>>Is it a one time use 'instant aim' each time you cast it? It seems like trading spell prep for aim isn't a winning time-battle?

Poor wording on my part. "First strikes" refers to shots you fire at different targets for the first time. The spell stays on you.

GM Grejuva

Is SK working properly for crossbows? Each time I have tried, it substantially reduced the usually impact of the hit.

Reduced aim time is nice, gives some love to bows. Tested in on Celpz and it was fun. Short aim lasting until you get the benefit of it as opposed to only the first aim is nice. Often times I'm arranging/skinning during first shot, which means the second shot is getting the benefit.

Some thoughts:
- I really like the spell and will pick it up when it comes out.
- I did notice that some shots seemed as if they were unaimed. It wasn't consistent but anecdotally happened more often than I'm used to.
- I love the love for bows--all aimed weapons, but really bows--and it makes hunting them feel better/faster.
- Would it be possible to let the benefit scale for follow-up shots? Maybe have it somewhere between full reduction and full aim for the second shot, and then between that and full for the third? In an era without one-shot kills, unless you're under hunting you'll still be waiting around for an aim timer more often than not.
- I'm not a fan of the short duration, but that's personal preference and not necessarily a problem with the spell.
- I am still salty that bow damaged was scaled based on the assumption of dual loading, which effectively made them kind of bad for non-rainjers/barbs. I'd hate to see a repeat of that exercise.

[18:14] Chatter[Raesh] >perc nature
[18:15] Chatter[Raesh] You sense you should just howl.

Because of one of the aforementioned easter eggs, shots affected by this spell are going to be particularly bad against celpeze. Germish'din should be fine, though. I'll observe in game.

>>Would it be possible to let the benefit scale for follow-up shots?

Probably not. It is very potent at the high end.

>>I am still salty that bow damaged was scaled based on the assumption of dual loading, which effectively made them kind of bad for non-rainjers/barbs. I'd hate to see a repeat of that exercise.

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying that bows might end up nerfed because of SK?

GM Grejuva

I'm finding that SK appears to reduce the effectiveness of full aim on black apes. My first arrow was consistently a 'heavy strike' with SK. Without SK it was generally 'powerful / awesome'. It also would take four arrows to kill the ape with SK active as opposed to three without.

Zephyria

Okay, I see what was happening. Just made a couple tweaks:

- The special shot can no longer be bad against any creature, unlike what I previously mentioned.
- The special shot should now always be at least as damaging as a regular shot.

Also, just so that everyone knows what to look forward to... This spell can reduce aim time to 1 second.

GM Grejuva

Hey Grejuva,

My quick observations:

With bows, every aim had the SK messaging, really nice hits with dual load sniping.

With slings, every aim had the SK messaging but never saw a first hit higher than a heavy hit.

With crossbow, more specifically weathered stonebow, only the first aim had the SK messaging and 1 second aim timer. Additional aimed shots did not generate the messaging. First shot Damage seemed to only generate extremely heavy or powerful hits.

All combats test had my capped STW, SOTT, SKS, EM and CS, and using only snipe on malchata.

-Kivi

>>Any chance you can make it go back to the pre-SK eye color for both eyes?

I'll see what I can do.

GM Grejuva