Elite spec: The Crusader(Axe & Stances)

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Posted by: King Kai.4516

King Kai.4516

The Crusader
Rushing to the battle to defend their allies, Crusaders are true champions of judgement and law. They fight with a holy fury that is unmatched by any on the battle field and intimidates opponents with their ferociously quick strikes. They use judgments to control their opponent’s boons as they leap into the fray. A front-line high damage dealer/debuffer character that wields an axe into battle. If you feel a trait or skill is to strong then suggest a reasonable recharge time. Please rate and improve!

Class Mechanic
Judgements-virtues changed to judgements which alters symbols and performs blast finisher. Symbols can only be judged once. Enemies in area of judgement are hit with decree condition.
New condition:Decree- Enemies cannot use boons associated with judged symbol (example, Symbol of Protection judged results in 2 second Decree preventing protection from applying to foe)
Judgement of Justice- refreshes active symbols, changes them to fire fields, and blasts new symbols and damages foes
Judgement of Resolve- refreshes active symbols, changes them to water fields, and blasts new symbols and damages foes
Judgement of Courage- refreshes active symbols, changes them to lightning fields, and blasts new symbols and damages foes

Weapon (Axe)
• Penance Slice (auto-attack)- range 130 chain 1; damage foe
o Arc glave- chain 2; strike foe X2
o Blessed strike- chain 3; strike foe X4
• Crusaders charge- range 600, Combo Finisher: Leap, applies might
• Symbol of Dedication- Spin attack and Drop a symbol at your feet that damages nearby enemies and applies quickness to allies.

Utility – Stance (stances cause punishing effect on enemies per hit)
• Defensive stance (Heal Skill)- heal for 4000, if you hit an enemy with an attack within 4 seconds heal for 1000 each time and apply slow
• Purity stance- assume stance were each attack removes a condition and applies blind to enemies
• Conqueror stance- assume a stance were each hit causes cripple and confusion on the enemy
• Dominance stance- assume stance were each hit causes weakness and vulnerability on the enemy
• Heavens Fury Stance (Elite Skill)- For 6 seconds all attacks cause critical damage and each hit causes a random decree for 2 seconds

Traits (Minor)
• Solemn Vow- become a crusader, equip axe, can now use judgements
• Overzealous- You have a chance to cause quickness on critical hits.
• Lawful indignation- striking an enemy who has a decree grants fury

Traits (Adept)
• Righteous charge – Run 25% faster while wielding one hand weapons. Judgement skills break immobilization when used.
• Reactive tenant – Activates Defensive stance when you are below 25% health. Increase stance duration and gain vigor when using a stance.
• Law giver- Any time a decree is applied to an enemy apply the equivalent boon to nearby allies

Traits (Master)
• Holy Fervor- Reduce recharge of Axe skills. Axe skills have 15% attack speed increased when character is impacted by fury.
• Heavens help- each attack has a 25% chance of having an additional hit
• Lights punishment- When your conditions meet the threshold(3), your next critical hit applies burning and blindness

Traits (Grand-master)
• Final judgement- Judgements always crit and grant 2 seconds of quickness
• Divine speed- killing a foe provides vigor and resets all leap or teleportation skills
• Commanders commandment- Increased damage(2% per condition) for every condition currently on your foe.

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Posted by: emkelly.2371

emkelly.2371

YES!!!! Lets make warriors completly useless!!!

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Posted by: Ghotistyx.6942

Ghotistyx.6942

There’s nothing worth salvaging

Fishsticks

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Posted by: KevinB.9643

KevinB.9643

So is the Decree condition supposed to have multiple icons like one for each boon?

Other than that I like the idea.

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Posted by: King Kai.4516

King Kai.4516

So is the Decree condition supposed to have multiple icons like one for each boon?

Other than that I like the idea.

I would think that should be the case so the enemy understands what boons they can’t apply. The condition would take up the respective boon “slot” above your skills with a X mark on it. The only issue may be that it can cause Commanders commandment to become VERY strong.

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Posted by: Dirame.8521

Dirame.8521

Things I dislike:

Decree mechanic. I think it’s boring. You could leave it out and just the new virtues alone would make this idea amazing.

Conqueror stance. Would be very annoying to play against.

Things I like:

Your virtues. Great stuff there.

Divine speed. Great for solo PvE.

Nothing else really sparks the imagination though.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/ceimash
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Posted by: King Kai.4516

King Kai.4516

Things I dislike:

Decree mechanic. I think it’s boring. You could leave it out and just the new virtues alone would make this idea amazing.

Conqueror stance. Would be very annoying to play against.

Things I like:

Your virtues. Great stuff there.

Divine speed. Great for solo PvE.

Nothing else really sparks the imagination though.

Thanks for the feedback. I think decrees are an important part of this spec as it is a debuffer. If anything I think it is a very interactive mechanic as you can have specific builds to “lockdown” other professions that overly really on specific boons.
I changed Conqueror stance as now it just does cripple and confusion.

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Posted by: NumenorLord.6539

NumenorLord.6539

It’s nice to post our ideas; really hope devs read these forums from time to time to know what the player base wants. On my part I would love to see tomes come back, getting Tome of Wrath and Tome of Courage a rework and giving us a new set of skills when in use or even shifting our weapon skills through tomes.

I don’t think new elite specializations will include weapon sets but who knows, only time will tell.

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Posted by: King Kai.4516

King Kai.4516

It’s nice to post our ideas; really hope devs read these forums from time to time to know what the player base wants. On my part I would love to see tomes come back, getting Tome of Wrath and Tome of Courage a rework and giving us a new set of skills when in use or even shifting our weapon skills through tomes.

I don’t think new elite specializations will include weapon sets but who knows, only time will tell.

I built a tome based spec a couple month back. I called it the Archivist.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Elite-spec-The-Archivist-Warhorn-Chants/first#post5990453

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Posted by: NumenorLord.6539

NumenorLord.6539

It’s nice to post our ideas; really hope devs read these forums from time to time to know what the player base wants. On my part I would love to see tomes come back, getting Tome of Wrath and Tome of Courage a rework and giving us a new set of skills when in use or even shifting our weapon skills through tomes.

I don’t think new elite specializations will include weapon sets but who knows, only time will tell.

I built a tome based spec a couple month back. I called in the Archivist.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Elite-spec-The-Archivist-Warhorn-Chants/first#post5990453

Hey you have some good ideas there, kudos to your imagination, liked a lot of skills and names you chose for them. Would change one thing and it’s the name, because of an april fool’s joke from another game (D3) for a class that never came out.

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Posted by: Fashion Mage.3712

Fashion Mage.3712

Even though the spec isn’t something I’d ever want to play, the profession mechanic is actually quite a nice idea for an elite spec.

I need tomes back though. >_>
I think they should be prioritized as the next elite spec considering that people who liked them in the first place got screwed over when they were replaced to sate the masses’ need for an elite more overpowered than RF, and that isn’t fair at all.

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Posted by: King Kai.4516

King Kai.4516

Even though the spec isn’t something I’d ever want to play, the profession mechanic is actually quite a nice idea for an elite spec.

I need tomes back though. >_>
I think they should be prioritized as the next elite spec considering that people who liked them in the first place got screwed over when they were replaced to sate the masses’ need for an elite more overpowered than RF, and that isn’t fair at all.

Thanks for the feedback!