It would be nice to know what a given ability actually does just by reading its descriptions. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It seems the only sure way to figure out what something does is to try it, which gets annoying for new players.

Descriptions range from extremely accurate to extremely vague, and even misleading.

Here is an example of how a misleading description gave me a completely wrong impression of what one ability does, which is why I never intended to even try it (until I did).

Firstly, here are 3 ability descriptions that are pretty common in the game and make sense for the most part:

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Notice anything in common? They all refer to the caster as "you" and "your", and all of them only apply to the caster. So every time you see 'you', 'your', or 'yourself', you know right away that the ability is applied only to the caster, and not to any other characters.
Abilities that can be applied to other characters use words like "target character", "allies around you", "enemies", etc.

And now here is the Evasive Aura ability:

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Why did I avoid this ability? Because according to that description, it only applies to the caster, and it costs 1SP/2AP, while there is another Aero ability called Uncanny Evasion which does almost the exact same thing, except that it can be cast not only on yourself but on any target character, while it cost only 1AP and has shorter cooldown:

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Also, the 20% movement buff is actually better than the 1m buff of the Aura, because most characters have Movement higher than 5m, so 20% > 1m. So everything about Uncanny Evasion seems to be better than Evasive Aura.

That's until I actually tried Evasive Aura when I got it from an item. It turns out the aura is applied to ALL ALLIES IN A 8 METER RADIUS! When I found this out I started cursing at the game and the people who wrote these things! mad

Could the developers PLEASE stop using this loosey-goosey vague nonsense and show SPECIFICS like "single target", "caster only", "area of effect", RADIUS, etc. etc. etc.
Very few AOE abilities specify radius, which is also BS.

In another post I complained about how the description of the Chem Warfare grenade specifically says it deals damage to Magic Armor, instead of just saying "deals poison damage", which are completely different things.

Sorry for my outburst but I'm sick of being lied to by the game. What is so difficult about saying "Sets Evasive Aura for 1 turn to allies in a 8m radius"?

Last edited by 123xzcs; 23/12/17 01:09 AM.