A brief mechanical summary of the common races (WIP)

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Sunshine Jesse
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A brief mechanical summary of the common races (WIP) Apr 6, 2020 5:50:02 GMT

Post by Sunshine Jesse on Apr 6, 2020 5:50:02 GMT

Humans

Humans are no longer a ~~mid~~ ~~late~~ omniwipe race. From start to finish, they are underpowered compared to most races. Starting out hideously weak, their first ascension doesn't even do anything aside from give you the verb Psyche Up. As the wipe goes on, however, they may find that they inch ever-closer to the other races, and although never quite reaching their levels of power, their powerful passives combined with the versatility that comes with discounted skill tree costs might allow them to inch out an occasional miracle win. At the very least, you may do better than other people expect you to.

High Tension is the difference-maker. It's an extremely powerful transformation- almost as powerful as Super Saiyan in terms of what boosts it grants (relatively speaking at least)- enabling Humans to go toe to toe with other races. In exchange for being able to match other races, High Tension has some of the most severe drawbacks of any form: Every minute, Humans take a flat 20% damage, putting them on a timer.

Humans are nightmare mode in terms of difficulty. They are not a race for the faint of heart, nor are they a race for impatient people. They are a race for people who thrive off of small victories that will end up being meaningless if others do not capitalize on them.

Teamwork makes the dream work, after all!

Djinn
With the cancellation of TFS, Popo went into retirement, and as such, his overpowered rare meme race was downgraded to a common. Djinn have far and away the highest stats in the game, but start with a hilariously low BP mod that only becomes acceptable once they ascend further. They're downright strange mechanically, more so than any race in the game. Rather than just dodging ki, they have a chance of being able to eat it. They're the only race able to make and use rings. They can self-cyberize, except with magic instead of technology. They lack any form of transformations, and all they can do is stare at you and smile, turning their anger on and off at will.

That smile.

That damn smile.

Saiyan
The polar opposite of Humans, Saiyans are a race that reigns supreme at almost every stage of the wipe. They start out good, and with every ascension they gain a significant boost. However, their supremacy becomes evident once they hit Super Saiyan. A Super Saiyan has downright ridiculous power early on in their era; nobody else can even hope to compete. Even rare races- designed to be overpowered- will cower in fear of a Super Saiyan. What's the caveat on this? Well, like High Tension, each Super Saiyan form also has drastic downsides to using it. These downsides can be ameliorated with mastery, but by the time you can fully master a form, their power might not be so overbearing. They will always be impressive, however, up until the next tier of forms comes along.

The downsides of each form are as follows:

Super Saiyan 1 starts out with +100% power up upon transformation, along with all the drain that comes with. However, power up is a whopping 75% less effective. In other words, that +100% power only gives you 25% extra BP, with all the drain that comes along with it, and the natural drain that the form has. The first tier of mastery (ascended/ultra) makes it so that you start out with 50% PU and PU is only 50% as effective, and upon fully mastering the form, you accrue no PU related downsides.

Super Saiyan also makes all of your attacks have wound intent toggled on- a downside that is removed upon the first tier of mastery. Not only that, but any form of CC lasts twice as long, and poison and burn do four times as much damage- a downside that only fully mastering the form can remove.

In Super Saiyan 2, as the sadistic nature of a Saiyan is enhanced in this form, all attacks by an unmastered Super Saiyan 2 do 75% less damage unless lethal intent is toggled on. And even then, lethal intent cannot be toggled on unless you are angered. Super Saiyan 2 also has the downside of increased CC duration, but not the increased burn and poison damage.

Super Saiyan 3 has the hideously high drain that it's known for, which never fully goes away even upon being fully mastered.

Super Saiyan 4 has no downsides, but in exchange, is only slightly stronger than Super Saiyan 3 and comes out around the God era.

Super Saiyan God has a limited duration, causing you to revert after a random amount of time- no less than two minutes, though. However, upon reverting, you keep 25% of the form's power in add for quite some time.

Super Saiyan Blue drains your BP the longer it's toggled on, resulting in a form weaker than a mastered Super Saiyan God if left on too long.

Last Edit: Apr 6, 2020 5:52:05 GMT by Sunshine Jesse

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A brief mechanical summary of the common races (WIP) Apr 9, 2020 22:22:09 GMT

Post by Sunshine Jesse on Apr 9, 2020 22:22:09 GMT

Changelings
These Changelings are not the ones most people are familiar with. As they are modeled after Xenoverse Changelings, they are much less focused on transformations. They do have a litany of rather interesting passives, however, such as making any CC they use last longer, and doing much more damage when you're at critical health (25% and below). Upon reaching the second ascension, they gain a skill called "100% Full Power" that allows them to access the BP available to them in their fifth (!) ascension whenever they choose, and offers them a small buff to their endurance and strength. However, the form takes up their buff slot and locks them out of PU, making this skill vastly less useful as the wipe goes on. Once they attain that fifth ascension, the skill is almost useless, which is intentional! This era is probably when Changelings will be at their weakest, but they have their golden form to look forward to past that. Their golden form is mechanically similar to an unmastered Super Saiyan Blue in that it directly drains their BP the longer they're in the form, and grants them power depending on their ascension level.

