Jester

Because I reckon Guild Wars... which as it stands is already heinously biased as regards class balancing (and no matter how much Assassins might be buffed, they can't do squat in elite areas).... needs a true joke class.
Guild Wars needs something to do as Dan Hibiki did for the Street Fighter games...... a class whose entire purpose is to show off, flash and distract.... whose skills are ridiculously awkward to use (though potentially useful if correctly operated, with immense skill) and whose entire structure seems built to mock. A class that could be used only by the exceptionally talented... because... lets face it... only a master could kick butt with a joke-class.

The Jester.

Attributes:
Bad Jokes (Primary)
Slapstick
Juggling
Custard Pie Mastery


I'm just stabbing in the dark in some cases.... but I think it would be worthwhile. I mean I'd bring a PuG Jester if only for the entertainment value... no?

Bad Jokes

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Shout. After 5 seconds, all foes within earshot are interrupted and lose 1..7 Energy.
Cost: 10 Recharge: 30

Slapstick

Unnecessary Violence
Skill. Target touched ally takes 5..30 damage and is knocked down. All foes within earshot suffer from Laughing for 2..8 seconds.
Cost: 5 Cast: 3/4 Recharge: 8

(Laughing: While suffering from this condition, you cannot use Shouts, Chants, or Echoes, and your skills activate and recharge 25% slower.)

Juggling

Juggle Weapons
Juggle. For 10 seconds, whenever you are attacked in melee, you juggle your foe's weapon foe the remainder of this Juggle. When it ends, all adjacent foes take 5..27 damage for each weapon juggled this way.
Cost: 10 Cast: 1 Recharge: 25

Custard Pie Mastery

Sugar-Free
Preparation. For 24 seconds, Custard Pies you throw deal +3..9 damage and your foe loses 1..3 Energy when they hit.
Cost: 10 Cast: 3 Recharge: 24

Fun to come up with skills for this one.

I would make one of these faster than the Undead Lich could say "lol".

I like the original idea as well as Tificate's skill ideas. However, what would Slapstick even do?

..Custard Pie Mastery is great though. Needs some work. (How will juggles work exactly?) From what I already see, though, it'd be fun, especially in PvP.

/signed

..."omg we get kild by 6 jestr HA nerrf plz"...

Where have I seen this class before? um,....oh yeah Dragon Quest 6 for snes

I had something like this in mind:

Bad Jokes would invariably all fall under the category of buffs / debuffs (and be the Joker's energy management)... It would involve hexes and enchantments... mostly for the sake of humour of course.
e.g. Jokes that would interrupt (distract) the enemy, force allied paragons / warriors to shout and chant louder (increased range or duration)

Slapstick would be all about the visual comedy with condition application and the like: Dropped banana peels to cause knockdown, thrown pig's bladders for disease, frying-pan to the face to cause dazed, water-squirt in the eyes for blind.... and numerous stupid dances and the like in terms of stances... etc. I can quite easily imagine a Jester with Elementalist secondary making great use of Burning Speed with an "Argh! It burns!" stance (i.e. whenever under the stance, if inflicted with burning, the Jester spreads it to all adjacent enemies for its duration).

Juggling would basically involve juggling all sorts of things to different effect.... juggling various weapons to potentially damage anyone adjacent (including the jester on an off chance)... juggling shiny things to distract.... juggling daggers before hurling them for direct mid-range damage... even juggling miscellaneous items for random effect (think Fingers of Chaos, but more randomised)... or perhaps juggling heavy items then suddenly giving them to the nearest enemy (use your imagination). Maybe even (as a hex) temporarily replacing an enemy's weapon with a brightly painted silly-looking wooden one... or a fish (to halve their damage).


As for Custard Pie Mastery .... well.... use your imagination.
I was originally considering the little Jester's baton as a weapon... but nobody ever gets hit with that... so it would invariably fall down to the classic custard pie. Attack skills would involve things like adding more cream, some jam, maybe some stones... brief replacement with hot steak and kidney pie.... That sorta thing. =P



If nothing else, at least for the first few encounters Jesters would completely devastate in PvP due to the ensuing hilarity and pure "WTF?!" factor.

AO has a very good perk action called "Dance of Fools", it gives you a large bonus to evading.
Althout there is no animation conected to it, suposedly you instantaniously start to breakdance when you use it, I would like a class that actually does that, no matter what game.

