Elemental Echo	Raises the floor on crits of the damage type that matches your elemental attunement. Doesn't stack with Fire Elementalist or other similar skills, nor Sacred Synchronicity.
Sacred Synchronicity	Raises the floor on crits of the damage type that matches your deity's holy critical. Doesn't stack with Fire Elementalist or other similar skills, nor Elemental Echo.

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Elite Skill

Form over function: Each spell a pure caster casts when standing still without being incapacitated or cced within 5 seconds creates a stacking buff that will make the caster appear more powerful, with each stack further improving the appearance of the caster. can tier up only once per 5 seconds. going without casting for 5 seconds lets all stacks expire and you start back at 1.
examples:
1 stack: tiny traces of energy flicker around hands
2 stacks: eyes glow
3 stacks: air warps around caster
4 stacks: super saiyan glow
5 stacks: hair turns gold
6 stacks: begins levitating (cosmetic only, still susceptible to all ground-based attacks)
7 stacks: lightning surrounds caster
8 stacks: ground around caster becomes charred, etc.


Function matters too: each stack now also increases CS/AS/casting DF by 5% and mana cost by 10%. each stack now adds 1% chance of suffering mana backlash, resulting in loss of all mana and a mana explosion (like a song of power clash).

(If anyone's played Age of Conan, they should recognize this...)

Supercharged Wand
--Gives Song of Unraveling (1013) an alternative mode that allows the caster to use their own mana to fuel wands.

Mana Battery
--Gives Song of Power (1018) an alternative mode that allows the caster to charge an orb gem with mana for later use. The gem is only usable by the creator.

Song of Enhanced Shield/Weapon/Armor (1009, 1012, 1014)
--Alternative modes for equipment creation spells. Instead of creating an item, the spell enhances existing gear, increasing their usefulness. Shields block more? Weapons have more weighting? Armor has more padding?

Spell Storing Item
--Allows the caster to create a wand for personal use. Can store one known attack spell in wand up to level X (rank). Only one wand can be created at a time and it can only be used by the creator. Has some kinda formula to give it lots of charges per day. Or unlimited charges. The intent is a low level spell that can be used *a lot*.

Magic-item/Scroll Adept
--Gives +AS, CS, or duration based on rank and training. Ex. rank 5 gives some sort of bonus, if 1x trained in MIU, it also has a 1x multiplier. 2x in MIU has a 2x multiplier.

Addictive Crystal
--Adds more charges of spirit strike per white crystal rub. +1 additional attack per rank.

Endless Ammo
--Using the fire verb creates ammo. Ammo is +2 per rank (+10 at rank 5) and dissolves after impact/miss.

Returning Bond
--Allows user to bond to a weapon that will cause it to return once thrown. Max enchantment of bonded weapon is 1x * rank (max 5x weapon).

Master Artificer - Allows you go gain an additional charge out of an item. Can be learned multiple times, but cost increases each time. Ideal for x/day items.

Scribe: Lets you scribe a spell that you can cast onto a scroll. Some restrictions apply.

Instinctive Motion	Gives a +X% chance per rank to treat your one-handed weapon or weapons as if they were -1 base RT for determining mstrike RT, down to a minimum of 3. If they were already at 3 or less base RT, increase the DF during mstrikes by Y% for each base RT below 4.
Clobbering Time	Gives a +X% chance per rank to treat your two-handed weapon or polearm as if it were -1 base RT for determining mstrike RT, down to a minimum of 7. If it was at 6 or less base RT, increase the DF during mstrikes by Y% for each base RT below 7.

A sort of bandaid in lieu of a full weapon base review. Restricted to mstrikes because I don't want to get in the way of an actual, more comprehensive weapon base review later!

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Animate chimera

(elite)
The sorcerer gains the power to fuse part of a new body into an existing animate, transfering some ability or power from the old animate to the new one. e.g. animating a daggerbeak then a bandit might result in a winged bandit that could fly. Animating a wight and then a bandit might result in a two headed bandit that could cast EF. A third arm would allow the use of THW and a shield.

