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Something kind of wonky is going on with the Elementalist's Changelin skill. When I leveled up again after learning it (so, Elementalist level 16), a second copy of Changelin appeared on the skill list, and while I was experimenting with all the possible weapon variants of Changelin, the second one only changed sometimes. It seems like there's some kind of hierarchy going on where a weapon type will only overwrite the second instance of Changelin if it has higher priority than the type it currently holds.

Like, when switching from Sword to Knife, the second changed and I had two instances of Knife Changelin, then switching back to Sword the second stayed on Knife, so I had both Sword and Knife Changelin available. An incomplete list of the hierarchy would be Sword<Knife<Spear<Staff<Claw<Whip<Heavy Bow<Gun<Heavy Gun. Once it got stuck on Heavy Gun that was the end of it, it wouldn't change anymore.

So not sure how much, if any, of this is intentional; having more than one variant of Changelin available at a time *would* be cool, but has a "too good to be true" feeling to it, and the nature of working out the hierarchy of "stickiness" leads to my thinking something is off. I made a separate save when I first noticed the second copy in the skill list (though after it was already on Knife) and have a link to download it, if that helps: https://www.mediafire.com/file/enleuba9ljjhv9k/20.rsav/file 

EDIT: Oh, actually there is also one other odd thing about skills, I only just noticed, it looks like Heats, Morpa, and Alheats never actually upgraded to Heates,  Morpae, and Alheates for my Barrier Mage. If it was only Heats I would've thought it had something to do with learning it as a Hexer, but she originally got Morpa and Alheats from the Barrier Mage skill list. Not high enough level yet for Almorpa to upgrade, so not sure if that will also fail to happen. I definitely think I got the level up notifications telling me that they upgraded, but they aren't on the skill list. Hm, Alheats is in the final, 24th skill slot, does "not learn new skills" also mean "not upgrade skills anymore"?

EDIT2: Completely unrelated bugs now. I checked the auction and found a key item called "Suit", no description offered when examined, and after buying it it does not appear in my inventory or my key items list. Ah, speaking of things not appearing in lists the Onyx I found that says it prevents death effects, while it is in my items list, does not appear as a valid accessory in the equipment menu.

Alright, that's a bunch. Thanks for stumbling over them for me.

1: For skills in the same vein as Changelin, where what it is depends on what's equipped, there's a bit of extra structure going on in order to make sure things aren't double writing. It seems I hadn't got to that until now. You'll keep the two Changelins you have until you do the last class change, but yeah, that's definitely a bug.

2: I looked into the problem, and it seems that upon seeing that a character has a full skillset, the skill-writing script I wrote years ago just up and quits, not bothering with any skill family stuff. Actually fixing that problem is more than I can be bothered to do at the moment, so I've gone and doubled the maximum number of skills you can know at once, as inelegant the solution I ended up with is.

3: Both of those are fixed now. The suit unlocks something marginal back in Gattun now, by the way.

It's no trouble, the game is very good so I'm playing it a lot, and reporting the bugs I find is just common sense. Or should be, anyway. Seriously, though, fantastic job.

Anyway, as a follow-up: after patching, when my Barrier Mage gained another level (BM-19 now), Alheats corrected into Alheates but Heats and Morpa are still un-upgraded, so there might be a weird interaction with Hexer going on there after all. Or expecting everything to correct on level-up was mistaken. XP The character is still great, but in case that's not what you expected to happen I figured I should give a heads-up.