Classes, Archetypes, Skills and Reincarnation or Class Change

Asraiel

Suspect to change

That's the motto of Steven and since that's so big above the Development of Ashes i give it a shot on the Skill and char level side. Shure there's a Wiki up but “Suspect to change may even change what's currently in there. so with out any more time to waste let's dig inn:

As for now how the level and skill system works is not yet fixated so i suggest a system like this (for that i use numbers that are all fictional and does not state any other means than to simplify):

We have Classes and archetypes (sorry here i take classes as basement and archetype as augmentation)

Maximum Level 100
Maximum class level 50
Maximum Archetype Level 50

Now the player starts with 1 of the 8 classes and levels it up to level 50 then he can choose an Archetype to progress into the future.
That Archetype can also be leveled up to lvl 50 which does end up with a level 100 char

or

The Player starts with a class and with level 20 he can choose a archetype withs then levels along with the class level but at a slower paced since 75% of the gained xp goes into the class leveling and only 25% makes it on the archetype leveling.

Once reached Level 100 the player has 3 choices how to proceed
let the character stay as he is
do a archetype class change
or does a class reincarnation

Now Archetype class change will set his archetype class level back to 0 and he can choose now a different archetype. however all the augmentations he unlocked with the previous archetype will still be chooseble but the archetype levels points to enable skills are set back to 0 as well, by leveling up in the new archetype he can now select the augentations from the new archetype or those of the old and personalize its char even more.

For a class reincarnation the Character will be set back to level 1 losing all skill points but keeps them unlocked so if he does level up again he can now select skills of its current and previous class.

This progress is repeatable however comes with a ingame fee and maybe does have a cooldown of how often it can be used. also the price might rise the more reincarnations or class changes had been done in the past.

not to be clear it gives 8 classes and every one of those 8 classes has 8 archetype so getting all skills and augmentations unlocked will need 7 reincarnations and 63 class changes which would take some years to achieve besides the cost that rises the more reincarnations or class changes were made in the past.

Also may have a limitation in place that only allows the use of 1-5 skills of the previous class or archetype augmentations.

The game as planned brings diversity in means of class and archetype (augmentation) but why stop there and not allow the full spectrum of the diversity only with a few rules to follow.

Also would it not corrupt the holy triangle due to having limitations to off class skills and off archetype augmentations if in place. So that tanke is still needed as much as a healer but the tank may have additional magic resistance due to an archetype augmentation and a heal due to the class reincarnation he made.

In numbers, if a cleric decides to reincarnate into a tank he then can use only 1-5 of its 100 skill points of the tank class for skills related to clerics, so he could choose maybe 5 level 1 skills or 1 level 5 skill in the end.

Well i do have it visual before my inner eye but sadly ain't that good at describing it but i hope it lets the inner wheels of Steven and the devs spinn a bit.

Regards
Asraiel

Azherae

Diversity means/requires 'divergence'.

There has to be something to truly diverge from, even if just a comparison to each other.

I've never seen this work in a way that I personally like but I've seen quite a few games do it, so there must be some set of people out there for whom this is appealing.