"My voice is mightier than your sword."
I made this as a CC that has a logical approach to building structures in 10 seconds or less and siege weaponry that doesn't ruin lore by operating all on it's own.
[For skimmers]
Example skills are at the bottom.
New Stuff
Class: Monarch
The monarch is a commander and besieger class.
They create drones to build stationary obstructions and elevations, place mines and trap a single wurm as artillery to influence the battlefield in their favor.
Some obstructions block foes or projectiles, while others offer effects to foes or allies in their range.
The monarch himself uses target paintings to make his wurm attack at range and uses a half-ranged weapon to attack foes.
Communication offers the inherit ability to get around the reduced damage low level creatures deal to higher level creatures and also has skills to take full advantage of this with low level mites causing area damage, it also has skills to guide and command your drones.
Rumble Speak offers wurms and target paintings to make your wurms deal damage, it's an attribute that supports your damage dealing while you can sit back/do something else.
Whisper Speak offers ranged hate, using projectile blocking to stop attacks and cripple to prevent ranged foes from kiting.
Song Speak offers melee hate, using movement and attack triggered negative effects to discourage foes from getting close and blind to mess up foes that still do so.
Creature type: Monarch Creations
Monarch have the ability to amass quite the force, by dropping eggs and bait they summon a creature, many of those creatures also come with 1 or more constructions, that they build or that are built for them.
You are limited to 8 drones and 1 worm at a time, there is no limit to how many mines you can place or how many constructions you can build, but without a drone attending to them, constructions will fall apart soon enough and mines expire after 180 seconds.
Lore:
Drones: Are simple social bugs, that build and repair constructions. They flee when taking damage making them pretty worthless in combat.
Wurms: Are large blind creatures from deep underground, without a trap they are disobedient, the trap makes them immobile and unable to use senses other than your target paintings.
Mite Mines: Are small burrowing insects, monarchs use them as hidden bombs.
Constructions: are creations of web/wax and rubble, not very durable or artistic, but drones build them in no time, which is what counts during a battle.
Health:
Drones: Base 40 + 20 per level.
Wurms: Base 80 + 30 per level.
Mite Mines: Always have 60 max health.
Constructions: Base 30 + 30 per level.
Special:Armor:
When a wurm's health reaches 0 it dies, falling and destroying it's wurm trap.
When a wurm trap's health reaches 0, the wurm is free, it makes 1 attack on it's master if they are in range, then disappears underground.
When a construction has not been repaired by a drone in the last 10 seconds, it suffers 1 health degeneration.
When a construction is below 100% of max health, it also suffers 1 health degeneration.
This increases to 4 degeneration while a construction is below 50 of its max health and 8 when below 25% of max health.
Drones: Base 15 + 5 per level.
Wurms: Base 25 + 5 per level.
Mite Mines: Always have 40 armor.
Constructions: Always have 60 armor.
Special:Attacks:
Constructions have 15 additional armor against slashing and piercing damage.
Drones: Melee, 1-<drone level> slashing damage, attack time of 3 seconds.
Wurms: Radar Range, 6-6 +3 per level, damage type and recharge vary depending on the type of wurm.
Mite Mines: Mite mines do not attack, they use do use a touch skill.
Constructions: Constructions do not attack.
Special:Affected By:
When drones take damage, they stop attacking/constructing/repairing and run away from the source 3 seconds, if they where assigned to a construction they will go back to it when they finish fleeing.
Wurms are blind, they will not attack foes by themselves, you need to use target paintings to guide their attacks.
Wurms cannot attack foes in their earshot while trapped, this does not apply to the vengeance attack that occurs when a wurm is freed.
A mite mine's touch skill, causes it to sacrifice 100% of it's health and has the effect stated in the kill that created the mite, if this skill is interrupted or locked the mite still sacrifices health, but the skill has no effect.
Drones: All effects normally, are treated as fleshy but do not leave corpses.
Wurms: All effects except blindness(they are blind by nature), are fully fleshy and leave exploitable corpses.
Mite Mines: Are affected by all non-fleshy effects normally, are non-fleshy and do not leave corpses.
Constructions: Cannot be affected, by any effects except burning and can also not be healed. They are non-fleshy and do not leave corpses.
special:Mechanic: Constructing
When buried a mite mine cannot be targeted, or affected by anything.
When a mite mine is buried near another, they will attack each other, even if they are on the same side.
Burning lasts 50% longer when applied to a construction.
