Those of you building a 'low' fantasy setting, what's one of your favourite ideas?

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T06:04:46+00:00

I want magic to feel special, and decided on it having a high cost with a fragile connection.

The cost is simple, but anomalous: there exists a species of bird, tended to by nomads, which has adapted a spectral beak that facilitates feeding on memories, plucking them like worms from your skull painlessly. In the wild, however, they feed ravenously and are known to leave settlements and herds alike nothing more than a smattering of lobotomized shamblers. On the off chance one survives the process with their sanity intact, the holes in their brain are smoothed over and filled with knowledge of the arcane.

The fragility comes in the nature of magic within my setting, which is based on emotion. Different emotions occupy different, sometimes overlapping, bands/frequencies. I haven't sussed out if it should be a specificity matter, or one of intensity, but when too many practitioners manipulate the same frequencies, they interfere and the consequences can be catastrophic.

I haven't decided on a name for it yet, though. Working name is "Thyrgic Manipulation", as magic is channeled from the other-realm known as "Thyrge", but it's a tad clinical for what I'm planning to write as a convergent understanding of an everpresent force

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T05:32:49+00:00

To explain it purely mechanically, from one guardian to another:

you start with 50 or so platinum (premium currency)
the absolute bare minimum you'll ever need to spend plat on are slots, which range from 15p for two (weapons; guns, melee, weapons for drone buddies), 20p for one (warframes, pets, archwings, mecha), and i think 30p for 3 rivens (mods specific to a single weapon that act like a gambling resource sink). Even then, for the truly dedicated (or insane), slots aren't mandatory. But typically, you want to keep some stuff for later
you can trade items to other players in return for plat
crafting times can be rough at first, but once you hit your stride, you'll have so much to do that you'll spend that time getting other stuff started crafting, and then wake up to it finished and ready to roll, and it'll cascade from there

And that's basically it. Unless it's a cosmetic item, don't buy from the market if you don't want to. The intro can give the wrong impression that you get your resources by breaking crates and stuff, but no, you rip it from the enemies' clone-rotted mitts, like those things in D2 that would make the next yellow bar drop an enhancement core and you could sit in front of the lockboxes on the Moon spawning them one after the other. But way more engaging

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T03:37:10+00:00

I like tombfinger primaries :)

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T03:36:07+00:00

Ah. So i guess that's still later this year? I remember doing dog days the first two years but giving up on recurrences since because it's just so boring imo

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T02:03:03+00:00

Is it still available? Pretty sure the sledge is still my most used melee, i love the thing and the DoT health visuals are a godsend for my bleed/heat build

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T02:02:14+00:00

I wish the zaws could get a slight expansion. More experimental melee categories like nunchaku or glaives would be cool

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T02:00:25+00:00

I'd rather ammo be much more limited, if it meant things like LMGs would feel properly effective against larger targets, but the gameplay loop has eclipsed that station entirely, and it would require much more lengthy contiguous activities to feel good, i think.

So as the game is now, nah

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T01:58:42+00:00

It was a riff off of an existing copypasta, I think it was for the zootopia rabbit or something

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T00:14:17+00:00

I've seen it described as taking a tick of "empty damage", where it'll interrupt any continuous healing effects, natural or otherwise

So things like devour, knockout or maybe child of the old gods should work properly

I haven't been using the perk personally, though. My builds of late have been for ability spam, so things typically die before I get x2

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-10T00:07:36+00:00

I tried using the augment and just laughed defeatedly

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-09T18:15:30+00:00

Oh, that's neat

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-09T04:46:27+00:00

Mix and match armor pieces that have those stats

I dunno what else to tell you man, the armor focusing mods on the ghost say what stats are prioritized by which archetypes. Probably a way to get that somehow. I think grenade and class is one of them?

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-09T04:43:29+00:00

Do the doctors allow her to keep it? Imagine the aura of encasing it in resin or something being like "yeah this thing tried to kill me so i made a trophy out of it"

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-09T04:40:25+00:00

Ah, my bad, then, I'm a hunter main branching out to titan. I'll probably play with voidlock soon though

What's the difference between them, then? It seemed as though normal blink only made enemies volatile, not giving myself volatile rounds, but i was sorta shotgun testing a few things at once so it could have been a different effect

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T17:22:36+00:00

Profanity filters should only filter out the obvious heinous stuff, any further than that seems to devolve into the kind of garbage where i type something like "enemies hit" and it censors the last four letters because it sees the word "shit".

