Shadower changes you’d want

Yes i actually had a crazier idea prior to typing the aforementioned, but felt this crazy idea may require drastic changes in animation and character positioning codes. One of which was; If directional Assassinate is activated, Character will end skill facing in opposite direction from casted direction (i.e Nate + Right will result in caster to end the directional nate facing Left, allowing for another cast of Nate). Meaning this way, shads would have the fun appeal to keep dashing back and forth via pressing nate + directional key and not directional key + nate + directional key, removing that split second of manually turning our character facing.

Which could unintentionally be a better improved version of Assaulter lol

 

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Added SmokeScreen to have blinking indicative visual of ending to #34

 

Multiple requests here about Savage Blow reworks, I got to thinking for ways to create some excitement as well as to how to allow a changed skill to co-exist better with different playstyles. Here are some thoughts as to how we could potentially save this forgotten skill.

SAVAGE BLOW
1. Allowing some form of chance to heal HP/ Life Steal on hit
- This would be a % of DMG done on mob/boss that shouldn't be overly compensated (i.e 2% - 5%) with a % success rate (i.e 20% or more).
- DPM wise it's pretty bad as compared to nate hence this could serve the pre-4th job grinders only.

2. Marking target with Savage Blow for Bonuses
- For a % success rate (i.e could be 100%; similar to Bullseye, just that Savage blow actually requires individuals going up close)
- Bonuses could either be based on an "Individual Target" or "Applied as a Buff" to the individual.
- Visual indicators on skill Uptime could allow for some Brighter Red Glow on Key and a Buff icon on the Buff bar.

-- A % Life steal on DMG dealt for all skills except ME (Duration: 10s or so, Cooldown: 90s)

Using 1% as an example and the highest DMG accumulator per cast; Assassinate, 199k of max charged Assassinate would deal a total of 800k-4 w/o directional line which would reach a ceiling of 8k HP recovery which is usually performed during WC, DR, Sed. Say 60k per line of Nate, would yield 2.4k HP recovery and whomever goes for the extra effort/risk of Directional nate would reap slightly more recovery. Interestingly, If one were to time SB to get said 1% Bonus, they'd have to go into DS immediately and countdown and Nate right before the duration expires.​

Cleave situations, the "Applied Buff to the individual" would most likely be most beneficial, as you'd have to tag every target if went with the "Individual Target" route. When cleaving using Bstep, say 35k per line x2 and hitting the cap of 4 targets would = 2.8k HP recovered. Whereby using BOT during 3rd job phase would also be further encouraged as well as in Core Blaze, when the spawn grows to 3-4. and/or​

-- A % Bonus DMG for all Skills (Duration: 10s or so, Cooldown: 90s, individual only)

Say 5% roughly might be a fair trade-off to draw individuals to cast Savage Blow for It's limited time duration.​

3. 100% Stun Monster on hit.

CHAKRA
Alternatively, we could use this Life Steal Mechanics and rework it onto CHAKRA: Heals 1% of DMG dealt (ME non-applicable) for 10s with maybe a cooldown of 90s.

ASSASSINATE
Could only apply 1% Heal based on Directional Assassinate only (5th optional line).
- Max Charged = 1,999 HP
- 60k Line = 600 HP

 

In a spur of the moment, was wondering if the above reduces One's dmg output (leaning more towards -WA) momentarily for Life Steal and reverting dmg back to pot-ed and buffs range after duration without repotting/buffing is possible (i.e. similar to accuracy debuff received > ACP > bless accuracy retained). Given how Chakra can be considered tagged as a buff than a pot, maybe then only rebuffing is required.

Alternatively, Re-worked Chakra could instead reduce Avoid and/or Shifter than WA/Dmg output.

 

I would say each job has it's niche when it comes to dealing with bosses, especially debuffing power/def ups, I certainly wouldn't want a cut and paste skill from crash onto shad tho.

Interesting take on Chakra, although I myself wouldn't want shads to gain more avoid from their current baseline. promoting somewhat of a further afk gameplay or indirectly buff over-washed sed mules.

As for Shield, Thanks for bringing it up again, many in the past have already expressed how they'd prefer a fixed value instead of %. Very likely It'd be predominantly buffing D.Khanjar users since most shads opt for the tradeable shields as compared to the timeless List. Thieves shields are a mix bags of offering only W.Def or M.Def or Both, seeing how Timeless List becomes untradeable and considered end game for now, maybe then Timeless List could have M.Def added roughly half of the W.Def (45 M.Def) or a little more W.Def increment.

 

Interesting that you've brought it up. Still uncertain about how this skill may potentially fit but I feel that it could be repurposed rather than reworked as DOT fits the nature of the skill "For a set period of time, a group of ninjas hiding around the bushes will periodically ambush up to 6 monsters at once." + 12s duration.

Assuming the DPM wouldn't be far off (100k - 300k dpm per target) compared to without Ambush, take Core as an example, I have my doubts that It'd allow for significantly faster Imperial Clears (28 - 85mins of DOT to clear 1-6 Imperial). There's a good chance we can repurpose it from Mobs to Boss as well as only work on Weapon Cancel to suit certain scenarios while reducing targets from 6 to 3ish (HT Heads if AoE increased, x out of 3 on WC during cast). Potentially increasing it's duration from 12s to say 40s to somewhat match HT/Ariel's WC uptime for the skill to be even worth, other than Pianus/Scarga's short uptime.