Suggestion Miner level 60 Ability

[Keache]

Alright, so I've been thinking recently about ideas for the missing level 60 skill for the miner, and so far I've come up with two plausible suggestions;

First up,
Summon TNT: summons tnt, simple enough, easy to implement, and goes along with the theme of miner. Cooldown should be around 3 minutes so it would not be too powerful.

Second idea;
Superbreak/AoE mine; breaks a 3x3 for several blocks forward or so area of blocks around the block targeted. Came up with this on the fly, not sure if it's a satisfying enough ability, but it could work. Personally I'd prefer summontnt, but it's just an idea that's up for discussion.

Lemme know what you guys think.

 

[northeaster345]

I'm not sure miner needs a buff right now, it's by far the best profession, with both smeltgold and excavate on top of increased drops from mining. It's extremely easy to get money as a miner.

 

[Barnubus]

Instead of a 3x3, maybe a 2x1 that goes for like 10+ blocks and doesn't break ore, only the block you used it on in the first place. ie: creating a tunnel or something.

 

[Diffuse]

How about a skill called "block damage". It could allow tnt to do block damage that regenerates over time.

Fix tnt plz

 

[Keache]

I'm not sure miner needs a buff right now, it's by far the best profession, with both smeltgold and excavate on top of increased drops from mining. It's extremely easy to get money as a miner.

Buff or no buff, it NEEDS a level 60 ability

 

[northeaster345]

Buff or no buff, it NEEDS a level 60 ability

So do merchant, mason, enchanter and engineer

I'd just be careful, because summonTNT is almost a combat ability, since it lets you summon a free 1 hit KO on most classes. It would also be kind of abusable to get a decent amount of free TNT.

Instead of a 3x3, maybe a 2x1 that goes for like 10+ blocks and doesn't break ore, only the block you used it on in the first place. ie: creating a tunnel or something.

I mean miners already have excavate, which lets you mine as fast as you can run (even if you have speed boost), as long as you have an e4 pick.

I like the idea of an AOE clear though, since excavate is good for digging straight, and not as good for clearing out areas.

 

[Keache]

So do merchant, mason, enchanter and engineer

I'd just be careful, because summonTNT is almost a combat ability, since it lets you summon a free 1 hit KO on most classes. It would also be kind of abusable to get a decent amount of free TNT.



I mean miners already have excavate, which lets you mine as fast as you can run (even if you have speed boost), as long as you have an e4 pick.

I like the idea of an AOE clear though, since excavate is good for digging straight, and not as good for clearing out areas.

Then suggest some ideas for those other classes. I do not play them, so I'm focusing on being proactive with miner.

As far as it being a combat ability, look at scribe lol. That's beside the point though. The deal with miners is that they're going to need flint and steel with them if they want to utilize their tnt, obviously, so it's not THAT big of a deal. Besides, miners should be carrying some tnt with them regardless; if you put a long enough cd on summon tnt, then it becomes a helpful utility and an incentive to master miner.

 

[lioIIoil]

I rhink smith should get smelt gold and then
Miner should get a new skill. Miner is the best prof so far

So do merchant, mason, enchanter and engineer

I'd just be careful, because summonTNT is almost a combat ability, since it lets you summon a free 1 hit KO on most classes. It would also be kind of abusable to get a decent amount of free TNT.



I mean miners already have excavate, which lets you mine as fast as you can run (even if you have speed boost), as long as you have an e4 pick.

I like the idea of an AOE clear though, since excavate is good for digging straight, and not as good for clearing out areas.

Windwalk + excavate is so awesome!

 

[northeaster345]

Then suggest some ideas for those other classes. I do not play them, so I'm focusing on being proactive with miner.

As far as it being a combat ability, look at scribe lol. That's beside the point though. The deal with miners is that they're going to need flint and steel with them if they want to utilize their tnt, obviously, so it's not THAT big of a deal. Besides, miners should be carrying some tnt with them regardless; if you put a long enough cd on summon tnt, then it becomes a helpful utility and an incentive to master miner.

I've been a miner, and I enjoyed making super easy money, but I thought it was too good. I changed to another class, b/c my town needed me to.
SmeltGold is incentive to master miner currently. You need to master to get the full 25% percentage increase on drops.

I have my own issues with scribe having combat abilities, but that's off topic.

For merchants, make gift work, or something like that, in order to be able to send people items (there might be problems with people abusing the system...)
I think for enchanters, it would be cool to have a skill that would strip an enchant and put in a book, but that's only once anvils work
Engineers will be getting a major revamp with 1.5, so that's not really something that we need to worry about right now.
Masons should get teleporters instead of engineers.

That being said, I don't think this thread is the place to propose changes for other classes

 

[Jack_Reacher]

1.5

What is this version # a reference to?

 

[Chaz8591]

What is this version # a reference to?

The next Minecraft update.

 

[Jack_Reacher]

Ah the "Redstone Update"?

 

[Drastikos]

That second one sounds like power pick from runecraft.
Shouldn't be to difficult to implement. Then again I have nothing to base that off of so there's absolutely no value to that last comment

 

[sidesummy]

ooooo i like the idea of aoe mining
All i do with miner is clear out large underground areas for tunnels and large-scale underground builds, which is just tedious and grindy. Would love to speed that process up

 

[Jaw895]

I think merchants should have the ability to send anything from anywhere to another player online it would be useful. I think miner needs a le el 60 skill but honestly they are great now. Tnt summon would be cool. Or make it interesting summon a 1 hp creeper lol. So they have to really run frpm the exsposion.

 

[Dsawemd]

-1 for SummonTnT. Sorry, but TNT is already arguably the strongest pvp skill for any profession currently. Adding a summon skill will only result in increased pvp usage (like graveyard running w/TNT), which is undesirable.

 

[arcanegrove]

Instead of a 3x3, maybe a 2x1 that goes for like 10+ blocks and doesn't break ore, only the block you used it on in the first place. ie: creating a tunnel or something.

I would love this as a miner. I enjoy lvling other townies, so having an AoE breaking skill would be amazing!

 

[Keache]

-1 for SummonTnT. Sorry, but TNT is already arguably the strongest pvp skill for any profession currently. Adding a summon skill will only result in increased pvp usage (like graveyard running w/TNT), which is undesirable.

Assuming they have flint and steel

 

[Jasquan]

Or perhaps give them toggable wideshot/tallshot? (from technic)
/skill wideshot on (3x1x1)
/skill tallshot on (1x3x1)
Though I dunno. This DOES make them mine faster...

 

[Keache]

Regardless, i guess as this point superbreak has more of a consensus, so I guess i'll leave it at that and hope someone decides to implement it.