New Class: The Courageous Bard

sorokan3

Hey folks! I've got a concept of a new class that I wanna share with the community to see how you like it. First of all: If you find mistakes (you will) please be gentle... I'm not a native speaker. Thank you!

I was thinking about a class named Courageous Bard, which is a hybrid class somewhere between a trickster rogue and the cleric. For his defense he is armed with a rapier and a duelling pistol. There will be two paragon paths: The Troubadour, who specializes in supporting his group and the Duelist, who is a skilful fighter and wants to achieve greatness by himself. Feat-wise there will be the Glory path (DPS), the Jester path (Debuff/Control) and the Poet Path (Support). His main attribute is charisma (+Damage+APGain), second attributes are strength (+crit) and intelligence (+ArP+Deflect).

Now I want to present some ideas for the skill tree to you (work in progress):

==========Starting Skills:==========
At-Wills:
Swift strike - quick combination of jabs, last one slightly reducing enemies damage resistance
Aimed/Duel Shot - single target charged attack, dealing damage + bleeding effect
Encounters:
Hit & Run - short distance teleport to target, dealing damage + short daze effect, teleporting back {-- Jester feat: +1/2/3/4/5 targets
Encourage - Allies (including yourself) get movement speed + damage bonus
Sword whirl - Neat spinning attack, dealing damage to nearby enemies
Daily:
Hyperbole - creates 2 illusions (like paranoid delusions) of yourself to help you in the fight
Passive:
Encouraging Presence - each time an enemy is killed, allies (inkluding yourself) regenerate a certain amount/percentage of mobs max life of HP+Stamina

==========Further Skills==========
At-Wills:
Parrying Sweep - hits multiple targets in an arc, grants deflection for each target hit
Sissy Shot (Troubadour) - shot at knee joint, reducing targets moving speed + combat advantage against him {-- buffed by Glory feat
Disarm (Duellist) - perfectly executed jab (long animation), reducing enemies Damage for 10% {-- buffed by Glory feat
Encounters:
Trust - Allies get incresed Damage Resistance, Ap gain and a continous heal
Excluding Shout - Enemies get damaged and knockbacked, allies get healed
Disturbing Chant - Enemies gets damaged and dazed {-- buffed by Jester feat
Dailys:
Song of Glory - Allies get Temp HP, increased Defense + Attack Damage for each enemy killed (stacks up to 5 times) {-- buffed by Poet feat
Passives:
Fool's Luck - X% Crit Rate & Deflection for each enemy within 20 feet
All for one and one for all (Troubadour) - Allies get a Damage Resitance + Damage Bonus for every ally within 30 feet
Duelist's Precision (Duelist) - Every time you do a critical hit, you inflict bleeding damage to your target equal to 1% the target's missing HP for 5 seonds. (Does not stack)
Counterstrike (Duelist) - on deflect, damage attacker for 200% of your Weapon Damage. (Jester Feat: Do 10/20/30/40/50% of Weapon Damage on every incoming Hit)

That's it for now. I will expand the list in the time to come and I would be happy about some feedback. How do you like it? Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Let me know! And tell your friend at Cryptic about this thread.

CU, Sorokan

bitt3rnightmar3

I've wanted to play a bard class since mod 3. Good luck to you!

ghoulz66

Troll! TROLL!! I thought I was seeing an announcement when I saw the edge of this on the PC section.

teapotsmcgee

Cool idea and it doesn't seem it might overshadow other classes.

zebular

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