Three class ideas

1) yes, I used search and yes I found some similar ideas (especially for necromancers... wow) but I'd like to think I've added something to it. It also doesn't seem right to post this much onto someone else's topic.

2) I do not provide all the numbers (damage, def modifications, etc) and when I do they are not meant to be solid, simply demonstrations. I won't even try to make a fully balanced class here. That's for the devs to work out.

3) Suggest and critique away. I'm horrible at naming things (hence the multiple class and technique names), and I know there can be much more added/improved to these classes, but I think this is a decent start.

4) I see no reason to add new races over these, but it could be done. It would be entirely possible to simply add them as third classes to current races.

5) Yes it's a wall of text. If you don't want to read everything, read the General Info portions for an overview.

So without further ado: here's they are. Hold your gasps and jeering till you've read them.

Paladin / Phalanx / Knight / ?
Race: Any really. I'd like to see it in a race that doesn't already have a HA class, though.
Genders: Both
Weapon: Spear and Shield / Sword and Shield
Armor: Heavy

General Info:
Uses large shield to prevent damage to those behind or near them. They're more geared towards support (constantly applying buffs and heals to party, as well as reducing damage), but can tank as well. Weapon provides defense, as well as attack unless devs are able to make a separate slot for shields, but that seems unlikely. It is possible the shield could occupy the ammo slot, but that's more of a quick fix than a real solution. I should note that heals from this class are should not be par with any of the existing healing classes, and the some of the buffs are short term, situation based, boosts.

Some passive skills and buffs:
Heavy Armor Mastery (similar to Shapeshifting Intensity) - Improves effects of HA. This would improve pdef by up to X% and mdef by up to a smaller Y%. Or just pdef.

Weapon Mastery (x2) - Like all weapon mastery, it improves the damage done with the weapons. There could be two paths (spear and sword).

Alert Defender - resist (not immune, just resist) and/or reduce duration of stuns, sleep, and seal

Iron Wall - Teammates in a straight line behind ( for example: 5m wide, 20m long) take less damage. This could be an active skill instead, which would make it only effect for 10 seconds or up to 4 attacks. Insert your own duration, if you don't like mine.

Get in Formation (buff) -When party members are within 10 of each other, they gain a small def and att bonus for each person in that range. If they're within 10m of a phalanx they gain a larger bonus. This would mean that even if you have a couple ranging, and a couple melee-ing, both groups would receive some benefit.

Push Through - add up to X% str, mdef, pdef, and HP, and some HP recovery for a time (say 2 min, with a 6 min cooldown?). Can add damage to this, so it's an attack/buff rather than just a buff.

Hold! - Slow attack rate to .5/sec., def level up, pdef is increased by N*(the change in rate), and movement is slowed. Can be cancelled by activating Push Through (above).

Some Aggressive Skills and Heals
Keep it together - The more damage you've taken (HP value or %, I don't know), you heal yourself for more. Party members within 15m around you receive a similar heal.

Shield Smack - Stun target, deal low-med damage.

Javelin - Toss your weapon's energy at target (ranged attack like drake's ray, but more range)

Sonic Thrust - Jam your spear at your target, with no delay (but 10-15sec cooldown)

Yes I need more. Particularly more names/techniques stemming from Chinese history/mythology, since that's what the devs like.


Necromancer / Medium / Communer / ?
Race: Any, but I Earthengaurd or Winged Elf make most sense to me.
Genders: Both
Weapon: Any current Magical Weapon
Alt Weapons: Book, Drum, Scythe, Bones, or ritualistic-type weapon.
Armor: Light or Arcane

General Info:
Calls spirits and resurrects corpses to aid them. Spirits are weaker, and cannot move but provide some additional protection buffs, debuffs, and support. Resurrects are stronger in atack, magic, HP, and you can have multiple but you need to have killed something of the appropriate size to use them. You may not have more resurrects than you can support (determined by a hard limit, level, skill, soulforce, or some other way).

For example: If you had 10 resurrect points, and a limit of 5 resurrects, you could:
1) have 5 small resurrects (1pt each)
2) have 3 medium resurrects (3pts each)
3) have 1 big resurrect (8 pts each)
4) some combination of small, medium, and big such as 2 small, and a big. Or 3 mediums and a small. Or 2 medium and 3 small (due to the limit of 5 resurrects).

