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Necromancer Spell: Cursed Earth

ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
edited November 2018 in Ashes of Creation Systems and Mechanics
Here's an idea, a Necromancer or a group of necromancers can curse an area, and any people who die in that area, become powerful undead similar to the level of the person that died there.

Groups of Necromancers could bring about a turn in the battle where the fighting is heaviest and cause a high risk high reward threat to a zone being fought over by allies and enemies.

The thing is...this could just be NPCs...or it could be a 2nd life on the field where the dead aren't able to be brought back to life, but instead players linger on in this dead state until killed or their slowly draining HP pool empties. Enemies could be automatically turned into an NPC undead, but allies would have a limited new set of undead abilities they could use, and continue to interact with objectives that require people on the point to capture them, or interact with objects...too risky for the living to attempt to use.

Working backwards from this concept we can configure a strong group spell for the summoner class in general that might be workable in different ways for each different inflection of summoner.

Perhaps each dead player in this zone confers the ability to summon specific levels of a monster, whom one of the recently dead souls in the zone can possess if they're an ally.

I would love for this to also perhaps be something that the other inflections would get to have a flavor of.

Comments

  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    Not a fan of this idea and I think that Intrepid said before that you will not be able to raise players as undead.
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    I've not heard it, but I'm sure there are many reasons why it could go wrong. I just think its easier to provide solutions then think about every hypothetical flaw.
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    from what ive heard a group of weak necromancers can make an undead golem like this





  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    It will definitely be interesting to see some group spells .w.
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    nagash said:
    from what ive heard a group of weak necromancers can make an undead golem like this...
    <OffTopic>Haha, heres one dark lord that really loves his undead peasants. Gweat!</OffTopic>

    OnTopic: It would be really nice, seeing Monsters react intelligently in groups and having some smart group spells or attacks. I really liked the feature in Tera where this coyote/wolf-like mobs worked together to surround you and bite you in the ar.. if you did not keep an eye on them. Surprise, surprise...! (Original voiceover, when i first discovered them: "These.... B*sterds! They work together...!") Actually i also really enjoyed a lot of the cool special attacks and features in Teras BAM-System. And i still enjoy the phases and tactics in Wow needed to kill some of the harder bosses. Blizzard boys are doing a nice job inventing tons mechanics, that even nowadays are fun to try out with a group of friends.

    For i did not see a lot material on pve-content yet i don't really know about the monster-AI. So i'll just wait and see, what they'll pull out of the box.
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