Scholar, The Military Tactician

The Scholar:
"The Military Tactician"


Introduction:
-Hi, This is another improvement of an old CC of mine.
The Sage, I changed the name cause it was too short^^.
The Strategist is a battle manipulator, they can manipulate the battle field.
Hope you like it^^!


The Contents:

• The Background, Tells it's purpose in the GW Lore.
• The Status, Tells what is it's Status and General Data.
• The Attributes, Abilites or Skills which diffines this Class from the others.
• The Strength, Tells which does this Class' Abilities are good at to.
• The Weakness, Tells which does this Class' Abilities are burdened to.

Background:

Uniqueness:

• The Forts(Towers, Traps, Walls), The Forts are Items which affects Players, Towers are like Auto-Attacking/Supporting Machines, Traps are normal Ranger Traps, Walls are Obstructs or Shelter.
• The Puppet, Puppets are "Living"-Enchantments or Hexes, They'll be assign to a Creature. Their are puppets who like throwing Sticking Acidic Liquids at their enemies others are Medic Robots who does their best keeping their Assign Target Alive.
• The Flag or Terrain, Flags and Terrains are Things which Affects the Battlefield in Great Ways, While the Terrain hits the Battlefield the Flag hits the Mind and Heart of it's Fighters.

Status:
-Maximum Health 480.
-Maximum Energy 30.
-4 pipes of energy.


Armour:

Headgear
-Eyewear

-Starter Armor: AL 10
-Low: Al 20-30
-Medium: AL 40-50
-Maximum: AL 60

Insignia:

Puppeteer's
-Bonus Armor +5 (While 1 or more Puppets are Controlled)
Armor +5 (While 2 or more Puppets are Controlled)
Armor +5 (While 3 Puppets are Controlled)

Castellan's
-Bonus Armor +5 (While 1 or more Forts or Flags are Controlled)
Armor +5 (While 2 or more Forts or Flags are Controlled)
Armor +5 (While 3 or more Forts or Flags are Controlled)


Weapon:

Staff
Fire/Chaos Damage 11-22 (req.9 Implementation/Instrumentation/Amplification)
Energy +10
Two-Handed

Wand/Focus
" Damage 11-22 ( " )
Energy +12
One/Off Handed



Attribute:

Wisdom(Primary)
-For each rank of Wisdom, Your Constructions Casts and Lasts 1.5% longer.

Implementation
-Specializes in Summoning Forts, Puppets and Flags.

Instrumentation
-Specializes in Manipulating Forts, Puppets and Flags.

Amplification
-Specializes in Strenthening and Supporting Defences and Offences.


Skill Listing:

Wisdom(Primary)

Prodigy[Elite]
-Stance, 15e|60r : For 10-40(47) seconds, You'r Forts, Flags and Puppets lasts 20% Longer.

Bearer's Stance
-Stance, 15e|50r : For 7-25(30) seconds, Whenever you'r Holding an Item or Flag, The Effect is applied without dropping it. This doesn't work with Items that Harms Foes.

Diligence
-Stance, 15e|45r : For 15-30(35) seconds, You summon 33% Faster.

Implementation

Construct Gilgamesh Wall[Elite]
-Construction, 20e|5c|30r : Create a "Gilgamesian Rune", When Dropped, It Summons a Lv.(1-17, 21) Gilgamesh Wall, The Wall acts as an Obstruct to Foes and Nearby Allies gain +10-21(24) Armor, For 10-35(40) seconds.

Construct Arbalester
-Attack Puppet, 10e|4c|25r : Summon a Lv.(1-15, 17) Arbalester, The Puppet deals 20-50(60) Piercing Damage to Target Foe, The Arbalester attacks in Ranged, For 30 seconds.

Fireater Upgrade
-Upgrade, 10e|4c|15r : Upgrade Target Allied Support Puppet with a Lv.(1-15, 17) Fireater, The Puppet redirects all Fire Damage taken by Target Ally to Itslef. This ends after 9-15(17) seconds or when Target Support Puppet dies.

Instrumentation

Steal Property[Elite]
-Skill, 15e|3c|60r : Steal Target Foe's Puppet or Fort and it's Remaining Duration, For 5-15(18) seconds, After this skill ends the Puppet or Fort goes back to it's owner. The Puppet's or Fort's Duration lasts 10-20(22)% longer (You can steal 1 Fort or Puppet at a time).

