♐ artes and skills
This is just a comprehensive list of every attack skill/arte that Raven uses in the game. It's more for my own personal reference, but feel free to look!
Raven holds his bow in his left hand, which usually means he should be right handed. However, he wields the sword with his left hand. So it's more like he's left handed, but has right eye dominance since that's the eye he would aim with the arrow. That is just the crazy that is Raven.
Warning, there are spoilers in here.
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BASE ARTES
ARCANE ARTES
ALTERED ARTES
SPELLS
ALTERED SPELLS
BURST ARTES
Under the right conditions (I guess if he needs to use a powerful attack or is just that fired up), Raven can use a set of moves that are a lot more powerful than his normal artes.
For a video of all of the Burst Artes and his Mystic Arte, 3:27 - 4:10 of this video.
MYSTIC ARTE
Blast Heart - The mother of all attacks. This is Raven's most powerful one and again, needs special conditions (powerful enemy, final attack, wants to get it over with), and he will probably not use it that much because it takes a lot out of him. Like physically. Because of a certain heart condition, after he uses his Mystic Arte, he will kind of hunch over while clutching his chest and take a breather.
Basically, any enemies that are around him will find themselves engulfed in powerful beams of light, first coming from below, and then it just explodes from all around him. It does a megaton of damage, but it wouldn't be instant kill. It also knocks them to the ground and may or may not stun them.
Quote for when he says this: "Here goes my life! Roar, o mighty being! Blast Heart!" and then at the end "Thought I was dead..."
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SCHWANN ARTE SET
Main difference here is the fact that Schwann uses a sword as opposed to the bow. So his basic attacks are sword attacks. He's also pretty fast and can hit hard. If Raven is ever equipped with a sword and has to use it, he will more than likely fall into this style.
STRIKE ARTES
MAGIC ARTES
MYSTIC ARTE
Blast Heart: Same. ("Burn this life to punish my enemies, BLAST HEART")
...He can apparently make a barrier around himself too o_O It's all...blue and glowy and it's like a forceshield when he guards. It also does some self healing.
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That should be it. Note that I am not including any of his PS3 exclusive skills. This is because I am playing him from the 360 timeline, and there are only two exclusive artes that he gets in the PS3 version, Air Thrust and the alternate Mystic Arte, Crisis Rain. If I were to ever to play the PS3 version and "updated" him, then his arte set will change to reflect it.
But for now, 360 only!
Some notes on his general Attack:
Raven wields a bow and an arrow, and is an excellent shot. He is skilled, there's no doubt about it. But of course...these are arrows. Not that hard to dodge unless he uses his skills. That and he doesn't like to fight anyway. Only when he has to. Course, according to a skit in the game, he apparently doesn't like being left out of a lot of battles either.
For close combat he uses a dagger and, as you probably noticed when I was describing the skills and were like "WTF?", essentially his bow. His bow is a specialized weapon in that it actually folds up into a rather large katar, or blade, and it's not impossible to have a sword one either. However, he just has the giant katar blade thing. That's the form it's usually stored as (handy, huh?). To "open" it, he just flicks his wrist and it'll transform instantly. Same way when he wants to make it compact again.
Don't ask where he keeps his arrows. It's probably SOMEWHERE hidden in that giant jacket of his. Or they're actually energy but yanno.
Defense wise, Raven has a good amount and not too shabby at dodging. He's kind of used to being pummeled a lot thanks to Rita darlin'. Still...he's an old man (well not really). He just has a lot of experience in terms of battle.
He will also more than likely create even more moves while he's in Som, and improvising his like one of his many middle names.
Raven holds his bow in his left hand, which usually means he should be right handed. However, he wields the sword with his left hand. So it's more like he's left handed, but has right eye dominance since that's the eye he would aim with the arrow. That is just the crazy that is Raven.
Warning, there are spoilers in here.
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BASE ARTES
- Rain: can fire fast two arrows in succession at a great distance
- Bouquet: chance of confusing target for 5 seconds
- Serpent: fires an arrow into the ground that creates a trap in the form of a glyph. It lasts for 10 seconds, and when triggered (ie, someone steps on it), it explodes and knocks target to the ground. And yes, they will get singed a bit.
- Glimmer of Heaven: fires an arrow into the air that comes back straight down onto the target after a second or two.
- Around: a close combat skill; uses his dagger and his bow-turned-katar to spin around and slash at target twice.
- Love Shot: fires an arrow that splits into three beams of blue arrows of light. Each "arrow" will go to a random ally target, or just to one person if that's all there is, including himself, and heal target for a considerable amount. He can fire these rather quickly, too, making him more effective than an actual caster healer at times since these are instant and he's not actually casting a spell.
- Dark Chase: can be used in mid-air; he fires four dark elemental arrows that fly to the target at a medium speed. If it misses, they will slowly loop back around and will hit anything that gets in their way.
