Oh god. Oh no. Oh goooooood. Oh noooooooooooooo.
What the hell was wrong with this class card. There’s so many issues here that I can barely hold myself together right now as my hands run themselves frantically over my face and through my hair. The amount of problems with this wasn’t even on a barely usable level, it was downright nonfunctioning. First, why in the world is this class card called <<Demon Lord>>. The <<Demon Lord>> is supposed to be strong, right?!
Was the skill <<Divine Retribution>> supposed to be a joke? Is this you messing with me Focker? Even if the <<Mana Capacitator>> regenerates mana faster, it’s absolutely pointless if my mana pool isn’t even big enough to cast spells. The skill <<Procrastination>> is probably based off me, but why are its effects so excessive? 5x the action speed, but 10x the needed resources? That’s already a questionable thing to use, but then you add in a fixed failure rate of 50%? You don’t even have the resources to use this thing anyway because of <<Divine Retribution>>! It looks like <<Mental Fortitude>> was added to negate the Willpower points lost by <<Procrastination>>, which might have been a good combination if not for the other horrendous pick of skills. But did I mention <<Divine Retribution>>?!
There’s just a weird mismatch of synergy in this skillset and I have only a faint idea of what to do to remedy things. And it isn’t even going to fix the class, it’s just a band aid on top so I don’t get killed with my new grand total of 2 Health points. Can’t forget about <<Divine Retribution>>. I’ve been given 3 skill points like a normal Auo starting player, but in reality, it’s more like 1 to freely spend. The skill <<Perception>> is an absolute necessity inside of Auo, and I can only assume that the same must apply here, so 1 point is already decided upon. Another skill point must be kept in reserve in case there is ever a skill that I need to urgently pick up, and can mean the difference between life or death for me.
Well. I’m already teetering on the border of life and death, so normal precautions can be thrown to the wind if need be. Since 1 point is being used on <<Perception>> and the other as an emergency point, I have only 1 point to somehow cover up the glaring weaknesses of the <<Demon Lord>> class.
To be honest, I don’t know anything that fits the bill. The best option would be to just remove <<Divine Retribution>> and normalize my stats. It should be possible to learn a purification skill, but <<Divine Retribution>> itself is a skill, not a removable status. One of the few flaws in Auo was that there was no way to remove or reset skills. Not that there was usually a reason to, unless the skill was buggy. They never had a negative side effect unless in active use. Detrimental effect skills like this simply hadn’t existed when I played. Aside from removing it, there isn’t a skill that can completely negate it either. Well, if I had hundreds of points, I could have raised each individual stat booster.
However, when compared to a typical Auo character, I would basically be on the level of useless NPCs(non-player character). But since I didn’t have those stat boosters, I was below even a NPC.
*sob*
It wasn’t something that was going to be solved without a great amount of deliberation anyway. Might as well be more productive. Sudden change of thought, right? It might seem odd of me, but I couldn’t help but wonder what was going to happen next. The big white space around me hadn’t shown any sign of changing and the bed which I woke up on was in the exact same place.
So. . . what now? It had been quite some time since the system voice had spoken, and nothing had happened besides me moping around. There were too many questions and no answers given. I was still assured that Focker was the mastermind behind my situation, but why hadn’t he done anything? Besides totally ruining my class of course.
Confirm name. Check.
Confirm appearance. Skipped.
Confirm class card. Got bamboozled.
Learn first skill. . . oh.
If this is just a copy of the character creation sequence, as soon as I pick my first skill to learn, I would be summoned into the world. Probably unceremoniously dumped in the forest or countryside if I had to guess. On one hand, if I don’t learn a skill, I believe that I’ll just stay in this place. But I’ll probably starve and die if I do that. So the obvious answer is: Learn a skill!
<<Intent to use system functions detected. Materializing System: Structure: Menu>>
A menu screen then popped up. Wow. How cliché. And it would get annoying if that message was said every time I needed to use the menu.
<<System messages have been disabled for System: Structure: Menu>>
Uh huh. Okay then. My mind barely registered surprise at the sudden phenomenon. Apparently my mind had long given up trying to apply logic. I quickly sifted through the lightly glowing and floating transparent screens to access the skills list. Looking for.. P.. here we go.
<<Perception>>: The ability to become aware of your surroundings through the five senses. A mental impression and judgement of the things around you.
It seems like a pretty dull skill right? But it’s definitely the foundation for any kind of battling in Auo! As some wise old man once said, information is half the battle. If you can’t tell how strong it is when you fight it, you’re doomed to die! Only pick battles with things that you can take down!
. . . I’m not sure if I can pick a battle with anything though.
<<Perception Lv. 1 has been learned. 1 skill point has been consumed.>>
<<Forced expulsion from System: Structure: ???>>
Hey, who turned off the lights?
Recastdev 