New Class [Assasin/Rogue]

[SaintFTH]

Weapon Type Dagger
Secondary tool “Shadow Crystal”
Role Melee DPS

Using a dagger in your main hand you can perform combos on targets. Depending on position, blade mode, stealth and motions the abilities react differently.

Using the button on your main hand you can flip the dagger upside down or right side up.

Combos: are a resource of the player not a debuff on the targets.

Grabbing the shadow crystal from your chest activates stealth for a short duration. Crystal cool down is 2.5x the stealth duration so it’s not readily available too quickly. So for 10 sec stealth it has a 25 sec cooldown.

HORIZONTAL STRIKE
STEALTH
UP = ??
DOWN = ??
NO STEALTH
UP = Normal Attack: Adds Combo Point
DOWN = Evasion: For Each Combo reduce incoming damage for 3 secs

VERTICAL STRIKE (top->down)
STEALTH
UP = ??
DOWN = Ambush: 1 Combo + Damage
NO STEALTH
UP = Assassin Blade: Consume Combos deal AOE damage
DOWN = Finishing Strike: Consume Combos deal damage

STAB (can only be performed with weapon upward)
STEALTH
FRONT = Cheap Shot: Add 1 combo and bleed.
BACK = Immobilizes the target.
NO STEALTH
FRONT = Gauge: Short Stun
BACK = Slows the target and deals damage

Nixed Idea A use for ruined potions. No one likes ruined potions but assassins can use their toxic properties. Assassins can take ruined potions to their table and refine it with other ingredients to create poisons. Poisons are then applied to their weapons similarly too “lures” from fishing. Only one poison can be applied at a time and has a disability.

For their Ultimate
Expose Vitals. 5-6 Small orbs spawn on their target on all sides. Striking all the orbs deals significant damage.

Edit: For clarity on mechanics.

[Cowboy]

Nix the ruined potions being used in the poison recipe, but have special recipes for poisons. That way you can’t just bottle a single Queens Ear and make a cheap as F poison to use. I can see it working out. I thought when I first played that poisons would be nice, even for Ranger (poison-dipped arrows instead of just a cool down ability)

This would have to be a glass cannon class that can’t one-shot others of similar level in PVP. Otherwise stealth rogue groups in the Wilds would run amok ganking other groups, knocking out the DPS in another group and then ganging up on Tank and Healer. There’s a reason major game developers shy away from rogue classes in games with PvP. Good fun in PvE situations, though.

Riley and crew would need to tread carefully when developing such a class.

Edit:spell-check

[SaintFTH]

Yay the ruined potion was a spur the moment idea. realistically wouldn’t work I suppose.