- Violet Snake / Violet Weasel: for Violet Snake, he fires a dark elemental arrow that "snakes" just above the ground to target and will knock the target down if it hits. When he's close to his target, he uses Violet Weasel instead, which is just a series of slash attacks.
ARCANE ARTES
- Just Like Dancing: Close combat skill; spins around and slashes them in such an elegant manner~ Makes any targets that are knocked to the ground stand back up.
- Cyan Instant: fires multiple arrows at once while spinning around, basically firing a ring of very fast arrows. Any targets hit will be knocked down.
- Heaven's Tear: a close combat skill in which he'll slash at the enemy and then fire an arrow at it right after.
- Falling / Flying - both versions usable in mid-air. For Falling, when he's in mid air, he'll do a downward slash at his target. Flying is the close combat version. Can knock the enemy down.
- Azure Heavens: A lovely skill this. He fires several arrows at once straight up into the air that multiply before coming back down to his target. It's like of rain of arrows. A rain of pointy, sharp arrows :D
- Falling Stars: - fires a slow moving arrow that becomes more like a beam of light energy in the shape of an arrow and will push the target back a distance before knocking them down.
- Crime / Punishment - for Crime, he fires an arrow that splits into three or five that each hit the target in linear succession (so it's like --> --> --> -->). Punishment is a close range attack which is just another quick downward slash.
- The Wind's Howl / The Wind's Rage - for the Wind's Howl, he fires an arrow that changes into a huge blast of wind energy that's shaped like an arrow and can go for a great distance. The Wind's Range is when he's in close combat, and I believe it's like a sort of slash of wind blades that come from when he uses his dagger and transform blow.
ALTERED ARTES
- Rainsong: a very fast moving arrow that can cause a lot of damage because of the power and speed he packs into this baby. Think of it like a bullet. Only as an arrow. He can also spam this one pretty well and a lot since it doesn't take up too much of his energy.
- Rain Down: Similar to Glimmer of Heaven, in that he'll fire an arrow into the air. However, it takes 10 seconds to come back down, but when it does, it hurts. Reason why it's up there so long? It's reaching maximum fall speed.
- Around and Around: similar to Around, in that he spins around and slashes with both his transform bow in the blade form and dagger. Only difference is it's more powerful and he does three hits as opposed to two.
- Rain of Heaven's Tears: unleashes a series of slashes with transform bow in the blade form and dagger via spinning around, creating a swirl of wind around him, and jumping up to attack. Around ten hits.
- Cloud of Heaven's Tears: another slash attack but it also can knock the enemy down.
- Falling Further: jumps into the air and fires an arrow into the ground by his target's feet, causing the ground to rise up beneath them. This will send them flying a bit as well as knocking them down. He's also jumping back, so when he lands, he'll be back a few feet from where he started.
- The Growing World: fires one arrow, and after it hits, it will split into five more and fan out, hitting any enemies behind/around the original target.
SPELLS
- Wind Blade (Novice): quick spell to cast, basically does what its name says: creates a blade of wind that flies toward target. Possible to slice a bit as well as just feel a bit OOMPH.
Quote for when he casts this: "C'mon wind; knock 'em around and cut 'em down! Wind Blade!"
- Havoc Gale (Advanced): forms a tornado around the target, sucking them up and spinning them around. There's this weird sphere light cage that also forms around them before converging and exploding on the target. Knocks down targets. Takes some time to cast.
Quote for when he casts this: "Howl in rage oh mighty vortex! Havoc Gale!"
- Arrivederci (Intermediate): another wind spell that basically has a bunch of wind blades slash around people. Can knock down targets. Takes a second or two to cast. 3 hits.
Quote for when he casts this: "All my heart, baby, all my love. Get outta here! Arrivederci!"
- Vanji Lost (Advanced): another wind spell and can make people confused (or dizzy/disoriented...I guess would be the equivalent for this case) for around 5 seconds. Doesn't cause any damage though. Takes some time to cast.
Quote for when he casts this: "Blossom of light, blind 'em with your beauty! Vanji Lost!"
ALTERED SPELLS
- Inverno: Wind/Water elemental spell, it forms ice spikes from below the target. Possible to freeze them in place for a few seconds. Easy to cast. (glyph is blue)
Quote for when he says this: "Crazy... Slippery... Crackly BOOM! Inverno!" Chances of Raven actually saying this...well depends xD Cos that's just probably the GREATEST spell incantation EVER.
- Tempest: Fire/Wind elemental spell and one of his bigger ones; creates a HUGE hurricane/tornado that will suck in any nearby targets and spin them around in the air before slamming down them into the ground and basically electrocuting them with lightning.
Quote for when he casts this: "Looks a storm's brewin'. Tempest!"
- Stop Flow: - Very advanced spell, and takes a while to cast. The image of a clock appears before it warps and shatters in a bright flash of light. In the game, all the colors are negative, and everything in the area stops moving. It lasts for five seconds, but it takes a lot out of him. (the glyph is purple)
Quote for when he casts this: "Halt oh march of time, I'll pay ya back later! Stop Flow!"
