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Need help with skilldesc

Post by ocarinas » Sat May 20, 2017 7:08 am

Hello,
My English isn't good so I'll keep things as short as possible. Sorry for inconvenient.
As the title says I need someone to check the skill names if It fits with the skill show in clips, and if possible someone that good with English to think of skill descriptions. Of course, I'll try my best to do it first, just need someone to correct them.
My mod will have 3 sub-classes and 1 general skill tab for each classes. All of the skills, I tried to keep them as simple as possible without too OP or large AOE. I'm not a fan of fast pace and hardcore game. The skills in this mod are heavily inspired by Blackened.
Currently I'm finished all the classes except Barbarian. I already have all of his skill planned though. As for General tab, I'll manage somehow since all of them are your typical beginner skills like Bash, Double Attack, etc.

EDIT: Thanks as always, Alpha :)
EDIT2: Replaced barb vid with the new one.

Amazon
Deadeye
  • Rapid Shot: fire multiple projectiles at single or multiple targets
    Spread Shot: fire multiple short range projectiles that knock back enemies
    Focused Shot: fire a condensed energy projectile that pierces and stuns enemies
    Spiritual Focus: channels your energy to increase your archery abilities while lowering your movement speed at the same time
    Plague Shot: fire a poison projectile that leaves a trail of poison gas
    Nova Shot: fire a lightning projectile that explodes into a nova upon impact
    Arcane Shot: fire a magic projectile that explodes into multiple guiding missiles
    Mirror Image: creates a duplicate of yourself that draws fire from enemies
Ranger
  • Call Warg: cast on food items to call a Warg which can collect items from corpses to fight beside you
    Stormcrows: call a flock of crows to peck your enemies to dead
    Bird Scout: call a flock of birds to scout the target area while making enemies become the target of all nearby monsters
    Wings of Horus: a blessing from god of the sky, war and hunting, increases your movement speed, and makes you harder to hit while moving
    Bear Trap: lay a trap that damages and slows enemies who step on it
    Explosive Trap: lay a trap that explodes when contact
    Frost Webs: throw a web of frost traps which chill enemies who step on it
    Campfire: build a campfire that slowly heals you and your allies
Raider
  • Sonic Thrust: attack with a single thrust that releases sonic waves upon impact
    Spear Charge: pounce and attack an enemy with your spear
    Thunder Lance: strikes your enemies with a lightning from heaven
    Tenacity: with a strong will of determination, lowers your enemies defense, and increases your hit recover speed with successive hits
    Rapid Jab: attack with a series of rapid thrusts
    Exploding Javelin: throw a fire enchanted javelin that explodes into a fire nova upon impact
    Voltaic Prison: throw a thunderbolt that explodes into a circle of lightning, trapping your enemies
    Celerity: with a strong sense of concentration, increases your blocking speed, and makes you harder to hit while standing with succesive hits
Sorceress
Elementalist
  • Burning Hands: attack with burning flame that spreads to nearby enemies
    Pyroblast: creates a fiery sphere of flame that explodes upon impact
    Comet: calls a massive comet down, crushing all enemies in its path
    Spirit of Flame: a protection of fire, damages all nearby enemies that close to you while granting fire damage to your attacks, and making you immune to chilling attacks
    Ice Spike: creates a spike of ice that chills your enemies
    Frost Breath: blast a continuous jet of ice to freeze your enemies with frost
    Icicle Rain: summons massive spikes of ice that chill all enemies in its path
    Aegis of Rime: a protection of ice, damages and freezes enemies who attempt to harm you while granting cold damage to your attacks
Alchemist
  • Molotov Cocktail: throw multiple fire bottles that explode and set ground ablaze
    Acid Bomb: throw an acid bottle that explodes and damages nearby enemies
    Berserk Potion: throw an enchanted bottle that increases attack and movement speed while making the targets vulnerable to physical attacks
    Synthesis: creates random potions
    Summon Clay Golem: creates a Golem from the earth that slows enemies with its attacks
    Summon Blood Golem: creates a Golem that shares with you the life it steals and damage it receives
    Summon Metal Golem: creates a Golem that returns the damage it receives back to the attackers
    Summon Fire Golem: creates a Golem that converts the damage it receives from fire into life
Witch
  • Bouncing Orb: creates a magic orb that bounces from one to another enemy
    Lightning Bolt: calls forth a bolt of lightning to strike at enemies
    Lance of Disruption: creates a lance made of pure magic that pierces and damages enemies in its path
    Energy Buffer: creates a magical shield that consumes mana instead of health when you take damage
    Charm: charms your enemies, temporarily turning them to your side
    Blind: reduces an enemy vision radius
    Stone Curse: turns an enemy flesh to stone
    Dimensional Door: instantly moves to a destination within your line of sight
Necromancer
Occultist
  • Miasmatic Blight: attack your enemies with deadly poison while granting you a temporarily buff that increses all damage caused by poison attacks
    Bloody Strike: a high damage attack that costs the user some life
    Toxic Ball: throw a ball of potent poison that explodes and poison nearby enemies
