Ranger ideas!

Note: all of the below require both Ranger profession and are mutually exclusive, meaning you can only spend points in one of the lines.

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Bounty Hunter Unique Line

Elite Tier:

Master Tracker: You name an enemy type. Whilst in an area where they naturally spawn, you are able to sense how many are in the area and receive a message when more spawn, as well as how many rooms away they are. In addition, you gain X phantom crit rank against said enemy for as long as you have the enemy Named.

Greet them properly: Everytime an enemy enters the room, you have a 10/20/30/40% chance to make a free attack against them using the weapon you are wielding. Ranged attacks made in this way do not require ammo, and use a basic arrow that breaks on use.

Legendary Tier:

Dead or Alive (ok, mostly Dead): When completing 'dangerous critter' bounties, you receive an extra 25/50/75/100% reward. In addition, you receive phantom weighting vs any Ixix Gifted Critter and receive extra silver for killing them.

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Guerilla Fighter

Elite Tier:

Shadow Warrior: Grants access to Shadowdance rank 1. You must still spend CMan points to actually acquire it. In addition, 608 becomes a duration spell (1m/2m/5m) that continues to apply its benefits whenever you are hidden, rather than needing to cast it again every time you hide.

The Land Rises: 610 becomes an AoE spell that automatically attempts to drag every enemy in the room to the ground. In addition, it has a chance for a nature flare which increases with each rank in this skill.

Legendary Tier:

Stand against the Many: For every enemy above the first in the room with you that is alive, you gain +5 AS and +5 DS, as well as a -1 RT in ranged/melee attacks up to a minimum of 1s.

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Beastmaster

Elite Tier:

Red in Tooth and Claw: Every time you strike, there is a 5/10/15/20% chance for each of your companions you've bonded with to attack alongside you in addition to their normal attacks. This applies to ranged and melee and spell attacks.

Fury for the Fallen: If your compainion is wounded or slain, you get a temporary boost of +10/25/50 to AS, as well as all actions being reduced by 1/2/3s RT. This boost lasts 20s

Legendary Tier:

Eternal Bond: The spirit of your companion has infused you, and yours with it. This gives you an always on 650 effect that matches your animal compainions type, as WELL as allowing you to cast an additional 650 effect as normal.

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GM Naionna at 11:41 PM
Whick is so pretty. it's a shame he has to talk.

<<I love these ranger ideas. But why make the paths exclusive of each other? If you have the points, do all three! The only reason my paladin path ideas were exclusive is because of RP flavor of light and dark deities.>>


Well, because I enjoy specialization rather than generification. As a rule, I enjoy it when I can make my character unique. And if people were able to get 'all the things' it really kills the uniqueness that this game provides. One of Gemstones big selling points for a lot of people is the ability to be different. That you can have alters that are specified to JUST YOU.

So if we have some skills be 'mutually exclusive' it helps to diversify the builds we see, which makes characters feel more unique and special, and I feel it plays on gemstones Strengths.

It also makes balance a lot easier too.

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GM Naionna at 11:41 PM
Whick is so pretty. it's a shame he has to talk.

I have significant tradeoffs on my mind right now, apparently.

Chivalrous Spirit	Improves block and parry rate and decreases time between counterattacks from Stance of the Mongoose by two seconds, but can no longer use berserk.
Daring Bolter	Improves power of all bolts, but maneuver defense goes down and runestaff DS now acts as if you only have X ranks of magic skills per level, where X is the number of ranks in this skill. (Then make similar abilities for CS spells and maneuver spells.)
Defiant Spirit	Replaces Spirit Slayer (240) with a multi-target bolt. Works like unspecified Cone of Elements (518), randomly selecting between Fire Spirit (111), Web (118), and either Holy Bolt (306) or Empathic Assault (1110) depending on profession. Holy Bolt is the EVOKEd version if lore requirements are met. Number of targets scales with Spiritual Mana Control.
Fleetfooted Bard	Doubles the duration of Song of Tonis (1035), but Song of Sonic Disruption (1030) loses all benefits from Manipulation lore.
Supernova	Gear is far more likely to flare (including script flares), but anything that costs mana or stamina now costs more of it.

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Elite
Dedicated forger	Forge RT reduced by 5% per rank
Skilled forger	1% higher chance for best results per rank

+1
Tell me again what Clunk would need to do to earn this?



Clunk

(Buy your swords at CBD weapons in Zul Logoth.)

Good Samaritan Sorcerer: Allows you to animate a player's body in addition to any other active creature animates you have.

Some of my ideas are a bit out there. I'm trying to inspire two types of thought:
1) The initial list shared was pretty mechanical in nature - I am seriously hoping that we see a lot of fun, non-mechanical ideas implemented as well (I can already kill everything in the game anyway).
2) Put ideas out there that may not be great ideas in and of themselves, but that might inspire new and better resulting ideas.

