Tinker>Mechinist/Gadgeteer Class/Job

[Mimilu]

I posted this in Classes&Jobs forum but his might be a better place for it...

I got the idea for these from Cid and our friends from the Garlean Empire.

Weapon: Cannon-Gauntlets: Big, bulky gauntlets that are worn on the user's off-hand, similar to the one Cid wears, allowing the user use of their main-hand for delicate work. Housed inside is a small aether-cannon, similar to Gaius'. Ranged when faraway from a targeted enemy, physical when up-close (and weaker). Designed as more of a defense tool then an actual offensive weapon.

Tinker [TNK]:
A support-DPS class, they use both gadgets and special cannon-shells in battled for various effects. Their skills are TP based.

Some of the gadgets could include:
-Astra Generator: Sets up a triangular AoE on the ground around themselves that will give any party member that steps within it the Astra buff, which will absorb one debuff, and then disappear.
-Brave Generator: Sets up a circular AoE on the ground around themselves that boost physical attack for any party member within
-Vanish Unit: Places an Invisibility effect on the target

Some Cannon-Shells could include:
-Black Out Shell: Place a Blind status effect on target
-Mortar Shell: Launches an AoE to a designated area
-Molotov Shell: Launches an AoE to a designated area that places a Burn DoT effect on any enemy in it

-Repair: Allows the Tinkerer to repair their own and others equipment during battle.

Teacher: Ayoyo Ayo, Ballistics and Tech expert and current Overseer/babysitter for the Garlond Ironworks' Gridanian recruitment center, in New Gridania.
Story:
In order to better arm Eorzea and nurture a more peaceful future, good-old Cid has opened up the Garlond Ironworks to new recruits in Gridania. You will first be instructed to introduce yourself to the current Overseer, Ayoyo Ayo, a gruff, no-nonsense Shefell, who will fling a barrage of insults your way before asking: "Do you think you have the chops for being among Eorzea's most brightest, most talented, and, most-likely, craziest?" The Tinker questline will first start out with you testing new gadgets and "liberating" some tech from Garlean troops through out the three nations, until you and Ayoyo catch wind of a new Garlean weapon and its dark connection to the Ironworks...

Mechanist [MEC] (TNK+ACN)
XIV's Puppetmaster class . A Pet-DPS class that focuses on augmenting mechanical Automatons with specialized parts. Automatons get their own equipscreen, where you can change what type of Frame (which determines the Automatons skills and look) and parts you are using, with a total of 9 part-slots (two arm, two head, three body, one leg, and one crystal core). Automatons have their own MP/TP called CP (Crystal points), which comes from their Crystal Core. Parts can be crafted by Alchemist, Blacksmiths, Goldsmiths, and Armorers or found in Dungeons. Parts can also come in HQ. Cross-class abilities are Arcanist and Archer. Their skills are TP-based.

Skill Ideas:
1. Activate Automaton: Summons Automaton. You have access to this at any level, so long as you have the Soul Gem equipped. This is NOT a spell and CANNOT be effected by Swiftcast.
2. Pet Commands: Naturally. Comes with Automaton.
3. Maintenance: Removes one debuff from Automaton.
4. Frame Rotation: Changes the frame of your automaton to the next in the rotation. Rotation: Stormwalker>Spiritrever>Soulsoother>Stormwalker. When changing frame, the Automaton will still us the same parts they had previously equipped to them. Any effect that was placed on the battlefield by the Automaton will disappear when the frame is switch, while any effect placed on a target will remain.
5. Vetriloquy: Switches aggro from Mechanist to Automaton and vice-versa.
6. Energy Siphon: Absorbs 10% of your Automatons HP and converts it to CP. Automaton must be in range for this to work.
7. Overclock: Increases Automaton's damage/healing power by 50% for 10 seconds. After 15 seconds, they gain the "Overheated" debuff that lowers their action speed by 50% for 1 minute. Overheated can not be removed by spell/skill/item.

Types of Automaton Frames could include:
Stormwalker Uses dazzling elemental spells to stupefy the opposition
Skills:
~Magic Mortar: Standard attack spell.
~Medeo: Drops small meteors on a targeted area for 20 seconds that damaged enemies that step into area. Each meteor that drops has it's own chance to crit.
~Pyro: Launches a fiery AoE at a targeted enemy. Places Burn debuff on nearby enemies that lowers Defense.
~Cold Wave: Launches a column of freezing air that damages, knocks them back, and binds for 2 seconds
~Jolt: Attacks a foe with a bolt of lightning. Places a Lowered Intelligence debuff on foe.