Certificate of Ownership
-Skill, 5e|1c|20r : For 10-40(50) seconds, No Foe can steal your Puppets or Forts.

Assign Support
-Skill, 5e|2c|30r : For 15-25(30) seconds, All your Support Puppets changes to Passive Mode, And Heal 15% more Health and Enchants last 15% longer.

Amplification

Flag of Alliance[Elite]
-Item Spell, 10e|3c|45r : Create an "Alliance Flag", When Dropped, For 2-10(12) seconds, All creatures within the Area can't Attack, Cast Hostile Spells and Hexes.

Gate Upgrade
-Upgrade, 10e|4c|45r : Upgrade Target Allied Fort with a Lv.(1-12, 15) Gate, Creatures who passes through this Gate is Teleported to the Next Nearest Other Fort. This ends after 9-20(23) seconds or when Target Fort dies.

Gondola Upgrade
-Upgrade, 15e|3c|35r : Upgrade Target Allied Fort with a Lv.(1-17, 19) Gondola, The Gondolo Strikes at Moving Foes within the Area of the Fort, Dealing 25-60(75) Fire Damage to Adjacent Foes. This ends after 7-15(18) seconds or when Target Fort dies.


Functions:
-Wisdom is used as Buff for you'r Skills.
-Implementation is your Summoning Attb.
-Instrumentation is your De-Buff.
-Amplification is your Buff.

I. Construction:
-Constructions are Skills able to Summon Items or Effects.
Like Forts, Flags, Traps, Terrain, Upgrades and Puppets.

• II. Fort System:
  -Forts are Terrestial Obstructs summoned for Defence or Offence. They are good at Terrain Manipulating and Strategies.
• II. Flag System:
  -Flags are like Item Spells, Which when dropped an Effect is applied to Adjacent Allies or Foes but this one when dropped it summons an Offensive or Defensive Ward, A Mobile Ward for more understanding. But when being hold the effect is not being applied or nothing happens but you'r hands are full and other creature may get the Flag too.
• II. Puppet System:
  -A Puppet is a Living Enchantment or Hex assigned on Foes or Allies.
  • III. Attack Puppet:
    -Attack Puppets are assigned to Foes, They may spit out a Sticky Liquid once in a while or Shoot Bullets at the Assigned Target.
  • III. Support Puppet:
    -Support Puppets are assigned to Allies, They may Heal or Buff that assigned Ally or assist that Ally in taking down Foes like a Pet.
  • III. Defence Puppet:
    -Defence Puppet are assigned to Allied Forts, They are used as Sentries or Guardians against foes who attempt to Destroy the assigned Fort.
• II. Upgrade System:
  -Upgrades don't replace the Target Fort or Puppet but it adds special effects on them, But the Upgrade can be seen with the Target Fort or Puppet these Upgrades may be killed when killed the Upgrade ends.

Strengths:
-You are able to Buff Allies.
-You are able to De-buff Foes.
-Able to Spoil.

Weaknesses:
-Long Casting Speed.
-Long Recharge Time.


Picture:
Copyright by Gravity Co.



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Hope you like it^^!

So I always have to say, "Any Comments?", "Comments Please^^?", "So?" or "Anyone?, Hello?"

Well, ok.
'll probably regret rewarding your impatience later, but 's not like I am socially correct anyway.

First of all that name makes it sound like you don't want in in game.

Second it does work, it works on burocrats or other leadership classes, classes you wouldn't want in your team because of their combat skills.
So they get some bonus "A monkey could use, and be invited to teams for it"
(That was said when discussing what class is not fire and forget play style; on OOC chat; I forgot who said it)
But from what I see your Strategists doesn't need PvE overpoweredness to get into teams, even though(mostly by name) it is a leadership class.

Fortification[Elite]
Something here is not named right...

Thats a full caster class setup, it's a little boring for
change either the caster armor&energy or change to a less caster weapon, it should make them a little more interesting.

[EDIT]
On second thought, you could also go with the caster thing. If they Where like geomancers, they'd command the ground to form the forts and walls for them, making it feasible to build them within the casting times.
Or a teleport mage, that teleports in the buildings, finished and well.
Or whatever you can come up with, anything would be more logical than making a building in 3-6 seconds stone by stone, lol.

