Soldier Only Item Request: Flurry of Strikes

[_______________Jonus]

QL: 25
Description: This 'booster' should be placed in the utility inventory slots, and used when you want to hit very fast with your ranged weapons! It boosts Aggressive-Defensive and Ranged Combat Initiative for 20 seconds - plus 5 percent of a second per Quality Level of the booster. It locks the Fling Shot skill for 2 and a half minutes before it can be used again. The amount boosted varies with the Quality Level of the Booster.
[Unique]

Attributes
Slot: UTIL1, UTIL2, UTIL3
Value: 1000
Mass: 0.5
Can: Carry, Wear, Use
ItemType: Weapon
Flags: VisibleFlag, Unique, DisableStatelCollision

Requirements
ToUse:
Self Fling Shot >= 111
Self Profession == Soldier

Events/Effects
OnUse:
TimedEffect Wearer CriticalIncrease 10 for 15s
TimedEffect Wearer AggDef 50 for 20s
TimedEffect Wearer RangeInit. 150 for 20s
LockSkill Wearer AggDef for 150s

OnActivate:
AddSkill Self AggDef 3

[______________Sredni]

...damn! This is soldier luv you speak of! I'd always thought it was a myth... I hate to break it to ya, but you're probably livin a dream.


good idea btw, would be a nice item to have *shrug*

[Internalfireh]

LMAO!

Soldiers wnan be every over profession, this is an ENf, Ma mix here.

Make it lock FLing for 30 minutes, remove the critical hit modifier and change the fling shot requirement to say.. Adventuring

Now your a Martial Artist!

Firing ranged guns fast LMAO! Not only physically impossible if the gun cant fire that fast but realy stupid also.

[engelstein]

Well, I think there are quite a lot of guns that can fire faster than once every 2 seconds. Has weapons technology declined from now to the year 29476?

[ethernal3]

Yes shub. Much like they currently have targetting scopes that go over the eye but apparantly 28,000 years later they go on the gun again.
~Chris

[_______________Jonus]

Originally posted by Internalfire
LMAO!

Soldiers wnan be every over profession, this is an ENf, Ma mix here.

No it's an Item we soldier could really need.

Adding that item to the game would not make us (the soldiers) über. I don't have the experiance with all the gamemechanics to make the stats balanced, but i guess that funcom could easyly introduce this item balanced.

Originally posted by Internalfire
Make it lock FLing for 30 minutes, remove the critical hit modifier and change the fling shot requirement to say.. Adventuring

Now your a Martial Artist!

Hey let it lock the fling shot for 30 mins on use, ok! But give US that item.

Originally posted by Internalfire
Firing ranged guns fast LMAO! Not only physically impossible if the gun cant fire that fast but realy stupid also.

But you think a flurry can speed up your attack speed with short range weapons?

Just think about the flurry of strikes as an high end spacetime accelerator which a soldier can connect with any gun. When activated the relative spacetime of the gun proceeds 4 time as fast as in the rest of the universe .

[______________Yazule]

ranged people have llts's and melee have flurry, to give a "flurry" to solja only (esp with the 50% crits) IS unbalancing... why do you think they halved crits in the first place? So that they could negate the effect for solja?

sorry bro, solja need a lot of help, but stealing the melee items is NOT the way to do it unless you want to give me an MK generating item for my enforcer? hey, I would do that!

CLASS ONLY ITEMS SUCK

SELF ONLY BUFFS SUCK

[KylSawz]

Ummmm.... At least you have ranged attacks. So, as my dad always said - Shut yer d&*n pie hole boy!

Later

[_______________Jonus]

Originally posted by Yazule
ranged people have llts's and melee have flurry, [...]

Yep.

Originally posted by Yazule
to give a "flurry" to solja only (esp with the 50% crits) IS unbalancing... why do you think they halved crits in the first place? So that they could negate the effect for solja?

Well the TS(Targeting Scope) doesn't work together with all weapons very good.

Just give the soldier flurry as position "HUD3" and you have to choose it INSTEAD of a TS.

Originally posted by Yazule
sorry bro, solja need a lot of help, but stealing the melee items is NOT the way to do it unless you want to give me an MK generating item for my enforcer? hey, I would do that!

Nope, the MK is our best and only good skill, while "flurry of blows" is not the best thing melee based professions have.

Originally posted by Yazule
CLASS ONLY ITEMS SUCK

SELF ONLY BUFFS SUCK

Nope, i like this kind a stuff. It makes professions more unique and special.

