Flicker Strike and Unarmed

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I think Flicker Strike should operate with the same 'restrictions' as Elemental Hit.

Indeed, I feel this way about any attack that doesn't specify allowable weapon types.

Flicker Strike does specify allowable types. It states in the skill description it uses a melee weapon.

And that's why it has the restriction - flicker strike is inherently a melee skill, which doesn't make nearly as much sense to do from range, and using it with ranged weapons doesn't really fit the concept of the skill.

Unfortunately there's a limitation in how skills specify weapon restrictions meaning that if a skill has any restrictions at all, it can't work with unarmed. That's because restrictions are specified by listing the item types it's usable with, and unarmed isn't (and can't easily be made) a type of item.

I do hope to change this in future, and allow more skills to be used unarmed.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Flicker Strike is considered specifically a weapon attack, and not something that can be done unarmed. Some other attacks can be done unarmed.

I said we wanted more skills to be usable unarmed (and we've achieved that), not flicker-strike specifically.