Hello All ,

We need to come up with a few good classes and orders for the game's players/characters. Any suggestions?
 
It is probable that in the Future course of this game, the role playing part of the title will go into a more defined effect. The option of being a follower of the Light or a servent of the Dark should be implemented for it broadens the game's horrizons. That is why I have the following ideas : - As of now, only Dark :wink:

Phantasmer (Dark)

Summoning  

Diruid Phantom Summoning: Allows you to summon a Diruid phantom that fights by your side for a limited amount of time. This amount increases by level of experience in that spell/skill.

Diruid Necromere Summoning: Allows you to summon a necromere wraith that will fight by your side until the break of dawn; when the wraith will disintegrate under the light. Duration rules are the same.

Diruid Malus Summoning: Same, but this Diruid can withstand the light...howevere, has a time restriction .

Diruid Hordil Summoning: Summons a powerful Avatar of King Malpercio (Lor of the Diruid) that sustains itself by draining the player's mana in order to inflict powerful attacks. Melee attacks are not fueled by mana, however energy attacks will require a drain. Drain decreases with mastry.

Morphing

Phantasm: Allows a player to blend in with enviroment partially for a limited amount of time; granting them some degree of stealth.

Phantasmic Mastry: Allows a player to prolong phantasm and eventually, blend in completely with enviroment. Due to the player being between plane, this skill allows the player to see objects or mobs that would be otherwise invisible to teh naked eye; giving Phantasmers an edge over other Mage classes.

Spells

Necroflame: Fires a projectile infused with the drakness of the lowest plane. Damage varies by skill level

Sword of Montis: Fires a sword like projectile that drains the mana and grace of any light-associated player or mob.

Soul Drain: Emits a specter that drains the life of the opponent, granting it to the player.

Diruid Damnation: Fires a scyth-like projectile that inflicts damage (peionic and physical) to opponents.

Nether storm: A psionic fire/ice storm.....you get the picture

Be sure to include some skill trees and such...These are just a few...any more?  

-Psy

LOL. I've got a wild imagination :wink:. Currently, I've got two outlets for it; MS paint (drawing up the Diruids) and MS Word (writing the stories) .

-Psy

I only see benefits to becoming a Druid... What are the costs or disadvantages... You cant have all the good and none of the bad... right...?

Here are the professions I'm working on...

Herbalist - Makes balms and such... can add posion damage to attacks
Enchanter - Can recharge wands... Can enchant items...
Diviner - Can harness powers from rare gems and such
Weaponsmith - Can make weapons
Scribe - Can write scrolls and use Rune Magic

All careers involve heavy interaction with NPCs and cost reagents to perform most tasks. I'm hoping this will keep some sort of power balance and prevent super-powered players.

I would be more than happy to help you with scripting your NPC Diruid should you need help with lua.

Hmm. How about some character classes now? XD jk!

Paladin

I have one. Skilled with the art of healing and fighting. Basically, its the mix between a cleric and a fighter.

Assassin

I defintitely want this class. :wink: the mix between a theif and a mercenary, they are skilled in the art of secrecy andbeing hidden and undetected.

Necromancer

Can summon skeletons and other ethereal monsters, such as a wraith. A good idea would be that the necromancer can choose to make his monsters hostile to all, or just hostile to mobs. this way, you could summon two groups, and let them fight it out.

i also think the attribute of neutral/dark/light is a good idea. =3

Yes... this is a serious problem that happens when a player wants to define a new class for the sole purpose of super-powering himself...

With the benefits granted to the Diruid class so far, I'm tempted to suggest that death is permanent... I don't think you should be worried though cause I doubt it will ever happen.

I'm still interested in this Diruid class being fully defined however.

Yes, your right it was condesending... but my opinion none the less.

If I have this right a Phantasmer has the following advantages...
Diruid Phantom Summoning
Diruid Necromere Summoning
Diruid Malus Summoning
Diruid Hordil Summoning (Avatar)
(These are excellent suggestions that would play well should several other classes be granted similar capabilities and the monsters summoned arent too powerful)

Necroflame: Fires a projectile infused with the drakness of the lowest plane. Damage varies by skill level
Sword of Montis: Fires a sword like projectile that drains the mana and grace of any light-associated player or mob.
Soul Drain: Emits a specter that drains the life of the opponent, granting it to the player.
Diruid Damnation: Fires a scyth-like projectile that inflicts damage (peionic and physical) to opponents.
Nether storm: A psionic fire/ice storm.....you get the picture
(All of these spells are excellent suggestions should they be balanced against other classes. Soul drain and Sword of Montis have the POTENTIAL to be a "Super Power")

Phantasm
Phantasmic Mastry (Potential to be a Super Power)

Psionic attack Immunity
Minor Resistence to lightining
mind control (Charm Undead)

And a Phantasmer has these disadvantages.

weak against Fire attacks and SOME forms of water
Daylight reduces mana regeneration time. Daylight may be EVADED by going into a DUNGEON..however
Attacked by a prayer (I dont understand this one at all)

I'd hate to be a PH player going up against you in PVP. Unless of course I had my trusty Fire Sword of major ass kicking with me. Don't take offense to what I say... I'm just a jerk okay... and your class IMO is WAY out of balance... perhaps the problem is there are no parallel classes with similar strengths to balance it out...

Don't get me wrong... I really do like the idea of a Phantasmer... and my offer to assist you with scripting an NPC for this till stands...

*ele quietly shuffles away from Drathmoore*

I see, so basically, we'd need to pump up teh other classes to make sure taht the pahntasmer doesn't have the upper hand . Well, I'll get cracking on creating a Knight-like player class and a Paladin-like class to try and balance them out .

Attacked by a prayer (I dont understand this one at all)

I admit that that one was a bit off :?. What I mean to say is the following. Suppose you go up against a Paladin or follower of the light in PvP. It wouldn't be appropraite to name a "bewitchment" cast by the player of light a curse; therefore, it would be a prayer. If a Phantasmer could cast a curse, a ligth character should be able to cast a "prayer".

This concept also goes for dungoens of light influence and such. I mean, if you're an enlisted serveant of eveil, your ultimate goal would be to cripple the forces of light :twisted:. This means that you'd have to go through the worst (in a drak one's opinion) of places to acieve taht Some maps would have a "prayer" handicap upon a Phantasmer that brings the steady wrath of teh higher planes upon them. This could range anywhere from extended poisoning or loss of mana regen .

Psy... ever thought of building a colony of these guys on a map... then having an invisible friendly one somewhere that takes you on as his apprentice when you discover him?

Not sure what you mean there :?. Please help!

-Psy