Spirits could also draw from this pool, or spirits could be summoned separately (not interfering with number of resurrects), or spirits and resurrects could resist being summoned at the same time (ie kills your spirit when you make a resurrect). Balancing might be tricky, but they're smart cookies at PW, they'd figure it out... right?

You cannot raise a "big" resurrect from a small or low level mob. Your kill must be either elite, boss, or appropriate level (for example, if you're lv 80 you would need a lv 70 corpse to make a med, or an 83+ to make a big)(numbers brought to you by: My butt! If you disagree with them, you've misunderstood the point of the example).

When you kill something in this class, you get a 'buff' relating to the monster size you killed added to you for 1 minute that allows you to resurrect something. Whether these should be stackable (for instance, kill 3 mobs, should you be able to res 3? res 1? or merge 3 small into 1 medium, and 8 for a big?), balance testing will tell. Resurrects have a limited life span too (say, 5 min), though you can replenish their time with some skills.

Finally: Necromancers receive less from incoming heals, and even less when they have a spirits or resurrects active. Necromancers have a fair bit of HP though, which is useful since they slash it to improve their minions.

Passive Skills and buffs
Death Mastery - Receive less from heals, but your resurrects become stronger. Magic damage up.
(alt)Weapon Mastery - Weapon damage up, but incoming healing down. Demon version of this could provide more damage, while sage allows more healing to get through?

Rigor Mortis (self buff)- The lower your HP becomes, the higher your pdef goes.

Master's Blood / Blood Feeding - Add a bleed-like effect to yourself. While it is active, resurrects in your party within 20m take less damage and heal over time. This extends their life by 1-4 min (depending on level).

Fresh Kill / Scavenge - Use on target. If new damage is done to target before buff expires, you and your resurrects gain some HP (not reduced like other incoming heals). If target dies before buff expires, you and your resurrects gain much more. Amount healed depends on skill level and enemy HP.
(Alt) - acts like BP while target lives, and gives bonus if target dies while buff is active.

Death Mark / Join Your Ancestors - Adds poison (wood damage). Prevents healing on target for 5 seconds. Reduces Healing for 20 seconds. Prevents target from Resurrecting on the spot (Release works. No exp loss buff and items still work. Any res given will still have the xp loss rate applied, you just cannot res right there.) Expires after 2 minutes. If target survived, they gain HP.

Aggressive skills and heals
Call Guardian Spirit - Spirit that reduces damage to you and your resurrects. At higher levels, it deduces damage for your party. Heals you when it dies, based on how long it was alive (there is a limit)

Call Enraged Spirit - Spirit attacks alongside you. Adds debuff to target, so some of your skills will do more damage. At higher levels, it gives a -chan and -int buff to party members withing X distance. Deals AOE damage when it dies, based on how long it was alive (there is a limit).

NOTE: only One spirit may be called at a time. Summoning another will destroy the previous.

Call small/medium/big Resurrect- Can only call if something has died near you (providing you with the buff that allows the use of the skill).

Then there's bound to be basic magic attacks (similar to plume shot, or venomous Scarab), but I'm tired of typing. You get the gist.

Necromancers are a bit like steam rollers I guess. Not great when they show up, then they gain momentum and gank everything...


Hunter / ?
Race: Human or Lost City (can't recall their race name... or is it just Lost?)? Any, really.
Genders: Both
Weapon: Bow / Crossbow and melee weapon like dagger or sword.
Armor: Light

General Info:
Capable of laying traps (which can stun, poison, damage, and more). Traps would be an aoe from a location the player activates the skill, but the effects do not actually occur until they are triggered by a non-party/protected player or mob stepping into them. Traps would last for a few minutes before 'breaking', or will break if the player moves away too far (say 60m).

Additionally, they could be a dual weapons class (bows and daggers, or bows and swords.. or something)

Passive Skills and buffs
Aside from mastery skills, I'm not really sure. A party buff doesn't really seem necessary, but a personal weapon buff similar to archer's Blazing Arrow would be normal. I'm sure there's something nature or trapper/hunter related but I can't think of it.

Aggressive Skills and heals
Some bow skills similar to Archer, but with wood and earth magic addons.

For traps, they would have a variety of element and status addons. For example: One can be metal and physical damage, with an added stun, while another is Fire damage with a DoT.

Sadly I haven't thought too deeply into Hunter skills, but there's potential. It would also make sense if they had support pets (summonable like Mystic makes more sense)