The description could be clearer, might want to make it "For creatures in the area, all damage from Attacks and spells is negated."
Also it seems it doesn't include degen from hexes or conditions, that would probably lead to it being some uber defense skill for degen builds.

Lastly; it lasts too long, while it's great for healing up and rezzing if half your party is dead, but that won't take longer than 12 seconds at the very most.

During that time, your team, but more importantly, the enemy team can do nothing, but just wait.
While their buffs expire or while you capture a shrine while unharmable; it's gonna annoy the heck out of people.
The duration should be 9 seconds or something(the recharge and casting time of course would have to be adjusted to keep the skill balanced)

Why does a higher attribute level increase the foe's fort's duration more?
That's helping the foe, even though my engineering skills are of course much l33ter than my foe's, I'm not making improvements to a fort for when I return it. Have a set duration increase of 15% or 10 seconds or something.

If I have stolen something, I want this skill to also increase the time for which I control that puppet or fort, it would be fitting, and make this a more useful skill.

Lastly, your terrain effects seem like they should affect both foes and allies, why would an oil field only be lit on fire if someone on my team ignited it, it should burn me too; 25% is a way to powerful bonus anyway to be used without reprecusions.

Overall:
This is way to much like a ritualist, with a bit of a warder in it as well, only originality that it's summons block pathing, and it's 'attack spirits' will not stop attacking your target if they themselves are attacked.

You need to do something to pull the all of the constructions away from spirits.

While writing I got an interesting idea, that forts and walls and stuff would be capturable by anyone, not with a skill but like a king of the hill type where the hill stays yours as long as there are team members in it.
It might be really unbalancing, and a bad idea, but it might be really fun too; A single class that would add lots of active gameplay in every single area of game instantly by placing captureable objects that need to be defended and attacked.

It would definitely give the class huge impact, changing gameplay big time.

I see guard towers being erected on the wall of the guild hall, [skill=text]Swap[/skill] being very useful for getting the puppet out of the fort an the assassin inside, if it's empty capturing it at the same time.

I posted this 4 days ago.
Doesn't sound impatient?
And my post was just yesterdays, so make that 3 days^^.

Thinking of Adding Vehicles^^.
What do you think?

Sorry?..
Don't understand.

They use a Hi-Level of Technology, They can create or materialate a Temporary Obstruct breaking laws of physics.
They are also so Intelligent they can also "almost" match the Gods.
Their Staff or Wands are very unique, Cause it is not a Magic Amplifier but a Remote Control of somekind.
With it they can create things out of just nothing.
I am thinking of the effects it wouldn't look like Magic but more of a Shell or Protect thingy from FFX.
They'll create somekind of Outer-Shell then it'll crack and a Fort, Toer or etc would appear.
For Terrain the ground would look like a Protect-Shell thingy in FFX.
Then it'll just crack and you'll see the Terain look different.

Oh cause it also steals the Fort or Puppet and it's remaining Duration, cause you might just waste it after stealing it the effects would end yet.
It benefits you to.

YOu where talking about terains as a skill, but you named them constructions in the skills.
Also I think a terrain should affect every one on it, not just allies.

If you break the laws of physics you are using magic, technology consists out of the application of knowledge to create objects and or processes that benefit the people that can afford them.
To break something you do not need to know it.
To make use of something, you need to know how to work it.

If it's a remote control how does it deal damage?
If its a wand it would use wand/staff animation types, when used by non Strategist classes.
And possibly projectile art as well, if Anet made those depended on damage type and weapon types instead of attribute a projectile thing to each weapon.

... My memory doesn't last for 4 years, what did the FFX protect look like?

OK, that I do get, reminds me how Earth2159 buildings are made(wtf O.o 9+ year memory)
I'm hoping it will not look too out of place in GW, but kinda like, uhhmm whatever this is(it is GW concept art though).

I don't like the idea of it being very technological.
I was ok with a castle and siege technology type class, because we already have those in GW, but a remote for trans-temporal/dimensional warping O.o that is ridiculous.

Vehicles aren't fun unless it feels you you aren't walking anymore.
In RPG's and MMO's the experience of vehicles is usually ruined, so I think you should stick to stationary stuff first.

