Ability Wishlist

Now that you are 8x and have stream of rejuvenation do you still find yourself using Blessing of the Purehearted?

No, i only dont use it because i lack hotkeys, clerics have too many healing skills and few hotkey options (E and Q hotkeys please).

Originally Posted by Klath - Sanctuary View Post
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Class: Cleric
Skill: another elemental damage skill
Logic: clerics only have 5 elemental damage skills: cyclone, wield thunder, thunder ball, sirens kiss and tempest. Tempest you need two sparks to use and takes forever to cast so you don't use it much, thunder ball is a crappy damage skill which no one ever uses or levels, sirens kiss takes 1 spark to use and doesn't do much damage either which leave 2 elemental skills. When attacking heavy armour classes this is bad since there is a moment where you are waiting for both of these skills' cooldown to be up so you can use them again. Just need another skill like cyclone but reduces attack damage maybe or something else.
You touched an interesting point there.
And my suggestion here goes to reduce thunderball casting time (2.4 seconds, wield thunder is 2.5 a lot more devastasting), since wizards have 2 Damage over Time spells with 1 second cast only.
Siren kiss, make it so we DONT need to get closer to any target, just click and cast it wherever we are (same goes for wizard's dragon breath and emberstorm).
Indeed, you guys are both right somehow. Clerics really suck at chaining skills, due to the huge cast time or cooldown of the base magic skills. Thats why they do have a hard time killing high HP classes like blademasters or barbs, even more when they have a charm which totally screws the process.
If clerics want to keep their attack chain up, (which remains slow anyhow) they have to use plumeshot which is ineffective versus melees.

So yes, basically giving Siren's Kiss more range, could make this skill actually usefull and give Clerics an fast cast aoe skill. Maybe add a chance of casting without spark? Why does it even need a spark anyway ?
Last thing would be an extra elemental skill that could help clerics build chains of attacks.
Even though Clerics are not made to attack in the first place, classes should be fairly balanced. Any class should have the possibilty of killing any other.
So :
Class - Cleric
Skill suggestion - Siren's Kiss : 27 meters radius / chance of casting without spark
Logic - see above

Class - Cleric
Skill Suggestion - New magic skill : Cast 1.0 seconds / Cooldown 3.0 seconds
Logic - see above

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i d prefer siren's kiss as a skill fix and a movement buff as a new skill. We are so damn slow causin death to ourselves and to others.Also xXKevynXx or whatever ur name is dude u posted the same skills like 100 times each quit spamming we got ur msg u want more crit and heals for archers.

I didnt read all, but i have one problem with cleric more then its lack in instant dmg skills.
Its my mp pool and the time it takes to drain it. 30-40 sec and it can be gone makes me so useless /healing/DD.
So my opinion is to add a skill that can regen our mp fast even in battle.
Lets say 25in battle and 50 out of it and ofc + the other buff we have for that would make our down time slower while grinding or any other thing

Class - Cleric
Skill Suggestion - buff that increase our MP recovery and does not suffer 70% effectiveness loss in battle but does double in meditation. Does not over write any potion that recovers MP. Would be nice that its around 50 per second.
Logic - I think any cleric can confirm that MP drain is an pain in the neck and MP charms cost to way much to be an all time option.

*self buff only*

Class : Veno
Skill: AoE, more AoE ( no matter the name :P )

and higher elemental def.. because at high lvl it starts to suck ^_^

Class: Cleric

Skill: Instant Res

Logic: Similar to a res scroll, allow clerics the ability to use a guardian angel to instantly res. Would save long trips back through dungeons and still have a high cost.

Also, either lower the mp cost of skills or increase the effectiveness of them, we burn through charms way to fast.

before u post anything think about ballance in pvp not about making your character immortal.

Archer: Something that can heal and gain good amount of hp & mp

Logic:A venos who has a pet for front line & can gain MP and HP, a Barb has lots of health as to the BM. The cleric can heal, buff and get rid of posion/bleed ect. Wizard can heal and the ranger, well if there low health and MP all they can do is meditate!! b:angry

Also the archer has the hardest chance to get away from mobs when low health. BM speed run, wizard gets that superfast thing, Barb has a problem with this but has lots of health, venos can goto sleep and let there pet do work on easy mobs!!! If it dies they have a lot of time to get away -.- , cleric can just heal. The archer... when running you just stop and try to re-shoot, cant run cant heal cant anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And by that time your dead!

BTW this is mostly when you dont have potions or a squad helping you.

Class: All non-veno class
Skill: Non-fighting Companion usefull Pet
Logic: Because Venos use pets for fighting, other classes should have usefull pets for non-fighting use.
Uses: You would have to pick a pet for either:

A) tracking mats for you.
b) picking drops for you.
c) Carrying mats for you.
d) tracking mobs.

The way it would work is that you tell your pet for instance to find "gravel" and he would take you to the closest place.

These pets should be quests award related and you have to pick the pet and you have to also upgrade your pet to find more advanced mats.

Class: Blademaster
Skill: Shadows of Deception.
Logic: As a double blade blademaster, I get owned when mobs team up against me.
Use: My suggestion is to allow my character to create shadows (decoys of me) that the second mob will try to kill rather than me, while I’m fighting the first mob. This skill of course will have a long cool down, similar to teletransportation and for limited amount of seconds too.

It could also be good when fighting Venos with extreme powerful pets. First the Veno should determine which of me is real.

