new class idea - Shadow Master

Shadow Master

This class can only be unlocked after ascension and completeing a quest for this.

-melee class
-70 armor (like ranger armor)
-3 constant energy regen
-main weapon: scythe or giant sword (2 handed wapons)
scythe is slower but has higher damage.
giant sword is faster but has lower damage.


Attributes

Main : Shadow Mastery
Proportion of health between Shadow and Master increases 4% for each rank of Shadow mastery. (for example: if theres 0 rank in this attribute, Shadows health would be 10% of Masters Health. if theres 12 rank in this attribute, Shadows health would be 58 % of masters Health)

Sub : Scythe Mastery
Increases Damage dealt by Scythes for each rank of Scythe Mastery.

Sub : Giant Sword Mastery
Increases Damage dealt by Giant Swords for each rank of Giant Sword Mastery.

Sub : Dexterity
Many Shadow Master's skill, expecially those related to attack enhancement, become more effective with higher Dexterity.And for each rank of dexterity, attack speed increases by 1%.


now for the skills.

Shadow Mastery Skills :

Summon Shadow (Takes up one energy regeneration)
Enchantment Spell. A shadow of you is summoned. it has 10% of Master's health. (but increases with each rank of shadow mastery.) Damage dealt by Shadow is 30-50% of Master's damage. Shadows damage will be in Dark damage. Additional damage dealt by Shadow Master using a skill will not affect Shadow's damage. (It can also be a Spell type skill so that shadow will only be summoned for a limited amount of time. or probably be like Charm Pet but seems too overpowered if so) Only one shadow can be summoned. And dead Shadows leave no corpses.

Elite Skill: Shadow Alliance
Summons a shadow of target other ally for 5-20 seconds. health and damage of this shadow is half of the ally.

Elite Skill: Shadow Betrayal
Summons a shadow of target foe for 5-20 seconds. health and damage of this shadow is half of the foe.

Elite Skill: Shadow Boon
For 1-12 seconds Shadow deals 100% damage the Master does.

Shadow Renewal
Shadow gains 2-7 health regeneration for 12 seconds and u lose 5 energy when this skill ends.

Infuse Conditions
Infuse all conditions Shadow Master is suffering into Shadow. For each condition infused, Shadow is healed for 10-40 health.

Shadow's Wrath
Shadow does 2 attacks simultaniously. 50% failure with Shadow Master 4 or less.

Shadows Sacrifice
The next damage taken by Shadow Master is inflicted on Shadow and that damage is reduced by 20-50%.

Masters Exploit
The next damage taken by Shadow is negated and Shadow Master gains that amount of health.


Dexterity Skills:


Shadows Haste
With this skill on skill bar, Shadow attacks 5%-10% faster.

Shadows Might
With this skill on skill bar, Shadow's attacks inflict 3-6 more damage.

Masters Haste
With this skill on skill bar, Scythe attacks hit 5%-10% faster

Masters Might
With this skill on skill bar, Giant Sword attacks inflict 3-6 more damage.

Elite Skill: Masters Wrath
For 10-25 seconds, you lose 1 energy everytime you hit but you gain double andreline.

Invert Health (The only healing spell)
Heal yourself the amount of health you have left.


Scythe Mastery Skills:

Disarming Strike
Disarm the enemy for 1-4 seconds. When disarmed, enemies do not deal weapon's damage nor gain benefits from weapon's modifications.

Mighty Slash
Deals an attack which strike for +8-20 damage.

Elite Skill: Deep Slash
Attacks for +5-15 damage. If if this attack strikes a Disarmed foe, the enemy suffers from deep wound and bleeding for 8-18 seconds.

Elite Skill: Doom
For 5-20 seconds, your attacks deals +4-8 damage and causes bleeding.



Giant Sword Skills:

Shield Break
Deals an attack which breaks foe's armor causing "Armor Down" for 5-15 seconds. Armor Down reduces foe's armor by 10%.

Elite Skill: Death Swipe
Damages surrounding foes for +5-18 damage and causes causes bleeding on them for 15 seconds.

Tactical Cut
If this attack hits a foe with 50-70% health, target foe is crippled and bleeds for 10-18 seconds.

Tactical Slash
If this attack hits a foe with 40-50% health, it deals +30-50 damage.

Power Slash
Deals an attack which hits for +12-+25 damage.

Tactical Hit
If this attack hits a foe with 30-40% health, attack hits for +20-30 damage and the foe is interupted.

Tactical Trust
If this attack hits a foe with 60-80% health, the attack deals +20-30 damage and target foe is knockdowned.

Elite: Unleash
Deals an attack which strikes for +5-20 damage and the next skill requires no andreline to cast.

as u can see giant sword requires more skills to use rather than just plain whacking and when used correctly, it can be very powerful.

Sounds a bit like a necro.....

doesnt sound anything like a necro, it sounds like an assassin class from diablo 2 expansion

i never played diablo 2 before

that's hard to belive and if you didn't you could have read it somewhere

nope

I'm sorry, but this is just making me angry.

