My idea(s) for possible "Nature" class

I would like to start by thanking Steven and everyone at Intrepid Studios for making this incredible project a reality!

I can't help but feel concerned for the lack of a directly Nature related class (yes, something like a Druid) a guardian of the woods and everything that calls the woods their home, a Keeper of the Grove if you will.

Here are some BASE ideas for a unique Nature wielding class Archetype.

Primary role - Healer
Type - Arcane?
Spell/ability Resource - Health (more health than any other class, mana/health merge to make one resource pool)
Hybrid of magical/physical abilities (some spells deal physical damage I.E. launching a chunk of Verra at the target to stun, or binding a enemy with thorny roots, while the more arcane related spells would be for healing/buffing or maybe even some form of mobility)
The option to "cook" your spells (The longer you hold the spell button the more %health you dump into the spell increasing the effectiveness of cooked spell, absolutely having the possibility to misjudge and kill ones self, providing a very "high risk, high reward" style of play)

I think I'll leave it at that, and let the community add/subtract or all together tear apart my idea.

P.S. I'm not much of a forum poster, so if anything about the layout of my post upsets you, I apologize.

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Ardiguan The Guardian

Ventharien wrote: »

What totem?

That's my mistake, for a moment I mixed "Stolen Blessing" with "Life's Balance" thank you for pointing that out.

Ardiguan The Guardian

Ventharien wrote: »

You'd have to come up with reasonable checks and balances for every interaction, all the while keeping all the archtypes feeling distinct and important.

Agreed, though I personally don't have any developer/design experience I cannot provide the best answers, I still don't believe it's impossible to find reasonable balance, a challenge for sure, but not impossible.

Sathrago

So to balance out a class that uses this type of system, at least they way i described it, would be to have the initial abilities that you use to kickstart a fight cost health to cast. This starts the energy generation process and things cycle from that point on until a fight is finished. Honestly we don't have to touch the players regeneration or health pool amount if you have tools for the class to heal itself after its started gaining energy. Lets say you "eat" a DoT on an ally taking damage equal to half its current duration, converting it into a HoT on yourself and the targeted ally for the amount of damage you took initially. (Dot deals 30 over the next 5 seconds gets removed, dealing 15 damage to the druid and healing both the target and the druid for 15 over the next 5 seconds.)

super rough idea here so any help appreciated.

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