Ritualist > Necromancer Class Idea

[Mimilu]

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I had actually thought about the idea of this being a class/job from another country for an expansion. >w>

As for the Opus, they only buff/debuff a party member that you put the Draugr buff on and your pets. The idea is to grab a DPS and use the correct Opus on them. For Melee and Bard, you use Beserker (now named Reaver) to boost their Strength and Dexterity and for Magic, you use Magus to increase their Intelligence. Sentinel is there for when you need to beef them up like to protect against a big attack, when you're soloing and need a beefy pet, or if for some reason you placed Draugr on a tank and want to beef them out like a pseudo-cooldown.
The way I designed the Opus was that I wanted the Necromancer to be able to support their Draugr's type of gameplay (Melee vs Magic) but with a cost so that it didn't make it okay for people to die all willy-nilly just to min-max with a buff. Maybe I could just remove the debuffing and retune the buffing.

[Nahara]

Lich and Draugr

This explanation makes a lot more sense, so thank you for that, but if that's the case with how it works, I almost feel like Lich's power budget should be split into two different abilities (instead of having one ability that raises an ally and/or empowers them, and having it more-than-likely tied to a lengthy cooldown).

I would propose that the class be given a combat res that is a normal spell like Raise and Resurrection (which is fine in the hands of a caster, as SMN has one). With that mechanic off the ability, Lich gets more of it's power budget back to increase the potency of it's empowerment or have a shorter cooldown.

[Jamez82]

Just change the name of the Smn class to Necro and the graphics of Garuda to a spectre.

Done. Not a summoning class anyways.

[Mimilu]

Update:

Ritualist
- Replaced Blood Oath with Grave Robber.
- Grave Robber: Resurrects a targeted character inside a Ritual Site to a weakened state. (Note: can be used in-combat by default, without the need for a trait.)
- Reordered the levels you get Skills and Traits
- Added Cross-Class skills

Necromancer
- Retuned Opus .
- Servant Opus now only increases pets' Movement Speed by 5%.
- Reaver Opus now only increases pets' Physical Damage output by 5%.
- Magus Opus now only increases pets' Magical Damage output by 5%.
- Sentinel Opus now only decreases Physical and Magical Damage pets receive by 5%.
- Retuned Lich.
- Lich: Places a "Draugr" buff on a selected party member for 2 minutes. Healers and other Ritualist/Necromancers cannot be targeted. Can be used for half of the MP cost on a player with a Weakened debuff on them.
- Replaced Zombie with Void Oath.
- Void Oath: Can only be used when the caster is standing in a Ritual Site. The next time the user casts Void Channeling, they will summon as many pets as they are allowed.

[lordparanoia]

I'm not sure se will add a "gothic" class. I think in chinese version they have to censure skulls and skeletons. Not totally sure about it.
Anyway i would love it and it would become my main lol.

[Mimilu]

I'm not sure se will add a "gothic" class. I think in chinese version they have to censure skulls and skeletons. Not totally sure about it.
Anyway i would love it and it would become my main lol.

I removed all the skeletons and zombies replaced them with spirits and demons. Much more wholesome, especially the demons.

Plus, if skulls and skeletons are banned in China, then they can't adventure in Tam-Tara or Haukke, considering how dark they both are. :B

[MartaDemireux]

China can have zombies, they just can't have bones showing.

On that note: SE has already made alternate models for all of the existing skeletons in the game for when they release in China. Could do the same thing for this idea.

[Mimilu]

On that note: SE has already made alternate models for all of the existing skeletons in the game for when they release in China. Could do the same thing for this idea.

I already did. >//w//>()
Skeletons are now Spirits
Zombies are now Pawns
Qutrub are now Reapers
and Formors are now Headless.

[MartaDemireux]

Well I meant just for the Chinese client. Global could still use your skeletons, zombies, qutrub and fomors.

[Mimilu]

Well I meant just for the Chinese client. Global could still use your skeletons, zombies, qutrub and fomors.

No, I like the new one too much now to change back. >w>