Elemental Clones

[Kiera Bright]

Technique Name: Elemental Clones


Class: 3


Technique Type: Offensive-Support


Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): All


Technique Element: Multi


Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): The caster makes physical contact with any tangible element around them with sufficient mass, earth, water, possibly fire, and use their reiatsu to turn a chunk of that element into a physical clone of themselves. They appearance is the same as the caster, if they were made of said element. These clones have the same stats as the caster with the exception of 75% the casters OS, and share casters reiatsu pool. The caster is able to control 2 clones at learned, 5 at proficient, and 8 at mastery, and the clones can use any non release tech of the caster.


How to use technique (How is it activated?): A body part must be making contact with the substance used to create the clone, and the caster's reiatsu shapes and controls the clone.


Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) The reiatsu bonds holding the clones together is weak which means it doesn't take much to destroy them. A single blow from anything higher than their OS will destroy them, and they will crumble once they run out of reiatsu. A clone cannot be used to create more clones. It costs 150 reiatsu per clone. The caster suffers drawbacks of spells that the clones use.


Incantation and Effect:
None


Made By:
Keira Bright


Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?): Yes


Technique Name: Clone Javelin 


Class: 3


Technique Type: Offensive


Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): All


Technique Element: Multi


Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect): An Elemental Clone can be transformed from a clone form to a large javelin made of the same element as the clone. The javelin is as long as the clone was tall, so depending on how tall the caster is. The bonds holding the clone in this more compact and simple form are stronger, so the javelin has 3/4ths OS of the caster. When used as a melee weapon, it will strike and peirce like it was made of metal, but when thrown no matter what element its made from, it will splinter off on impact to smaller javelin shards with half the casters OC the number starting at 5 and increasing by 5 per level of mastery. 


How to use technique (How is it activated?): touching a clone and then using reiatsu to reform it into a javelin. 


Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) This technique sacrifices the clone. It cannot be turned back into a human clone from weapon form. Costs 150 reiatsu, and must have Elemental Clone Mastered.


Incantation and Effect:
None


Made By:
Keira Bright


Reserved? (Yes/No) (Can others use your technique, or just your character?):Yes

[Himitsu Kasumi'Oji]

There's some issues with Elemental Clone. For starters, each clone is way too cheap. Let's make it 150 per clone. Also, 2 clones at learned, 5 at proficient, and 8 at mastered would be more appropriate. 10 per level of mastery is kind of ridiculous. Also, reiatsu for the non-release techs used by the clones should be deducted from the user's reiatsu pool and the user should suffer the drawbacks of those techniques. For example, if the clone uses a spell that causes burns to form on their wrists, the owner of the clone should have those burns appear on them. That prevents the clones from casting insanely powerful spells on the user's behalf and bypassing any real drawbacks.

Clone Javelin seems alright to me.

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

Is this technique still being worked on?

[Kiera Bright]

yes I apologize for the delay on work.

Edited

[Zeich Yajuu]

Alright, sorry to get back to this after such a long wait, but it seems that there's been some edits and this could use another review!

Elemental Clones - Admittedly, as a second opinion, I'm very iffy on identical stat clones, even with reduced OS. Let's look at this in worst case scenarios:

Sensory-based Failure: High Instinct and/or Senses, either with a boosting Type, and a base 1200 RS from Failure's natural progression at Class 1. We'd have exceptionally high-reaction clones with a 900 OS, meaning that they'd be on par if not past most people of the same level, with the 800 aim for OS as the baseline. You'd have clones with 900 RS that, while they can be destroyed in a single hit, have all the sensory abilities they need to NOT be hit while still spamming low-level abilities at high OS to prevent drawback issues and still do major damage. A 900 RS Byakurai still hurts a ton if it hits, and that can really apply to any offensive technique that uses that OS.

Physical-based Beast-Clansman (hey, it DOES say all races): Have you seen BC SP pools and stat caps? Imagine a Rank 2-3 Strength-boosting BC at their base of 500. Assuming that puts you around 1000 or so Strength, you've still got 750 OS along with a likely capped if not overcapped speed and exceptional sensories.

These are just two extremes and it's not as likely that they could come up, but given the above of creating equal-SP clones for only 150 Reiatsu each, I feel that this needs to be reeled back quite a bit. Personally, I'd say set stats, since they're creations rather than direct copies (i.e. you're not literally splitting yourself or cloning yourself, you're crafting a replica). Give them static stats, in my opinion. Perhaps make stat sets based on the element used? Like water might focus on speed or sensories, fire on spirituals, and earth on physicals? Just a few suggestions.


As stated prior, I also see no issues with Clone Javelin.

[Kiera Bright]

So, another idea then. I give each element their own stat build and increase the cost per clone, but only allow them to use the overall of release? (Disregard this)To be honest, I was in the middle of re watching when i decided to make this, and decided to give this idea a shot while also thinking of a ninja based chari. I am mainly trying to think of a set of reserved techs for Keira, so that she isn't just filled with generic kido and stuff other people made.

[Zeich Yajuu]

Sorry about the week-late reply, it's been a hectic holiday season!

Set stats is definitely a doable thing by element, but the big issue lies in OS. If they have anything relatively close to endgame OS (which I value at about 800 or so), then it's practically like creating more characters in terms of combat. What I'd like to challenge you to do is this: find an alternative to raw OS + user's techniques. Example, maybe focus on what each element can do. A fire-elemental clone could burn targets with a flame using its OS as the stat to determine whether or not it can be put out. This is an example where higher OS would be okay, because their abilities would be less variable and more focused on a single goal. Techniques use OS because they do a single thing or aim for a single purpose. Clones are more difficult given their freedom of ability, hence why giving them full OS would be a difficult thing to balance.

So tl;dr, if you can find a way to focus each different type of elemental clone into a single purpose, then higher OS is doable. Otherwise, build for lowered OS to compensate for versatility of action.