What Abilities Do You Want To See For Your Favorite Classes?

Assuming the Intrepid hasn't already finished all the abilities for every class, what would you guys like to see? Maybe our ideas could be of use to them in some way. Il post a few of mine and if this gains traction, il go more in depth.

1. TANK: I would like something similar to what the dragonknight has in eso where the flap their wings to return incoming projectiles. Obviously it doesn't have to be wings; maybe a momentary projection of a shield or maybe they just have an aura around them briefly. I believe it would help to keep their dps up in pvp and incentives others to play the class maybe.
2. Rogue: it'd be nice if the have maybe a passive to do increased damage if the opponents back is facing them. (Pretty sure that's a common one. )
3. Assasin: something like khazix's 1st ability or passive from league of legends. Haven't played it since high school so don't know how accurate this is but he would essentially do more damage if an enemy was isolated, i.e moving alone. I believe this was only for the first attack or only on the 1st ability ofcourse.
4. Dreadnought: I like the idea of potentially swapping out your defensive stats for offensive power, i.e if you 1000 defense, it would be turned into 1000 offense for nothing over 10 seconds ideally. Sounds fitting the notion of a Dreadnought.
5. Ranger: a tracking arrow ability or consumable one use arrow potentially. Use nature energy or whatever to have a marker on the map for the target you hit with it. Keep the active time for it not too high to prevent any heavy griefing. Sounds nice and adds a layer to combat.
6. Summoner: this idea is from an anime called infinite dinjagram(pretty sure I spelled it wrong. ) as a Summoner, you could momentarily fuse with your summons to become a hybrid/Chimera humanoid. Sounds cool.
7. Cleric: sacrifice a huge portion of your life but make an ally invulnerable for a short period of time. High cooldown.

That's all that comes to mind immediately. Obviously these aren't the most thought out it terms of balance. They just sound interesting so try not to get too angry over it if your the type.

Share your ideas below! You never know, maybe this'll help the team out in some way. Il even throw in a cookie. 🍪 😇

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Solvryn

I hope to play Summoner. Wildblade to be more specific.

So I hope Summoner doesn't come into its own until later and Wildblade is a Shamanic-Melee fighter type.

Base Summoner:
Tank Creature: Takes X damage, does X damage has so many abilities.
DPS Creature: Deals X damage, takes x damage and has so many abilities.

Wildblade:
Bear Spirit: Summoner calls on the spirit of the bear and is granted all off the abilities of the spirit for x amount of time.
Wolverine Spirit: Summoner calls on the spirit of the wolverine and is granted all off the abilities of the spirit for x amount of time.

So effectively, it's more like Soulbeast from GW2 meets Enhancement Shaman in WoW.

Xenra

Would be interesting if summoners also got abilities that helped to control the field. Not just creatures but say summon a swampy/muddy ground that snares or a fog that blinds targets, maybe even stinging insects. Perhaps depending on your class combination either be able to transfer health to your pets or drain health from your pets into yourself.

JamesSunderland

I believe, no matter how, any Tanks skillset requires 2 skills:
1 To always reach the front line first (example: A1 Tank Onslaught)
and 1 To bring the enemies back line to the front line(example: A1 Tank Javelin)

I also believe Fighters skillset requires skills to reach behind enemy lines sadly not shown in his class demonstration... But also expect the class to have nice consistent AoE damage which is thankfully already expected to be considering the demonstration.

I also expect both Tanks and Fighters to have Hard CCs inside their skillset(obviously more on the tanks than on the fighters) including things like stuns, knockbacks, knockups and knockdowns.

Aces_Are_Wild

I want my necromancer to have
an aoe that does dps and a little heal to my team
Rez a dead team mate
And an aoe that has heaps of zombies coming out of the ground to hit people

Hydro_LT

For mage augmented with summoner, I would like to see fireball spell converted to a ranged summon lesser-fire elemental that deals the same damage as a fireball in a small aoe wear summoned.
Annie's ult in LOL does this. I hope that spells converted to weak summons be the theam of summoner/mage. I would also like to see blink/telport leave behind a illusionary decoy that can taught mobs for this class combo.

ElCrisp

If it is as it seems -- that ranger will be the source of nature type augments, then i'm just hoping that can be lent into hard when taking it as a secondary augment.