[______________Yazule]

guess you dont see my point.

THEY REDUCED CRITS, ie you want your old crits back by stealing THE MOST USEFULL MELEE ITEM.. yes it is exactly that.

llts max out at 15% ... flurry is 20% (but can only use for 30ish seconds of every 3 min). llts is better, but stack them?

ok there is 45%, now add MoP and base chance, maybe a VE or some such and you could get yourself up to 60-70% and we have not even talked about AR being MUCH higher than evades yet.

no, that is is.. just no

it is NOT what solja should get, unless you COMPENTSATE MELEE with oh I dont know MK

how else are we going to compete with a solja workin on 50% crits in a world the rest of us MIGHT max out at 25%.

no, you may NOT steal melee crits and add it on top of your own.

Now please explain how a scope that works ALL the time does not "work so well with all ranged weapons"

and I will say it again..

FoB IS THE BEST MELEE ITEM IN THE GAME

name something better!!!

*edit*

this is supposed to be a skill based game, that is why class specific items/ self only buffs suck, and also why I look forward to playing SWG.

[_______________Jonus]

@Yazule
1. old crits
I don't want the old crits back, really.


2. HUD3
I said the "flurry of strikes" should be at slot "HUD3". As you might know all TSs can only be equiped at HUD3 so you have to equip the flurry instead of a scope makeing it imposible to stack up TS and Flurry.


3. Targeting Scopes
For some weapons (with high crit dam) a targeting scope can be very good, but for those not having high crit dam TSs suck, because of the RangedInit lose. (e.g. LLTS RangedInit. -800).


4. Gamebalance
I do believe that funcom could introduce this item so that it is weaker as the "Flurry of Blows" for the "melee professions". Which should satisfy you.

[______________Yazule]

as I said, you can have what we have if we can have what you have

easy!

*edit*

I DO think that solja love is near the top of the list of needs, I just dont like this solution, sorry.

[______________Sredni]

I would just like to point out that llts are not a ranged only item. Anyone who's lucky enough to have a llts be they melee or ranged can use them. There's been talk of nerfing melee and llts's but so far it hasn't happend has it?

[__________Beautyfarm]

idea itself isnt all that bad, i dont see any reason for a "soldier only" tag however. the FoB isnt enforcer only either.

but then..theres the TIM scope already

[_______________Jonus]

... yes the HUD Upgrade: Enhanced Target Acquisition ... it's nodrop and only drops from TIM. It's no common and its more designed to be a agent item.

I haven't wasted my ips on rifle and aimed shot so far, ...

[Habibus]

Just dequip your weapon, hit a flurry of blows, and requip your weapon.. I do it all the time with my flashpoint and notice alot more higher damage from my FAs when I do (Im a 200 enforcer using a ql 157 FoB and a 159 Flashpoint, i'm such a gimp). But, it is possible to use a FoB with a flashpoint. Guess that's the point im trying to make

[_________Fyrestarter]

hmm so basically from the posts ive seen you want...

to have 75% of people attack converted to heals when tms is up instead of reflected

50% boost to block nanoprograms with a 10% chance to remove hostiles

to reload 25% faster and switch weapons faster

and to be able to give yourself a big dmg/range/crit boost



your right theres nothing uber about that

[______________Sredni]

They're called idea's Fyrestarter, he's just tossing idea's out in the hopes funcom will consider one or two and maby, just maby ungimp the soldiers in some way.

But that'd suck I guess, when doc's arn't able to slaughter us with rediculous ease anymore.

[Centurion3]

Originally posted by KylSawz
Ummmm.... At least you have ranged attacks. So, as my dad always said - Shut yer d&*n pie hole boy!

Later

rofl, sad sad

[_______________Jonus]

Originally posted by Fyrestarter
hmm so basically from the posts ive seen you want...

to have 75% of people attack converted to heals when tms is up instead of reflected

50% boost to block nanoprograms with a 10% chance to remove hostiles

to reload 25% faster and switch weapons faster

and to be able to give yourself a big dmg/range/crit boost

your right theres nothing uber about that

You haven't read my ideas very well have you? You have removed all requirements and circumstances away from my ideas that you can call them uber. If you want to discuss about the whole "vision" i have on the soldier, then go to the my ideas thread in the soldiers forum here. I won't defend any idea exept the "flurry of strikes" in this thread.

And yes Sherrman is right, i am throwing ideas in the suggestion forum, but i don't demand that all of them will make it into the game. All i am hoping for is that funcom gets inspired by one or two of them.