[Sark] AP Thread 31Oct2015

[Sark]

AP Claim

Bonus justification:
October Art: log-horizon.proboards.com/thread/6308/star-event-celestial-arms-quest
CA 20%: log-horizon.proboards.com/thread/6308/star-event-celestial-arms-quest
Halloween 10%: log-horizon.proboards.com/thread/6695/halloween-hunts

	Main Class
Posts:	Thread: CA 2-5 (Bonus: 10% October Art & 20% CA):  1020 + 1762 + 1064 + 1047 + 889 + 1069 + 1302 + 1621 Thread: Clearing the Way(Bonus: 10% October Art): 1142 + 384 + 888 + 473 Thread: Adventure of the Great Wilds(Bonus: 10% October Art): 601
Total Word Count:	13,261
Total AP Earned:	53
	Crafting Class
Posts:	Thread: CA 2-1 (Bonus: 10% October Art & 20% CA) 1092 +1097 Thread: CA 2-3(Bonus: 10% October Art & 20% CA): 975 + 627 + 867 Thread: CA 2-4(Bonus: 10% October Art & 20% CA): 713 + 664 + 590 Thread: Sark's Stall(Bonus: 10% October Art):  (947 Commerce = 710) + (555 Commerce = 416) Thread: AotGW (Bonus: 10% October Art):  433  Thread: Clothier(Bonus: 10% October Art): 668 +  723 + 701 + 660 Thread: Right Tool(Bonus: 10% October Art): 743  Thread: Halloween (Bonus: 10% October Art & 10% Halloween): 493 + 498 + 498 (yes really) + 487 + 469 (This thread is testing out Dorian's new accessories)
Total Word Count:	14,124
TOTAL AP Earned:	56
	Roleplay Class
Posts:	n/a
Total Word Count:	0
TOTAL AP Earned:	0
Previous AP Claim:	Here

Oh and Gold = 555+947 = 1502 words. 375 gold please!

	Main Class	Craft Subclass	Roleplay SubClass
AP prior to claim	57	44	0
AP after claim	110	100	0
Levels after claim	32	36	1

New Skills

Tailor 21 Runway Model: The Tailor's fashion sense allows them to make clothing that complements a character's gear, making it seem stronger and more impressive. When the Tailor is participating in a thread and a character is wearing Vanity Clothing crafted by the Tailor, this skill may be used to buff an item for 1 hour. The buff may target themselves. The buff causes the item level of any cloth or leather armor worn by the target to increase by an amount equal to the Vanity Clothing's level / 10. Armor affected by this skill cannot have its item level raised past Level 90 by this effect. This skill has an animation time of 5 seconds and no cooldown. Reusing this skill causes the duration to reset.

Tailor 31 Straw to Gold: Particularly experienced crafters acquire the ability to customize a clothing's appearance more effectively, making the clothing look a bit more impressive than it normally is. When the Tailor performs a craft in any craft thread (cannot be a speed craft), the Artisan may apply this skill as a bonus to increase the level of the item by 3. This skill may boost an item's level past their own crafting level. No item can be boosted past Level 90 by this effect. Additionally, when the Tailor is participating in a thread and a character is wearing cloth armor/leather armor/accessories crafted by the Tailor, this skill may be used to buff an item for 1 hour. The buff may target themselves. The buff causes the apparent level of those items to be increased by an amount equal to the Tailor's crafting level / 10 when determining the effects of reforges or enchants. The items' levels do not change in terms of defensive ability, so damage calculations are not affected. This skill has an animation time of 5 seconds and a cooldown of 1 minute.

Bushido: Iaido (Art of the Draw) Passive. Samurai have a honed and disciplined mind. Their visualization and training enable their first strike when their katana is drawn from the sheath to deal additional damage and threat. A Samurai is granted a free Iaido strike before performing a Chain 1 ability or after completing a Chain 3 or higher ability. This skill can only activate once per chain. This strike does not break the chain, allowing the Samurai to perform a skill in the same turn.

Ace Move: Go no Sen (Early Bird, Night Owl) Chain 1. Starts or resets the current Chain. Does nothing if the opponent targeted the player with a magic attack. This ace move follows after the basic concept of Parry, except that it is used in an aggressive manner to build up momentum. The user predicts an oncoming attack and counters it by striking the opponent's weapon with their weapon and then pushing onward into an attack of their own. Gonosen is typically performed with a melee weapon, but its concept can also be used to deflect an opponent's arrow by shooting it off-course. To deflect ranged attacks in this manner, the Samurai must obviously be equipped with a bow. This skill has an animation time of 1 second and a cooldown of 10 seconds.

