Far out Man
- Either bring back touch skills or combine with slingshot.
You guys killed grenade builds. There isn't a reason
why should we should have to take 3 talents to make
them bearable.

- Escapist
- Make it cost triple the ap to flee in exchange.

- DEMON
- Permanent bleed fire status on your character.
- Enemies become warm near you.

- Sophisticated
- Why is this fire resist? Does being educated make you
fire immune now?


GAMEPLAY ISSUES

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- Undead players bleed.
- Undead players suffocate.
- Undead players get disease.
- Journals won't be marked as completed.
- Journals aren't helpful. Jeweled Eye in Act 2 is prime example.

I've stopped writing here because I have been encouraged to stop by my peers because they it's unlikely this will be read and to be honest, I don't think that's unwarranted. I'm going back to where the majority of unheard criticisms and ideas are, discord and Reddit. Thanks for reading.