With that, here are a couple that might be fun (but I can forsee issues) but that may inspire something even better that players may enjoy.

THE GOLDEN CHILD
- While active, the character has access to the post-title of "Golden One"
- Additionally, this character is always under 2x Lumnis bonus.
- There can ever only be ONE Golden Child. Once another takes the GOLDEN CHILD ascension perk, any other character is stripped of this perk and refunded all but one of their Ascension points (the remaining point is forfeit).


ASCENSION LORD
- Anyone with this perk is required to take the pre-title of "Ascension Lord".
- Use of this perk grants consent for PVP with other Ascension Lords (only).
- When an Ascension Lord kills another they gains ONE Ascension Point from the slain player.
- The slain ASCENSION LORD loses this perk and is refunded all but two of their Ascension Points (one is lost, the other is forfeit to their slayer).

-- Robert

>channel my maul
You channel at a hefty mithril maul.
You make an astoundingly inept attempt! Success!

Lucky - +5 to all rolls and prevents fumbles from ever occurring.

Sonic padding - sonic armor can gain padding
Sonic weighting - sonic weapons can gain weighting

Area casting - lets the next single-target spell (with some exception) be cast at all creatures in the room at the same time. Mana cost is multiplied by number of targets.

Spell piercing - spells have chance of ignoring target's magical defenses

Wild casting - all spells have a chance of generating random effect from a long list of effects, which can be beneficial, harmful, chaotic, or just generally hilarious. Ability cannot be disabled once learned.

Chaotic cast - randomly casts 1 spell you know.

Void walker - gains immunity to open implosions. lets you take control of an open void from a creature. lets you walk through any open implosions to the room of your last sense pattern, or to nearest town sanctuary if you don't have one set.

Void protected - a thin layer of otherworldly planar energy covers you. All melee attacks and maneuvers have a chance of being negated once every 30 seconds and result in retaliatory damage against the attacker.

Demonic possession - summons the power of a demon into you for 5 minutes, granting you +10 to all stat bonuses, a 50% DF/crit increase to all damaging spells, but all spells cost an additional 25% mana to cast and various demonic effects depending on the spell (demonology spells are more potent, etc.). In melee, only 8x blessed weapons can hurt you. You gain an insatiable hunger for living souls, and you must kill X number of creatures with souls every minute while this ability is active. Failure to do so will cause you to automatically attempt to kill the nearest player character, and if there are none, the demon possessing you will devour your own soul. Demon will also attempt to turn on you periodically and devour your soul even if it is fed. While possessed, you may attempt to deliberately summon a major demon (moderate chance of success), or open a planar gate to allow multiple demons to invade (low chance of success, requires blood sacrifice of multiple living creatures). If your soul has already been devoured, chance of success in summoning or opening a gate increases. Having your soul devoured or dying while possessed will result in a systemwide "demonic" message, and you will suffer death sting as if you had departed with 0 deeds. You are responsible for all justice consequences while being possessed--activating the ability in town is illegal, and attempting to open a gate results in automatic banishment. .

Day of the dead - all critters and players that have been killed in the zone in the past 5 minutes are raised in undead form and attack the nearest living entity. Anything killed by your undead will rise themselves as undead. Lasts for 5 minutes. The dead that are raised will give exp appropriate for their level.

If this all works, I wouldn't mind seeing a racial expansion. Even if it's just for alternative verb options or titles. But also, for example, shorter races being able to reach higher on a monster or dark elves maybe getting a fairer shake when it comes to prices.

another thing i wouldn't mind seeing is an ornate brass wand (the alter wand) in the crater in the nexus in shattered so we can label stuff like the bag where we keep small statues.

-paul character is mitch in shattered

Strong Arm Tactics - Paladin/Warrior

Can use a shield to full effect while using a THW.

~Sabotage

Monk

Requirements: These trees are mutually exclusive. You cannot have points in more than one of the following trees. Also you must be a monk.

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Way of the Mountain

Elite Tier:

Immovable: When active, every time you move rooms you add +2s RT. However, you can no longer be moved between rooms by enemy abilities or spells. You also cannot be sunned, knocked down, or incapacitated in any way.

One with Steel: Shields no longer give a penalty of any kind to Unarmed Combat. UAC weapons have all their penalties reduced by 20/30/40/50%.

Legendary Tier:

Mind of Stone, Heart of Fire: You are immune to any form of fear/sheer fear and gain +5/10 TD. All attacks you make, armed or otherwise, have a chance to add an additional fire flare in addition to any other flares. At rank 2, they may double flare.

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Way of the Tiger

Elite Tier:

Fearful Symmetry: You follow up all of your attacks with an additional one, never letting up. Every time you jab, you execute another jab immediately for +0 RT. Every time you punch, you exectue another punch immediately for +1 RT. Every time you kick, you execute another kick immediately for +2 RT.

