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    Player Tsuwu's Avatar
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    Mar 2011
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    Gridania
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    Character
    Way Extra
    World
    Cactuar
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 60
    Let's get weird.

    Tank-

    Puppetmaster - They use their pet/automaton as less gimpy Titan-Egi, and most of the character's abilities focus on maintenance of the magitek "puppet" with the wide range of pet-skills generating hate. They can "overdrive" it for increased damage/hate at the expense of it taking more damage. Excels at group hate management. Would provide a completely unexpected and original type of tank that healers feel comfortable playing, could provide Gridania with its tank (guild could Be Garlond Ironworks) and would be a really neat type of class.

    Main Weapon - Automata Modules (varies the stats and appearance of the automata)
    Offhand - Mechanic's Wrenches

    Main Stats -
    Int and Dex (I said I was getting weird, here, but doesn't it make sense an intelligent and dexterous person would be a better mechanic?)
    Skill Speed (faster repairs)


    Player skills -
    Contact - Calls the Automata to the battlefield.
    Cost: All TP - Cast Time: 6 seconds
    Overdrive - Increases damage output and enmity generation. Inflicts slow on Automata for 6 seconds once effect wears off.
    Cost: 120 TP - Duration: 18 Seconds - Cool down: 60 seconds
    Maintain - Regenerates 20% of Automata's health over 10 seconds.
    Cost: 80 TP - Cast: Instant - Cool down: 60 seconds
    Augment - Increases automata's maximum HP by 25% and restores 25% of automata's HP.
    Cost: 120 TP - Cast: 2 seconds - Cool down: 120 seconds - Duration: 25 seconds
    Break - Deals blunt damage with a potency of 50
    Cost: 60 TP
    Shatter - Deals blunt damage with a potency of 70 (Combo: 110 potency following Break. Has a chance that the next Hotwire will cast instantly and for free, regardless of cool down remaining)
    Cost: 70 TP
    Hotwire - Doubles the damage dealt by automata's next action
    Cost: 180 TP - Cast Time: 4 seconds - Cool down - 30 seconds
    Scald - Deals astral damage with a potency of 100 (Chance to inflict burn DoT with a potency of 60, lasting 15 seconds)
    Cost: 70 TP - Cast Time: Instant - Cool Down - 10 seconds
    Rend - Deals blunt damage with a potency of 30 (Potency to 180 if target has Burn)
    Cost: 40 TP - Cast Time: Instant - Cool Down - 5 seconds

    ...and some others. Basically a tool wielding semi-DPS whose main concern is making their Automata hit hard and keep hate while keeping it alive and juggling the pros and cons of their buffs.

    I'll figure up pet actions if you guys want. But it would be a neat little change to tanking that would breathe some fun and life into the role.

    Would branch from MRD and ARC, possibly? Or PGL and ACN?
    Musketeer and Arcanist, perhaps? Sticking with the Gridania tank concept it would be a little odd, but I can't think of a combo that makes sense otherwise.
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    Last edited by Tsuwu; 08-14-2014 at 08:51 AM. Reason: Adding more ideas!

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    Risvertasashi's Avatar
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    Apr 2014
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    Makani Risvertasashi
    World
    Ultros
    Main Class
    Conjurer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Tsuwu View Post
    Let's get weird.

    Tank-

    -snip!-
    A back line tank job would actually make me consider the role. But with how precise certain tank actions need to be (tank swaps, add pickup, things like voking a feather at exactly the right time, etc etc), I wonder how well it could really work in this game...

    Still, cool idea!
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