i personally dont care if they add the new race but lets hear some suggestion on how it would work if they did add it
1. flying race so obviously a light armor type
2. massively overpowered if it could fly like a wyvern so obviously as good as flying should be is the ability to fly out of range for a short period to avoid magic and arrows
3. knock back attacks posibly with the ability to stun
Give 'em a flight stamina gauge (like the breath gauge). When the timer runs out, it glides back to the ground. Give 'em masteries that boost the gauge when wearing robes or light armor. Maybe a penalty for heavy armor. No flying with a weight penalty (gliding might be okay).
Give 'em a flight stamina gauge (like the breath gauge). When the timer runs out, it glides back to the ground. Give 'em masteries that boost the gauge when wearing robes or light armor. Maybe a penalty for heavy armor. No flying with a weight penalty (gliding might be okay).
Give 'em a flight stamina gauge (like the breath gauge). When the timer runs out, it glides back to the ground. Give 'em masteries that boost the gauge when wearing robes or light armor. Maybe a penalty for heavy armor. No flying with a weight penalty (gliding might be okay).
+1 on this idea. I was going to suggest the same, with one minor tweak. If you are encumbered over x% (65%?), you drop like, well, a heavy object.
How does combat work? Give them the same range as other classes? 900 max on the ranged attacks, up close and personal from the melees?
Would melees take extra damage, due to their light structure?
Give 'em a flight stamina gauge (like the breath gauge). When the timer runs out, it glides back to the ground. Give 'em masteries that boost the gauge when wearing robes or light armor. Maybe a penalty for heavy armor. No flying with a weight penalty (gliding might be okay).
you'd wanna hope nc balanced that right, or we would just have another race balanced the same way mages and archers are balanced with mp
I think the new race would be the reason for airial combat, think of something ala Aion. The other races will get something in form of mounts maybe to participate in this.
How would tanks and other non-range characters hit them?
I thought make them very vulnerable to agression and root. That would make it easier to bring them to the ground and even tanks could hit them. just an idea =)
Did you ever see the "WKRP in Cincinnati episode with the Thanksgiving Turkey event? It involved a helicopter :cool:
Venus: Les! Are you okay?
Les: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered, but some of them tried to attack me! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Andy: Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les: I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counterattack! It was almost as if they were ...organized!!
Mr Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Bonus WKRP quote (you youngin's might not get it):
Johnny: Gripping music, huh?
Mr Carlson: Yeah, that's good all right. What's the name of that orchestra?
Johnny: Pink Floyd.
Mr Carlson: Oooh, is that Pink Floyd? Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?
Johnny: I do.
Did you ever see the "WKRP in Cincinnati episode with the Thanksgiving Turkey event? It involved a helicopter :cool:
Venus: Les! Are you okay?
Les: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered, but some of them tried to attack me! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Andy: Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les: I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counterattack! It was almost as if they were ...organized!!
Mr Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Bonus WKRP quote (you youngin's might not get it):
Johnny: Gripping music, huh?
Mr Carlson: Yeah, that's good all right. What's the name of that orchestra?
Johnny: Pink Floyd.
Mr Carlson: Oooh, is that Pink Floyd? Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?
Johnny: I do.
"And soap you can see through."
so in short.. yes.. the new race will probably be the Arteis and they can fly. :o
Personaly i think that the Aeritas wint fly more than 2 ft off the ground and as people have said before, be limited to light and robe armour classes. I can also see this race being the fastest of them all (200 run speed standard..... maybe :P)
I would like to see the fighter type have some skills like "Swoop" where the character would rise up 20 feet in to the air and come down on the enemy, that would be cool. Maybe their version of dash would be a sudden burst of speed that then slowly slows down (kinda like being fired out of a gun and slowing down because of wind resistance).
Im not sure what the mage class would be like since all mages atm are based on an element or holy/unholy and the wind element is allready taken by SH's. Maybe electricity? but SpS's allready have their electrical attack. I dunno, im just brain storming.
Red bull only makes you want to fly by means of some cheap flying machine that doesn't work :p
I wouldn't mind seeing the new race being able to fly anywhere's, just give them equal range as everyone else, and make them weak vs arrows. might as well make them non-subclassable too. we deserve to have some fun and go anywheres in the sky ^^