And make the stationary stuff less like spirits.

Also instead of having the puppets attack the target of their skill(kinda magical if a alabaster, knows where to find it's target at all times)
How about summoning inactive puppets that react to a target pointer, so while casting a target pointer on a foe ALL your puppets capable of using their action on that foe, attack it.
While casting another target pointer that targets allies you set the target for your friendly puppets.
It is:

1. A way of pet control that is original
2. Makes sense in the way Kournan spotters/commanders call in artillery attacks from artillery that is positioned far, far away.
3. It it keeps you busy so that puppets are less fire and forget, but more dynamic.
4. Allows for recharge times to balance out a combined spike from multiple siege machine puppets, and not make the Strategist a spirit spammer clone.

Also the traps could play a part in triggering puppets, Having a puppet that automatically has a multi shot trap around it, attacking who ever triggers it; when the puppet is destroyed so is the trap.

Uhm, the Towers are Movement Sensitive^^.
Yup, the Outer Shell thingy is like that.
The Concept Art you posted was somethling like that.
No, While other Classes ue their Staff as Amplifier, They wuld use it as a Remote Control.
Still same Staff different usage.
But that'll mean all my skills needs a Staff.
I am thinking of a Core Weeapon again^^.
From my Mechanist but first I'll be posting my Avatar^^.
The Vehicles would be like a Summonable Siege Devourer or Wurm.
They would look like the Asuran Golems.

That wasn't a question, its an observation on how the game handels animations.

While those have their advantages, but the only real difference in controll they make is that they fill up my screen making it harder to see stuff.

It'll be a smaller Siege Devouer kay^^

EDITED:

I hate this XD!
I was just making my Avatar then suddenly my Internet Connection was cut-off XD!
I have to redo everything again!
Sorry, but my CC is going to be dealyed for a while^^.

And the Technology of the Strategist is like in this Video, But does not completely change the battlefield.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYUStkjCIoM

Added New Ability of Towers.
The Descrition f Towers has not yet been change but added a Tower Construct Skills.
Now Towers are just Machines which enables you to cast Siege Destroying Skills.
And Sub-Skills can't be gained in the Skill List but replaced with it's Original Tower Construct or it's Original Skill.

Is their anyone else who wanna comment except SC?

Technology without magic is not gonna bode well in Tyria.

Why?
Don't find why not, BTE their God and Goddess is Kormir and Balth^^.

Well because of the problem I have turning the stalker into an engineer.
I was going for a siege technology class, with the cannons and sentry traps the Kournans use, but there's a problem.

You are only 1 person, cannons & ballistae don't aim and reload themselves.
And the way I wanted to make use of them, they shouldn't even be inside your aggro circle let alone have you close enough to operate them.

And magical cannons, should look magical. And I found it really hard to think up how a magical siege weapon should look.

I tried to figure out a bunsh of way to make it work and make sense.

Pre-clockwork tech:

• A apprentice created for each cannon, but that means the class can summon multiple humans; resulting in a skill set demanding you summon soldier too.
• A bunch of goblins to build and operate your things for you, too Overlord'ish and silly because of that.

Clockwork tech:

• Well clockworks start 1 action, and don't stop until they break, they'd just shoot 1 spot, if the foe moves they wouldn't adjust their aim.
  You'd still need to manually aim them even if they can reload themselves.
  Or they could just randomly shoot all over the place, not aiming at all.

Magical:

• A golem builder, a full golem it stats takes 2 or more years to build. A stupid one that can't walk but is just an arm throwing rocks would be create able in a more limited time.
• A gate master, using Asuran gate crystals to make gates to teleport in obstructions, create shields that teleport away projectiles. And their magical cannon would be several aligned gates, something starting at gate 1 moves faster and faster through the other gates; eventually flying out the end.
  But why build a cannon; if you can have 1 at home, and just teleport the projectiles that come out to your foes.(the long description is becasue this one almost made the cut)

Those examples are to show that it is hard to make sense of self aiming non-magical weapons.
As well as its hard to think of a magical siege weapon, because they don't use them; mages do it themselves with comets and earthquakes, no need for some complicated contraption of sorcery and magical conduit.

