What about this? I made an earlier version of this some weeks ago but now I made a new one so I wanted to post it here (Also I was little inspired by Dignified Loser.7689 with your phantoms, thanks, I like that idea a lot!):
Necromancer’s elite specialization: The Shaman
- New weapon: Torch
- New utility skills: Sacrifice skills
- New proffesion mechanic: Shaman’s Shroud
- Description: Shamans are powerful masters of dark arts. They were able to bring their skills to a whole new level, allowing them to work with their life force more precisely. Instead of focusing directly on their enemies, they also learned how to use their powers to support their allies. They learned things like bending their own blood, using their life force to summon lost ghosts looking for a chance to make a good deed (as this is their way to find a peace) and using their new weapon, the torch, to buff their allies. But their most significant change is their new shroud. When entering the Shaman’s Shroud, Shamans become powerful stavemasters with mighty AoE attacks and support. With such an ally the Shaman is, you’ll no longer have a fear when facing death face to face.
New boon: Vigilance
- Any attacks dealt to you have 33% less critical chance. (20% in PvP)
- Vigilance is a new powerful boon focusing at your defense. It stacks in duration and its duration is usually somewhere between the duration of protection and fury (it’s not long lasting boon like might)
Buff: Fiendish Hunger
- Some of Shaman’s abilities grants this buff. It allows to siphon health with attacks. Every source of Fiendish Hunger grants it for 5 seconds. It can be stacked (3 stacks max).
Torch skills:
Flames of Darkness (Skill 4): Cover your body with underworld flames, blinding and chilling nearby foes. (210 radius)
Hungry Flames (Skill 5): Send out a black flame to targeted area. When it arrives there, it grants stack of Fiendish Hunger to allies. Then the flame returns to you. The flame grants vigilance to allies and removes condition from them. (Works like a Phoenix, 900 range)
Shaman’s Shroud:
- When Shamans enter the Shaman’s Shroud, they’ll equip a shadow staff and gain access to new skills. These long range skills focus mostly on support and area effects.
Life Blow (Skill 1): Send forward a ghostly projectile that bounces between foes and allies, damaging foes and leaves them weakened, while granting vigor to allies. (Casting faster than Life Blast, but projectiles are little slower.)
Mark of Absorption (Skill 2): Apply a mark to your foe. After a short delay, it damages nearby foes and you siphon life force from them. Also grants might to nearby allies. (4 sec delay, 180 radius)
Well of Twilight (Skill 3): Create a pulsing well in targeted area, blinding and damaging foes and leaving them vulnerable. (240 radius)
Dark Sanctuary (Skill 4): Concentrate dark energy around you, pulsing protection to nearby allies. At the end, it gives Vigilance and Fiendish Hunger to nearby allies. Also partly revives nearby downed allies. (300 radius, with Transmute trait you revive them faster.)
Shadowfall (Skill 5): Summon dark orbs in the air above the targeted area. After a little delay, orbs fall down, heavily damaging, fearing and removing 1 boon from affected foes. (300 radius, this skill resembles the Shadowfall AoE skill Liadri the Concealing Dark was using. When foes are feared, they’ll run from the AoE center.)
- All skills except 4th one have 1200 range.
Utilities, the Sacrifice skills:
- Sacrifice skills are very powerful, so powerful, that you have to pay a painful price to activate them. There are two types of Sacrifice skills: some require your blood, while the other ones wants your life force.
Shadow Priest (Healing skill): Sacrifice life force and summon a ghostly priest that heals nearby allies. Activation: Ghostly priest sacrifices himself to protect your allies, massively healing them and granting them Vigilance and protection.
Shadow Revenger (Utility 1): Sacrifice life force and summon a ghostly revenger that absorbs CCs coming to you (4 sec cd, you have to be in his range) and grants allies stack of Fiendish Hunger when they are CCed (5 sec cd per ally). Activation: Ghostly revenger sacrifices himself and fears nearby foes.
Shadow Martyr (Utility 2): Sacrifice life force and summon a ghostly martyr that transfers conditions from nearby allies to himself. Activation: Ghostly martyr converts his conditions into boons and transfers (or copies?) them to nearby allies.
Armor of Blood (Utility 3): Sacrifice health and envelop yourself in armor of blood, gaining stability and granting Fiendish Hunger to nearby allies. Removes weakness and vulnerability from you when cast. (Duration 8 seconds.)
Orbs of Blood (Utility 4): Sacrifice health and summon two blood orbs floating around you, pulsing might and regeneration to nearby allies and weakness to foes. After some delay, orbs explode, damaging and poisoning foes. Removes bleeding and poison from you when cast. (Duration 8 seconds)
Envoy (Elite skill): Sacrifice health and separate your body from the reality, becoming a living ghost. While this skill is active, you lose all conditions and become immune to them, and damage dealt to you is decreased by 50% and you can see all stealthed foes nearby (Only you can see them, they do not become revealed, you also cannot target them.) Your attack speed and damage are decreased by 40%. Grants increased precision to nearby allies. You also cannot enter Shaman’s Shroud. When you leave this form, your life force is filled by 30% and grants Vigilance to nearby foes. (lasts for 15 seconds, 300 range, your appearance is changed like when using Spectral Walk, but with black color instead of green). You can leave this form sooner if you want (4 sec cd after using this elite skill).
- All ghosts have 360 range and always follows their master. They are immune to damage, but are still vulnerable to CCs (they are not immune to conditions, only to damage from them). They last 15 seconds, then they use their activation part and disappear (You can use it prematurely by using 2nd, activation skill). Their abilities are passive, which means CC has no effect on them, only limits ghost’s movement.
- Sacrificing uses 7% health (10% for elite skill) or 10% life force. When you don’t have enough of it, these skills become unavailable.
Traits:
Minor 1: You can use torch and gain access to Sacrifice skills. Your Death Shroud is replaced with Shaman’s shroud, which has long range support oriented skills.
Minor 2: Boons you apply have increased duration, even more, if applied in Shaman’s Shroud (10% / 20%)
Minor 3: You have increased critical chance against weakened foes (10%). Striking a weakened foe has a chance to give might to nearby allies. (33% chance, 5 sec cd, 1 stack)
Adept 1:When using Sacrifice skills, you’ll gain life force if sacrificing health and vice versa.
Adept 2: Fiendish Hunger lasts longer (7 sec instead of 5).
Adept 3: You and nearby allies gain might when leaving Shaman’s Shroud (3 or 4 stacks maybe?)
Master 1: Gain swiftness and might when applying Vigilance to an ally. Vigilance lasts longer (25%)
Master 2: Healing done from siphoning life is increased.
Master 3: Reduce recharge of torch skills. Using a torch skill grants life force.
Grandmaster 1: You gain a small amount of life force when healed. Gain life force when your health drops below the threshold. (50% health threshold, 30 sec cd. 1 sec cd for life force from healing)
Grandmaster 2: You have a chance to siphon life from your foe when applying weakness to him. (50%, 5 sec cd, gain life force instead if in Shaman’s Shroud). You and nearby allies gain stack of Fiendish Hunger when you leave Shaman’s Shroud.
Grandmaster 3: Cast Shadowfall on your position and gain fury when using elite skill (40 sec cd).
I am lazy to write it over and over. So sorry for my English.
