oh actually, when you say it like that I get what you mean more now.
I guess it's at cap technically, but he doesn't use it at cap in his normal form because he's an arrogant slob. In his other forms, he still has the hydro ability, so my assumption is as he goes through his forms, his hydromancy will get more accurate/on target/more deadly as he modifies how he wants to use it, but in game he's usually seen using his hydromancy for taking out npc normies so he doesn't have to actually kill them, and casual fights so I can't imagine Syr would have much difficulties avoiding those things. Physically at his first stage he's also very normal strength (he's physically strong and above average for a human, but he's also able to be fended off by someone stronger that's a normie just the same as everyone else relative to their aion abilities.) So he can use his hydromancy much faster in his second and third forms. He likes to keep things "fair" when he fights and relies mostly on his hydromancy as "arrows" and projectiles and weapon forger. Physical skill is where he's focused. His second and third forms are only when he's like "ok i'm getting real sick of this dude," (and he'll definitely use second form on Syr in their raid fight).
The one thing he DOES have in normal form is his rip-tide ability, which can be super problematic depending on how you as a player want the narrative to go, but I don't think he'll actively try to use it on Syr until the raid, especially since he's really good at dodging magic hits. I'll have a full list of his abilities when I post his top level so no one is surprised.
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I guess it's at cap technically, but he doesn't use it at cap in his normal form because he's an arrogant slob. In his other forms, he still has the hydro ability, so my assumption is as he goes through his forms, his hydromancy will get more accurate/on target/more deadly as he modifies how he wants to use it, but in game he's usually seen using his hydromancy for taking out npc normies so he doesn't have to actually kill them, and casual fights so I can't imagine Syr would have much difficulties avoiding those things. Physically at his first stage he's also very normal strength (he's physically strong and above average for a human, but he's also able to be fended off by someone stronger that's a normie just the same as everyone else relative to their aion abilities.) So he can use his hydromancy much faster in his second and third forms. He likes to keep things "fair" when he fights and relies mostly on his hydromancy as "arrows" and projectiles and weapon forger. Physical skill is where he's focused. His second and third forms are only when he's like "ok i'm getting real sick of this dude," (and he'll definitely use second form on Syr in their raid fight).
The one thing he DOES have in normal form is his rip-tide ability, which can be super problematic depending on how you as a player want the narrative to go, but I don't think he'll actively try to use it on Syr until the raid, especially since he's really good at dodging magic hits. I'll have a full list of his abilities when I post his top level so no one is surprised.