[SUGGESTION] 3.x - Skypirates and Long-Life Content

[Momita]

This game is beautiful, BUT, sometimes miss a long-life content and, a content for Free Companies that in this game have a marginal role.
I tried to modify and create a new content from the 3.1 Island Exploratory content incoming.
My idea is for every Job or Classes. From Alchemist to Warrior!


- A new Map:

Sea of Clouds – Deep Blue

This map will be semi-istanced PvPvE, you can enter only speaking with an NPC you'll found in your Free Company House. The map will be always open, but you need the FC's Airship. This map will have a cap for just ONE FC Airship and a cap for like 20 total airship and 480 player. Can be more than 1 istance for this map.

The Map will be really really big and “open”, with few islands, and a bigger island in the mid for major content that I'll explain further.

Will have 4 spawn point: Immortal Flames, Maelstrom, Twin Adders and Skypirates.

- Airship:

Airships will be totally modificable and with different component like:

- Sail
- Keel
- Weaponry (x 8)
- Engine
- Figurehead

Some of these can you craft only with items dropped inside this map.

Airships in this map will be totally manoeuvrable but not easy like mounts, instead will be a bit more complex and realistic.
Will have Minimum HP and with better component will raise his HP. During combat when reach <5% HP airship will de-pop and players will appear at the spawn point of their GC.


- Dogfights:

Airships, with a new skill, can fight freely in the sky, so they will be targetable, and killable from others Airships with their weapons.
There will not be only PvP but even PvE, where players and airships will encounter various NM and HNM (like island exploratory 3.1 content).
There will be different ammunitions for cannons with different stats like:

CANNON BALL
Accuracy: 30
Damage: 70
Range: 15
Addictional Effect: No

SNIPER BALL
Accuracy: 90
Damage: 30
Range: 25
Addictional Effect: No

CHAIN BALL
Accuracy: 30
Damage: 10
Range: 20
Addictional Effect: + Heavy and % can damage Sails.

FRAGMENT BALL
Accuracy: 30
Damage: 10
Range: 20
Addictional Effect: +Bleeding and % can damage Keel.

SMOKE BALL
Accuracy: 70
Damage: 0
Range: 30
Addictional Effect: + Blind (Reduce Range and Accuracy)



- New Skills:

Blood Piracy (Tentative Name): You can engage others Airship and Players from every Grand Company. Can't be used in combat. Can be used only in Sea of Clouds – Deep Blue.

Fortune of Captain: Improve steering ability for 30 seconds. 90 seconds CD

Winds of Power: Improve Speed for 20 seconds. 60 seconds CD

Heart of Sea: Raise a Shield on the Airship that reduce damage of 50% for 20 seconds. 180 seconds CD

Sword of Skies: Raise the potency of every weapons aboard of 50% for 20 seconds. 180 seconds CD

- HNM:

Every 48h RL (tentative time) will pop in the middle of the map an HNM that will receive damage ONLY from the airships. Will have special moves and attacks. After will be defeated will pop a chest that will be loot-able from everyone, even if they didn't killed it.
Will drop an item that you can sold to a specific NPC in the map that will give you a good amount of Gil. This item will be lost if you die, or disappear after a certain amount of time (like 2-3hours).


- NM:

There will be even NM killable only from Players that will drop item for Glamour, housing, armor and good gear PvE and PvP.


- Piracy Point:

For every Player or Airship killed you will obtain an amount of Piracy Point. 5 points (tentative number) for every player and 50 points for every Airship. At a fixed amount you will active the stance: Blood Piracy for undefined time in this map, and u can't deactivate it. You can lost this status only after a week (tentative time) or buying from an NPC an item that will ask you to trade X items dropped from the map.


- Gather:

- New gather points 60+
- Minimum stat required
- Hour Node with RANDOM location, will stay for an hour RL.
- Collectible will be really hard to obtain and will be Hidden and Rare.
- You can obtain items fro crafting or collectible to sell it to NPC for an amount of Gil.


- Combat:

Every Airship can have 24 players, 3 party that will have to work together for drive the airship: Sail, Engine, Steer, Cannons and Harpoons. Every player will have a role on the airship. But at the same time, even a smaller raid party can use the airship.

Like, a party will have to work on cannons and harpoons to damage and accost others airships, another party could have the task to navigate with compass, steer and sails. Last party could stay at Engines and repair airship while in combat.

Will be a map PvPvE, so during an HNM could be there some Skypirates ready to attack you for destroy your airship and gain some rare items that can they sold for Gil! (You don't loose anything, even airship)


- Crafter:

Even Crafters will have an important role. They can, of course, crafts items from gathered nodes, or dropped from mobs, and repair the airships while in combat. (Like Hamlet in 1.0)

For Example, during a combat, for every 10-20% Airship HP there will be a random % that a component of the airship can break; Crafters will have a workbench where they have to craft an amount of item to repair the airship and restore a % HP. Other than this they can of course craft better component for the Airship, like Cannonballs or new sails.


- New Mobs:

- NM
- HNM
- Skypirates NPC NM
- Skypirates NPC HNM
- Legendary HNM * (Legendary Mob with random pop and really rare. Es. Bismark: will drop items that can be used to craft an armor set of Bismark)


- New Crafts:

Armorer
- Cannonball
- Sniperball
- Chainball
-Fragmentball
- Smokeball

Blacksmith
-Cannon
-Hawk's Cannon
- Falcon's Cannon

Carpenter
-Keel
-Robust Keel
-Hard Robust Keel
- Steering wheel
- Captain Steering Wheel
- Nostrome Steering Wheel

Weaver
- Sails
- Captain Sails
- Nostrome Sails

Goldsmith
- Bahamut Figurehead
- Siren Figurehead
- Bismark Figurehead
- Ifrit Figurehead
- Leviathan Figurehead

Alchemist
- Ceruleum Tank
- Green Ceruleum Tank
- Black Ceruleum Tank




I can go on for all night but I don't wanna bother you too much XD

[Almalexia]

I think the only correct outcome for this kind of content would be Asscreed 4-style naval battles, but with airships.

Shanties optional.

Just kidding. Shanties mandatory.

OH POOR OLD STORMY'S DEAD AND GONE