Theif and Ninja Ability Sugestions

[jwplayer0]

Copy and pasted from my redmine post, not edited

Memory Capture and Flashback

Memory Capture and Flashback would be either ninja or Thief skills (leaning towards thief, I'll tell you why in my next suggestion).
What this is exactly is a slight variant of mark and recall on a short term basis.
Memory Capture would save your cords for a total of 5 mins, i haven't decided if this would need mana consumption or a cooldown yet.
Flashback is a move that will teleport you to your memory capture if your within 50 or 35 blocks of it. It will have a 10 min cooldown and is an escape and/or turning the tables type of move.
Use of it will be explained in my next suggestion for a thief skill. hope you like.

Thief Theft Ability

My take on a proper theft ability would be thief's would only be able to steal from OPEN lwc chest and chestshops. What does this mean? I'll explain.

Lets say im in my lwc organizing or taking things out of it. A thief would have access to my chest only while I or anyone with access to it have it open and or taking things out.

So if a thief is stealthy enough to sneak up on me and take a stack gold out of my chest and run for it it will simulate being a real thief without the BS part of it.

I will also make an example using the skill i suggested for Memory Capture and Flashback. The thief sets their memory capture outside my house some 80 or so blocks away.

They sneak in while im in my chest and steal a some armor, some diamonds and some iron. I notice them and start attacking.The thief cast blackjack and stuns me then makes a run for it. One the thief has enough mana he cast flashback and returns to his memory capture location if he's close enough to it and has not been 5 mins. Giving him a chance to escape with my items.

 

[eisbaerBorealis]

Hmm... I kind of like the Theft idea. Just to confirm, when you say "open," you mean that someone is viewing the contents, ie has a GUI open for that chest?

 

[jwplayer0]

yes, somebody who has rights to the chest has the gui open and is looking iside or moving items or taking items out

wow, I'm amazed nobody viewed this thread, i though it was a good idea myself ='(

 

[jwplayer0]

im just gona bumb this so people might actually take a look at it

 

[mr_pi3]

I really like the second of those two, that feels... sneaky

 

[jwplayer0]

bumb due to mark and recall being skills

and @Kainzo

 

[Kainzo]

The thief thing would be too much for a skill to track and do.....

 

[Fury]

hmm... how bout a thief able to randomly take an item from an non lwc chest with a long cooldown, even if there is a block on it? Still, i think stealing like that is ganna chase people away from the game in general.

Thief and ninja need some love, I just don't really know what the major difference is between them.

I like the ninja teleport idea, maybe even creating a copy of yourself where you were standing, that will damage nearby players after a short duration?

 

[jwplayer0]

The thief thing would be too much for a skill to track and do.....

the theft skill wasnt really meant in the bumb, only the first one was intended

 

[Kainzo]

hmm... how bout a thief able to randomly take an item from an non lwc chest with a long cooldown, even if there is a block on it? Still, i think stealing like that is ganna chase people away from the game in general.

Thief and ninja need some love, I just don't really know what the major difference is between them.

I like the ninja teleport idea, maybe even creating a copy of yourself where you were standing, that will damage nearby players after a short duration?

"Creating a copy of yourself"
The code that goes behind this is too extensive for a single skill

 

[jwplayer0]

Im guessing you woudnt be able to hok into npc's for that woud you

 

[Kainzo]

Unfortunately we are very limited in what we can do and we must keep it lightweight and not increase our footprint on the server any more than it already has been increased.

 

[wolfgang784]

I like the suggestions in the original post and as for the copy of yourself when you memory teleport out, it could just spawn a Monster at your location?

Monster being the actual mob called monster, the default skin guy that attacks the nearest player to it.

 

[robacollver]

Im not so sure about that skills but I agree give ninja and thief some skills they only have 2 or 3 that arnt normal rogue non spec'd skills

 

[DreamingCthulhu]

I think Ninja should have the track skill. They are basically assassins after all.

 

[Kainzo]

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[jwplayer0]

1 more bump due to chest having open and close animations

 

[Malomarcus]

I think thief can get a portion of a persons money when they kill someone.

 

[kriskills]

^would make people bed camp others a few times. Enough not to be illegal, but enough to get some cash from them. You also could never fun fight a thief cause they they can take your money. I dont like people touching my money.