Well, its funny I must say that I have no idea if it is justefied to take a class that is meant for entertaining others and using them for killing others.
Also how do you tell a joke to an animal, beast or something else that does not understand you?

Though mostly I think its just silly, a class sugestion that made me LMAO deseves some credit so you are getting 1 thumb up.

Do as the cartoons: Assume that even if they don't understand what you're saying, they understand you're attempting to communicate somehow yet don't quite get why or what its supposed to do.

... i.e. Confuse them.

=P

Or maybe bad jokes in different languages for different species... You can't be sure that a Jester cannot speak Tengu or Centaur. O'course speaking Hydra is another matter altogether.

Bad Joke:
"Don't talk about MY momma!"
5 Energy/20 second recharge
Shout. Interrupt target foe's action. If that foe is affected by a shout, that foe takes 20...80...100 damage.

This looks like fun, le'me try! Leee'mmmeeeee tryyyyy

King of Sarcasem(no attribute)
Elite skill
All hexes on you are removed, for each hex removed: for the remaining duration you gain the exact opposite effects of the hex.

Iron From(Custard Pie Mastery)
Pie attack
Your next pie deals an additional 4....18(23) blunt damage.

Freshly Baked(slapstick)
preperation
For 24 seconds your pies hit for an additional 3...10(12) fire damage but you take 2 fire damge whenever you atack with a pie.
(or in outher words "Auí thats hot" perhaos it should also rule out the uses of whipped cream)

The NERF stick(bad joke, seriously this skill is a bad joke)
touch attack
The skills of target touched foe permanently are 3...12(15)% less powerfull, recharge 3...12(15)% slower, cost 3...12(15)% more energy and activate 3...12(15)% slower.

Not sure if you need to have read the Wrangelina stories to know what a nerf stick is.

But eventough I could not restist posting 1 off one, you can be serious about being silly.

Take a look at this if you want more ideas.
Jester

I'm bored again, so heres a few more silly skills

Hints(Bad jokes)
<not sure what skill type>
The next shout or chant used by target foe takes 1...2(3) seconds to activate, and does not affect targets that are outside of that foe's area.

Tickle(slapstick)
Touch attack
Target touched foe starts laughing for 2 seconds and has 10...30(35%) chance to be knocked down. If target foe is suffering from laughing this skill recharges instantly.
(this might actually have a good use)

Silent Clown(Bad Jokes)
Enchantment
For 12...22(26) seconds you are immune to laughing and your juggling attribute is raised by 1, but you can't use any chants or shouts.

"Ohhh Shiny"(juggling)
Juggle
While you maintain this juggle, whenever a adjacent foe uses a signet that signet is locked for the remainder of this juggle.

hmm, this class sounds very different, than 1 idea, that i made on a german forum, but it goes a bit into the near. i made a suggestion there for a Harleqin, or how is this written in english correct ^^ ? XD

u know, those ones:



they should be something, like "bad clowns" or, my idea was like a hybrid of mesmer, necromant and assasin, with spells working aoe


i wanted to have a class, that uses chaos and dark elemental attack spells, like an elementist, so they should aoe damage over some certain time, but it shouldnt be a mage class, my idea was more to combine that evil dark chaotic illusionary magic, with the aggressive agility of a sin, giving that class 2 nice exotic weapons

nr. 1 would be a big ring blade, like this
http://media.playstationpro2.com/ima...calibur3-7.jpg

nr. 2 would be 2 Tambourines, which will be used, like daggers, the Harlekin uses dances, to bring into fights effects, that affect severel party members or enemeys in a certain radius, like the necros skills, that consumes a dead corpse (dumb shit, get not the right english word at the moment ^^)


the jester idea here sounds to me much more, like a pure physical class, but skill ideas sounds good ^^ juggling would be really funny

Brilliant!
Try these out...

Rock Pie {Elite Cream Pie Mastery Attack)
This pie strikes for +1...32(40) damage and causes dazed on target foe for 3...11(13) seconds if it hits.

Extra Whipped Cream (Cream Pie Mastery)
The next pie you throw deals no damage, but blinds target foe and adjacent targets (Foes and Allies!) for 1...7(9) seconds if it hits.

Eye, Eye? (Slapstick)
Touched foe takes 30...62(70) damage and is blinded for 1...7(9) seconds.

Try this one

Poke (Slapstick)
Target foes gets knocked down and suffer 10...110 damage XD