Drones nearby a damaged allied construction will become assigned to repair it, each repairing drone generates 3 health regeneration.
The monarch uses item spells to drop markers, marking locations to build constructions.
Anyone(even foes) can carry the markers around once they have been dropped, but all markers destroy themselves after a small amount of time.
Drone eggs:Drones assign themselves to allied markers in their area, when they are not already assigned.
Drone eggs hatch into drones, even if someone is carrying them.
When a drone egg hatches, if the drone inherently builds something the egg shell will be the marker.
A hatching drone is always assigned to it's own marker.
When you drop a drone egg created by a foe it is destroyed, allied drone eggs can be carried and dropped at will.
Wurm bait:
A wurm will surface where its wurm bait is even is someone is carrying it, when a wurm surfaces the bait is destroyed.
When a wurm surfaces and there is no trap around it's bait, all adjacent creates are knocked down and take 30 damage.
When a wurm surfaces in a trap, it becomes trapped until that trap is destroyed
Drones assigned to a maker will follow creatures carrying that marker, if that creature is a foe they will also attack that creature.
When a drone wants to build a marker, it will pick it up and take it to the nearest place where there is enough room to build it.
There is room for a construction when: on all 4 sides for some1 can pass and there are no creatures that are not drones in the way.
When checking if there is room, drones ignore obstructions they can walk on as both creatures and as impassable areas.
When a drone starts building an construction the marker is destroyed and replaced by a level 0 version of that obstruction.
While being built a construction gains levels and expands to its full size.
If a creature moves into the room a construction needs, the expanding size of the construction will push that creature out.
1 Drone takes 10 seconds to build an obstruction.
For each additional drone that helps, the remaining time is halved.
When any participating drone builds faster than normal, the % are added up and deducted off the remaining time, NOT the base time.
Construction types:
Pillar:
Room needed: marker location(creature sized)
Pillars are non walkable straight up constructions, they will block projectiles but are a bit too thin for the whole team to shelter behind.
Pillars often have an area effect, buffing or debuffing, foes or allies in range.
Mess:
Room needed: nearby marker
A mess is a sloppy rummage of a construction, some are walkable some aren't, how high a mess is depends on the visual appearance, so only some of them are fit to shelter you from projectiles.
The point of a mess is usually a cheap obstruction
When messes overlap each other the newest mess destroys a part of the oldest.
Mound:
Room needed: area of marker
Mounds are large walkable platforms, low at the edges high in the middle.
Their point is to overlap messes, acting as bridges; or to offer a somewhat elevated position from which [wiki]Bows[/wiki] automatically have increased range and damage.
When mounds overlap each other, for each over lapping part, the highest mound for that part is the only one that is built.
When mounds overlap messes they will destroy that part of the mess.
Worm Trap:
Room needed: nearby marker
Worm traps are straight up encasements, holding a wurm that is half out of the ground.
Counting the wurm they are high and wide enough to block projectiles efficiently, but the wurm cannot attack creatures in it's earshot, so the use of a trapped wurm is somewhat limited if you are that close to it.
Wurm traps destroy any parts of mounds or messes they overlap.
Lore:
Ages ago, before the great scarab plague ravaged Elona, the area around the first city was inhabited by a flourishing civilisation.
Their secrets of their advancement while others still hunted with spears had died with them, which to an Asura is only a minor problem; from the fading memory of ghosts and spirits the Asura garnered the magic techniques used to domesticate insects.
Refining the art with their own research, mystical and arcane knowledge, a cheap and quick alternative to the complicated time, energy and cost intensive golems was found, to preform variant and menial tasks such as agriculture and construction, instead of the golems unchanging function as guards or soldiers.
(Not an Asura only class, though they are it's patrons, meaning most skill trainers will be Asura)
Equipment
Energy:
Base: 25 at 3 pips
Monarchs do not get a focus item to improve this.
Armor:
Base: 70AL
(+10 while not moving)
I'm not sure on how they should look yet, though I'm edging towards Kurzic Priest/Count looks, it has something quite majestic and authoritarian.
Weapons:
The monarch carries a sizable (and sorta odd looking) cage, inside there is a nest of either tiny weavers or small scarabs.
These cages are 2 handed, the left hand caries it form the handle at the top, the right hand is used for a drum like piece on the right side of the cage.
I'm calling them order weapons for lack of a better therm.
The order weapons come in plenty of shapes, sizes and materials with drums, tambourines and stringed instruments coming out of the side.