Class - Blade master (Pole-Arm)
Skill Suggestion - Radial AoE, a spinning AoE perhaps consecutive hits to any Surrounding mobs, of-course the damage should be lowered for each hit to total a balanced damage, and after the skill there should be a de-buff where your accuracy and or other stats are lowered for 15ish seconds perhaps the de-buff could be named "DIZZY"
Logic - Frontal/linear AoE's do make more sense for a Pole blade or spear, however i think that it would be very possible to lift your spear and go on a frantic spinning rampage, eventually falling to the ground....
Plus, CMON! spears are way sexier than axes so give us a radial AoE pl0x
b:surrender

all class pets are useless. Used for decoration. All classes should have the option of using pets in battle.

If someone is willing to pay 300k or more for a pet, let them use it in battle.

Maiya - Lost City wrote: »

There is no point in the Venomancer class then.

as far as I know. I use my pets in battle. all the time. Are you saying that youi dont?

Prepared for an essay? I hope so.

COMBAT

Why all the protectives? Well, here's the overall reasoning:

My wizard has been unable to solo since level 20. Completely. My husband's blademaster can go out just fine. My veno? No problem. If my wizard takes on a single mob of her level, and managed to survive, she has to hustle to a safe spot and meditate as she is down to about 5-10% of her HP and might be out of magic.

Class - Wizard
Pets- Allow tamable combat pets at 3/4 Wizard's level.

This would allow veno's to still be the primary pet class, but allow wizards to kill something without being slaughtered once in a while. Also, there is precedent for a wizard/mage having a guiding/aiding spirit in animal form.
I'd make this available around level 20, as that's when things started really killing my wizard.
Also, you could make it so that a wizard has to get the pet from a veno instead of being able to tame it him/herself.


Class - Wizard
Metal/Wood spells & Greater variety of earth/water/fire
An increase in the variety of spells would allow for more specialized wizards. (And make the class more likely to survive when facing certain mobs.)
For example, a party is going into an area with a lot of metal mobs, "Hey, is there a fire specialist around?" Whereas, if they were going into an area with a lot of earth mobs, "Hey, who's our water mage?"
Also, wizards could get bonuses and penalties on learning spells in alignment or opposite alignment. (i.e. they could apply to damage or spirit consumption. 10% off fire, becomes 10% added to water)

Class - Wizard
Mage Armor
Reduces all damage, in increments of 5% to a max of 50% at skill level 10. Highest level (Sage/Demon) might absorb as HP heal or reflect as damage.

Class - Wizard (Demon level)
Raise Unholy Ally
No, I'm not talking about a level 1 cleric res. I think it would be reasonable for an evil wizard to be able to raise a zombielike entity to assist in combat. I'd make the cooldown about 5-10 minutes, and the zombie disappear in about 3-5 minutes.

Class - Wizard (Sage level)
Raise Sacred Ally
See above, but more of a guardian spirit than a zombie.

Class - Wizard
Whispered Advice
The spirits whisper advice which gives about 15 minutes of 150% XP. Cooldown of 30 minutes. At least this way, when we lose the 5% for dying, we have a chance to get it back.




NON-Combat

Class-Wizard
Research
Allows a wizard to research methods of producing items/weapons/armor.
This research is then transcribed (Hmm.... I hear paper being bought in the boutique....) and can be used by a player with the appropriate crafting skill to increase the likelihood of a critical on crafting. Higher levels of this skill result in better percentage chance.

I leave the cooldown and crafting requirements to you, but a sample of what you are wanting to boost is an idea. (i.e. Must have life powder or piece of armor to cast on, which is consumed.)

Class - Wizard
Random Chaos
Allows a random spell to fire, hitting as an area effect. It may be a heal. It may be a massive fireball that wipes out the players around you.
Why? Just for fun.

b:chuckle

That's it for me.

Granrey - Sanctuary wrote: »

Class: All non-veno class
Skill: Non-fighting Companion usefull Pet
Logic: Because Venos use pets for fighting, other classes should have usefull pets for non-fighting use.
Uses: You would have to pick a pet for either:

A) tracking mats for you.
b) picking drops for you.
c) Carrying mats for you.
d) tracking mobs.

The way it would work is that you tell your pet for instance to find "gravel" and he would take you to the closest place.

These pets should be quests award related and you have to pick the pet and you have to also upgrade your pet to find more advanced mats.

I like this too. But, in response, a more varied area for spawning mats might be good as well. How many times has a new player run around for hours looking for things because an experienced player is getting all the spawned materials?

Alyswyn - Sanctuary wrote: »

Prepared for an essay? I hope so.

COMBAT

Why all the protectives? Well, here's the overall reasoning:

My wizard has been unable to solo since level 20. Completely. My husband's blademaster can go out just fine. My veno? No problem. If my wizard takes on a single mob of her level, and managed to survive, she has to hustle to a safe spot and meditate as she is down to about 5-10% of her HP and might be out of magic.

Class - Wizard
Pets- Allow tamable combat pets at 3/4 Wizard's level.

I got one better, and better fitting:

Class: Wizard
Skill(s): Elemental Summons
Reason: See above. There would be several critical differences between this and the pets. One, each elemental is, of course, of an element, while no pet is. Two, there would be a finite time limit, after which the elemental would disappear (this may increase with level, but would never go away). Three, while pets level up with the Venomancer, need to be fed, and get bonuses from their loyalty, the elemental's stats would be entirely determined by the level of the summoning skill. Think each elemental is disposable, and nothing carrys over from one summoning to the next. Elementals don't have loyalty, they don't gain experience, and they can't learn new skills (unless it's by improving the summoning spell). This would give the Wizards some tanks, let the Venos stay unique, and not pollute the arcane nature of the Wizard class with some monster taming.