Blood Mage Class [idea]

[AusarViled]

Call me a freak, but I want a BLOOD TEMPLAR!! Here is the concept.

1) start as a paladin, level 80 class. Requirement have dragoon at 70 and black mage at 70
2) You figured, ‘just a sword ain’t enough, I want to wield a sword in one hand [magic] + shield and a claymore on your back

Class arche-type
Tank + DPS

1) In wrath stance: you fight with claymore, while blasting enemies with magic with your bare hands. The sword is magic and floats along side you attacking on its own [aka it’s a pet]. But after your blood gage fills. You grab the blade of magic and start swinging a magic dark blade.

In Sacrifice stance: you fight with sword and shield, your abilities are about using black lightning and Deus Vulting everything into oblivion. You get mitigation. But you constantly loose hp proportional to your damage. You can self heal only in wrath stance by unleashing a 50 second skill, called Unholly Nova. This move will drain the mana of 1 ally at 10% a second, until your 100% full on hp.

2) The class uses medium armour. It is a mix of paladin theme with the colour scheme of black mage. A pure black paladin with red crosses

3) The class would start at level 80.



If this sounds utterly sick… I agree. Let me know what you all think

[AusarViled]

Annoying image wont add for what ever reason, just look up blood mage paladin for ideas

[Theodric]

I'd be all for it. I love 'darker' jobs and thankfully Reaper is confirmation that more can and will be added over time.

It's been years since I played WoW, though I had a lot of fun running around as a Death Knight, Warlock and Demon Hunter.

[Fukuro]

I'd be all for it. I love 'darker' jobs and thankfully Reaper is confirmation that more can and will be added over time.

It's been years since I played WoW, though I had a lot of fun running around as a Death Knight, Warlock and Demon Hunter.

i agree, i remember back then when people were suggesting dark/void themed jobs everybody jumped up saying „but the lore!!!“
but here we are, reaper is going to be released in a few months and hopefully there is more coming down the road of that sort!

[Kolsykol]

I always found the concept of a Blood Mage to be really compelling.
And also very disappointing in most implementations...
Altho your Job just sounds like DRK + PLD.

I think a Job like Skarlet from Mortal Kombat would be really cool, wielding a single dagger and using prepared vials with more powerful blood to cast spells and fighting in melee.
Basically you'd stab/ slash yourself for quick access to blood to cast weaker spells, the blood of your enemy and maybe + your own blood = stronger spells and the prepared vials lore-wise at least being from really powerful beings to cast stuff akin to LB and huge potency abilities with longer CD's.

Edit: Vampire The Masquerade had really cool blood magic too where you made people vomit blood until they died or boil from the inside and explode.
The combat in the game was pretty awful but the blood magic was actually a lot of fun and really cool.

[Fellgon]

Change stance was the worst thing wow have created for tanks, a tank with stance style its sooo old.....not fun. idlike not see these stances in FF14 too.

[Kes13a]

so is this tank or dps?

is this mana draining from just some random ally? I kind of doubt any caster classes would be happy about having their mana drained for 50 seconds, especially in a boss fight if its a healer and you are taking constant damage.

[DeaconMoore]

Meh.

First off current class design philosophy says no, they left specific multi-class requirements for classes in the dustbin a while ago.

Second the concept of a stance shift for dps/tank also went into the dustbin.

Third, draining an allies mana to heal yourself up would make for many an unhappy ally and as such isn't likely to ever happen.

Fourth it seems you have a tank stance that constantly bleeds your health away... trying to get yourself killed?

Fifth wrath stance is already in the game basically, it's called Red Mage.

[Kolsykol]

I kinda just jumped past the mana part.

If the Blood Mage worked that way I'd get so mad on BLM.
Even if the Mana Drain was much smaller, even any at all it'd screw BLM's rotation up lol.
If you're like 1 mana too low it'll be the difference between being able to cast your finisher or not.

It sounds like a disaster waiting to happen that only considers it from the Blood Mages perspective and doesn't take the whole picture into account.

[Artemiz]

I can't imagine BLM's being too happy when their rotation goes down the toilet and they loose enochian because the tank decided to drain their mana.

I'm more than happy to have more dark themes on jobs but two major parts of your job idea will never happen, multi-role and stance dancing. We've already had these things, and the developers have already decided they don't like it and removed stance dancing. If there is anything that gives YoshiP nightmares it's 1.0, if there are 2 things that give him nightmares it's 1.0 and Arcanist.