I love wood magic, lashing vines, treants, paralytic blooms, and slaming branch arms. I would like to see these options on the Warden (tank/ranger) excluding treants which may be more a summoner thing. But given summoner / ranger is already called beast master, I dont know how much room that leaves for treants in that fantasy.

I like the fantasy of the fighter having superior mastery over weapons, and the ability to use a diverse range.

There are already planned weapon specific skill trees, so maybe fighters can progress futher in these gaining interesting synergies even additional capstone points.

Also skills or stances that emphasize the weapon equipt or how that players has skill pointed their abilities -- what do you have to be weary of when the fighter switches from their axe and shield to a hailbred.

Perhaps if certain weapons skill trees have procs that occur eg. every 5 hits / with a conditional trigger / a small % chance... Certain fighter skills could force the proc, but said proc would be different according to the equipt weapon, and your own choices on that weapons skill tree.

So your weapon choice and how you specfically choose to use that weapon is expressed in your abilities too. Demonstrating your fighting style

ThatGuyPowers

I hope the trickster class can make mimics or clones of myself while fighting

Settite

ThatGuyPowers wrote: »

I hope the trickster class can make mimics or clones of myself while fighting

Sounds pretty cool. Reminds me of the echo knight knight from dnd

Botagar

I'm not sure what archetype this should belong to, but a skill like Petrified Blood from Path of Exile would be interesting.
The boon of this skill is that any instant damage (most hit based attacks) are taken as a *slow-ish* DoT.
This could be a self cast skill that lasts x Seconds on the Tank to something like a targeted skill cast from Bard or Spell Shield or a Cleric derivative.
This would act as an anti-alpha kill defensive skill in group PvP where a person is getting primaried and the defensive roles can act in time. Can also act in dungeons where say a tank is about to eat a 1 shot kill but can be saved and healed through with this.
This skill on it's own would not prevent death, but allow healers to keep someone alive in the face of overwhelming alpha damage.

Settite

Botagar wrote: »

I'm not sure what archetype this should belong to, but a skill like Petrified Blood from Path of Exile would be interesting.
The boon of this skill is that any instant damage (most hit based attacks) are taken as a *slow-ish* DoT.
This could be a self cast skill that lasts x Seconds on the Tank to something like a targeted skill cast from Bard or Spell Shield or a Cleric derivative.
This would act as an anti-alpha kill defensive skill in group PvP where a person is getting primaried and the defensive roles can act in time. Can also act in dungeons where say a tank is about to eat a 1 shot kill but can be saved and healed through with this.
This skill on it's own would not prevent death, but allow healers to keep someone alive in the face of overwhelming alpha damage.

Oooo that sounds really cool. I can think of alot of neat interactions with that

Ironhope

I think it would be very cool if the Templar would be able to use the cleric-combo-points to do burst damage or burst healing as opposed to just do healing like he could back when he was just a Cleric.

I would also like to see him keep to that Templar, knight-ish spirit where he is not very mobile but still dangerous if you get within his range.

I think it would be cool if he had some sort of ''Holy Lance'' type ability like the Crusader from Darkest Dungeon

a short range gap closer, maybe skill-shot style, with which the Templar can keep gap closing once within range, until he is pealed by another player/the target uses its own mobility abilities to escape.

would be a cool augment coming from the Fighter, applied to one of the Cleric basic damage abilities (a melee damage ability)

I think it would be interesting to know the Templar is about to burst (his weapon/helmet for example radiates strongly) but you don't know if it is going to be a burst heal to save an ally or a burst of damage to kill a foe and you don't know exactly what to expect

Would be a wild card type of hybrid class and I think that would be cool.

I would also like to see a Crosbow-Crusader Templar

And I think it would be cool to see a healer with a healing rotation based on how much sustained damage said healer does from the wall during a siege/to the boss during a boss fight.

And maybe the ''Holy Lance'' type ability no longer is a gap close when used with a crossbow but instead a knockback the Crosbow-Templar can use to peal enemies off allies while it is still up there on the wall.

Ironhope

It would be cool if the Shadow Lord had the ability to create mirror images of himself and switch places with any of them.

So for example, he could leave a mirror image on the healer, one on the squishy mage and one hidden behind a pillar and switch with whatever mirror image he wants depending on situation.