In essence, a Changeling is the one thing that can hope to curtail the power of a Saiyan at every turn, but their forms are even more difficult to utilize than Super Saiyan and they have several points in their progression in which they just flat out lose to them. But due to their raw power- even outside of their transformations- they have the potential to dominate most other common races in the game.

...in theory, at least. Changelings are unlikely to be enabled in any substantial way outside of Golden Form later on in the wipe.

Emperor-class Changelings are the ones you are used to, possessing many different transformations. They frontload a lot of their power, gaining mostly add from each form with only a tiny multiplier, but are otherwise the same as normal Changeling. These ones are alignment locked into being antagonists, unlike the Xenoverse-ones, and aren't likely to last the whole wipe.

Aliens
This is probably one of the coolest iterations of Aliens in DBR's history.

They have access to a menu in which they can select a variety of passives from almost every common race in the game. Every single passive is available to them outside of ones that overlap or have unique interactions with racial transformations. They can select up to four of these to start with, and one more per every ascension level to a maximum of 7, allowing you to create some absolutely ridiculous (and frankly broken) combinations depending on your mechanical know-how. Not only that, but once they hit their fourth ascension, they have access to two passives that are unique to Aliens: Timeskip, which allows you to negate one incoming melee attack and automatically respond with a powerful one of your own (it's king crimson with a cooldown), and Super Maximum Light Speed Mode, which replaces Berserk as a racial buff that allows you to eschew any other boosts that Berserk offers (including BP) in exchange for vastly increasing your speed and speed alone- a buff that scales up depending on the era. There will be more alien-only passives added as time goes on, too, and you'll be allowed to refund one of your current ones for one of the newer ones if you're interested.

What's the catch?

Well, if Humans are nightmare mode, Aliens are hard mode. In exchange for their unparalleled versatility, Aliens are rather weak in terms of stats. While they may start out with decent-looking stats, which are fully customizable with 80 points to spend, they gain less from their ascensions than other races. Aliens test your mechanical know-how, and unless you have a build and passive set that makes up for the deficiency in stats, there is a very high chance that you'll be relegated to the life of a Frieza Soldier. Maybe a Zarbon or Dodoria role if you're lucky.

Maybe.

Last Edit: Apr 9, 2020 22:31:03 GMT by Sunshine Jesse

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A brief mechanical summary of the common races (WIP) Apr 11, 2020 22:42:26 GMT

Post by Sunshine Jesse on Apr 11, 2020 22:42:26 GMT

Spirit Dolls
Spirit Dolls are similar to Humans in a lot of ways in that they start out very weak and seemingly aren't that good. However, unlike Humans, their ascensions raise their power at a much quicker rate, and much earlier on. They're natural masters of all things pertaining to Ki, and are the best users of Power Up in the game. They're pretty much better than Humans in almost every way, although they're less mechanically interesting if you're into that sort of thing.

Makyos
who cares

Majins
I was lying when I said that Djinn are the weirdest race in the game- that honor goes to Majins. The race is so weird, in fact, that they're the only common with absolutely no passives available to Aliens. They're the only race in the game with free passive regeneration, although said regeneration only functions if they're not angered. In exchange, however, their combat slow kicks in as soon as their regeneration stops, meaning it's all downhill from there if they're not careful. They're also the only commmon race in the game with death regeneration- and it's not exactly a weak regeneration, either- giving them much more longevity than other races by default. They are able to activate a racial buff that heals them for a quarter of the damage they sustain from a blow, and while the buff is active, they are also unable to be KOed. This naturally has a very long cooldown, too. And last but not least, they have two attacks- a beam and a blast- that can turn people into chocolate.

Yes.

They can actually do that.

When turned into chocolate, their victim cannot use skills and moves slower, but have a vastly increased dodgerate, making it impractical to hit them with normal attacks. This turns the fight into a game of cat and mouse, where the victim will be susceptible to another skill Majins get called 'Consume', which is a melee-range skill that, when landed, causes the Majin to, well, eat the person. The victim takes a large amount of melee damage, and the Majin recovers 10% of their health and gains a static 15% RPPpower boost that lasts until they meditate. After the person is consumed, they are promptly coughed up and go back to normal.

I told you that the race was weird.

Naturally, the chocolate skill also has a massive cooldown, and it only lasts 15 seconds.

In terms of stats, Majins are respectable in most regards, and even have the highest base BP of any common race. Their Endurance and Resistance stats, however, are by far the lowest of any race in the game. They're glass cannons through and through, and are more glass than they are cannon.