Crystal buffs for TGR

[SomewhatUnnamed]

I’m ngl, I’m a bit tired of crystal being neglected for the last 5 months (although I don’t blame vetex, getting rid of the meta comes first).

Stat changes for crystal

Stat changes

As some people have said, the planned change for crystal will probably not suffice, so buffs to damage and speed are needed as well

Personally, I think crystal could work well if it functioned more as a solid equivalent of, say, acid, but with higher impact damage and no DoT
All that would be needed would be an increase in speed (0.7x->0.9x) and a slight decrease in damage (0.975->0.95)

For these changes to fully make crystal a viable magic, a DoT (and possibly a new status effect) may be needed.

Separate suggestion for Crystal DoT

@Selector

As of right now Crystal is easily one of the worst magics in terms of using. A lot of magics outclass it whether thats just dmg, interactions, or speed. Currently the planned change is this

This planned change is basically horrible as it requires you to land 5 successful hits to get a dmg boost on your 6th hit.

My Solution: Give Crystal a unique DoT that does 20% of its impact dmg over 5 secs and can stack up to 5 times. This would almost function like a bleed but without the ability to clear the effect like other magics. For a visual indicator you could have a crystal shard poking out the characters body dependent on the amount of hits received.

Which Option is better: 3 Tick or 5 Tick no clears
Crystal: 106dmg 100% Blast, 20% of impact is 21.2 (5 tick dot= 4.24 dmg per tick) (3 tick dot 7.06 dmg per tick) can stack up to 5 maximum and can not be cleared
Crystal (65 power): 169dmg 100% Blast, 20% of impact is 33.8 (5 tick dot = 6.76 per tick) (3tick dot = 11.26 per tick )

For comparison,
Fire: 89dmg 100% Blast, 35% of impact is 31.5dmg (5 tick dot = 6.23 per tick)
Fire (65 power): 143 dmg 100% Blast, 35% of impact is 50.01dmg (5 tick dot = 10dmg per tick)

I approve of most of this suggested change, but I think the effect should be clearable.

This post is a bit unfinished, and it could probably use a lot of changes, but overall, I think it could work. Let me know any changes you think could be made to this post.

[Level]

@SomewhatUnnamed

slight decrease in damage (0.975->0.8)

That’s not a “slight” decrease my guy. This would make Crystal more dogshit than it already is.

[SomewhatUnnamed]

ok well before i had it as 0.95

[Level]

? You’re moving it to .8 damage, that’s literally worse than light’s damage. (Oh wait nvm you changed it back)

[SomewhatUnnamed]

wait really? mb

[Level]

@SomewhatUnnamed

As some people have said, the planned change for crystal will probably not suffice, so buffs to damage and speed are needed as well

Personally, I think crystal could work well if it functioned more as a solid equivalent of, say, acid, but with higher impact damage and no DoT
All that would be needed would be an increase in speed (0.7x->0.9x) and a slight decrease in damage (0.975->0.95)

This alone is enough of a buff to make it good, doesn’t need a DoT on top of it because it’s no longer overshadowed by earth because it’ll be much much faster.

[Cystax]

I was thinking something more like a stackable damage buff where crystal actually benefits from its own status would be cool. so like 5% bonus damage per stack, stacks up to 6, with each stack the duration timer resets to 5-10 seconds (whichever seems more balanced for a duration).;

Different magics would get different bonuses from the crystal stacks. for example, heavier magics could get a larger bonus from each stack (maybe 10-15% per stack) but also remove the stacks and cause a bleed (breaking the crystals on the body). gas magics would get a negative damage bonus of about -20%, and liquid magics would have a neutral damage bonus.

You could use crystal to somewhat build up a high damage nuke with a heavy magic, or keep a sustained high dps with just using the crystal.