Would also be cool to see him apply a debuff which hides at least part of the HP of a target for some time, a debuff he could also apply with his mirror images, creating a sort of panic mode for enemies who are no longer sure about their actual HP % and if they do in fact have the real Shadow Lord or just a mirror image applying a debuff on them.

Uboon

Something other than fiddling with hp or stats. A great new game needs something ORIGINAL as other MMOs just fiddle with hp, stats or movement.

Perhaps levitate, then when someone runs in to you their momentum causes you to float/travel. Player creativity could do a lot with this.

Perhaps Orc catapult - 2 orcs can use a band to catapult another over a keep wall. Use strength to determine range and arc. Daft idea but some thing ORIGINAL would be game defining.

Perhaps magical protection auras requiring counter-spells to break, a game in itself. Instead of buff or debuff there you go, boring.

Perhaps 'merge with tree' or 'hide in rock' with timers based on your ability to stay 'out of phase', as a fun alternative to boring MMO stealth where you just hit stealth and there you go, can't see me ha haa, boring god mode.

Anyway, something ORIGINAL would be nice.

JamesSunderland

Also another important skill for tanks, considering that in TT games skills that forces the enemies to acquire your target and maintain it for a few seconds such as Lineage 2's Aggression/Aura of Hate or Archeage's Boastful Roar/Mocking Howl are the fuctional standard,
such skills can become almost useless against enemies using almost only Action skills(75% in Ashes) that doesn't require target becoming able to completely ignore tanks.

Such a thing wasn't a problem in Lineage 2 as action skills were very few, but in Archeage where the presence of action skills was reasonably bigger, Archeage's Provokes/Taunts had strong power debuff infused in them which limits the damage of action skills even if they ignore the forceful target acquisition part of the skill, therefore i expect the Tanks in Ashes to have such similar functionality in their main taunting/provoking skill, unless it is intented of Ashes design for it to not be a thing with the intention of giving that type of advantage for action skills over TT skills.

Cultured

For the Rogue archetype, I would like an instant attack that uses the equipped weapon and stats. Usable with any melee weapon. With a possible augment for adding a blink to it. I want to be able to use a 2H weapon as a Rogue. Leather-wearing swordsman, with high burst. Yeeee....

Settite

Cultured wrote: »

For the Rogue archetype, I would like an instant attack that uses the equipped weapon and stats. Usable with any melee weapon. With a possible augment for adding a blink to it. I want to be able to use a 2H weapon as a Rogue. Leather-wearing swordsman, with high burst. Yeeee....

Shiiiiit I'm in the same boat. I'd love to run around with a 2H as a rogue

Krakhun

I would like to see a shadow lord (rouge/summoner) be able to move through darker areas undetected by anyone.

Tinsletown

I like to play a mage class. I want to see flame touch, or something that does more damage the closer the target is to you.

Ace1234

A couple of interesting ideas come to mind that might be worth consideration

1. Parry mechanic
2. Ability to create duplicate copies/create mirror images/distraction ability
3. Abilities based on siege equipment, with magic based modifiers (rapid fire icicle shooting balista, slow firing charged lightning snipe shot ballista, stone-assembled battering-ram with knockback effect, etc.)
4. Traps/environmental affecting abilities
5. Plethora of status conditions (burned, electrified, slowed, frozen, confused, etc.)
6. Heavy emphasis on a variety of distance-manipulating/positioning abilites (gap closers/creaters, pushbacks/pulls)
7. Emphasis on the "projectile" mechanic for ranged attacks, through variety of options for different fire rates/ranges/properties
8. Movement options with different properties (like a dash that creates a wall of ice along itd path to cut off an enemy, or a dash that consists of smaller connects dashes that can be selected in real time)
9. Abilities that play on the verticality aspect (such as the ranger ability in the showcase) that involve defending/attacking enemies positioned above or below the player to emphasize terrain/positional advantages.
10. Different versions of existing abilities that you can choose between in real-time (like being able to rapid fire arrows or charge arrows for a more powerful shot) that allow you to mix up your ability's timing and/or level of risk/reward

Hydro_LT

I would like to see a throwing weapon ability were the weapon thrown sticks to the target hit or the ground if you missed. Then if you moved to the weapon you would automatically retrieve it tacking the ability off cooldown. This ability should only be on classes that normally fight at range so that they can have a damaging low cooldown ability if they want to risk fighting at close range.

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