(legendary)
Allows a two part chimera (a.k.a. Beeblebrox) to be fused with a third body to make a genuine three part chimera and opens up opportunities such as the creation of 4 armed bandits dual wielding claidhs.

<Animate chimera

<(elite)
<The sorcerer gains the power to fuse part of a new body into an existing animate, transfering some ability or power from the old animate to the new one. e.g. animating a daggerbeak then a bandit might result in a winged bandit that could fly. Animating a wight and then a bandit might result in a two headed bandit that could cast EF. A third arm would allow the use of THW and a shield.

<(legendary)
<Allows a two part chimera (a.k.a. Beeblebrox) to be fused with a third body to make a genuine three part chimera and opens up opportunities such as the creation of 4 armed bandits dual wielding claidhs.

You wouldn't happen to have a dog named Alexander and a daughter named Nina would you...?

Elite Bard ability - Gate of Babylon; replaces animated weapon
Self Explanatory for anyone who's seen Fate. Summons hundreds of swords all at once, shooting them at target and dissipating afterwards

Legendary Bard ability - Unlimited Blade Works
Lets you control the hundreds of swords that are summoned, making them persistent (shows up in room as a flock of swords or something), and making them attack your targets over and over again.

I believe someone may have mentioned this waaaay earlier in this thread but, as a wizard, I think it would be awesome if there was a way to spend Ascension points to work ones way into the lower ranks of the Chronomages.

Perks can include titles, improved use of gold rings, ability to cross realm transport, etc.

-- Robert

>channel my maul
You channel at a hefty mithril maul.
You make an astoundingly inept attempt! Success!

Man, I absolutely love the idea of using Warcries while using berserk. There's a lot of really cool fluff (YELL, EAT, CRY, etc.) stuff. I can't imagine a better mechanism for channeling a berserker's rage into Warcries.

I would love to see some really awesomely gruesome fluff -- or perhaps mechanical benefits of a devour/bloodthirst benefit, where slain critters could be feasted upon to regain stamina, health, and so on.

Plenty of combat suggestions, so here are some electives for getting you into said combat.

Rogues get to have all the fun these days!

jingle jangle! (with rogue gambits): you are able to GAZE/WATCH a mark to see items that can be stolen in containers (along with traps/cursed) and approximate mark silver wealth.

don't touch me! (with rogue gambits and lock mastery): you avoid cursed gems/items and traps to clean them out; demons also negated if shadow dance active (but maybe not this second part so much because i play a sorc).

open sesame! (gambits + lock mastery): open closed containers and pickpocket them (or jingle jangle them first).

It wasn't me! (gambits + rank 5 divert): When active, and caught red handed, another character in the same room with the lowest influence takes the blame (is seen as the one stealing by the mark, and subject to possible JUSTICE mechanics), or RNG lotto time for the patsy.

You do it before initiating berserk, as a setup right?

The proposed ability is to be able to use war cries During berserk.

Using warcries, certain cmans and the ability to choose between focused and open mstrikes during berserk are definitely on the top of my list. So much versatility and synergy possible.

Now all we need is another legendary ability: Greed of the berserker - automatically loots slain creatures and does a loot room after each berserk round.

