Hellborne

WickedSwords - Heavens Tear
WickedSwords - Heavens Tear Posts: 831 Arc User
edited September 2012 in Suggestion Box
Before i start,i would like to give heads up:
1)If you don't like reading long posts just stop from this point on(it is for GM's or anyone else responsible to read this anyways).

2)Not gonna reply to any flame or trolling,so if you got something to add let it be constructive.

Ok with that out of the way let me start(I am well aware that this probably won't be even taken into consideration nor devs think about introducing any new races or classes,but since i am bored i might as well slap something in here).

Following the rules that were posted in here i did some reading on Chinese mythology(although not sure what connection to it has modern motorbike mount...)and saw few things that could improve the further storyline in some distant future perhaps?
It is about the race named Hellborne with 2 new classes alongside it.

How could they fit into the current plot: Since Wraiths came to Perfect World and started an all out war with all of the denizens of Perfect World there have been many casualties.
With huge influx of arriving souls to the Underworld and many of those souls being corrupted by the influence of wraiths,Yama(ruler of the underworld) ordered his faithful guardians to emerge from depths of the underworld and prevent further chaos that is threatening the natural cycle of rebirth.

About their location: New race needs to have a territory that can be taken over in Territory War event and a story that can back up the existence of them and i thought of the following..
Their starting location and some of the neighboring territories should be desolate places covered in dark(something fitting the arrival of spawns of the underworld),filled with swamps,mists and eeriness.
Since all of the Hellbornes would be coming from underworld it would be pointless having some huge citadel growing out of nowhere,instead their starting location should be made more like some sort of camp that is made around the portal from which they came.
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  • WickedSwords - Heavens Tear
    WickedSwords - Heavens Tear Posts: 831 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    About the classes: Hellborne physically resembles Ox-Head and Horse-Face(two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology)and should have additional features(flaming eyes or burst of flames from their nostrils)

    First i would like to introduce Slayer class: Wearing heavy armor and using Two-handed swords(before anyone mentions Seekers as users of two-handed swords i would like to give a small lesson.Two-handed weapon by its definition is supposed to be wielded by both hands and by certain standards it is longer than 2 meters),it would be a nice addition actually introducing true two-handed sword weaponry instead of just recycling it down to single handed weapon.
    Slayers would be devastating AoE users with their wide variety of skills that are focused on crowd control,also they posses few buff skills and some self-healing skill something similar to blademaster's diamond sutra perhaps(that could either augment physical defense or vitality or maybe both?). Their build should focus on strength and vitality(allowing them bigger chances at surviving AoE battles) thus becoming good addition in AoE types of runs or instances.

    Second class is called Soulhunter and i didn't put much thought into their skills,but they would be good addition in arcana tactics providing them with some dispelling abilities and all kinds of debuff spells.
    Their choice of gear should naturally be arcane,as for weapon selection perhaps adding new arcane weaponry such as scythe or spell books?

    That is all from me for now b:thanks
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  • Apostasy - Raging Tide
    Apostasy - Raging Tide Posts: 1,197 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Could make their starting area more "cavern-like" perhaps? Perhaps even as if they start in a dungeon-type instance-looking area and work their way to their main "city" area?

    If these "Soulhunters" are of the arcane type, then perhaps place some emphasis on soulforce acting toward their abilities of debuffs and special negative effects spells. I like the scythes (add one-handed sickles, or even add daggers in the same way they added earthguards to various weapons) and books, perhaps even dolls of some sort? The book or dolls should have some "effect" or buff even by their being equipped.
    Lets give Soulhunters a way to use their opponents' stats / gears against them in effect-type ways?

    These "Slayers" might be a bit more challenging to think of something more unique to another Sword wielding class... Hmm... perhaps they gain available abilities as they lose a certain percentage of their max hps? As if as they fall closer to death, they become more powerful? Again, perhaps we could use soulforce to even allow them to use higher abilities? This would be great for PW on a business-level too. AOE's might include a series of "set-up" type skills and/or Damage Over Time type attacks? It might be possible that based on how many enemy targets within a certain range of the Slayer, that they gain various effects and/or power boosts?
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  • WickedSwords - Heavens Tear
    WickedSwords - Heavens Tear Posts: 831 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Your suggestions sound agreeable for each class.
    Even tho we do have some sword classes Slayers wouldn't be another plain sword type such as seeker or sword type BM,but whole different in their role(since two handed swords really shouldn't be that much emphasized on accuracy and instead on great strength and devastating range of AoE's).
    Also i like your idea of gaining more power with lower health(as for slayers) since that would open couple of different paths in their skill tree(berserkers,punishers and etc).
    As for Soulhunters like i said i didn't gave much thought on them,but regarding their weaponry i think they should just stick with scythes or some kind of books(using dolls as their medium is more in the field of voodoo mastery and not much in favor of infernal spawns who have dealings with souls).

