[DEV] Character Class : SHADOW PRIEST

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[DEV] Character Class : SHADOW PRIEST

Post by Joel » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:55 pm

Shadow Priest :
Shadow Priests are followers of the goddess Skarra. Worshiped by various underworld
races, Skarra is one of the favored deity of the Shadow Elves. Initiated by a cruel,
gruesome ritual, Shadow Priests are trained to summon the forces of the darkness and
to claim the glory of Skarra to the Overworld. By a subtle magic, all Shadow Priests
tends to look like a true Shadow Elf as time goes. They become pale, sensible to the
sunlight and encline to anger burst.

Starting Stats :
Strength : 15 Dexterity : 10
Energy : 35 Vitality : 20

HP : 40 Mana : 35 Stamina : 49

Starting Items :
Backpack : Small container used by crafting recipes.
2x Healing Potion : Heals HP*
2x Mana Potion : Heals MP*
Bone staff : Base weapon for Shadow Priest

Innate Skills :
Talents :
Tactics :
Max Level : 8
Increase your attack rating by 16-63% [DR]

Armor Use :
Max Level : 8
Increase your overall AC by 12-47% [DR]

Excellence :
Max Level : 5
Increase all stats by 4-13%

Endurance :
Max Level : 2
Increase all elemental resistances by 8-14%

Soulshift :
Max Level : 5
Cast upon a looted reagents to enslave a Demon Soul
bearing the properties of the reagents.

Skills :
Heal :
Max Level : 5
Replenish 100% of your HP in 8-4 seconds.

Focus :
Max Level : 5 - CHANNEL
Increase mana recovery rate by 441-750% [DR]

Defence :
Max Level : 5 - COMBAT STANCE
Once activated, increase AC by 74-125% [DR] and physical resistance by 29-38% [DR] during 5s.

Aggression :
Max Level : 5 - COMBAT STANCE
Once activated, increase AR by 74-125% [DR] and damage by 179-350% [DR] during 5s.

Celerity :
Max Level : 5 - COMBAT STANCE
Increase your running/walking speed by 66-100% but also makes you extremely
vulnerable to all attacks during 12-20s.

Feats :
Shadow Burn :
Max Level : 5 - HEX
Fire a shadow missile that engulfs target into a shadow cloak
that increase the damage it received by 16-50 [DR] during 4-8s.

Parasitic Bond :
Max Level : 5 - CURSE
Allies gains 8-25 life [DR] when hit by a cursed enemies during 11-23s.

Screaming Soul :
Max Level : 5 - WARD
Radiates an aura that give 5-16% [DR] life steal to allies in a 13-25 radius.

Frozen Soul :
Max Level : 5 - WARD
Radiates an aura that has 7-20% [DR] chance to freeze attackers in a 13-25 radius.

Enslaved Soul :
Max Level : 5 - WARD
Radiates an aura that give 9-30% [DR] life steal to allies in a 13-25 radius.

Looting & Crafting :
Shadow Priest can loot organs from corpse.
Put one of them in the backpack and hit transmute, you'll end with a new item :
a Soul Scroll. There is four different Soul Scrolls, each beign able to summon a
diffeent demon. The available Soul Scroll are :

* Minion Scroll : Summon a small minion wieldign a large axe.
* Incubus Scroll : Summon a goatman demon usign an halberd.
* Succubus Scroll : Summon a succubus, a winged witch.
* Balrog Scroll : Summon a large balrog, a fire demon.

Once crafted, the Soul Scroll has to be dropped on the ground and the Shadow Priest
has to cast Soulshift on it to animate the minion.
Moreover this scroll, depending on your Soulshift level, will feature
one of the following features :

* Increased damage.
* Increased HP.
* Increased attack spead.
* Increased elemental resistance.

Then each variant of the Soul Scroll may use special attacks :

* Minion Scroll : Berserk on beign struck.
* Incubus Scroll : Shockwave on strike, Retaliate on beign struck.
* Succubus Scroll : Crucify on strike, Etheralize on strike, Putrefy on beign struck.
* Balrog Scroll : Fireball on strike, Immolation on strike, Flame Wave on beign struck.

Once summoned, the Soul stay with the Shadow Priest across game until it is
destroyed or until a new Soul Scroll get animated.


NOTE on Summon skills :
Berserk : increase damage by 100-525 % and attack speed by 150-300%
Shockwave : wave of physical damage.
Retaliate : increase thorns% by 100-600% during 8-28s
Crucify : nova of spike
Etheralize : curse that turn target etheral, increase mag dmg taken , reduce phys dmg taken.
Putrefy : remove all healing buff and adds hp-degen
Fireblast : Adds fire damage explosion on attack.
Immolation : Create a fire pacth on strike
Flame Wave : Release a moving firewall around caster
Last edited by Joel on Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:04 pm, edited 8 times in total.
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