Aloyzo's Arsenal Discussion Thread

speaking of a video, thought I'll put this here in case somebody wants to listen to a person for 3 hours instead of 20 minutes like Flax & CT5 do



direct links to items on the vid soon, I'm really not feeling it today

 

Did I read winnerS? So there will be more than 1 item? Nice

 

@Lucky Dice
Thanks for the review!

 

Video 1:
BlackVoidDeath's Improvised Rocket Boots
DupleX's Long-Term Planner
Maniafig's Malfunctioning Purifier
Pawndawan's Prickly Defense Kit
Adunien's Mad Centaur's Spear
gulo gulo's The Neuralyzer of the Magus
SirSrsly's The Chopaholic
j3st3r's Colichemarde
LieutenantCommanderData's Shifty Spear
Magic Elves' Pressing Problems
Whammo's Battleaxe of the Berserker
Obernoob's Vial of Stench
Potatus' Boreas Staff of Winter
esthkol's Nervous Self-Defense
rinco69's Greasy Poncho
Wildarm's Pocket Rocket
Robauke's Pike of Pursuit
think_panther's Forgotten Lore
Vlamona's Mace of the Battle Nun
Sir Veza's Axe of Fury
Founder's Magebane Buckler
ElderScrolls's Hammer of the Lasersmith
MathuranF's Mosaic Skipping Rope
SceoMyntan's Mutated Thorn
Wandere's Fantastic Contemplation
Killer74's Heisenberg's Uncertainty Circlet
jdotri's Supreme Hide
y0uthpast0r's Electrical Ventricle
Guises' LoPiccolo's Lithe Leathers
Lord Patches' Demon's Silver Blade
Pyrious' Strike Out Bat
Happenstance's Orcish Stewmaker
trrst's Rogue's March
hello world's Parade Flag
Hidden Jaguar's Quicksilver Coif
WexMajor's Demonwrath Hammer
Inkfingers' Excessive Scouting
Valadilene's Accident-Prone Shield
timeracers' Flanking Tactics
Super4011's Fencer's Laser
hwango's 3-Stage Rocket Boots
Thyrace's The Rule of Five
faraway9911's Miniature Toy Spaceship
Rev_John's Devilish Pact
un hombre serio's Defensive Axe
Balor's Portable Igloo

Video 2:
Lencrennis' Nobleman's Puddledodgers
Mikey76500's Emergency First-Aid Kit
Darkgryffin's All purpose armor
Punf's Tactician's Clogs
the real toast's Misguided Savagery
Scarponi's Dancer's Drainer
Lockheart Valhallen's Sharp Starched Shirt
Kashad's Fire Walker's Sole
Kalin's Autochopper
Dargenom's Repurposed Guardian Husk
VermillionOcean's Duelist's Umbrella
Cycosurgeon's Quarter Pound Chopper
Harvet's Nimble Guardian
sidneiscapin's Unholy Life Drinker
Fanturluche's Deep Reflection
adajon42's Hammer of the Crazed Blacksmith
Vholes' Refueled Mediumsword
BrockRitcey's Barbarian's Club
Krunail's Automatic Forceshield
visak13's Enchanted Helm
Thetianknight's Faulty Finisher
Mama Mia's Gravedigger's Shovel
Lucky Dice's The Button Masher
Master Goo's Overcharged Mini Laser
Shalicter's Tiara of Alienation
40c_rudy's Sarissa
Dieben's Satin Sit-In Zoot Suit
Entangled Quanta's Vaulter's Pole
CT5's Oxha's Sparkpinger
Force.ofWill's The Green Stripper Pole
Deepweed's Cataclysmic Radcannon
Grimmace's The Plain Arcane
Lord Feleran's Cool Shield
Testlum's Visionary
Macizo's Crescent Spear
Haesslicherbob's The Peacemaker
ztan's All Out of Power
setharue's Jungle Medicine
ParodyKnaveBob's Coming Through!

Cheers for the feedback and the videos LuckyDice! Hope you don't mind me linking each item's part of the videos here!

 

Thanks for the review @Lucky Dice !!

 

Interesting to hear the opinions on the item(s) I chose.

 

Good God

 

@Lucky Dice Kinda sad people don't understand why I named my item as such. I shall enlighten thee. AoE damage can also be called splash damage. What else can protect you from splashes and can double as a weapon for parrying but an umbrella? Also the image of a duelist parrying a melee attack one second, then opening his umbrella to block a fireball is hilarious.

 

Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. But only partially - Auto Block is also good against Linear attacks and they don't count as a splash damage. But that's just a minor nitpick. Well done either way!

 

Okay, now that Aloyzo has made his choice, here's what happened with the possibility of including the Muscle Through card:
(tl;dr is in red down below)

1. Leap is a cool card I like, but is underplayed, questionably itemized, and generally considered overcosted.
2. How to make Leap more universally usable? Boots fit all races and classes. I'll make Boots.
3. What card or cards could make Leap more universally desirable? Violent Spin is awesome. Definitely Violent Spin.
x. ~lots of toying around with different move cards, keeping an eye on token costs, fun factors, etc.~ Any other options? Sprint is probably too much. A Team Move is probably too much. Muscle Through is the same cost as Violent Spin, and it'd go right back into the same "we don't want to play that" pile of items. Healing Dash is another card people would be fine with playing; put Healing Dash and Violent Spin on the same item, and Leap suddenly looks viable, yay. And, a major token does not feel overcosted due to the complete set of cards (Healing+Violent, thus Leap shouldn't be complained about but rather considered for builds). And, it certainly isn't undercosted, making Aloyzo's messenger $;^ b roll his eyes and move on. And, it's kind of neat that it's a pair of Boots with three pure move cards -- no armors, traits, hybrids, etc. ~looking at the card art/texts~ Ha ha ha, putting Violent Spin between the other two could make it look all madcap, like *swinging frantically in the center, flinging left! flinging right!* $:^ ] ...now to just try to solve the name issue, including PMing a couple folks due to imminent deadline, because for once I felt kind of "eh" about one of my creations' names...
10. Submit.
(11. Finally hear back from one person (since everyone was asleep apparently) -- who encouraged me to keep the name as it's just fine as-is.)

So yeah, there ya go, I didn't do Muscle Through simply because the whole felt like a better, more usable, item without it. The half-joke thrown around by CH's playizens concerning Flaxative and Muscle Through literally did not even cross my mind. It was not one slightest iota of a factor. The name, Coming Through!, was 100% coincidence because that one card was long out of my mind by the time I was looking at the flavor of my item.

(For some items I submit to AA, I start with flavor first, then develop the item/cards from there. Since this AA was about rejected entries and/or cards, I started with a card, then developed from that.)

Pretty funny hearing a couple people so sure about my motivations, though. $E^ D lol

And Dieben?

Thanks. That was brilliant. $}^ J

 

Like Solid Mail?

 

I didn't watch all of Dice's video, I'll admit, but was he actually positive about any submissions (apart from ones with press the button in them?)

 

I'm positive about most of the submissions, actually! There are some obvious glaring things like a card in an item slot that didn't have this card yet, but other than these, if I say "this item could have..." or something, it's just my take at the item, to make it slightly more attractive or balanced.

 

Touche.

Which was your favourite?

 

Other than my own? I probably hadn't said it in the video, the Long-term Planner.

 

Double forward thinking, uh, i would kill for that item.
I guess the decision was already made so we can discuss items here, eh?

 

He was positive about my item. I was surprised he thought it was viable for MP, since I intended it for killing Kobolds and Roaches.

 

Is this the second or third time that video has been linked to this thread?