BURST ARTES
Under the right conditions (I guess if he needs to use a powerful attack or is just that fired up), Raven can use a set of moves that are a lot more powerful than his normal artes.
For a video of all of the Burst Artes and his Mystic Arte, 3:27 - 4:10 of this video.
- Fury Blast: glows green; will unleash a fury of arrows (around 8) before finishing off with a powerful one that becomes a powerful arrow of wind energy.
- Chaotic Fury: glows red; unleash a flurry of arrows (around 12) before finishing off a powerful arrow that becomes three fiery beams that have the form of...well I'm not sure. Tigers? Dragons? They screech o_o and it's fire based.
- Garnet Chaos: glows blue; more arrow onslaught (around 12-13) and finishing with a powerful arrow that turns into ice.
- Kamikaze Fury: glows purple; again, slew of arrows before (around 12) finishing off with two wind blades
- Storm of Chaos: glows reddish/orangeish; barrage of arrows (around 12) and then fires one into the arrow that bursts and storms onto the target in a shower of blue energy beams. It's a lot.
MYSTIC ARTE
Blast Heart - The mother of all attacks. This is Raven's most powerful one and again, needs special conditions (powerful enemy, final attack, wants to get it over with), and he will probably not use it that much because it takes a lot out of him. Like physically. Because of a certain heart condition, after he uses his Mystic Arte, he will kind of hunch over while clutching his chest and take a breather.
Basically, any enemies that are around him will find themselves engulfed in powerful beams of light, first coming from below, and then it just explodes from all around him. It does a megaton of damage, but it wouldn't be instant kill. It also knocks them to the ground and may or may not stun them.
Quote for when he says this: "Here goes my life! Roar, o mighty being! Blast Heart!" and then at the end "Thought I was dead..."
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SCHWANN ARTE SET
Main difference here is the fact that Schwann uses a sword as opposed to the bow. So his basic attacks are sword attacks. He's also pretty fast and can hit hard. If Raven is ever equipped with a sword and has to use it, he will more than likely fall into this style.
STRIKE ARTES
- Apocalypse Toll: - in essence it acts as the same way as Serpent in that it's a "time bomb". Basically, he swings his sword in a downward arc with fiery blaze and if it hits, it will set a red glyph and a fiery glowy ring on the target. After a few seconds, it will detonate and explode. ("How do you like this?")
- Just Like Dancing: sword version of this attack. A series of elegant swordplay with cuts and slash. Very fast. 5 hits. ("Prepare!", "Is that your best?")
- Violet Weasel: - Sword version of this attack. A very fast strike forward. ("Prepare!")
- Falling: a powerful downward slash that makes the "earth" rise up upon impact. (Actually I'm not sure about the "earth" part but yellow spikes do come up from the ground. I guess that could just be energy) ("Begone!")
- Ill Wind: a strong round-about slice with some wind element to it. ("I'll blow you away!")
MAGIC ARTES
- Wind Blade: same as Raven's. ("Come oh wind, cut them down! Wind Blade!")
- Arrividerci: slightly different version; swirl of wind and light shoot up from the ground.
- Inferno: ice attack, works the same way as Inverno. ("Be lost in a silver embrace, Inferno!")
MYSTIC ARTE
Blast Heart: Same. ("Burn this life to punish my enemies, BLAST HEART")
...He can apparently make a barrier around himself too o_O It's all...blue and glowy and it's like a forceshield when he guards. It also does some self healing.
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That should be it. Note that I am not including any of his PS3 exclusive skills. This is because I am playing him from the 360 timeline, and there are only two exclusive artes that he gets in the PS3 version, Air Thrust and the alternate Mystic Arte, Crisis Rain. If I were to ever to play the PS3 version and "updated" him, then his arte set will change to reflect it.
But for now, 360 only!
Some notes on his general Attack:
Raven wields a bow and an arrow, and is an excellent shot. He is skilled, there's no doubt about it. But of course...these are arrows. Not that hard to dodge unless he uses his skills. That and he doesn't like to fight anyway. Only when he has to. Course, according to a skit in the game, he apparently doesn't like being left out of a lot of battles either.
For close combat he uses a dagger and, as you probably noticed when I was describing the skills and were like "WTF?", essentially his bow. His bow is a specialized weapon in that it actually folds up into a rather large katar, or blade, and it's not impossible to have a sword one either. However, he just has the giant katar blade thing. That's the form it's usually stored as (handy, huh?). To "open" it, he just flicks his wrist and it'll transform instantly. Same way when he wants to make it compact again.
Don't ask where he keeps his arrows. It's probably SOMEWHERE hidden in that giant jacket of his. Or they're actually energy but yanno.
Defense wise, Raven has a good amount and not too shabby at dodging. He's kind of used to being pummeled a lot thanks to Rita darlin'. Still...he's an old man (well not really). He just has a lot of experience in terms of battle.
He will also more than likely create even more moves while he's in Som, and improvising his like one of his many middle names.