Curse

Minus Sign · May 01, 2006, 07:30 AM // 07:30

A comment from Undivine in a previous thread got me thinking about this. It all started thinking about skill ideas for counter-teleports as a weapon in the mesmer lineup. I let it kick around in my head for a while and next thing I know, a concept profession emerged. Several of these skills you may recognize from the previous post, slightly modified.

Nomad:

A skill spamming character designed to disrupt enemy attackers and protect allied troops. Designed to disrupt enemy strategy by teleporting foes and allies to random or predetermined locations as the battle unfolds. Things to note are that Nomads have no self teleport or self buffs. While they have a self and group heal, they are distinctive from Assassins in that they are unable to effect themselves in their teleports. Harder to use, requiring more skill and Area awareness. Primary weapon is a slow firing 2-handed crossbow for high damage per hit. Foci are the different bolts (arrows if you prefer) of that weapon. Because these teleports are mostly skills and not spells, they are less easily interrupted. To compensate, there is a random chance that teleport skills will fail to trigger. Below are skill descriptions and weapon/armor loadout.

Surveying: Core: For every attribute point you deal +2 dmg per second to each foe adjacent to target of your skill when casting.

Sight of Gilgamesh
5 mana
2 second charge
5 second recharge
+1 pip upkeep

Maintained Enchantment. Teleport skills have an additional 5-25% chance of triggering.

Survey the Battle{E}
10 mana
N/A charge
45 second recharge

Stance. For 5-30 seconds you gain 1-6 mana each time a skill recharges

The Price of Fury
15 mana
2 second charge
N/A recharge
+1 pip upkeep

Maintained enchantment. Teleported foes have a 5-20% chance of being blinded for seconds.

Pathfinding: no inherent effect. Pathfinding skills are core damage and attack skills, mostly mild curses weapon buffs.

Chance to Reconsider
5 mana
2 second cast
5 second recharge
Hex

Target foe takes 10-30% longer to cast their next spell. This hex ends upon a successful cast.

Forsake
15 mana
2 charge
5 recharge
+1pip upkeep

Maintained Hex. Target for suffers from 1 to 3 health degradation and attacks 5-15% slower.

Theft of Soul
15 mana
2 charge
25 recharge

Hex spell. For 10-20 seconds, target foe suffers from energy degeneration of -1. You gain energy regen of +1.

Plane Shifting: no inherent effect. Increasing Recalling improves the chance that your skills will trigger. Primarily ally teleports.

Fate Exchange
10 mana
3 second charge
no recharge

Enchantment spell. For the next 10-20 seconds, whenever target allies health is below 10-50%, you teleport to target allies location and target ally teleports to your previous location. Target ally has a 15-50% chance of being healed for 20-80 HP. If this spell does not trigger it recharges instantly.

Return to Safety
10 mana
1 second charge
20 second recharge

Skill. Target ally has a 20-60% chance of being teleported to a location adjacent you. Target ally has a 50-90% chance of gaining +25 armor. If this spell does not trigger it recharges instantly.

Forseen Retreat {E}
25 mana
½ second charge
60 recharge
+1 pip upkeep

Group Enchantment. This counts as a maintained enchantment. This enchantment ends after 20-40 seconds. When this enchantment ends on a party member they have a 20-50% chance of teleporting to the location in which this enchantment was cast and gaining +15% speed buff for 5-10 seconds. All your skills are disabled for 12-5 seconds.

Sending: no inherent effect. Increasing Sending improves the chance that your skills will trigger. Primarily foe teleports.

Break Line
10 mana
1/2 second charge
15 second recharge
Skill

Target touched foe has a 20-60% chance of being teleported to a random location outside your cast range. If this spell does not trigger it recharges instantly.

Forgotten Path{E}
10 mana
3 second charge
45 second recharge
Type: Hex

Target foe has a 20-60% chance of being teleported to a random location outside of your cast range. Target foe moves 15-50% slower for 6-12 seconds. If this spell does not trigger it recharges instantly.

Huddle
10 mana
2 second charge
20 second recharge
Type: Skill

Target foe is teleported to the nearest foe to your location. This spell has half the normal range.

Sample weapon:

Hurling Crossbow of Fortitude:
15-35 dmg (req. 9 Pathfinding)
Sending skills +1 (20% chance)
+30HP

Stone Bolt of Pathfinding:
Adds earth damage to attacks
Pathfinding skills recharge in half the time (17% chance)

Shamans Hood
60AL
+1 energy

Runners Robe (max +8 with full set; may be too high though...)
60 AL
+3 speed boost when moving

Desert Bracers
70 AL
+10 AL from elemental attacks
+1 energy regen

Torn Breeches
70AL
+1 energy regen

Well Born Boots
70AL
+10 AL from physical attacks

…Well, that’s it. Comments, suggestions; speak your piece

BakedMonkey · May 01, 2006, 02:05 PM // 14:05

kind of weird..caster with a ballistaish bow =o

lightblade · May 01, 2006, 07:11 PM // 19:11

bah...too much chances...

there are chances that you can get extremely lucky

Minus Sign · May 01, 2006, 08:56 PM // 20:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by lightblade

bah...too much chances...

there are chances that you can get extremely lucky

Then recharge times on skills should be higher? The idea of %chance failure was to make this proffession a sort of "damned if you do, even more damned if you don't" character.

"Getting lucky" just means the skills you use would be waiting under recharge. Failure to trigger means you got off a little adjacent AoE damage, lost some mana and get to try again.

Lord Jerhyn · Oct 11, 2006, 01:00 AM // 01:00

i like the sound of it, would be quite a nice guard/protector of monks in both pve and pvp

Nice class idea

DarkNecrid · Oct 11, 2006, 01:06 AM // 01:06

It's called Energy, not mana.

But I kinda of like the idea.

Arcanis the Omnipotent · Oct 11, 2006, 01:19 AM // 01:19

I like it for the post part, needs some refining.

Also, a mod should probably move this to the Concept Class forum

Zui · Oct 11, 2006, 04:27 AM // 04:27

Goes in the Concept Class subfourm?

BahamutKaiser · Oct 14, 2006, 10:14 PM // 22:14

As Zui says, this belongs in concept classes.

Aside from that, Shadowstepping totaly blows, unless they can justify a 20 second recast on Deaths Charge and Dark Prison, executing a hand full of Teleport Swaping, displacing and so forth skills with even remotely frequent recast times is totaly ridiculous. Some better shadowstepping needs to be added to Assassin, not another teleport class to "displace" their most attractive and underdeveloped ability.