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New Class: Shaman

malikdanab

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It may make it unbalanced, but I don't like it being just a simple "Might Totem." Maybe make it increase all physical damage (Melee and skills)? Maybe make it also affect spells?

I feel a normal might totem would be underused compared to Shock or Firestrike totem.

If we do the math: say the person deals 50 melee damage

DPS without totem: 100 Phy DPS
DPS with might: 120 Phy DPS
DPS with shock: 100 Phy + 30 Magic DPS (This is based on a shock totem that deals 90 damage every 3 seconds)

Depending on the opponents armor, that 30 magic damage can be 20-50% more powerful since it can pierce armor.

Even if we got a high melee damage class like a dragoon, the extra damage the totem would provide would still be inferior. (Assuming that the Dragoon has 25 STR which is about 68 melee damage)

DPS without totem: 134 Phy DPS
DPS with might: 163 Phy DPS
DPS with shock: 134 Phy + 30 Magic DPS

So the magic damage remains greater and still has the armor piercing advantage.
 
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malikdanab

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Are we planning to have Force, Engulfing, and "Might" scale with attributes? I could see might scaling with STR or INT, but there really isn't a "Support" stat. We could have them scale with CHA, but I don't if that would work.
 
0xNaomi

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malikdanab said:
Are we planning to have Force, Engulfing, and "Might" scale with attributes? I could see might scaling with STR or INT, but there really isn't a "Support" stat. We could have them scale with CHA, but I don't if that would work.
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Might doesn't have any scaling. Look at my posts.
 
malikdanab

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0xNaomi said:
Even Might on Druid has no scaling. That's how it is.
If you wanted it to scale everything it'd be useful but probably OP.
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The problem is that the damage gain from might will never be as good as a damage totem.
 
0xNaomi

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@malikdanab suggested this elsewhere but not in this thread.
Make Might totem buff physical skills along with melee.
@Kainzo some looking around makes it look like this is totally doable so long as the skills are properly categorized with SkillTypes.
Any opinions?
 
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0xNaomi said:
Might doesn't have any scaling. Look at my posts.
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I do like the sound of PrimalTotem
0xNaomi said:
@malikdanab suggested this elsewhere but not in this thread.
Make Might totem buff physical skills along with melee.
@Kainzo some looking around makes it look like this is totally doable so long as the skills are properly categorized with SkillTypes.
Any opinions?
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It should be doable - and im okay with it.
malikdanab said:
Are we planning to have Force, Engulfing, and "Might" scale with attributes? I could see might scaling with STR or INT, but there really isn't a "Support" stat. We could have them scale with CHA, but I don't if that would work.
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Rather not scale with CHA.

"Lore" wise - Totems would be "wisdom" since Shamans are wise - etc. If we scale totems with a different attribute - it may be far too spread out for normal use and confuse players.

I'm not sure which we should use but im leaning towards agi / wis
 
0xNaomi

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Messed with Might and Engulfing totems.
Might increases STR instead of adding a % damage to weapons (physical skills scale now, basically)
Engulfing reduces AGI (mobs have no stats, so they get Slowness as before)
 
0xNaomi

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Speaking of heals... and everything else.
We still need to sort out what the skills are in specific, and numbers for *everything*
 
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lioIIoil

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I have a question on the firestrike totem. Does it target all the members at once? Or it it like a turret attacking one at a time? It would be neat if the firestrike totem attacked the last person that hit the shaman. If nobody attacked the shaman then the closest person to him.
 
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