Dread Prowl: If you are not hiding, you may STALK an enemy to automatically follow them into another room if they leave for any reason. In addition, they have a 5/10/15/20% chance of being unable to attack you due to overwhelming fear.

Legendary Tier:

Raging Tiger Stance: Increase your unarmed attack DF by 20/30/40%. In addition, for 5s after you attack, you cannot be stunned or incapacitated. This timer does not stack.

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Way of the Stars

Elite Tier:

Wend the Winding Ways: You automatically succeed at any swim or climb or other environmental checks. Swimming or Climbing no longer takes RT and you no longer have to have your hands free.

Light of the Moons: Every 1m/45s/30s You are healed completely of blood loss, and one wound or scar is reduced in severity by 1 rank

Legendary Tier:

Thousandfold Thought: Compared to your vast intellect, others are children before you. You can predict their every move. Automatically dodge the first evadable attack every 30s/20s/10s. Every time you dodge, you counter attack with a free no RT Jab/punch/kick.

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GM Naionna at 11:41 PM
Whick is so pretty. it's a shame he has to talk.

>Its a barbie world: all your lockers become one giant locker and you gain access to all other lockers on your account
>Friends in Fashion: You and Sadie are bffs, she'll complete one alter scroll per month for you.

Oooh, I like these... but, they should be for Premium accounts only, since multi-lockers and Sadie are premium perks.

~Cylnthia Kythnis Ardenai
~Paragon of Kuon
~Rose Guardian, House Sylvanfair

Monk techniques - allows monks to learn specific schools of combat sort of like martial stances. Each is mutually exclusive. (i don't have any creative names for each):

A: Focuses on speed. All UCS attacks only take only 1 rt, but suffer a penalty to damage and crit. Each attack within 15 seconds leaves a counter on the target at random body locations, capping at 14 (one per body location). Can be detonated manually by you at any time for massive crit + damage to all body parts with a counter. Detonation of 14 at once on a single target is a guaranteed kill.

B: Focus on power. All UCS attacks take 1 more rt than normal to use, but each hit causes addition internal damage to target--effectively a second hidden crit + damage to the target at the same location.

C: Focus on disabling. All UCS attacks are guaranteed to cause a debuff on target (slow, paralysis, stun, binding, knockdown, rt, disarm, confusion, rage, penalties to attack/def, root, etc.).

D: Focus on defense: Gains use of a defensive stance. In the stance, you will automatically retaliate against all single-target attacks (physical, magical, maneuvers) against you. Your retaliation attack will automatically be at max tier, aimed (if you have it set), and has significantly increased chance to trigger a 1209 flare. Retaliation can trigger even if you are in RT (and has a chance to trigger if you are prone, stunned, etc. as well). Particularly effective against large groups.

E: Focus on undead: All UCS attacks gain effect of kai's smite and symbol of disruption permanently. Kai's Strike upgraded to let you use all properties of your gear (i.e. your gear effectively becomes permablessed while worn if you are in Voln). All UCS attacks against undead use casting rt instead of hard rt and deal additional holy damage. Low chance of instantly killing an undead on any hit.

For Mental Realm casters (Monk [now] & Savant [eventually]):
- ability to keep more than one Group Focus spell running.

For Arms Realm physical guys:
- ability to keep more than one Stance running. (Possibly limited to "one 'active' [like Predator's Eye] and one 'passive' [like a defensive stance, or retaliatory like Mongoose].")

For Armor BUFFs (in the military sense, Big Ugly Fat Fellows):
- ability to have more than one 'armor' verb applied. (Possibly a branch into each 'Realm', so if you take the Spirit Branch and the Stealthy Branch you can get one application from a Paladin and one from a Rogue, then if you later learn Arms Branch you can get activation from a Warrior.)

For spellcasters:
- ability to maintain more than one Concentration spe-- yeah, never mind, that's me projecting from my D&D 5e character. :)

The katar is already a brawling weapon; do you mean "UAC" weapon (considered 'worn', like the knuckle-blade & spike-fist)?

Why would anyone ever bother to spend Ascension points on improved instrument levels, rather than just spending the time (while absorbing field experience, for example) on gaining more ranks?
Or was it your intention to have the Ascension gain permit them access to the "Bardic level of skill" area?

I'm not keeping up with everything posted here so, some of these may have overlap with stuff previously mentioned.

Empath related things:

Healing Will
Healing spells no longer require a somatic component to cast and can be cast when silenced/afflicted by a cutthroat-induced neck wound.

Unhindered Healer
Healing spells can no longer fail due to spell hindrance.

Blood Mage
Empower your spells (and physical attacks?) with your own life's blood. Spells in the empath circle (and physical attacks?) have improved success/power but eat some health.