    Plague Swarm: attack with a swarm of carrion insects that spread to nearby enemies
    Aura of Terror: when active, aura scares all nearby enemies, making them run away in fear
    Aura of Malice: when active, aura curses all nearby enemies to take the damage they do to the user
    Aura of Insanity: when active, aura causes all nearby enemies to attack random targets
    Life Syphon: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, leeching its life force to recover your own health
Warlock
  • Orb of Chaos: throw an orb made of pure chaos matter that explodes and damages nearby enemies
    Dark Spear: creates a spear made of dark energy that explodes into a spear nova upon impact
    Beast of Darkness: summons a hell beast from the abyss at the target area, chilling all enemies in its path
    Chaos Shield: creates a shield made of chaos matter, increasing defense and discharging a chaos orb in retaliation against ranged attackers
    Hollow Spirit: releases a spirit of the restless undead that tracks its target or finds one of its own
    Summon Wraith: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, calling forth a Wraith with chilling attacks to fight for you
    Vengeful Spectre: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, calling forth a vengeful spirit that attacks nearby enemies with blue flame
    Wail of the Banshee: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, calling on a Banshee with soul piercing scream that chills and weakens nearby enemies
Diabolist
  • Raise Skeleton Warrior: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, this raises a skeleton warrior that fights for you
    Raise Skeleton Archer: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, this raises a skeleton archer that fights for you
    Embalming: heals your undead minions by mending fractures in their bones
    Circle of Bones: creates an orbiting shield of bone that absorbs physical damage
    Ether Enchant: coats your weapon in ethereal energy, granting magic damage to your attacks with succesive hits
    Reapers Sweep: creates a reaper's scythe which harvests the soul of its prey, and converts it to life to recover the user health
    Reanimate Corpse: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, this reanimates the corpse to fight for you
    Beckoning: passive - grants you a chance to raise a Shadow from a recently dying corpse
Paladin
Inquisitor
  • Holy Light: releases a holy lightning bolt at your enemies
    Turn Undead: when used, aura damages and knocks back all nearby undead
    Grand Cross: summons a massive holy cross that explodes and damages all demon in its path
    Valhalla: summons a powerful Valkyire warrior that can slow the missiles of nearby enemies to fight by your side
    Heal: heal yourself or a single ally
    Resist Frost: temporarily increases cold resistance and reduces freeze duration of yourself or a single ally
    Slow Poison: temporarily increases poison resistance and reduces poison duration of yourself or a single ally
    Exorcism: temporarily reduces curse duration of yourself or a single ally
Guardian
  • Shield Bash: bash enemies with your shield, temporarily stunning them
    Shield Throw: attack enemies by throwing your shield which bounces from one to another enemy
    Spiritual Hammer: summons an ethereal hammer that spirals outwards, damaging all enemies in its path
    Hammer of the Gods: creates a giant glowing hammer over the target area, smashing down, crushing all enemies in ith path
    Divine Aegis: enhances your shield with divine power
    Defensive Harmony: passive - increases your defense
    Angelic Blessing: passive - grants you mana after each monster kill
    Divine Shock: passive - makes attackers take lightning damage
Templar
  • Cleave Demon: attack with a divine slash that only does damage to demon
    Glorious Charge: charge into battle and attack an enemy
    Sword Wave: slash forward to create an energy wave that pierces and chills enemies in its path
    Elemental Blade: attack your enemies with elemental explosion
    Sacred Weapon: imbues your weapon with divine power
    Combat Prowess: passive - increases your damage and attack rating
    Evils Bane: passive - grants you life after each demon kill
    Holy Flame: passive - adds fire damage to your attacks
Barbarian:
Gladiator
  • Lacerating Slash: slash enemies, causing them to bleed
    Furious Charge: charge into battle and bash an enemy with your weapon
    Dance of Death: a whirling dance of death that cuts a path through the legions of your enemies
    Avatar of Talic:
    Seismic Slam: slam the ground to cause shockwaves that stun all enemies in front of you
    Ignition Slash: slash enemies, causing fire explosion that damages all nearby enemies
    Energy Burst: focus your energy into a single powerful strike that deals damage based on your remaining stamina
    Intimidation: taunts a monster to walk to you and engage in melee range combat with you
Berserker
  • Berserk Fury: every successful hit temporarily increases your damage and stuns enemies
    Fury Strike: a reckless attack that deals damage based on your remaining life
    Leap Slam: leap at an enemy, striking them as you land and knocking back surrounding enemies
    Avatar of Korlic:
    Battle Frenzy: every successful hit temporarily increases your attack and movement speed
    Flurry: throw multiple knives at enemies
    Tomahawk Throw: hurl multiple axes at enemies
    Axe Boomerang: throw an axe that flies back and forth between you and your target
Conqueror
  • War Cry: unleash a furious cry that damages and knocks back all nearby enemies
