Midnight Waltz movesets, Let's fuck this up again

After some hard thought, lots of fail, and plenty of chastising from Amps I've started to rework the move-sets from the ground up, adding and removing features from characters to make them right instead of completely broke. I'm just posting this as a test for now and I'd like feedback if you guys can just skim through and see if you see anything severely wrong. Given I posted this without really sleeping much there are probably countless errors..

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Claude Redstroke's move list. Mostly the same but modified for aerial friendliness and Mystic Arte balanced. Tried to keep continuity between movelists
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Claude Redstroke's Dual bladed move list. Deciding to give Saphira and Reinald detailed and different movesets for the lulz/balance
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Arkam Zarrock's move list...updated to nerf his spells and buff his melee a bit while keeping him beatable. Silent Gaze was removed from his combat spell list due to the realization it's impossible to really avoid and it's easy to troll by constant party swapping. Added a little quirk to the formatting for those of you who know the Tales series to notice it.

This post has been edited by Skillkill on Apr 23 2011, 08:34 PM

Reinald's move set. Should have a much lower emphasis on finesse and a very strong emphasis on brute force.

This post has been edited by Skillkill on Feb 27 2011, 01:02 AM

Does Pandemonium Purge launch 40 bolts, or does a single bolt inflict 40 hits, or does it continue until 40 bolts have hit the opponent?

Does Heathen Blade no longer destroy the weapon that caused the explosion?

Does Ecartez work if not all of the opponent is within the glyph (ie., only an arm is within range)? How: is the entire person transported either way, or does dismemberment ensue?

40 bolts radial, assuming every hit on a body's center mass connects, I'll fix.

It does but Claude's current equipment self repairs so it's only a mild in-convenience now. So for all intents and purposes no.

The latter.

Thanks TNT, been waiting for someone to point stuff like this out D=

Sure, I guess, though I don't know how much help I can be by just asking random things that pop to mind.


Does Abandon Bite stab the opponent through the back the first time, or not? Would that mean that it only works if facing the opponent's back?

It helps me more than you'd think TNT.

No I mis-wrote that sorry.

Joan
Focused on giving her a unique moveset more than anything else. I'm heavily considering nerfing her magic resist to be more limited but it's still up in the air given how I also want to keep the continuity regarding Koranians not having the ability to be modified as easily as a generic robot, barring her limit break attacks, leaving Joan at a disadvantage against sharp shooters and armed opponents anyway.
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This post has been edited by Skillkill on Mar 15 2011, 07:29 AM

Alpha Strike and Gamma Set are missing their exclamation mark. Was this intentional?
More importantly, WHY do they all have exclamation marks?

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Tau, Rho, Zeta, Phi, Chi, Sigma, Omega and Theta are Greek; Aleph is Hebrew; where do Rtsi and Tverdo fit in?


Punishment Theta "rights a downed opponent". What does that mean?

Why is Phi Drop an Arcane? It's much more simple than say, Tau Rush, which is a base.

Uniqueness is certainly achieved through the Bursts' status upping. How many times can her parameters be increased before hitting a cap? Or do they not hit a cap at all?

Bowing seems like a more fitting "finish taunt" so to speak for a move called Gallantry, but perhaps that's just me.

Does the spinning in Ambush Beta's aerial version change the move?

No major reason, just boredom and it's totally in character for Joan to actually be anal enough to shout every move name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_alphabet

If the opponent is on the ground they're restored to their feet afterward the move connects.

It has to do with chaining order. For example Claude's move Rogue's divide, effectively a really quick swing, is significantly less complex than his move Red drive which is a series of stabs with a finisher, however, it fits better in a chain at the end of a combo than at the start of one because it allows for a follow up whereas Red drive knocks the opponent out of reach.

Or for example if we're going to use Tales of Vesperia logic as the move set is based in...For Raven, Rain of heaven's tears is a move where Raven spins into a flurry of fourteen hits to keep the target juggled, where as Flying is just Raven preforming a spinning kick in the air that deals one hit and doesn't have much flair beyond this. The reason why Flying is an arcane arte is because it chains more adequately into Rain of Heaven's tears as an Arcane.

Only once. It's Joan releasing a limit with the motion, not actually boosting her capacity beyond what she's capable of. And noted on Gallantry, might change it a bit.

It becomes a Shoryuken TNT. D=

Yes of course it becomes a Shoryuken, but is the change just aesthetic or not?

It changes the damage spread, and recovery time more than anything.

Rachel, not finished yet but I'm trying to go for a more unorthodox move-set, and to reflect her generally inferior of skill with her sword her melee moves should be slower here. Her magic should be relatively medium grade unless it's a special but input would be helpful.

Leoric was kind of easy to get inspiration for, just take gambling terms and figure out how to weaponize them. Also a mild attempt to prove he won't be totally worthless in my canon.
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This post has been edited by Skillkill on Aug 9 2012, 08:50 AM

Wait, wasn't Leoric going to have an ultimate where he calls on a satillite to nuke his target?

Thought about it and it didn't really work for the setting, as it'd take too much time to set up. Plus Lasers are Rachel's thing and orbital strikes are Clark's.

Quick notes for small changes, Leoric's first ultimate was updated and has new properties and Rachel's Moveset has been retyped, though a lot less was broken than I thought..maybe I was just tired when I was rereading it. Working on Saphira now but can't do everything at once....
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Faye's moveset was really fun to come up with mainly because I was imagining her yelling each and every one of the move names. But Faye's style is more of a sword and shield berserker with a more western bent than most of the swordsmen characters use around here. Still she's different and she has some unique traits so take a look. D=

Sorta lacking confidence about this one despite the fact I like it. Maybe it's because I'm tired, but take a look, Saphira's moveset go

Kinda feel crappy about this one since I typed it up without any planning, while rushed so it might not be up to the usual standard but I've been feeling creatively starved recently...so here it is.

Erin Redstroke Music notation for Dancer girl, lez go

Noa Taavi
Go go Megaman expies...Also edited Leoric's mystic artes to add his originally planned orbital strike and tweak his first mystic arte to make it far more likely to hit. Gonna start looking around for typos and balance tweaks in a bit as well soon enough.