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Shadow Class - Spawns of Judgement Day (Discussion)
The Shadow class are masters of channeling Dark energy to power thier skills. Armed with a very large scorpion-like tail for offence and one large seizer claw for defence, the Shadow class actually uses the enemies own energy to partially power its attacks to inflict dark damage on the enemy. Thus depleting the enemies heath and energy at same time. Tail Attacks can reach farther than normal melee attacks but not as far as bows and hit only one target at a time.

The Shadow class has extremely high defence against melee and average defence against elemental damage, but has extremely low armor against holy magic and recieves damage if any healing skills are used on them. Shadow class must be healed with Dark energy skills. Dark energy skills are like adrenaline skills where in order to use them you need to build up a certain amount of energy first.


 * Why this is a good idea
 * Now monks can own someone without being smiting or 55 monk. Monkin aint easy but lets face it ... if all you do in a party is heal it can get boring.
 * I think its orginal cause I just made it up while eating a ham sandwich.
 * hehehehehe
 * They could be armed with whips or something instead of a tail(?). they should be able to heal themselves so it would make soloing a little easier.


 * Why it may not work out
 * If class looks like lobster = fail. If class looks like ALIENS = leet!
 * Healing may be an issue.
 * It sounds like a hybrid of a ritualist and necromancer.
 * Errr.... what? Making a whole new mutant race for a profession seems odd and unneeded
 * Too complicated with the whole healing = health loss thing, which is also blatantly stolen off Final Fantasy.
 * The weapons would be too restrictive, boring and repetitive as theirs no scope for variety.
 * It's purpose is already fulfilled by other professions, e.g. mesmer, necro etc...
 * did u get thet look fromm helo or what??
 * using you opponents energy to power attacks seems a bit unbalanced
 * It's almost laughable.