Ace Move: Bushi Chousen (Samurai's Challenge) Chain 1. When used, resets any current Chain to 0. If an opponent performed an attack on you between this turn and your next turn, raise your Chain by 1. A move often used to start the battle. The Samurai issues a valiant taunt toward all enemies in the immediate area, challenging them to take up arms in a grand duel of honor. The animation of this skill is somewhat flashy and when it was a game, there were even videos of fandubs speculating what the samurai might have said. Needless to say, it carries on in this game too. This skill generates a high amount of aggro when used early on in a fight, an amount which decreases gradually over time. This skill has an animation time of 2 seconds and a cooldown of 10 seconds.

Ace Move: Torifune (Airship) Chain X. Usable at any time, copies the Chain number of the previous Ace Move for the duration of the turn. A Samurai skill that causes the Samurai's feet to float a few inches in the air. This allows for excellent mobility when fighting in rough terrain like gravel or sand and reducing the Samurai's risk of tripping over obstacles. It can even be used to walk along the surface of shallow water for about five seconds. The Samurai may alternately target a teammate with this skill, but it will cause any existing chain to break. This skill has a casting time of 3 seconds, a cooldown of 20 seconds, and a duration of 10 seconds.

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So 2 big things here.

1. It doesn't look like your organizing your posts by thread which makes this VERY hard to check (at least for me it does).
2. You need to mention you bonuses in the claim itself. You can't say your words for a post is 1020 when your actual words is 785. You need to put in what your multiplier is in the claim thread as well as LINK to the post that states where you get the bonus from.

Your table does look nice, but I suggest having it organized by THREAD, not just one huge "post" box. Also, you need to mention your multipliers as well as the totals before and after said multipliers.

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Thank you @shadowsaiph.

I have added the justification for the bonuses, with links. I have also organized the links to each post by thread. I have not included in the title of the link the pre- and post-multiplier amount, only the post multiplier amount.*
*Except commerce, because it is special.

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Okay a few things. First off, your word count for the only thread in Main Class should be 5395 after bonuses.

Also, all your CA threads should be under Main Class, not Crafting. Also there appeared to be some hunting threads in Crafting as well. They all need to be moved to main class. You cannot distribute where you want your threads to go until your main class hits 90. Until then, anything not crafting related must be under your main class... especially if there is combat involved.

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Eh I'll leave them there for now and wait for mod :) Thank you for looking.

(It is something I want to raise actually. That under 90s cannot freely distribute but over 90s can. It encourages what the site does not want of power levelling main class only, so it fails the OOC test, and also does not make sense IC to boot)

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I kinda jumped ahead here because I saw the discussion going on. I'm not here to check the AP but I am here to say, I discussed it with some of the other mod staff just to make sure we were on the same page and the conclusion we have come to is this...

If your post is NON-COMBAT aka no attack/main class skills used and it relates to your subclass, either discussing, using, etc skills or topics that relate to Tailor you may claim it for Tailor AP.

If it is a COMBAT post aka an attack is used, then you must claim it for your main class. An exception would be if you had a combat oriented subclass and it relates to those skills (like Cavalier and you are using your horse in the fight). Another exception would be if you are crafting clothing or armor in a thread and you "put it to the test" by having it under go testing via combat skills. That would still be related to the crafting skill and could be claimed for crafting AP.

General/talking/social threads are more of a gray area and are encouraged to go towards your main class but could be put towards any class.

So, please go through and make sure the posts are distributed according to this and you should be fine. I hope that explains it well enough but please contact me if you have additional questions.

[Sark]

Thanks @sugar, now updated :)

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53 AP added to Samurai for a total of 110 AP equaling level 32. 4 skill slots unlocked. 
56 AP added to Tailor for a total of 100 AP equaling level 36. 2 skill slots unlocked.

Gold: 375

Sark, I was able to figure this out and it did add up just fine but in the future can you please give me some subtotals to work from? As in, say you made 3 posts 125 words, 300 words and 500 words (look at you improving : P) and each post gets a bonus of 1.2x. It is much easier for me if you do 125 + 300 + 500 = 925 x 1.2 = 1110. Or at least subtotal each thread with the bonus because since each thread could have a different bonus, I can't keep a running total on my calculator and need to write down the subtotal for each thread anyways. It's just how it makes sense to me and I would appreciate it. I hope that makes sense what I'm telling you. Otherwise the formatting is fine for me.

Also putting the new skills you want inside a [.code] [./code] tag is so much easier, especially if you want colors and bolds and stuff included. (Obviously minus the periods in there)

EDIT: I may have given you the gold twice... I'm pretty sure it was just once but please, if I did (and I'm sure you know roughly what you should have) be honest and let me know so I can adjust it.

Approved.