Thread: 4.0 Ideas

I made these for fun. Not to be taken seriously. Intended to be over-the-top.


PLD:

62. War of Attrition -
Counterattacks for 25% of the damage received when blocking or parrying an attack. Blocks under the effect of this ability and Bulwark have 10% chance to reset each other’s recast timer.
Duration: 30s: Recast: 180s.

64. Enchanted Shield -
Enables use of Halonic Trance.
Shield Oath Additional Effect: Enables the blocking of magic. Physical damage can no longer be blocked. Absorbs 100% of blocked damage as MP.
Sword Oath Additional Effect: Enables a third auto-attack using the shield. Auto attacks restore MP.
Duration: 15s Recast: 60s

66. Anointed Soil -
Creates a patch of anointed soil that grants +15% defense and magic defense to all standing within its effect.
Duration: 15s, Recast 180s

68. Halonic Trance -
Consumes 100% of maximum MP to increase damage dealt by 10% and reduce the recast time of any abilities used under its effect by 20s. Enables the use of Climhazzard.
Duration: 25s, Recast: 120s.

70. Climhazzard -
Deals damage with a potency of 400 to all targets in a cone in front of you. and heals party members for 100% of damage dealt. Consumes Halonic Trance upon use.
Additional Effect: Ensures critical damage and generates a combo bonus for Royal Authority, Goring Blade, or Rage of Halone.
Recast: 60s.


WAR:

62. Axe Thirst -
Removes all additional effects from combo-based weaponskills while increasing their damage dealt by 25%. Increases Fracture potency to 300 in addition to its damage over time effect.
Can only be used in Deliverance. All Abandon is consumed on execution.
Duration 20s, recast 120s.

64. Storm’s Surge -
Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 100. Deals 100 extra potency for each of Storm’s Eye and/or Storm’s Path on the target, and refreshes their duration.
Additional Effect: Storm Surge -
Storm Surge effect: For every Fell Cleave used under Storm Surge’s effect, a stack of Sleeping Beast is granted. For each stack of Sleeping Beast, the duration of the next Inner Beast used is extended by 6s up to a maximum of 18s.
Storm Surge Duration: 30s.
Sleeping Beast Duration: 30s.
Range 10y, Recast: 60s.

66. Combat Assimilation -
For the next 10 seconds, 10% of all damage you take is compiled and then converted into a shield of equal value.
Duration 10s, recast 80s.
Shield Duration: 30s.

68. Growing Threat -
Increases Vitality, Strength, Defense, and Magic Defense by 10%. Can only be used when HP is under 20%.
Duration 15s, recast 150s.

70. Berserk II -
Increases Attack Power by 75%. Only weaponskills may be used under its effect, and Wrath/Abandon can be generated but not consumed. Can only be used after dealing critical damage.
Duration:15s, recast: 180s. Effect does not stack with Berserk.


DRK:

62. Immortal Surge -
Restores 15% of maximum MP.
Grit Effect: Sacrifices 15% of maximum MP to restore 40% of maximum HP.
Dark Arts Effect: Grants Bubble. Doubles the maximum HP of a non-tank party member. Cannot be cast on self.
Duration: 15s. Recast: 80s.

64. Extraplanar Inversion -
Increases MP drain from Darkside by 300%, while causing Dark Arts to restore 1768 MP. Dark Arts can no longer boost skills. Unlocks Abyssal Shock and Rend and Sever. Can only be used With 5 stacks of Abyssal Blaze. Abyssal Blaze is generated by using Darkside abilities (Dark Arts, Dark Dance, Dark Mind, Dark Passenger). Effect fades if Darkside is lost.
Additional Effect: Increases potency of magical abilities and spells by 30%
Additional Grit Effect: Heal over time with a potency of 75.
Duration: 30s. Recast 120s.
Abyssal Blaze duration: 30s
***Potency increase affects: Unmend, Unleash, Abyssal Drain, Dark Passenger, Salted Earth

66. Rend and Sever -
Delivers 3 separate attacks with a potency of 120 each. 30% chance to reset the Carve and Spit recast timer.
Additional effect: Blood Weapon 10s.
Additional Grit effect: Reprisal 10s.
Combo action: Power Slash, Delirium, Souleater, Scourge. Consecutive combos may not end with this ability.
TP cost: 60

68. Abyssal Shock -
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 320. 30% chance to reset the Dark Passenger recast timer.
Additional Effect: Heavy. Has a 100% critical hit rate.
Additional Grit effect: Silence. Ignores Grit damage penalty.
Combo action: Power Slash, Delirium, Souleater, Scourge. Consecutive combos may not end with this ability.
MP cost: 353