Elemental Purist	Grants a chance to pierce through up to X bolt DS and elemental TD granted by spells. Must be a wizard. (Similar to Dragonclaw, but only against elemental buffs.)
Healing Symmetry	When healing an arm, hand, or leg, you have a chance to heal an equal or lesser rank wound/scar on the opposite arm, hand, or leg at the same time at no additional mana cost. Blessings lore to heal scars simultaneously with a rank 1 wound applies separately to each.
Mental Game	Grants a chance, on all attacks against an enemy but your first, to anticipate their movements and strike against them with reduced DS, TD, and maneuver defense. Must be a mentalist (monk, bard, empath). A Spirit Slayer recast counts as a second attack.
Spirit Multistrike	Spirit Strike (117) loses its Blessings lore benefit on single strikes., but persists through (Spiritual Mana Control ranks/30) attacks of an mstrike.
Spiritual Purist	Grants a chance to pierce through up to X spiritual TD granted by spells. Must be a cleric, paladin, or ranger. (Similar to Dragonclaw, but only against spiritual buffs.)
Spiritual Ties	Adds a chance to flare a cast of Bind (214) right before a physical attack. Works with Hybrid Offense. Only works if you know Bind permanently or temporarily (SK items and SK scrolls).
Transcendent Mana Control	Negate the built-in 5% loss from sending mana. (Sending, not receiving... so in your Dreavening, charging session, etc., it's not enough for just one person to have this skill. (Assuming that's possible to code. If not, the ability idea is no good! :D))

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Soul Link

Allows you to live vicariously through a target of equal or lower level than you (with their consent), seeing, hearing and experiencing everything they do. If they get hurt, you take the same damage in the same location (and if you get hurt, they do as well). If they die, you die, and vice versa. While in the soul link state, you cannot move or speak, and can only see what the target sees (you cannot see your own surroundings). Multiple people can soul link a single target. Mana and stamina regen increases for each person linked to the target. Critters will gen as if only the soul link target is in the zone (unless you're in the zone too, in which case you'd probably die since you can't interact with anything in your own room).


Each person linked to the target gains field experience when the target gains field experience (capped at fried), but for each linked person, the field experience gained is reduced by 5% for both the target and all linked characters. So if 3 people are linked to a person killing a same level critter, all four of them will only gain 85 exp for the kill. Each character uses his or her own experience stats and modifiers when calculating field experience pool size and absorption speed.

Essentially, the skill is intended to be used in two situations -
(a) if one character for some reason is much less efficient at hunting than another, and you don't want to hunt both of them at the same time, you can link one to the more efficient one.
(b) if you have like 10 accounts and don't want to generate huge swarms that disrupt other people, you can link all together to one or two characters and all your characters still get exp without disrupting other people.

A collection of various Elite level ideas. Most have no requirements, except where noted. If some of these have been mentioned before, apologies. I'm just listing the ideas that come to me as they come!

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Double Tap: % chance to shoot 2 arrows back to back at the same target, for no additional RT. May only occur once every 30s

Spell Mnemonic Master: You have learned how to cast spells that do not attack others much faster. Buff spells have -2s/-3s cast time.

Mana Matrix Methodology: You can make efficient use from the mana you spend to cast beneficial spells by tying off the flows of mana to increase the spells duration. The duration of all of your beneficial spells is increased by 15%/25/35%

Rend the foe: You know where to hit to make it hurt. All your melee, ranged and bolt attacks treat the enemies armor as 2/4/6 ASG less for AvD calculations and DF calculations, with a minimum of 0 (robes).

Never fail, Never falter: You have grown stubborn and unwilling to yield to any obstacle to prevent you from your goals. Impairing effect duration reduction of 10/20/30%.

Touch of the Patron: One of the Powers has chosen you, and blessed (or cursed) you with their protection. They are a jealous patron, and will suffer none other to aid you. Once/Twice/Thrice a day, when you would die, instead survive with 1 HP and remove all negative status effects and wounds. You are immune from being attacked for 10s, and the powers protecting you unleash a mighty blast against all enemies in the room. However, you can no longer be ressurected and must decay.

Stand Alone: Must be a square. You may no longer wear outside spells or be effected by beneficial effects that do not originate with you. In exchange, anytime a creature swings at you, after the AS vs DS/CS vs TD calculation you have X% to shrug off any blow or spell, and reduce all RT from attacks by 1s. You also have a constant Minor Loot Boost effect and cannot be put into more than 20/10/5s RT from an outside source, which no longer stacks against you.