    Primal Howl: unleash a fearful cry that lowers enemies chance to do double damage and chance to block attacks
    Triumphant Shout: a victory cry that increases max life of you and nearby allies
    Avatar of Madawc:
    Mercenary Hire: hires a mercenary which takes the aggro of nearby enemies to fight by your side
    Grim Ward: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, this raise a fetish that frightens all nearby enemies away
    Lightning Totem: cast on the corpse of a slain monster, this raise a totem that unleashes a charged bolt nova at nearby enemies
    War Loot: attempts to find a random item in a monster's corpse
Druid
Keeper
  • Summon Raven: summons ravens to peck out the eyes of your enemies
    Nepenthes: summons a carnivorous plant that drags corpses into the ground, giving their life energies to the owner
    Spike Growth: causes the ground to spring forth large spiked shrubberies which damage and poison all who get too close
    Natures Ally: summons a treant that attacks enemies with poison vines to fight for you
    Moonlight:
    Wall of Moonlight: creates a wall of pure moonlight, damaging and knocking back all undead who get too close
    Blade of Moonlight: creates a scimitar made of pure moonlight that does more damage to undead
    Moon Protection: a gift to one who is blessed by the moon, damages and knocks back all undead that get too close while granting magic damage to your attacks, and increasing magic resistance
Lunatic
  • Werewolf: transforms yourself into a wolf, increasing attack rating and movement speed
    Savage Fury: attack either multiple adjacent targets or one target multiple times
    Summon Wolf: summons a wolf which eats the corpses to increase its damage to fight by your side
    Animal Rage: causes your allies to go into a feral rage, increasing damage and making your attacks uninterruptible
    Werebear: transforms yourself into a bear, increasing damage and defense
    Frost Claws: attack enemies with chilling claws
    Summon Bear: summons a bear which stuns enemies with its attacks to fight by your side
    Boulder Throw: throw a stone boulder at your enemies, damaging and stunning them
Shaman
  • Stalagmite:
    Earthquake:
    Fissure: open volcanic vents below your enemies, burning them to a crisp
    Volcanic Eruption: summon forth a volcano to rain death and destruction over your enemies
    Smashing Wave: launch a chillng wave that chills and knocks back your enemies
    Cyclone: create a cyclone to blast your enemies
    Thunderstorm: summon a deadly thunderstorm that strikes your enemies with bolts of lightning
    Wind Armor: shield yourself from damage caused by elemental
Assassin
Onmyoji
  • Charm of Agony
    Charm of Apathy
    Rune of Anguish
    Shikigami Charm
    Seal of Sorrow
    Seal of Torment
    Glyph of Warding
    Symbol of Pain
Kunoichi
  • Cross Slash: attack an enemy with both weapons simultaneously
    Deadly Strike: an attack that deals double damage to an enemy
    Shadow Step: teleports to an enemy and kicks it
    Shadow Illusion: summons a shadow of yourself that mimics the caster's skills to fight by your side
    Throw Shuriken: throw a shuriken at an enemy
    Makibishi: throw multiple caltrops that explode on enemies who step on them
    Waning Moon: throw a fuma shuriken that spirals outwards, damaging all enemies in its path
    Moonless Sky: darkens the sky, reducing hit recovery speed and cast speed of the monsters while granting poison damage to your attacks
Bugeisha
  • Somersault: attack an enemy with somersault kicks
    Ki Charge: attacks an enemy and stores a charge
    Paralyzing Palm: attack an enemy, stunning it
    Flying Kick: leaps at an enemy and kicks it
    Ki Aura: unleashes your Ki, increasing your combat abilities
    Way of the Tiger: passive - increases your damage
    Way of the Bear: passive - increases your chance to do double damage
    Way of the Hawk: passive - increases your attack rating
General Skills
  • One-Handed Weapon Expertise: passive - increases damage and attack rating when equipped one-handed melee class weapons
    Two-Handed Weapon Expertise: passive - increases damage and attack rating when equipped two-handed melee class weapons
    Ranged Weapon Expertise: passive - increases damage and attack rating when equipped bow or crossbow class weapons
    Throwing Weapon Expertise: passive - increases damage and attack rating when equipped javelin, throwing axe or throwing knife class weapons
    Magic Weapon Expertise: passive - increases spell damage when equipped wand, staff or orb class weapons
    Slash Weapon Mastery: passive - grants chance to cause bleeding when equipped axe, polearm, sword, throwing axe or katar class weapons
    Pierce Weapon Mastery: passive - grants chance to do double damage when equipped bow, crossbow, dagger, javelin, spear or throwing knife class weapons
    Blunt Weapon Mastery: passive - grants chance to cause crushing wound when equipped mace, scepter or staff class weapons
    Light Armor Expertise: passive - increases defense and movement speed when equipped light class armors
    Heavy Armor Expertise: passive - reduces damage taken when equipped heavy class armors
    Shield Expertise: passive - increases chance to block physical attacks when equipped shield
    Potion Expertise: passive - increases potion efficiency and damage deals by throwing potions
    Regeneration: passive - grants natural life recovery
    Meditation: passive - increases mana recovery rate
    Endurance: passive - increases stamina recovery rate
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Re: Need Skill Ideas