70. Void Paling -
Casts Dark Mind and Dark Dance on all allies in range. Cannot be used in Grit.
Recast: 80s, MP cost: 1326 Range: 15y

Personally I would like to see a morph of two classes that makes you become a "specialist" (similar to crafting where you have a limited number of free specialisations and any switching from there out would require some work).
Example:
1. For those looking for "samurai" class... DrK + Ninja = Samurai (hybrid DPS with MP management and 2 handed sword like DrK but with SkS of NIN)
2. "Berserker" = WAR + DrK (tank with high HP and highest DPS output of all specialist tanks)
3. "Grey Tank" (lol name) = PLD + DrK (highest mitigation on both mag and phys dmg)
etc

Also, this would give a lot more depth for end-game raids and such because you are able to provide more than just conventional TANK/HEALER/DPS setup.

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I ascribe to the "more traits less abilities pls" school of thought.


PLD:

Traited flash: enemies vulnerable to flash's blind effect now also suffer vuln up 10% and a 30 potency dot tick for 6 seconds. Normal repeat casting resistances apply

Traited cover: The pld now gains a 50% Det up buff for 10 seconds when their covered target takes damage(of any sort). This buff refreshes but does not stack if the target takes damage more than once.

Traited sheltron: either any hit you take while in shield stance (or possibly any block) refreshes sheltron (like 20% chance), or procing the actual 100% block effect further triggers a magic damage reduction 20% ability for something like 6 seconds. I think I like the second more.

Valiance: Casting no longer interrupts combos. Using an ability that targets another party member gives you a potency up buff until your next action (good before a combo finisher or for casting heals) Alternately instead of potency up it could turn your next action into a wide AoE action.

Sword and Shield: The positive effects of sword oath and shield oath now linger for 6(or possibly 9 or 10) seconds after swapping stances


Warrior:

patch update that makes Deliverance simply switch inner beast to Fell cleave and steel cyclone to Decimate.

Warcry(traited infuriate) this ability now grants all allies either 5% damage or 10% current and max hp and healing received for 10 seconds depending on whether it's used in deliverance or defiance.

Further enhanced Fracture: this ability now inflicts slow and damage down in defiance or enhances the DoT from 20 potency to 40

Further enhanced foresight: for the 20 second duration all gcd actions generate a stack of wrath/infuriate, and combo finishers generate 2.

traited unchained: gain some sort of use in deliverance. I figure anything I could suggest would be shouted down as overpowered. I'm sure people would've thought war getting a 500 potency attack was overpowered too before 3.x did it.

-some sort of actual new ability to make up for the fact that fel cleave and decimate are basically already traits and should really be patched into such. I like the idea of an AoE leap attack with a targeting circle that inflicts very minor damage (like 30-40 potency) along with a stun or vuln up effect.

I don't play drk enough to form any opinoions on what it needs. :x

The ideas I like for PLD, addressing AOE and some misc

Overdue AOE:

1. Elixir Field (Spirit's Without). Was this skill meant for PLD, but by some typo ended up on MNK? 220 potency radial AOE OGCD ability with a 30 second recast. Thanks, worth the wait.

2. Miasma 2 (War Drum). Radial, GCD-consuming AOE. Low 50 potency hit, but with enmity modifier, an emphasis on DOT DPS (enmity modifier applies to ticks as well) and applying a tank-friendly debuff. That debuff being Slow. Will not interrupt Goring, Royal, or Halone combos.

I hope when PLD gets AOE (or 'if', even), that it's not simply a GCD-spammage attack imitating WAR's Overpower and DRK's Unleashed/Abyssal Drain. With something like the above, PLD will keep a unique AOE playstyle that still rotates Goring, but weaving all AOEs for DPS and mitigation debuffs (Blind + Slow),

Similar to the attack speed adjustments DRG got in 3.0, I'd appreciate an increased PLD attack speed, with a TP restore added to Sheltron (heck move the MP recovery to initial use instead of block, while you're at it). That way, even when not tanking, PLD has reason to Sheltron (resource sustain similar to Quick Reload).

Finally, some time in the future, let's see a raise & lower shield dualism stance mechanic added to their kit (a Cleric Stance, essentially). When on, +DMG, but no block (or less), Cover, Swipe, Bash, Bulwark, Sheltron, War Drum*. That'd kill this aweful conception that PLD should be/is the 'easy/simple' tank, and they can adapt to magical