Creating "Job Abilities" for Throwing, Shield, Parrying, and Blocking

[kingfury]

Enhancement Ability ——— Suggested by ——— Description
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Guarding:

•"Submission Wall" ——— Kingfury ——— Enhances Guarding by punishing an attacker through the unlocking of an ancient martial arts technique that hardens ones' muscles to the point that rivals stone. The sudden fear of further self inflicted damage imposed on the attacker instantly causes doubts as to whether they should stop or continue attacking. Adds additional Earth damage (akin to how Earth Spikes would work) to successful guards. Inflicts Killer effect upon target. (Timed duration of effect)

[kingfury]

**Edit to OP**

Enhancement Ability ——— Suggested by ——— Description
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Guarding:

•"Fluid Wall" ——— Kingfury ——— Enhances Guarding by unlocking an ancient martial arts technique that allows the user to skillfully mold and adjust to physical attacks as if they were like water. Reduces physical damage by absorbing a portion of the attack from a successful guard. Adds additional Water damage (akin to how Water Spikes would work) to successful guards. (Timed duration of effect)

*Note: Inspired by none other than the great Bruce Lee.
"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." (Quoted from Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000). Here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet. (Source "Bruce Lee Wiki")
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Throwing:

•"Syphoned Mark" ——— Kingfury ——— Enhances Throwing by causing your next throwing attack to drain either TP, MP, or HP. (Instant Single Use)

[Kimble]

Fluid Wall makes no sense because if its "martial arts" it would be something Monk or to a less extent pup related and neither of them use shield. Unless you think "blocking" is something else but even then, that doesnt make any sense at all.

[kingfury]

Yeah, this would be under the "Guarding" list of Defensive Enhancing Abilities, not Shield. The EA itself is not dependent on the "Martial Arts" Job Trait for it's effectiveness, but rather the level of a Player's Guarding skill level.

Guard- to take up a protective or defensive stance

In this case the player is the obstacle that's "impeding" the motion and flow of the attacks directed at them by using a martial arts Guarding technique that mimmic the behavior of water allowing them to technically "mold to" and "absorb" a portion of attack's energy. Like Bruce Lee was saying in quote. ^^

[Khiinroye]

It's called guarding, and it already reduces damage by acting as a negative critical hit.

[kingfury]

It's called guarding, and it already reduces damage by acting as a negative critical hit.

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Oops, >< you're absolutely right! Quick fix needed around the Thread lol. Thanks. I meant "Guarding" ^^ but brain defined the visual action as "Blocking" lol.

Nothing wrong with reducing a bit more damage though.

[AyinDygra]

Guard, Evasion, Parry, Shield (these are the 4 skills you're making abilities for)
It might be best to use the game's term of "Guarding" attacks, rather than blocking, since "Blocking" generally refers to the function of a Shield.

[Kimble]

Yeah, there is no such thing as "blocking"

And... yeah, Guard sucks.

[Kimble]

Great, now we are all going to have to tell you again how Guarding is useless, that the way its coded, skill doesnt have any affect on your guard rate just like parrying, and how for guard to even proc, you have to fail your eva and counter check, as well as not having shadows up to absorb the hit if /nin.

[kingfury]

Better change the wiki on the topic of proc rate then:

"Guard only works when the player is using a Hand-to-Hand weapon (or barehand). The higher your Guarding Skill, the better the chance that it will activate."

And yeah, I'm aware of all that stuff since it's the same for folks wielding a shield hoping to "Block" an attack. Like the EA for Shield on the OP (Shield Trust), I would opt that Guarding should definitely have an EA that increases the proc rate so that it can rise above all these nice factors.