Blood Bond
You can permanently imprint to a person. This imprint never fades unless deliberately broken. The breaking is hazardous to both parties and there's a cooldown before you can bond to someone else.

Lack of Empathy/Selfish Healer
You can no longer transfer wounds from others, but your weapon (and armor?) training is boosted by phantom ranks. (dat warpath dedication)

Unflappable
Reduce the duration of stuns that afflict you, even become immune to stuns that would have been low duration.

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Walsor Gryhm says, "Hmm, a most impressive weapon of note. I'll give you 16 silver coins for it."
You think to yourself, "This deal is getting worse all the time."

>The katar is already a brawling weapon; do you mean "UAC" weapon (considered 'worn', like the knuckle-blade & spike-fist)?
>Why would anyone ever bother to spend Ascension points on improved instrument levels, rather than just spending the time (while absorbing field experience, for example) on gaining more ranks? Or was it your intention to have the Ascension gain permit them access to the "Bardic level of skill" area?

I suppose I could've worded those better, true! That's what I meant on both counts: making katars more UAC compatible and an ability to max instrument without being a bard.

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Bored Enchanter - doubles amount of wizard essence you can gain each week
Bored Ensorceller - for sorcs
Bored Murderer - you get the idea

Warrior Ideas

These will likely repeat some previous ideas but they are good ones. Some of these might also be better implemented as improvements to existing combat systems instead of used here but here are some thoughts

Weapon Master

Elite

Critical Strike - pre-req of wspec/bonding maneuvers, chance for an additional slash/crush/puncture flare on any weapon attack

Deadly Mongoose - retaliation attack now utilizes your aim location

Bladestorm - Rank 1, Unfocused Mstrike Targets increased by 1, Rank 2, Focused Mstrike Strikes increased by 1. Rank 3, Mstrike RT reduced by 1 RT and Recovery Period Reduced by 10 seconds.

Legendary

Bonding mastery - Rank 1, +10 AS +10 CML when using bonded weapons. Rank 2, bonding flare frequency doubled. Rank 3, Bond to up to 3 additional weapons. Rank 4, focus your mind for 2 RT to apply a 25% DF increase on the next attack for all bonded weapons. Rank 5, focusing on your weapons now also automatically triggers your bonding flare as well regardless of current swing count.

Weapon Sharpening - add temporary +1/2/3/4/5 CER and +1/2/3/4/5 AvD to any weapon

Combat Master

Elite

Death Blow - pre-req of coup de grace, have a 10/20/30/40/50% chance to have the coup de grace effect trigger on any killing blow you land. Bonus will be based on the crit rank of the killing blow.

Stance Mastery - maintain multiple martial stances

Delayed Contact - every attack made from offensive stance that is a clean miss or outright evaded, blocked or parried adds a +10 counter to your next attack roll stacking up to 5 times

Combat strategy - rank 1, two combat verbs (i.e. wtrick feint target, qstrike -1 attack) can be frontloaded with normal RT. Rank 2, -2 overall RT. Rank 3, three combat verbs can be used

Legendary

Berserk Mastery - Use warcries during berserk, attacks during berserk have a chance for mighty blow effect, manually stop berserk.

Shield Master

Elite

Balanced offense - Shield Strike, Shield Pin now utilize your aim location. Shield Strike Mastery now performs a minor shield bash before and after your focused mstrikes

Riposte Mastery - Rank 1, minor Bash from shield riposte now triggers on successful blocks as well as hits. Rank 2, this bash is now followed with a weapon/UAC attack at -3 RT. This attack also utilizes your aim location.

Deadly shield - minor shield bashes from shield riposte, shield strike and shield strike mastery are replaced with shield bash. Shield Pin’s diversionary bash now deals damage.

Legendary

Strong Resolve - 5 ranks, Steely Resolve’s cooldown reduced by 30 seconds per rank to a minimum of 30 seconds.

Devour Corpse - sacrifices a fresh corpse to restore your health, mana, stamina and spirit.

Corpse Explosion - needs no introduction

Clone - a clone of yourself appears, with 75/80/85/90/100% of your skills, stats and abilities. Will fight by your side. Other players and critters cannot tell you apart.

Blink - short-range teleportation spell. When used while stunned, bound, in rt, etc., will teleport you to random room in zone. When used not in an emergency, you can direct a direction and a number of rooms and you will appear there if possible. Can be used to circumvent climb/swim and other obstacles checks.

Auras - persistent effects on all critters in room, may cost mana to upkeep.
1. Thorns
2. Mana drain
3. Life drain
4. Weakening
5. Slow
6. Clumsy
7. Confused
8. Rage

Something something that allows Mana Focus to follow the caster instead of being anchored to the room it was cast in.

~ Methais