Pokemon Umbral Theatre 1: Where All the Lurkers...Ah...Lurk

[Menarker]

Well, happy birthday Gem.

Proposal One: So, each turn in a Paradigm Shift costs 20 Rage and the Pokebrid/Deva pays for all turns up front? Well, if I'm interpreting that correctly, I think it's a good idea and I would like to approve this.

That was not so much my intent. Basically, a turn in Paradigm shift would only last for the duration of that turn. A pokebrid user could pay another 20 rage next turn if he wants to maintain it or he can drop it. The maximum number of times this is used is equal to the number of turns a pokebrid could have maintained a paradigm shift before (3 at the start and 5 at upgrade) It is really more like an optional upkeep. Kinda like one of those "pay by the seconds" phones.

Cool. Though I think he meant less usable accessories, and more hold items. Also, I'm not sure if it's totally necessary, but very well.

Nope, I meant more powerful custom items for pokebrids (a somewhat higher level upgrade). He wants more effectiveness with support? He can work with that. He wants MORE POWER? He got that covered. Kinda cater more to his playing style. >_>

I'm mainly iffy about this entire thing because
a) I don't really think they need all that much power once their paradigm shifts have been fixed (though I guess most of the above seems allright)
and
b) Menarker is making these proposals. Now, there's two possible motivations for this:
1) Menarker has suddenly become selfless and decided that the game's more fun when everybody has the same degree of power
2) Menarker wants to go pokebrid later and is getting a head start on overpowering that class
I'm reaaaally not sure which it is. I mean, sure, man, maybe you've decided to stop being a competitive douche, but until you've made a post saying "I agree to all the Regulations.", I am not going to trust you.

I said I only want one level of Pokebrid. You all saw me post my upgrade plan list upfront. That means everything other than the alteration on Paradigm Shift doesn't concern me. I wouldn't get any Sync Techs or the custom items, and I would already get enhanced item carrying with Slayers (who always had that ability) in the first place, so all I did was proposed the same thing to Pokebrids (IE: Matt) and he gets a bunch of stuff I would never expect to get myself.

WOW WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT AS WELL. I'M TALKING ABOUT INFLUENCING THE ENEMY'S TARGETING (which, AB, by the way, interpreted correctly as "decide which enemy attacks hit whom") SEVERAL HUNDRED POSTS BEFORE YOU. HUH. WEIRD, ISN'T IT?
Seriously. That's the second time that I propose something for Impact and then you ask for it for one of your characters. Cease thine Plagiarism, foul non-demon.

>_> I "threatened" to slap Drac for copying my custom move I've planned for Umbreon even longer than you did which involved targetting. Don't make me consider a 2 for 1 special! =P

On a similar note, I did say that Drac's techniques even when edited might be too strong to get all at once. That Drac might have to forgo a few of them just on the basis that having 2 or 3 of them might be ok, but all five would border on too diverse.

I didn't get the chance to edit my Cheerful Backup and make the 5 rage gain part into a second move, since that'll make it more natural to explain and such.

I proposed
That Pokebrids don't need to be paradigm-shifted to use techniques
That their techniques be stronger when they do use them while shifted
(AND)
That techniques be stronger, and have variable rage costs (like signature techniques)
That they, in fact, replace signature techniques, meaning pokebrids can choose one at level... 4, 8 and 13 (?)
Note that this would make the whole "redesign paradigm shift" thing unnecessary.

Refer to the bolded part to see which part I'm talking about. I'm pretty sure AB intended that a new sync-tech becomes unlocked when they get a new form and Devas might end up with more than the max of 3 forms and at different levels than when everyone else gets them. I honestly wouldn't vouch for that. Let them get more Devas levels if they want more forms and thus more techs.

See, I don't think pokebrids are all that underpowered. They might not be our best damage dealers, but they have a huge variety of techniques. And if they paradigm shift, they're suddenly damage dealers as well! I mean come on, how much damage has Matt done this turn using hyper beam.

They are not the best damage dealers and they got the worst survivability. No numbers like trainer classes and lack of armor and immunities like slayers (they even got weaknesses). The only thing they got is diversity in move sets which only pumps their offense to be more equal to a slayer in attack if they can managed to hit for STAB and Weakness, and their offense doesn't improve over time like a slayer or trainer does, only their diversity increases. Since the other classes grow stronger over time AND have a good deal of diversity already (6+ pokemons or switchable elemental weapons), the pokebrid's claim to fame of diversity doesn't actually mean very much at the moment. It basically takes a lot of rage for them to become "competively balanced" with the other classes.