Port shadowblade over to celestial
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Port shadowblade over to celestial
So, a rogue type negative energy user has been thrown around for a while now. I decided to look at throwing it together (although someone else would have to code it). The problem I was coming up with was that they would play so closely to shadowblades that they might as well be the same class. Has anybody given any thought to porting the shadowblade over to be negative based? I know we wouldn't have the traditional mana using rogue at that point, but with a few tweaks, and maybe an additional talent tree or 2 it could be done. If there's interest, and possibly someone willing to walk me through the coding, I'd be willing to take a crack at the talents, see what needs to be changed, or added. Thoughts?
Re: Port shadowblade over to celestial
I actually had the idea of making a Negative based stealth/invis oriented caster, with more of an emphasis on the mage end of fighter/mage, personally.
Regardless, Shadowblade would require serious overhauls. The class would need either natural Negative regen(athematic, as nothing has this besides Liches) or some way to generate it, and currently has no ranged magic(besides Illuminate), and a fairly heavy emphasis on supportive sustains and mobility magic, most of which has no Negative equivalent. There's no Essence of Speed, much iffier teleportation, and a lot more ranged damage magic, on Negative.
You could make a stealth based physical fighter, and it might even have Darkest Light for an Invis equivalent, but it wouldn't be a Shadowblade in practice. It'd be fairly different, even if it did feel reminiscent. What Shadowblade gets out of Mana just...isn't really reflectable in Negative, aside from the fact that there's a Celestial invis spell, and redoing it all just to retheme the class seems...empty.
Regardless, Shadowblade would require serious overhauls. The class would need either natural Negative regen(athematic, as nothing has this besides Liches) or some way to generate it, and currently has no ranged magic(besides Illuminate), and a fairly heavy emphasis on supportive sustains and mobility magic, most of which has no Negative equivalent. There's no Essence of Speed, much iffier teleportation, and a lot more ranged damage magic, on Negative.
You could make a stealth based physical fighter, and it might even have Darkest Light for an Invis equivalent, but it wouldn't be a Shadowblade in practice. It'd be fairly different, even if it did feel reminiscent. What Shadowblade gets out of Mana just...isn't really reflectable in Negative, aside from the fact that there's a Celestial invis spell, and redoing it all just to retheme the class seems...empty.