When attacking you hold the cage, open, towards an enemy in half-range and play the instrument, 1 by 1 the larva then come out and attach themselves to the target foe and start dealing damage to it.
Dependant on attack speed, you shooting larva takes a little time, before you have all of them on your target.
Both the larva's attack, as well as the rate at which you apply them to a foe is affected by attack speed increases on you.
For ease of logic, scarab larva can fly and weaver grubs can jump infinite distances.
The attaching happens like shooting larva at the foe in an arch, takes a flight time before the attacking can start and needs clear line of sight, missed larva will come back to the cage before being shot at target foe again.
When you stop attacking the larva come back into the cage.
Only if the foe moves out of your half-range do the larva com back, that foe can be attacking you in melee and would have to run for a bit before your larva let go of him.
A oder weapon is the only weapon that does not have you attack using the weapon, but the weapon attacks by itself, there for order weapons do not grant adrenaline when any of their attacks hit.
There are 2 types of order weapons:
Whisperer Nests and Singer Nests
Whisperer Nests are for weavers, which deal piercing damage and allow for the use of weaver type drones.
Singer Nests are for scarabs, which deal slashing damage and allow for the use of scarab type drones.
If you do not have the right kind of order weapon equipped, your drones will not build, repair or attack anything; they will just wander around and run away when taking damage.
If you do not have the right order weapon equipped you can not use item spells for the corresponding drone skill.
Sundering Copper Whisperer of FortitudeRange: half-ranged
Number of larva: 5(requires 9 Whisper Speak )
Larva Damage: Piercing 1-5
20% Armor Penetration (20% chance)
Health +30
Inscription:
“Dance With death: Damage +15% while in a stance.”
2-handed
Attack time: 1.5 seconds
Larva to foe arch: medium
Poisonous Singer Drum of ShelterRange: half-ranged
Number of larva: 5(requires 9 Song Speak )
Larva Damage: slashing 1-5
Increases inflicted poison duration by 33%
Armor +15(Vs. Elemental Damage)
Inscription:
“Sleep now in the fire: Armor +12 against fire damage”
2-handed
Re-swing: 1.6
Larva to foe arch: low
Upgrade items:
Jaws | Point/Blade upgrades
Instrument | Hilt/Wrapping upgrades
Inscriptions:
Hatcher’s | +15AL while in earshot of an egg.
Architects | +3AL for each obstruction in earshot.
Oppressors | +10AL while in range of a wurm you trapped.
Communication(primary)
For each rank in communication damage dealt by creatures you created has 1.25% more base armor piercing.
Healing Nectar skill E5 A1 R6Whisper Speak
Target touched ally is healed for 5...17(21)% of their max health and another 10 health for each drone in earshot, if that ally was a drone that ally also loses 1 condition.
Shelled Mite Egg item spell E15 A½ R10
Bury a Mite Egg at your location, after 2 seconds it hatches into Large Mite Mine that lives 180 seconds, and inflicts 10…52(66) slashing damage to nearby foes and causes them to bleed for 10 seconds.
Stinking Mite Egg item spell E5 A½ R20
Bury a Mite Egg at your location, after 2 seconds it hatches into Stinking Mite Mine that lives 180 seconds, and causes weakness for 3…12(15) seconds to all foes in the area and 6…12(14) damage every second for 5 seconds to all foes in the area.
Pitched Whistle shout E5 A- R2
Target drone you control moves to your location; if that drone is not building or repairing anything, all drones you control that are also not building or repairing, follow it for up to 4...16(20) seconds and you gain 1 energy for each of those drones.
Encouragement shout E10 A- R20
For 15 seconds you and your drones cannot attack, but your drones gain 4...19(24) armor and do not flee when taking damage.
Increases the damage and chance to achieve a critical hit with an Order whisperer, it also improves the speed with which weaver drones you created build constructions by 1%.
Silken Weaver Egg weaver item spell E10 A2 R140Song Speak
Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 4 seconds it hatches into a level 1…7(9) Silken Weaver that lives 140 seconds, it creates a level 1…7(9) Silk Pillar where it hatches, moving foes in the area of a Silk Pillar are crippled for 3 seconds every 3 seconds.
Hunting Weaver Egg elite weaver item spell E15 A1 R100
Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 4 seconds it hatches into a level 1...13(17) Hunting Weaver hat loves for 100 seconds, it creates a level 1...13(17) hunting web in the area where it hatches, foes moving over the hunting web move 33% slower and lose a stance when they become crippled.