Post by Doub » Sat May 20, 2017 7:21 am

Im confused :)
You want new skill ideas but you already have skills for Barbarian...

Also, there is no video for Amazon.

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Re: Need Skill Ideas

Post by ocarinas » Sat May 20, 2017 7:42 am

Oh, Sorry I accidentally set the clip to private. Fixed now.

My English is pretty {filtered}, and I was in rush, sorry about that. Let's me explain again.
I've finished most of the classes except barb, and I also have his skills planned. I need someone to check if the skills name fit the actual skills show in the clip, and if possible, someone that have too much times in their hands will help me think of skill description. I'd appreciate this the most, with my current English level, It's going to take forever.

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Re: Need help with skilldesc

Post by AlphA - The Real One » Sat May 20, 2017 12:07 pm

I think Storm Crow or Stormcrows would be better fitting than Murder of Crow. Would add a "s" to Wing of Horus -> Wings of Horus. About possible skill descriptions I guess they should be similar to vanilla?

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Re: Need help with skilldesc

Post by ocarinas » Sat May 20, 2017 5:23 pm

Changed it now. Thanks :)
Keep them coming!

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Re: Need help with skilldesc

Post by AlphA - The Real One » Sun May 21, 2017 2:47 pm

Beware that I am no native English speaker.

Deadeye
Rapid Shot: fires multiple projectiles at one or multiple enemies -> fire multiple projectiles at your enemies
Spread Shot: fires a short range multiple projectiles that knock the enemies back -> fire multiple short range projectiles that knock back
Spiritual Focus: channels your energy increasing your battle abilities -> channels your energy to increase your battle abilities / increases your battle abbilities by channeling (your) energy

Nova Shot: fires a lightning projectile that explodes into nova when hit -> fires a lightning projectile and explode into a nova upon impact
Arcane Shot: fires a magic projectile that explodes into multiple guiding missiles -> fire a magic projectile and explode into multiple guiding / targeting missiles upon impact

Ranger
Call Warg: summon a Warg to fight by your side -> Summon a Warg to fight beside you
Stormcrows: call a flock of crows to peck your enemy multiple times -> call a flock of crows that peck your enmies to dead
or:
call a flock of crows to peck your enmies to dead
call a flock of crows pecking your enmies to dead
(My gf suggested those:P)

Bird Scout: I didn't really got how the skill works.

Frost Webs: throw a ball of spider webs that explode into multiple frost webs, damaging enemies who step on it -> throw a web of frost traps which damage enemies who step on it / , damaging enemies who step on it

Will take a look into the rest tomorrow.

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Re: Need help with skilldesc

Post by ocarinas » Sun May 21, 2017 4:08 pm

Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. I'll make sure to put your name in credits.

About Bird Scouts, It's basically an Attract curse clone what It does is leave a medium light radius on the target area for 4 seconds. If you cast on mobs, It'll function like Attract.

In this mod, all areas in the game will be dark. So skills with white radius (most skills have red, blue, etc colored which still make them harder to see) are quite special.

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Re: Need help with skilldesc

Post by AlphA - The Real One » Mon May 22, 2017 3:00 pm

There's no need for that.

Raider

Spear Charge: charge at an enemy and attack with your spear -> charge into battle and attack an enemy with your spear
Thunder Lance: thrust your enemies with lighting enchanted spear -> strikes your enemies with a lightning from heaven
Exploding Javelin: throw a fire enchanted javelin that explodes into a fire nova upon impact -> throw a blazing javelin that explodes into a fire nova upon impact
Voltaic Prison: throw a lightning enchanted javelin that explodes into a circle of lightning, trapping and damaging enemies who attempt to escape -> throw a thunderbolt that explodes into a circle of lightning trapping your enemies

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Re: Need help with skilldesc

Post by ocarinas » Tue May 23, 2017 3:23 am

Unrelated to the thread, Anyone knows if there're more skill functions that can add % damage to the missile? I wanna change the bonus flat damage of Focused Shot skill to % damage instead. As far as I know, only 2 can do this which are Guided Arrow and Strafe. I just tried both a while ago but they have serious flaws that I don't want, like for GA if you don't use its own missile function, the missile will only go as far as to where you clicked...

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