    Only thing that i don't feel is right is cavern-type area you mentioned.
    Regarding story if Underworld had an open path from there to the world of living then there would be a chaos already before wraiths.
    Coming out of the portals is more suitable for denizens of underworld as they are summoned out or transported via the same(preventing souls or anything else living in there from escaping their realm).
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  • Apostasy - Raging Tide
    Apostasy - Raging Tide Posts: 1,197 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    WickedSwords - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Your suggestions sound agreeable for each class. [...] Only thing that i don't feel is right is cavern-type area you mentioned. (just shortening quote for shortening purposes)

    Well, i was just throwing ideas down on this thread due to it being the most competent so far that i read over the last few pages of "new class" ideas. Most of the others were, well b:beatup says it all b:chuckle . So my reply here was a +1 to your ideas base.
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  • m1234567890
    m1234567890 Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    WickedSwords - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Before i start,i would like to give heads up:
    1)If you don't like reading long posts just stop from this point on(it is for GM's or anyone else responsible to read this anyways).

    2)Not gonna reply to any flame or trolling,so if you got something to add let it be constructive.

    Ok with that out of the way let me start(I am well aware that this probably won't be even taken into consideration nor devs think about introducing any new races or classes,but since i am bored i might as well slap something in here).

    Following the rules that were posted in here i did some reading on Chinese mythology(although not sure what connection to it has modern motorbike mount...)and saw few things that could improve the further storyline in some distant future perhaps?
    It is about the race named Hellborne with 2 new classes alongside it.

    How could they fit into the current plot: Since Wraiths came to Perfect World and started an all out war with all of the denizens of Perfect World there have been many casualties.
    With huge influx of arriving souls to the Underworld and many of those souls being corrupted by the influence of wraiths,Yama(ruler of the underworld) ordered his faithful guardians to emerge from depths of the underworld and prevent further chaos that is threatening the natural cycle of rebirth.

    About their location: New race needs to have a territory that can be taken over in Territory War event and a story that can back up the existence of them and i thought of the following..
    Their starting location and some of the neighboring territories should be desolate places covered in dark(something fitting the arrival of spawns of the underworld),filled with swamps,mists and eeriness.
    Since all of the Hellbornes would be coming from underworld it would be pointless having some huge citadel growing out of nowhere,instead their starting location should be made more like some sort of camp that is made around the portal from which they came.

    small bit of a problem with your examination of chinese mythology, it is lacking in balance. they would have to create a second race, the chinese version of a heavenly race which if i had to guess has just managed to move your idea back a couple of years since they would have to create melee classes and magic using classes for both the heavenly and underworld classes. thats a hell of a lot of work, even if they clone existing formats to reduce the workload. it seams your not the only one wanting new races, heck the last time i read the suggestion of a new race, i disagreed with a new race and suggested maybe adding a new classes to the races if they did anything. a little less work involved in that. maybe your "hellbourne" and whatever they decide for a balancing that with a chinese version of "heavenborn" could be added classes to the existing races since like you said the underworld and heaven are filling faster than usual and those 5 races populating the world are definately populating the worlds of the dead.
  • WickedSwords - Heavens Tear
    WickedSwords - Heavens Tear Posts: 831 Arc User
    edited September 2012
    Yes i am well aware of both underworld and "heaven" part of Chinese mythology.
    But since my idea was focused on underworld only i presume its only natural to leave other side for maybe some other time(even by PW storyline Pan-Gu the creator of this world isn't interfering with mortal agenda so same would probably apply to Celestial beings)?
    In any case adding new classes to existing races would be nice(as long as nothing breaks the whole game from its roots),but they seriously need to introduce new weaponry instead of just tossing same old **** since TT forge got loads of free space even with old weapons.

    @Apostasy

    Just followed their rules and also wanted to make it different then your usual "New race i been thinking" kind of posts.
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