Born under a Cursed Star: They say the stars caught fire on the eve of your birth. You have always been cursed with ill luck and misfortune. However, you have recently begun to feel a strong power flowing deep within you. You have an intrinsic spell failure rate of +X% and have a small chance on any attack to lose 1 spirit. However, you gain +10 stamina regen, +10 mana regen, and any attack you make has a chance to flare disruption in addition to any other flare.

Poisoned Blood: Your blood grows toxic and caustic. You gain 30/50/70% acid resistance. In addition, anytime an enemy hits you with a melee attack, you have a X% chance to flare a retaliatory acid attack against them.

Wondrous Recall: Your memory is far and above that of most. Gain 1/2/3 instant absorbs a day on log in. This is in addition to any other log in bonus

Treasure hunter: You know just how to make the most silver in a hunt. Gain 1/2/3 major loot boosts every day on log in. This is in addition to any other log in bonus

Chaos Reigns Within: The mystical energies of Elanthia react chaotically to your presence. Each day, gain a random resistance and a random vulnerability. The resistance brings you up to 30/50/70%, and the vulnerability is 20/15/10%. At max rank you may 'reroll' these resistances once per day.

Realm Walker: You have learned to walk the ways between the world. Once a day you may teleport to any major city center. However, doing so drains all your mana and all but 1 of your spirit. Further ranks reduce this degenerate effect. In addition, you may now enter the confluence from any city center once per day as well, but without the negative effects.

Lightning Reflexes: You are quick on your feet, naturally adept at getting out of the way of danger. You no longer suffer from retaliatory effects such as enemy flares, cloak of shadows retribution effects, etc.

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Whick is so pretty. it's a shame he has to talk.

Artful Dodger	When failing to evade, block, or parry an incoming attack, you now have a chance to reroll to try again at a cost of X stamina. Can be toggled off and on with INVOKE STAMINA.
Fighting Spirit	You now have a chance to use 1 spirit when using an attack command, significantly increasing the DF of all attacks in that command. (e.g. if you're mstriking or casting Cone of Elements, you might lose 1 spirit and the bonus applies to every hit.) Can be toggled off and on with INVOKE SPIRIT.
Inner Node	Your mana regeneration always acts as if you're on a node.
Myopic Strength	+5 Strength per rank. Must have at least X ranks of Strength Training and 0 ranks of all other [Statistic] Training general ascension skills. (Then have one of these for each.)

The last two are just basic concepts, but the first two are more attempts to make stamina and spirit more relevant to combinations of profession+society that have these stats but never use them. Ideally I'd want health/mana/stamina/spirit to be usable by everyone in some form should they choose! (See also my Manastrike and Staminacast abilities last week.)

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Burst Conversion	When in a spellburst hunting ground, if you're under your spellburst limit, a percentage of the difference between your spellburst limit and your current number of spells is applied as a passive bonus to your DF.
Style Versatility	When attacking, your DF is improved by X for each weapon skill you have 2x trained (or higher via ATPs and enhancives) that isn't being used for your current weapon. (i.e. if you have OHEs and brawling trained, you'd see a benefit from this ability when using a falchion, but not a katar.)

In essence my attempt at throwing a bone to...

(from Estild)

The goal is that everyone starts off at the exact same point. Up to a certain point, those characters with a lot of post-cap skills are usually more efficient at earning experience/combat, so still retain an advantage due to their total experience earned.

...those who are beyond even that certain point, being so far post-cap that we're talking about warriors with every weapon skill mastered including ranged and thrown (while probably not even having a bow or returner), pures maxing lores not natively their own, etc. I know there are the minimal benefits from redux and runestaff DS, but it's not saying much.

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War Trophies

When looting unskinnable enemies, you now have a chance to find "a barely identifiable piece of a [creature]." Some enemies exempt (looking at you, noncorporeal undead and elementals). Sells for 50 silvers at the furrier if you want. LOOT ROOM mechanics will not pick it up; must be manually collected.

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Yep, sounds like.