Third release, shield strength

[adele]

Ok, I am somewhat new here, still. I have decided to make it my task to become a Vandenreich Sternritter. Sternritter J to be precise. But without getting into too much detail about my character I'll be straightforward.

I've hit a wall with powers. I am stuck on my third release bow. I do have tons of ideas, but I don't deem any of them doable, except two (up until now). For reference, every release stage of a Quincy bow gets two properties. On release stage three, these properties can be anything the user wishes them to be. They of course (as properties should) work together. The first one is called "shield", and with shield my problem begins. My second property and it's relation to shield will be explained after I've explained my problem with shield. So, as a Quincy, I would need considerable reiatsu strength of course. But I don't know how to measure the strength of reiatsu shields. (think droidica shields from star wars, that's how it would look). The thing is, this is not just one simple shield to have a defensive advantage in close-combat, this is a shield that is supposed to influence 6-7 different objects apart from me, that are all part of my release.

This is tightly wrapped around my second third release property which is called "radar". This gives the 6-7 different objects the ability to, much like a radar shoot out waves of reiatsu that scan the area around them (haven't decided their range yet) and transmit them to my character's mind giving her a much better insight on her surroundings and environment. Now, I want these objects to be shielded, because like every radar, they should not all be in one place, but be able to be scattered around, all over the place. And now I wonder, how strong would this shield be that protects not only me but 6-7 other different objects? These objects btw, are... rifle sized. About the size of a rifle, or the size of a shotgun.

The second part of my question is something that popped up in my head during the process of writing this. I haven't found rules on breaking weapons. I am sorry if I haven't read the rules correctly and skipped the part where Kuroi talks about breaking the weaponry of your opponent. But could somebody, someone who has a merciful heart for lazy-asses like me, who perhaps haven't read the rules correctly, help me out on this second part of the question?

>.<

I apologize once more, and thank anyone who decides to respond to this.

[Deleted]

Considering this is a level three bow release, it can be pretty strong, but it should probably be relative to your character's RS. I'd say something to the effect of "Requires 50% more RS than my character to break through the shield" but "has a cost of X reiatsu per post per shield to maintain the shields" and "has a limit of X shields at once." If the shields are invisible, which I think is what you're going for, then you should make them detectable with X in ES. I'd also include some detail to make it so that you can't just immediately re-shield something that has a shield break. I'm not sure exactly how to fix that one, but otherwise you could just infinite-loop shields for free protection. Perhaps if their creation wasn't instant, that could be enough.

For overall ideas about the powers, check out the profile linked in my signature. Amaya actually does somewhat similar stuff to both of your ideas with Tattersall and The Eye.

If memory serves, you can shatter your opponent's weapon with a 2x RS difference, but don't quote me on that one.

[Myzaraphiston Synderfell]

All righty then. Hello there, Hakai. Now, I'm gonna try my best here to help ya out with your little issue, and my answers probably are going to be decent enough. I would just like to throw in a general disclaimer of how I'm not a Mod, so therefore you shouldn't necessarily hold my advice here as the gospel of this site.

That being said, I think I know of a way to address your issues. Generally speaking, shield-like defensive techniques are going to work off of your Reiatsu Strength (RS shorthand). There really isn't an exception that I know of in this regard, so this is really a quick and easy way to figure it out. If you want it to cover multiple things, my own personal suggestion would be giving up arrows shot to get the shields (essentially converting the arrows into the shields around your radar things or what have you.)

As for breaking weapons, generally your opponent needs to have double your own RS to break it. HOWEVER, I'm not sure exactly how you go about breaking a Quincy's bow, seeing as it's made of pure reishi and can be re-formed from ambient reiatsu fairly easily.

[adele]

Thank you all for the commentry. As for Amaya, your idea for the technical part gave me some inspiration, thanks ^^

But I still have one more question, something I wasn't quite aware of as I thought for purposes of balance and for the sake of fairness that Quincy weapons could be broken to an extent without that quick repair.

[Deleted]

Kyomei said in chat that their release weapons can be broken, but their non-release bows can easily be reformed. He's staff and has a Quincy, so I'd say he's probably right on that one.

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Not going to lie, that was a "off the top of my head" response based on logic and the fact that Quincy bows are constantly taking reiatsu from the user. So obviously, as always, Zou can overrule me on that front if I was wrong.

[Zou ۞]

Depends on the bow. Quincy have the option to have material bows OR reiatsu based bows. Break a reiatsu bow? Quincy spends necessary reiatsu to re-release it. Easy. Material bow? That's gone. They're just wasting their reiatsu at that point trying to reform it. This is why reiatsu bows would probably have the most popularity.

That said, the counterbalance to these apparently indestructible Quincy weapons (there are actually many weaknesses that they have, which a material bow would not) is that released arrows act as human world projectiles would unless given additional effects. But this means that regardless of how strong an arrow is for example, if it's flying at you, you can knock it out of the air, or stop its momentum, or cut it very easily with your sword. Arrows are very low level, flimsy, fragile projectiles compared to the likes of a Sokkatsui or a Cero. That's the big counterbalance, but there are several others.