I made another post with an idea for the Kestrel if it got an incarnon adapter, but realized I should have made a post for more than just one idea.
So this should hopefully be that post. (I never have any idea what I'm doing when I visit the forums for any game...)
One thing I noticed about the Kestrel after looking it up and viewing its stats is that not only does it have the lowest base damage in the game, but it also only has a 10% chance for both status effects and for critical hits. In short, its ability to gain the fastest flight speed is all it has going for it beyond the fact that it is a glaive weapon.
The good news is that it basically makes it a blank slate so that the final evolution can give the Kestrel the potential to have any kind of build on it. Though just giving players the options between better crits, better status chance, or a mix of both really doesn't sound like it would work for it as the Kestrel mainly deals impact damage and there's not a whole lot we can do with that.
So I was hoping to come up with some ideas that are more out of the box to help the devs make the Kestrel a good, thrown, melee weapon. And to hopefully inspire some others to post some ideas of their own.
Well, the first idea I had (that was what the other post was all about...) was based on the fact that with its own specific mod, the Kestrel can gain the fastest thrown speed out of all glaives. So giving it a buff that is based on its flight speed might be pretty cool.
Another idea I had, with it being a boomerang, is to give the Kestrel the ability to lift enemies for x-amount of time when it hits (like it's got the power of the wind in it or something), or if they can't be lifted then they could be stunned for x-amount of time (the time maybe being based off of flight speed perhaps?).
The only other idea I can really think of at the moment that probably isn't a good idea is if the base stats mostly stay the same so it starts out as pretty lame and almost sad, but then the incarnon form turns it into an absolute monster to make up for it.
I guess I just hope I'm not the only one that's hoping this weapon not only gets an incarnon adapter, but that it also gets some fun special abilities to it as well.
The Kestrel has the Entropy Flight mod specific to it that increases its flight speed, and combining it with the Whirlwind mod grants it the fastest flight speed in the game. I just think that if the Kestrel gets an incarnon adapter then it would be really cool if one or more of its buffs that you can choose from would scale off of its flight speed due to that mod.