Original ideas are HARD TO COME BY. There are VERY FEW GOOD original ideas. Why? BECAUSE IF THEY WERE GOOD, SOMEONE WOULD HAVE USED THEM. I have no trouble believing this is the OP's idea. Just because something sounds like it was pulled out of another game DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS.

get as angry as you want i could care less

Too much like a N/W assassin...
Well not so many people have been using N/W since they sliced its ability to sneak in and 'assassinate' in Guild Battles.
The shadow is a similar idea to minion.
Seeing as the only skills you have created are in this 'Shadow Mastery' attribute I can't see how you can make the scythe and giant sword mastery differ much from warrior skills.
Some of the controls of the shadow I like but overall most of the skills and attributes you have created seem to be adapted from the other professions.

I kind of like the idea of making a mirror immage of an allie. I haven't personally heard that one before (though I don't spend that much time in the Sanitarium)/

Hmmmm sounds a little like a necro but more like a combination of all the classes...............

[[Moving to a new post]] As per request.

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okay i have an idea. When you become an N/W or W/N you could choose to focus on necro or war or become a Shadow Master but you'd have to do quests and challenges.
WHen you became a M/R or R/M (something like that)you could focus on ranger, mesmer or Rogue.
It would be like combining both but you o=could still focus on your primary and just use your secondary as a boost.
Also you could combo each proffesions. Like MO/W could be Divine Warrior

I fail to see how this sounds anything like Necro. The 2 use "dark" powers? So what? Warrior and Ranger both use physical attacks, doesn't mean they are the same.

It is almost impossible to do anything 100% completely original in a RPG/MMORPG. Everything in every RPG has become cliche` by now. I repeat, almost everything has been done before in an RPG.

This is the closest thing you can get to an "original" profession. Please, dont tell me you think Warrior/Necromancer/Ranger/Monk(see:Cleric) are original? Don't kid yourself. Guild Wars is not original. I'm more concerned about having a profession that adds fun and variety to the game rather than "originality".

Love the idea of shadow master, especially another up close style profession. Might sound like a necro but it mostly looks like som other profession like his 'rogue' looks like a ranger. Edit: didn't read it well so the 'rogue' idea is ok to altho u should have gotten ur own post =-).

the major differences between this and a necro is:
1) no hexes at all
2) no spells all skills except several summon spells.
3) does not require a corpse to summon a shadow
4) higher defence lower energy regen.
5) only one shadow can be summoned whereas a necro can call many minions.
6) canot steal health
7) have more control over the shadow than the necro having control of the minions.
and list goes on..

your "shadow" sounds like a pet.

updated some stuff

it sounds cool to me. alhtough the skilld definatly need to be balanced, for example i dont know what i think about the "when this skill is on your skill bar" stuff.

indeed.

No matter how much you edit this it's still gonna sound like a mixture between a necro, a warrior, a ranger - and wait, the other classes too.

there will be no classes that will not be of slight similarity of the 6 existing classes.

also,
a ranger does not influence the damage and health of the pet unless it has rank in beast mastery.
as for a shadow master, the amount of damage dealt and the amount of health is directly proportional to the masters'.
and most players in pvp right now either use pets just for them to die or stand way back and smite on the pets or just get energy through the pet. people seldom use their pets to fight along with them primarily.
for a shadow master, shadow will definitely be prominent and of more significance. they deal damage together with the master.

Great, so now you can just take a team of 8 shadow masters to tombs, make it 16 and whoop iways and all the other teams out there
Well maybe 7 shadow masters and 1 healer, or 6 shadows and 2 healer. In any case it's a bit too powerful.

doh. every build has a counter to it. iway is easy to counter. ballers are easy to counter. spikers are easy to counter. and of course this would be easy to counter too well think about it there all melee and smiting would own them.

its like a permanent boost effect. doesnt have to be casted but takes up a slot in skill bar.

Iway is not easily counterable. That's that lot, with their pets. Now here, We've got the shadow build - 6 of them, with shadows that are a lot more powerful than pets. Then just let these shadows go S/W and they can take i will avenge you, and whoop ass. And they've got two healers to heal them. No way am I gonna see that.

hmm. u haf a point there. ok i know, when shadows die, there will not be any corpse (cos well umm.. theyre shadows) so iway will not work on them? and an order necro would not work on it because shadows deal dark damage.

hmm ok, that ends my worries, but look at these two teams.

Team 1=6 iway warriors, with pets, and two order necros
Team 2=6 shadow masters, with shadows and two order necros

Shadows are still stronger than than the pets, but perhaps the shadows would get kinda beaten in the battle. The pets are out of the equation, so we have

iway wwarriors, order necros - shadow masters, two order necros, remnants of shadows
I'm not sure who would win, shadow masters or warriors, but looking at if they are equal then the shadow team will probably win.

that would be one nice fight.

I LIKE it i puposed something very similar its a very good idea

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I like the class, tis a nice idea.

Big swords and scythes are 2 of my fav weapons

imagine if this was a class in gw, there would be an ungodly number of SM named sephiroth and cloud

what do u guys think about the giant sword skills i added?

King, except that IWAY only works on dead allies.

A shadow is summoned, like a minion, hence no corpse, no ally'd health bar. No IWAY trigger.

Orders base off physical damage. Like he said....

Which helps pets but not the shadows.

That makes it even more attractive in ways, since it compensates for the increased damage from the shadow to keep it from being ungodly powerful.


Solid contribution as far as player made classes go, keep working up some skills for it, most attributes have 20 some skills each

meh
the shadow masters can still use on the other shadow masters :P

For ALOT less time.

Thats like running only W/E or W/Mo with IWAY. Efficiency and power goes WAY down.

yep ^^

added somemore skills

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