I'm not saying it's a bad class, just that the lore has some nasty glitches in it.
For which I see not intimidate solution

Eventually I think I'm going with siege worms and insects. Trapping a siege worm in some kind of shell, would subdue(read: make it less powerful to balance the class) it and you could force it to act as your canon.
And bugs can build webs or hives so also worm traps and obstructions.

Uhm, I think I improved it alot^^.
I like it alot better already^^.

The upgrades is a good move, they pull it away from a spirit spammer a little.
You also did the impossible, you made it less like ritualists by adding itemspells.
Great job MC.
The flags are really interesting, we kind of already had something like this, as the slow totum in dunes of despair.
But as a skill, and a movable ward(also by foes) it's a very unique effect.

I'd also like to suggest a 'Bearer's Stance' skill that activates the flag while holding it, so you can move the effect at the cost of having your hands full.

So do I.

Thank You^^.
Sometimes I do things uhm impatient, and blah blah you know already.
Cause when I make my CCs when I feel like doing it, Lik what Idid for the Minstrel, I tink it was a success.
But it took me like a month or some weeks for me to make it^^.
And thats why my other CCs gone wrong cause I uhm rushed.

Changed name to Scholar, Still waiting for the mods to change the thread name^^.

Hi, just a question will you like ti more if I change my Scholar into like this.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10120139

Pretty interesting. The effects seems more closely related to a summoner, but the name seems like something that Anet originally wanted the paragon to be.

Well fixes some of the tech lore, as it would teleport obstructions around with magic instead of the remote thingy, and drop (Asura) Gate Crystals, warping a building or gate to that location
(probs after 3 seconds so you could get out of the way of having a house fall on you).

I on re-reading it noticed an interesting element in the Spehiroth, that you can drop a gate rune and then the effect would be like maintained at that location at the cost of energy regeneration, that is interesting as allows for more control over your built things.
Both allowing you to free the way when your allies need to pass through, limiting the amount of long duration effects you could have up and allowing foes to get rid of the biggest problems by killing you which ends anything you'd be maintaining.
It would work quite well, and be less like a spirit spammer.

Prob is though, if it is a gate keeper/master what kind of forts would it create, and what kind of puppets go with it.

Also for those who would claim Asuran gates are technological, I say if it floats in the air is made with shiny crystals and gives of purple glitters and sparks, it looks pretty magical to me.

I actually the Scholar now, but Dralspire haven't changed it yet.
And yes I have asked him already.

Thanks for the comments anyway^^.
I really like the clockworks and siege lore the Sholer gives but I also like the magical structures.
Okay options again^^!

The Castellan/Mechanist
-They are based on Machines and Stuff, and they have Puppets along with them to assist allies and hamr foes.
And also you may drop a Sensoring Device which tells these Puppets to go to tht location and build Structures, Forts and etc.

The Mystic/Sage
-The Mystic bring dolls and puppets in battle and they augment life into them with the help of Grenth/Dwayna(please choose^^).
And then they would drop runes summoning a magical aura then with the help of the puppets they would give some of their energy(mana) to the Rune or Crystal magicaly summoning an Ancient and Mystic Structure.

So Technoloy vs Magic, which?
But I like the Castellan better, I love European Seige-Wars^^.
But I also like the Mystical yet Mysterious Group/Guild of People who make structures using Magic.
Both I think goes with the GW Lore^^.
And I used Soul Linking to help manage energy, But Mordakkai said it was too overpowered, So I am not sure where to go right now^^.

You can't do that with clockworks, a clockwork must be completely commanded as soon as it is created.
So you make on and pre-program it, like the paper with holes in it that goes into a winding organ.
You'd need to be a clairvoyant to punch holes for a beacon you will drop in a few minutes because you don't know where yet.

It's like, make a clock work and tell it.
"5 steps forwards, 2 steps left, attack"
Clockworks can't understand 'if' and 'when', because those require changes after starting; without if and when it should be impossible to command them to go to a beacon and do something, if/when the location of that beacon is unknown at the time the clockwork is created.

What you could do is make a clock work that does 1 thing, like hop around in circles and knockdown foes it bumps into.
Pick it up by using it, carry it to where you want it, use a command skill like "Build wall" and drop it.
That is something clockworks are good at, they are simple built and can be repeatedly modified.

They are also wonderful as a trap that places itself again after it has fired.