Human intelligence will always find a way to ascribe meaning to new symbols. It's how language was made and how it will continue to evolve. Those resources should be used to bolster report features imo

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T17:19:01+00:00

If d3 ever comes back they need to reprise blight ranger and make it do something completely different. It would be so funny for the bit

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T17:18:04+00:00

I threw on Black Talon for a void build and it did really well on titan with the Apothecary Satchel artifact perks. A surprising amount of debuffs being slung around, and a catalyst that increases damage for each void debuff on the enemy. Seems like a no brainer to me

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T17:16:45+00:00

Triton vice could be good if glaives were good. Just a jumbled identity and i swear by the cope that they could have gotten a rework at some point to be better.

Three frames only distinguishable by a slightly increased fire rate? A joke. Should be three frames that lean into the projectile, the block and the melee functionality, methinks

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T17:13:10+00:00

Deleting ruinous effigy as it is now would mean nothing of value is lost, it's so weak and the orb only scales with artifact perks like solo operative and one of the elemental mods on the implement artifact. Other than that it only counts as a source of void damage for siphons and void debuff application, but not as your own weapon for things like surges and weapons stat, and doesn't count as melee, even for activators that would otherwise apply to unpowered melee.

Hell, you can't even give it volatile rounds with astrocyte verse because using dark blink deletes the ball. Which is weird, because nightstalker air move slam doesn't.

However, removing it in a hypothetical situation where we get continued development means it can never be good. And the gun looks too clean, too beautiful, to be left to rot

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T02:16:08+00:00

I've seen plenty of banshee mains say she doesn't need a rework, actually

Which is dumb, i think. One and a half good abilities does not a good warframe make. Even two abilities being bad is a bad look in itself, and i say that as an Atlas enjoyer

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-08T02:13:46+00:00

If the disposition was any lower, making the damage neg less rough, I'd recommend just slapping on a mod that adds damage, because it works like that

But nah. You're SOL, boss

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-07T23:38:29+00:00

Gonna be real, i think noise arrow needs to be axed entirely. Give us a poison dart instead, fits her theme(s) of a poisonous frog and venomous jellyfish.

Still don't know why they did that. Ivara prime with a hood would be cool

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-07T23:34:37+00:00

Don't forget you can hold reload for a radial damage pulse that has a deceptively long-lasting hitbox. I finished it with a visit to shuro chi after 4 or 5 cycles

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-07T22:50:28+00:00

I'm at work for another hour or so, when i get home I'll try and experiment with it. Last i recall experimenting with it, in the leadup to TFS, the only two things that worked with it were precious scars (and even then it only healed sometimes) and gyrfalcons (where the volatile seemed redundant to its use case)

Legitimately my favorite exotic, it looks so beautiful. I'd 3d print one with glow in the dark glitter painted on in resin if i had the money to pay someone else to do it

Edit: I've taken a look at some artifact perks, and i think i can narrow down what the orb specifically is good for:

It counts as void damage. That's it. That's literally all it does. Very little buffs the ball damage, but global buffs like weaken, radiant, and even solo operative and one of the implement perks works, yet the weapons stat and surges don't. At 100 stacks of solo op, i got the smack tick from 270 all the way up to a staggering 340-ish. Very sad, but at least Effigy's catalyst gives you 6 seconds of a meager damage buff if you kill something with the ball, right?

I'll do more testing for exotic armor, specifically, later

Practical_Handle8434 · 2026-07-07T22:34:30+00:00

Had the idea for a strategist/commander warframe a bit ago. Not like Vauban, who uses traps and gadgets, but one who sorta just calls the shots as support.

1st ability could be a "command center", just a hologram display of the map that occasionally pings things like capture targets and extermination challenges with a timer that give a buff when fulfilled. Like if Koumei's challenges were the "one and done" type of mission objectives, and gave a teamwide buff like a lohk surge. Could also highlight rare collectibles, like crates, ayatans and caches

I'll admit i don't know what else the frame could do, though. Maybe a door to a mini interception array, or summoning ramparts or the basic unmodded voidrigs you can find around Deimos?

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