Spiritrever Places a myriad of DoTs and devilish-goodies for your enemies to enjoy.
Skills:
~Dia: Standard attack spell. Places Dia DoT on enemy for 18 seconds.
~Miasma: Same as ACN.
~Poly: Surrounds self in a dazzling AoE of holy light. Stuns nearby enemies for 5 seconds and places a Poly DoT on them for 24 seconds.
~Gravity: Places an AoE on the spot where the Automaton was standing for 20 seconds. Places a Speed lowering Debuff and Gravity Crush DoT on any enemy that enters it. You can only have one Gravity AoE up at a time.
~Matra Magic: Creates 4 magical orbs that will explode and damage any enemy that makes contact with them. If left alone for 5+ seconds, they will float over to the closest enemy. IF there are no enemies nearby, they will just explode on there own. You can only have 4 orbs up at a time and recasting the skill will remove all previous orbs.

Soulsoother Use buffs and tricks to help allies
Skills:
~Ruin Spikes: Places Ruin Spike buff on a Tank-classed ally. Whenever a foe hits said ally, they will receive a small amount of damage per hit, as long as the buff is up.
~Tractor: Pulls selected ally towards the Automaton. Works on Binded, Petrified, and KO'ed allies.
~Phalanx: Places a small barrier on a selected ally that absorbs a small amount of damage.
~Temper: Places a Temper buff on a DPS-classed ally. As long as the buff is on said ally, there is a small chance that their next Physical Skill will not have a cooldown.
~Martyr: The Automaton self destructs and restores a small portion of the parties MP and TP.

Teacher: Laughing Sky, a bold and theatrical Roegadyn Goldsmith, in Ul'dah, Steps of Nald
Backstory:
Upon completing the Tinkerer questline and getting Arcanist to level 15, Ayoyo will show one of the Ironworks' latest discoveries, an ancient, automaton frame. Having now expertise in the the field, Ayoyo mention an old acquaintance that specializes in robotics and automatons, Laughing Sky, who had left the Ironworks to pursue a career in show-business in his home town, Ul'dah, and sends you to get his his appraisal. Upon traveling to the Steps of Nald, you will find Laughing Sky, entertaining a small crowd, who aren't very entertained, with his automatons. Once the last of the audience leaves, Laughing Sky will approach you and will begin some technobabble about his automatons, until he notices that you are beginning to doze off. You will then explain that Ayoyo sent you, which will trigger him to begin go through a lengthy remembrance of his time in the Ironworks and how prosperous it was with his admittance to it. He'll once again noticed that you are beginning to doze off again, digress, and examine the rusted automaton. It seems it can be brought back to working condition, IF a master were to repair it, which, lucky for you, Laughing Sky is, he only needs you to do the legwork and collect all the necessary materials and parts, while he preps it. He will send you to his old colleague, Serendipity, at the Goldsmith's Guild, with a list of the needed material. Upon bringing the list to Serendipity and telling her that Laughing Sky sent you, she will moaningly remember him and give her condolences but will tell you that, while she would love to help with such a historical piece, said materials would cost a hefty amount, and ops for a trade, she will give you what you need, if you go and collect some crystal from a strong but rare monster, Starryknight, in Eastern Thanalan's Burning Wall. Once the trade is done, head back to Laughing Sky to find that Ayoyo is has arrived and is verbally chewing him up. Laughing Sky misses the point of what she is saying and laughs until he notices you with the goods. He praises you for your work, stats that everything is ready for the reconstruction, and invites you and Ayoyo to help. You smile and nod, while Ayoyo begrudgingly agrees. Cut to a photo-montage of you three doing the repairs, with a bunch of silly mishaps happening. We then return back to real time, all three of you out of breath, Sky leaning against a wall, Ayoyo clenching her knees and complaining about how hard Laughing Sky made it, and you sprawled out on the floor, in a daze. The door behind Sky opens. The Automaton pirouettes out, followed by a sunburst effect and fanfair, and hold it's position, as the three of you look at it confused. Ayoyo snaps back to reality first, remembering why she was there in the first place, and begins to chew Laughing Sky out again, who is til staring at the automaton confused, until you calm her down. Noticing that Sky still isn't paying attention, she hits him over the head with a large, ancient tome, in a comedic fashion, bring him back to reality. He begins to excitedly exclaim about the automatons craftsmenship and his genius, until Ayoyo hits him again. She then explains that the tome she has been hitting him with another automaton near where they discovered this one. It's filled with various blueprints and text about automatons! Laughing Sky starts to get giddy and begins rapidly technobabbling about the text's mastery and how he and he alone is qualified for such information, until Ayoyo hits him again, this time knocking him out and knocking out a gemstone that was on the cover of the book. She then turns to you, you wince. She suggests that you take the automaton for some field-testing and that she will leave the tome with Sky to decode, how is now snoring. She places it upon his stomach, pats him on the head, and walks off. You then see the automaton pick up the crystal and try to hand it to you. You take the crystal and it begins to glow as the automaton begins to clap in excitement. Its the Mechanist Soul Gem. The Mechanist questline will you learning more about the origin of your automaton with Laughing Sky, silly antics and all.


