[Fan Servant] Hernan Cortes
imgur.com/a/AMlG0Posted Feb 9, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC
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I really like this spin on Cortes. I like that his kit is very expensive in terms of taking away from your team, for massive payoff if used correctly. The idea of "gamble" Servants like that, outside of zerkers and general squishiness, is a thing I'd like to see more of.
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It seems like he has a lot of drawbacks to overcome and I don't think the benefits don't really come close to making it worth it.
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Really interesting idea. I feel like you should chose wheter he takes np gauge OR stars in is skills. Both would feel like a chore for team building.
Also not a fan of his armor being a reality marble. It desn't seem necessary here. It could just come from the natives seeing him as a god and be a Noble Phantasm conceptualized through legend like Dracula's.
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I don't know why but I quite like Cortes Berserker. I think his personality is that "abandoned puppy" kind of cute. Plus something about his skillset just feels right. I wanted to get a profile for FGO done before his possible appearance due to being mentioned in Quetzalcoatl's mats.
TRIVIA:
Cortes' height is the atomic weight of gold. His weight is the atomic number of gold.
His personal pronoun would be "ore", but his speech is slurred so it comes out as "oro".
Incidentally, "Oro!" is his battle cry of choice.
As a Rider, his alignment changes to Lawful Evil.
Cortes' natural enemy is Montezuma.
Cortes likes blonde women. Even moreso if they are tall. Even moreso if they are "big sister" types.
Skills not put on his profile are Conquistador A and Voyager of the Storm C.
Cortes' skillset was designed to make him "Anti-Aztec" and he's supposed to have an extremely high ceiling of power, all dependent on how much money he's got in the bank.
Lorewise, zero funding Cortes is closer to a 3 Star and he probably should be 3 Star here. It felt wrong not making him at least gold.
Cortes was written as a traditional Berserker. As such, he lacks the ability to speak normally but he can strain out sentence fragments, like Frankenstein. He's the type who tends to show his personality more from his body language and actions.
Of course, his gameplay theme is "greed". Hence why he takes stars and NP from his allies.
I considered making his NP's demerit impossible to purge but honestly there are very few Servants who can purge debuffs so figured I'd err on him perhaps being "too strong".
Originally I wanted Cortes to be an "all in for one turn" type. He still sort of is, but the buff on his NP is significantly lower than what I originally had in mind. In any case the idea remains that Cortes needs a team to pick up the slack for his high demands of stars, NP gauge and debuff purges.
I actually had an FGO gameplay profile for Cortes done for a while but couldn't figure out an image to put there. "Big golden bird man" is hard to find. It wasn't until recently I remembered that there was a big golden bird robot I could grab.
Nicely done, Cortes is an interesting choice. Although cultural pillager B+ seems a bit too strong when compared to eternal arms mastery A+
Few small mistakes though:
Description for divinity is missing a number
You should fill in "Fan character created by you (@youruserhandle)"
His Divinity effect is for lore fluff. He has it due to Quetzalcoatl Falso and in gameplay it'd be so he gets hit by stuff that targets Divine but since he isn't actually Divine he gets basically no direct benefits from it. That was the intent.
I was aware that his absorb skill seems strong and it was something of an iffy case for me. 1 more turn of cooldown and only having one turn of crit damage up compared to Lancelot's 3 made me think it'd be fine but a lower multiplier on his crit damage to 50% or so probably would've been better, yeah.
I totally missed the creation tag thing. Oops.
Maybe calling it "Divinity (Fake)" would be correct then. He can still have the divinity trait without the original passive, just like the servants with Goddess Core also count as divine.
Oh, man, I would love to have a Cortes servant, hopefully we'll get one later.
You did an outstanding job, although I see him more like a rider as you mentioned.
However I would love for him to have a more humanoid design, instead of a full body armour. Maybe removable, like Mordred.