Maintainables

I've had this idea for some time now, so here goes. I feel that you should be able to maintain things other than enchantments. I think this would make the game more fun and interesting. Now I'm not saying everything should be maintainable, but a few more skill types could lead to some interesting builds (mainly hexes and spirits). Here are some examples I've come up with:

Mesmer
Arcane Confusion
-1/10/2/10
Hex Spell. Target foe casts spells 50% slower and loses 'Y' energy every time they are interrupted.

Necromancer
Parasitism
-1/10/2/15
Hex Spell. Target foe has -'X' health degeneration and you have +'X' health regeneration.

Ranger
Lassitude
-1/10/5/45
Nature Ritual. Create a level 'X' spirit. All non-spirit creatures within its range move, attack, and cast spells 20% slower.

Ritualist
Suffering
-1/15/5/45
Binding Ritual. Create a level 'X' spirit. This spirit's attacks deal 'Y' damage and cause -'Z' health degeneration for 'X' seconds.

Blessing
-1/25/5/60
Binding Ritual. Create a level 'X' spirit. All foes within its range take 33% longer to cast hexes. When this spirit dies all allies within its range lose one hex.

A thought I had for the maintainable spirits is that perhaps you have to maintain it with your life instead of your energy. If this were the case the maintain cost might be -2 instead of -1.

I'm sure some people won't like it, but hey, it's an idea. Your thoughts?

it's alright, not a terrible idea, but not so good.

/not signed

/signed for the idea, but some of those skills you posted seem a little overpowered. Unfortunately, the only thing I can really compare them to are the maintained enchantments that we're stuck with now.

Kinda hard/bad to add this kinda thing this late into the game. Maybe for GW2.

/notsigned for hexes, but .signed for spirits and such. Mainatanable hexes would be imbalanced.

Interesting idea, for GW2. Maintained spirits I can't see happening; the maintained hex idea though, that sounds pretty cool.

Looking back at them they do seem overpowered. I didn't put all that much thought into them and just made them up on the fly. They might seem less overpowered if I took the time to make attribute level numbers instead of the letters, but I'm lazy, and they would probably still seem overpowered.

Didn't really expect any action from Anet on this, was mostly just wondering what people though. I never thought of Sardelac as a "this should be in the game right now!" place, more of a "hey, wouldn't this be cool?" place. Seriously, how many people that post their ideas in here actually expect them to be implemented?

/notsigned
some good skills, but maintaing would be pointless on them. a timer would work just fine.

I'm kind of a fan of them enchantments only, hexes would be a little hard to implement IMO. However, it does seems that some of the enchantments already in the game could be converted to maintainables instead of it being a mostly monk thing. I do like that they could degen health instead of mana, that sounds like a necromancer through and through. That idea could open a few new builds up....

I suppose countering a maintained hex would be along the regular hex-countering? IE Shatter Hex?