Gadgeteer [GDT] (TNK+CNJ):
XIV's Corsair class, with some of Tactics Advanced/A2's Gadgeteer/Tinker and Gambler thrown in. A Support/Healing class who use the mysterious Pandorica, am ancient device that cast various effects depending on what you roll. Comes in two flavors: Pandorica-White, which focuses on healing, and Pandorica-Gold, which focuses on buffs. When targeting another player/party-member, the Pandorica will us its effect on them. Besides the Pandoricas, their skills are suppose to have longer cooldowns. Cross-Class skills are Conjurer and Arcanist. Their skills are MP-based.

Possible Skills could include:
~Pandorica-White: Uses Pandorica-White. Can be used at any level, as long as the Soul Gem is equipped.
~Pandorica-Gold: Uses Pandorica-Gold. Can be used at any level, as long as the Soul Gem is equipped.
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Paired together
~Roll Up: Adds a +1 to your next Pandorica roll. If 10 is rolled, then 1 will go into effect. If Roll Down is up while this skill is used, the Roll Down effect is negated.
~Roll Down: Minuses a +1 from your next Pandorica roll. If 1 is rolled, then 10 will go into effect. If Roll Up is up while this skill is used, the Roll Up effect is negated.
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~Random Deal: Places a ReRoll buff on you which will negate your next Pandorica Roll and reroll it.
~Rapid Roll: Your next Roll will not have a cooldown.
~Evens Only: Your next roll will be an even number. This roll will NOT be effected by Roll Up, Roll Down, and/or Random Deal.

Some Pandorica-White roll-effects could include:
-1: Gold Battery: Castes AoE effect on the target that cures HP.
-2: Mog Dance: Castes a Regen-effect on target. A moogle with fly around them while the effect is on them.
-3: Dud
-4: Joker's Death: Takes 40% of targets remaining HP but places regen effect on them. A laughing jester's mask will float above the target while the regen is in effect.
-5: Dud
-6: Fat Choco Cure: Summons Fat Chobobo to come and cast Medica II-esque spell on the target. Mini-chocobos will fly around the heads of those with the regen effect on them.
-7: Rapture: Cast an AoE effect that removes all status-ailments on those in range. Angel wings will appear on the target as a useless buff.
-8: Dud
-9: Ether Shell: Summons a toy-moogle-soldier to shoot an ether at the target that restores 60MP and 60 TP
-10: Dud

Some Pandorica-Gold roll-effects could include:
-1: Lucky Girl: Increases the Critical Hit stat of the target. While effect is on, a picture of a female Miqo'te wearing a swimsuit will float above the target, in homage to Cait Sith's Lucky Girl Limit break from Final Fantasy VII.
-2: Red Spring: Cast Haste effect on target.
-3: Dud
-4: Dud
-5: Courage Boost: Cast Stoneskin (Granitskin version) and Protect on target
-6: Dud
-7: Gold Saucer: Casts an AoE effect on target that grants Haste
-8: Wall: Cast AoE effect on target that grants Stoneskin (Graniteskin version)
-9: Dud
-10:Excalipoor: Cast Dispel on target, removing all status buffs and debuffs on them

Teacher: Cornell, a jovial but mysterious Hyur who is in need of an tech-savvy adventurer, found in Costa del Sol.
Backstory:
Upon completing the Tinkerer questline and getting Conjurer to level 15, Ayoyo will mention a request sent from Costa del Sol about a lost, Garlean weapon. This will lead you to an odd Hyur, Cornell, relaxing on the beach, fruity drink and scantly-clad Miqo'te in hand. After his pleasantries, he will present a file about the mad, Garlean inventor, Agrippa Van Iovita, and the last invention she created before fleeing the Empire, and asks you to investigate while he deals more "rigorous" issues (while he stares at some Miqo'te playing in the water). Your investigation leads you to the Western part of Upper La Noscea, to fight a giant, garish robot. Upon betting the robot, you will be lead to where Agrippa's resting place lies, along with her last invention, the Pandorica, one of her old tomes, and the Gadgeteer Soul Gem. Return to Costa del Sol to give Cornell the tome and Pandorica. His jubilation at getting the olden tech will be short-lived, as he discovers he has no idea how it works, until he rolls a 4, causing the Pandorica to use Joker's Death, which gives everyone a good fright. He then tosses the Pandorica to you and looks at the tome. He begins to read it aloud, with it talking about other tomes hidden in various locations with instructions on how to use the device. However, it seems the locations are hidden in various riddles, cyphers, and puzzles in the tome. So Cornell makes you a deal, he will leave the Pandorica with you, for now, while he deciphers the locations of the tomes for you to go get for him. You agree. He then says that you should get acquainted with the device, while he begins decoding...later, he has a beach to enjoy! The Gadgeteer questline will be you going to where ever Cornell sends you, learning about the Pandorica, its zany creator, her escape from the Empire, and about your patron's connection to it all.

Sorry if the jobs seem to complex, convoluted, and/or broken. >A>()