Messy Weaver Egg weaver item spell E5 A2 R120
Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 3 seconds it hatches into a level 2…8(10) Messy Weaver that lives 120 seconds, it creates a level 2…8(10) Webby Mess in the area where it hatched, the webby mess blocks creatures from passing through it, except weaver drones.
Pinned Weaver Egg weaver item spell E15 A3 R130Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 4 seconds it hatches into a level 1…9(12) Pinned Weaver that lives 130 seconds, it creates 1…3(4) level 1…9(12) Pinned Pillars adjacent to where it hatched, ranged attacks against creatures adjacent to a Pinned Pillar have 25% chance to stray.
Widow's Whispering order attack E5 A1 R10
Recall a larva from target foe, for 2...11(14) seconds that foe is poisoned and for 2...11(14) seconds your order whisperer has 1 less larva.
Increases the damage and chance to achieve a critical hit with an Order Singer, it also improves the speed with which scarab drones you created build constructions by 1%.
Dusty Scarab Egg scarab item spell E15 A1½ R80Rumble Speak
Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 3 seconds it hatches into a level 0…9(12) DustyScarab that lives 80 seconds, it creates a level 0…9(12) Dusty Mound where it hatched, whenever a creature on the Dusty Mound is knocked down or dies, all foes on the dusty mound are blinded for 6 seconds.
Scarab Queen elite scarab item spell E25 A3 R20
Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 5 seconds it hatches into a level 5…17(21) Scarab Queen that lives 240 seconds, but can’t build or help build obstructions, all scarab drones in earshot of it live twice as long and scarab item spells cost 2…5(6) less energy; you can only have 1 scarab queen at a time.
Shiny Scarab Egg scarab item spell E15 A1 R60
Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 3 seconds it hatches into a level 2…8(10) Shiny Scarab that lives 60 seconds, it builds 15…30(35)% faster than normal drones.
Eyegouger's Rally elite order attack E15 A3 R15
For 15 seconds your order singer has 1 additional larva, when this larva criticals it blinds its target for 4...10(12) seconds.
Razored Scarab Egg scarab item spell E10 A2 R70Create a Drone Egg at your location, after 2 seconds it hatches into a level 3…9(11) Razored Scarab that lives 70 seconds, it creates a level 3…9(11) Mess of Razors in the area where it hatches, foes moving in the Mess of Razors take 3…6(7) damage each second, whenever a creature on the Mess of Razors is knocked down, it bleeds for 20 seconds.
Coughing Fit elite target painting E10 A1½ R25No Attribute
Mark target foes location, for 12 seconds your wurm will fire projectiles at all foes near this location, for each attack made this way your wurm loses 20 health.
Unleash Hell target painting E15 A2 R30
Mark target foes location, for 20 seconds your wurm will fire projectiles at a random foe in the area of that location, your wurm also attacks 10…25(33)% faster.
Pin Wurm Trap item spell E15 A¾ R30
Drop Pin Wurm Bait at your location, if you control drones in the area they will build a wurm trap around it. After 6 seconds a level 0…12(16) pinworm will surface, that can attack for piercing damage every 2 seconds.
Wail of Freedom skill E5 A- R40
If you control a wurm trap it is destroyed, the freed wurm does not make a retribution attack against you, instead it strikes each foe in it's earshot once before disappearing underground. Each of those attacks deals 3...15(19) more damage.
Glow Worm Trap item spell E25 A2 R30
Drop Glow Wurm Bait at your location, if you control drones in the area they will build a wurm trap around it. After 8 seconds a level 0…6(8) Glow Wurm will surface, that can attack every 4 seconds, it deals no damage but it’s attacks cause blindness for 2…11(14) seconds.
Rumbling Echoes skill E5 A¾ R8
If target foe is knocked down that foe stays down for 2...3(3) seconds longer, any stances on that foe end.
Echo Location target painting E5 A2 R15=================================================
Mark target foes location, for 7 seconds your wurm will fire projectiles at a random foe adjacent to that location.
Tantrum of Agony order attack E10 A2 R20
Recall 2 larva from target foe, for 20 seconds your order weapon has 2 less larva, if your larva damage a foe is suffering from a condition, they deal 4 more damage.
Lasting Barrage elite target painting E5 A1 R2
Mark target foes location, for 4 seconds your wurm will fire projectiles at a random foe adjacent to that location.
Hopefully I’ve gotten my point over clearly, I also hope you like it, or at least some small part of it.
I know it’s not perfect yet and any suggestions and comments will be greatly appreciated.
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