User:Ezekial Riddle/Proposed Skill Changes

Officially proposed suggestions

Assassin

Critical Defenses

Issue

Broken Concept. Gives the martial glass-cannon profession the ability to tank indefinitely without any downside.

Suggestions

1. Put a damage cap on it, perhaps 90...50...40%, lower cast to 1/2 or 3/4. This provides more of a "defense" rather than "near god-mode" aspect.
2. Dump the "refreshes every time you land a critical hit" clause all together. Increase duration to 9...19...21 or decrease recharge to 14. At 13 Critical Strikes this allows one to maintain this near 2/3 of the time.
3. Change the "refreshes every time you land a critical hit" to "gets extended 1...3...3 seconds every time you land a critical hit." This weakens its ability to be maintained indefinitely. In theory, this also buffs its ability to be maintained indefinitely, since, if skillfully cast (i.e. in the crowd without getting interrupted), then one could get the duration over 9 seconds.

Palm Strike

Palm Strike (last update: December 11th, 2008)

Issue

Completely unstoppable cripple with a 4 second recharge.

Suggestion

Minor nerf. Change it from a skill to a melee attack that is unblockable.

Dervish

Reaper's Sweep

Reaper's Sweep

Last Update: December 11th, 2008

Issue

There was no need to buff this. It shouldn't have been brought up to Wounding Strike's level, rather WS should have been brought down. Buffing this is like buffing Signet of Spirits to kill someone after 10.1 seconds to match (pre-nerf)Signet of Ghostly Might's power.

Suggestion

Revert. Do the proper thing and weaken WS.

Monk

Divert Hexes

Issue

Not general enough/too much of a niche spell. You have to face off against a hexway team in order for this Elite skill to be useful. If you aren't facing hexway, you waste your elite slot.

Suggestion

Divert Hexes - 10 1 5 Elite Spell. Remove up to 1...3...3 Hexes from target ally and heal ally for 30...126...150. For each Hex removed in this way, healing from this spell is reduced by 30.

additional balancing options

• Maybe this would only be for PvP.
• Could be dumped into Healing Prayers
• Could be 30...102...120 healing.

Necromancer

Dark Aura

Issue

Badly designed skill that entertains poor playing methods and needs a rebalance.

Possible balance suggestions

If we want to stay with some way of playing from sacrifice, change to

10 2 20 Hex Spell. For 5...10...11 Whenever you sacrifce, target foe takes 10...22...25% of the sacrifice.

Or, if you want to completely change the skill (and violate some themes, so it would seem) alter by doing this:

10 2 20 Hex Spell. For 8 seconds, target foe and nearby non-moving foes take 3...15...18 dark/whatever damage each second this hex is active. Only one copy of the hex may be active at any given moment.

Ranger

Disrupting Accuracy

Issue

Bad skill all around, only really useful for A/R going bows

Suggestion

Disrupting Accuracy. Preparation. For X seconds, whenever you interrupt a skill, Y

Where X is the duration limit as deemed balanced by the effect, Y. Y can be:

• "target foe is knocked down for 2 seconds.
• "target foe's skills of the same attribute are disabled for 1...3...3 seconds.
• "target foe is dazed for 2...4...5 seconds.

Quick Shot

Discussion

Issue

This skill sucks. It has no real use for skilled builds and it promotes stupid "buff + buff + quickshot spam" builds.

Suggestion

Make it an interrupt. Move it to expertise.

10 ¼ 10 Elite Bow Attack. If this attack hits, it interrupts target foe's action. If that action was a spell, that foe's skills are disabled for 0...2...3 seconds."

If that seems OP, then switch skill disabling to a 2 second knockdown and have a 50% chance to fail at 9 expertise or less, or something. Really, this skill needs some loving.

Unofficial Suggestions

Glimmer of Light

• While it is a good elite, it can't quite match up to Word of Healing. Therefore, I suggest a minor buff. This skill can get about 76.67 Healing per second at 15 Healing Prayers, which is pretty good. However, unlike WoH, you have to burn more energy to catch a spike. We could go one of two ways with this.

5 ¼ 1 Elite Spell. Heal target ally for 20...104...125 Health

or

5 ¼ 1 Elite Spell. Heal target ally for 10...94...115. If target ally is under 50% health, you gain 1...3...3 energy. Health

• The first proposal gives more straight up healing. With two casts, you heal a bit more than WoH and its conditional heal.

The second suggestion is set up so that you can heal a spike more efficiently. With Glimmer and WoH in their current states, it takes 10 energy from glimmer to heal 230 while only 5 energy to heal 230 with WoH, assuming conditions are met.

Wounding Strike

• While it's recent buff has made this seen use, it is overpowered. A few minor changes need to be made to this skill.

5 (attack) 6 Elite Scythe Attack. If this attack hits, target foe suffers from Bleeding for 5...17...20 seconds. If you are under the effects of an enchantment, target foe also suffers from a Deep Wound for 5...17...20 seconds and you lose an enchantment. This skill deals no damage.

• A note should be made that the deep wound covers the bleeding instead of the bleeding covering the deep wound.

• Or this skill could always be reverted to what it was originally.