Flight should have useable by the player the same way Tail whack is
- Thread starter Drakani
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flight is a broken stance in my personal opinion where as tail whack.... is not all that good.... maybe add a map speed bonus for having wings or negate terrain penalties if you have wings or ability to move several squares at once
Both of those would be providing gameplay incentives for a (non-soulbinding) TF which isn't the kind of things the devs want to encourage, even if it's just some kind of numbers game for 'what's the absolute shortest in-game time it takes to reach [X]?' and not a combat advantage.
but I like Tail Whack, I find it funny to whack someone with a over grown tail
I admit that I'd miss Tail Whack (even if it's garbage) since I liked putting it on with Prime Target, Dominance, and Tackle as a silly little 'beat them up and turn them on' build, but I can understand and agree with the "no non-soulbind racial abilities" mentality.
tail whack would be better if it made use of every tail (if you go kitsune) but still deals the same damage, just the description on whats happening changes
Eh, I dunno, maybe keep Tail Whack for TF flavor but nerf it? Seems kind of a shame not to be able to use things that a TF would give you. Though having read up in the history of this, I get where the devs don't want to create min-max character builds (never played the original CoC so I have only other people's comments to go by on this topic).
This is probably a little annoying of me but... reading this thread has made me feel a passionate need to share my opinion lol. Please allow me a brief moment to advocate for TF powers: Using your physical characteristics in combat makes the character-creating experience feel more complete, and if some people are so caught up with winning that they put combat efficiency before pursuing a fun RP then that's their problem — not the game's. Speaking from my own experiences, I really enjoyed my sharky character in CoC1 getting to use bite even when an event disarmed her. In fact, that's almost certainly my most treasured memory from that game. If something truly must be done, then I'd much rather see TF-related abilities nerfed into highly niche options than removed altogether.
And thus, wings gave only the player character negative stat penalties and triple weakness against ranged weapons, which every enemy now carries and only lumia's soulbind would reduce it to double weakness and there'd be no way to negate said penalties entirely.