As the title mentions, I had a random idea pop into mind, and wanted to share it before I forgot. Its a bit of a long read as well, so bear with me.
Class Name(Tentative):Bard
Starting Area: Commerci (Story opening), Henesys
Gear Type: Mage/Ranger
Weapon: Harp
Role: Support/DPS depending on "Tempo" (More on that later)
Primary Stat: DEX/INT
No mana, uses a special stat called "Hype'(Tentative name) Starts with 10 hype.
First job:
Strum: Modifies your basic attack into a ranged attack, regaining 1 "Hype".
Concerto: Fires a projectile, passing through up to 4 enemies. Consumes 1 hype.
- Accelerando: Increases Damage dealt
- Ritardando: passing through allies grants them a defense buff for 5 seconds.
Tempo Change: Change tempos.
- Accelerando: Increase attack speed, move speed, adds effects skills
- Ritardando: Increases defenses, adds effects to skills
Harp Mastery: Increases stats
Second Job:
Strum II: Strum now hits up to two enemies, regains 2 "Hype"
Accelerando II: Amplifies the effects of Accelerando per level, Accelerando now also grants bonus ATT.
Ritardando II: Amplifies the effects of Ritardando per level, Ritardando now increases duration of buffs given by skills.
Capriccio: Create an area that moves with you. Enemies within the area are slowed, Allies are sped up. Consumes 1 "Hype" per second
- Accelerando: Enemies within the area take damage. Now consumes 2 Hype per second.
- Ritardando: Allies are healed over time, Now consumes 3 Hype per second.
Growing Talent: Gain 5 Hype per skill point
Third Job:
Strum III: Strum now hits up to three enemies, regains 3 "Hype" per enemy hit.
Building Volume: Adds the Growing Tempo buff, increasing the power of skills depending on number of stacks. (Max 5) Gain stacks by attacking with skills.
Grand Concerto: Amplifies Concerto. Now does damage to up to 6 enemies.
- Accelerando: Increases damage dealt, now does an additional amount of bonus damage equaling the number Growing Tempo stacks.
- Ritardando: Skill passing through allies now heals them for 10% HP, increasing 5% per Growing Tempo stacks.
Growing Talent II: Gain 5 more Hype per skill point.
Tempo Plus: Changing tempos will briefly increase movespeed and recover 10 Hype
Bass Drop: Jump up into the Air, and do damage in an area around you to up to 8 enemies.
Power Tuning: Increase attack speed , ATT, and defense ignore/healing amount depending on stance.
Fourth Job:
Encore: Reduce the cooldowns of skills by 10% per skill level upon activation.
Fever Pitch: Adds one more possible stack to Growing Tempo per skill level
Power Chord: Amplifies Concerto, now hits up to 10 enemies.
- Accelerando: Now gives Boss ATT and DEF ignore, 2% per Growing Tempo stack.
- Ritardando: Gives Allies bonus Boss ATT and DEF ignore, 2% per growing Tempo stack
Grand Canon: Immediately gain 10 Growing Tempo Stacks.
Finishing Coda: consumes all Growing Tempo stacks, dealing massive damage to up to 10 enemies, damage increases with number of stacks consumed.
- Accelerando: Enemies are inflicted with a DoT debuff, damage over time increases with number of Growing Tempo Stats consumed.
- Ritardando: Allies the skill passes through gain 10% to their ATT, and a shield that blocks 1 source of damage 1 time.
Commerci Guardian: maple warrior by another name.
Fifth Job:
Power Noise: Consumes all Growing Tempo stacks, and all remaining hype, creating a slow moving soundwave that deals damage depending on Hype and stacks consumed. Hype recovers 2x as fast afterwards for 20 seconds.
Hyper Skill:
I have no idea.
So as you can see, this is just sort of a bunch of ideas, and haven't really been balanced at all. Just sort of a brain dump. Feel free to leave feedback.
Comments
First: The healing skills need a cooldown.
Second: Tempo change needs a cooldown.
Also, is this class using att or m. att? Because the passives give att, but the class uses int and dex.