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Documentary of a Crazy Lycan Cub.

To explain the lycan cub part. i have a wolf skin i was using alongside More Player Models. When i got to choose my race and class for the first time, i totally went halfling warrior. Hit f5 to see if the model is different.. i looked. ****ING. ADORABLE. the included texture pack with the bearskin leather armor and the giant sword made it hilarious!

Anyway, so i tried all the classes, and i landed in roughly the same conclusion as everyone else; Warriors need higher cooldowns, Archers need a rework (They suck right now, cant even kill chickens, let alone hit them), and mages are wickedly balanced. what i mean by that, is that they hit like a truck, but they have no health, no armor. you get two shot constantly. The main benefit i see for playing mage is Thor-stomping pigs and killing the pigmen for gold nuggets.

now to go over the other stuff people have talked about.
Dual wielding would be sick. Adventurecraft did it, M&B:Battlegear did it, a few others did it. we can do it too. You could also go so far as making two-handed weapons that are slower, hit harder, maybe have a cleaving effect that stacks with warrior's Whirlwind (Grab a big sword and spin to win kids!). Shields with a blocking system similar to mine and blade, maybe a shield bash ABILITY instead of block-attack like battlegear. Adding something akin to a Dragon stomp (Leap and land, AOE hit) would be cool on warriors too, have the ground in a set radius highlight green for you to show where you can target to leap to. Would be something cool to have alongside the normal Leap, give berserker players that feel of rushing into battle and goomba-stomping a roflconda before jumping away.

More on the ranger's side, they need a LOT of work. what i thought of is to have a few different arrows that would be consumed upon using an ability. Flint arrows (Default) would be used for longer, precision shots with the normal attack, similar to regular minecraft bow shots. Coal arrows (Coal in place of flint) would be consumed upon using Explosive Shot, Torch Shot, and a new ability: Firework Arrow, which will explode after 2 seconds (Regardless if it hits an enemy, so its still 2 seconds if its a point blank shot) and create a ring of eight blaze-like fireballs horizontally that will shoot out, lasting 1 second. The next arrow is the Heavy Arrow (Iron for the shaft). the Heavy arrow will fly much straighter than a normal arrow, but can only be used with Longbows. would be used for all new abilities: Shattering Arrow, which will reduce the enemy's armor by, say, 20% for 10 seconds. Hammer Shot, which will knock the target back 7 blocks, and if it hits a wall, it cant move for 3 seconds (Its pinned to the wall). and Execution Shot, which deals 100% of the arrows normal damage, dealing triple that if the enemy is under 20% HP. This allows longbowmen to pull of some decent crowd control, single-target damage amplification (Great for bosses and rares) and still have the feel of a sniper with Execution shot. The third arrow wraps up the skillset: The Mystic Arrow, made by surrounding an Ender Pearl with four arrows. the mystic arrow benefits from half of your Dexterity, and half of your Willpower. The mystic arrow also has three abilities, Multi-shot, which will fire a base of 3 arrows in a cone, each arrow 15 degrees aside the other, and each arrow is much more acurate, but is more influenced by gravity's laws, and will only deal half of the damage. Every 30 Willpower, up to 120 Willpower, will add two more arrows to the side, maxing out at 9 arrows in a wide 120 degree cone at 120 Willpower. This gives archers a mage-like ability, that scales well off of thier own stats, as well as willpower. The second Mystic Arrow ability is called Bouncing Arrow, which will have a 100% to ricochet and target an enemy near the enemy the arrow is bouncing off of, causing the % to ricochet to lower by 20%. The maximum number of bounces is 5. The third ability is not the lightning-inducing arrow like we see now, the third ability is called Black Arrow, which will steal health based on how much of the arrows damage is influenced by willpower, and also apply a rank 1 Slowness effect for 3 seconds, while also applying a rank 1 speed increase for the same time. . This kit gives Willpower archers a significant boost in Crowd Control, Group damage, and Sustained life and damage, as well as givng them the ample power to kite single mobs effectively, like real rangers should!

Somewhere i read that mages got a U-haul of overhauls, so i wont go into any heavy detail as to whats good and bad about them. they have infinite gold as long as they have pigs, they have the best form of movement in the game, and they eat packs of enemies alive. On the other hand, they have no life pool (Usual for a caster), They are screwed if they go mana starved, and there is currently little to do in the early-mid game about mana regeneration. Also. lightning a pig, and it will turn into a pigman, this generation actually has a chance to create a rarespawn pigman. dont know if intentional or not, but its fun to lightning bolt every pig i see in hopes of getting a rarespawn.

Onto the races: Halfling is sick, you can fit in 1.5 block high holes (A slab does the trick!) and skeletons might as well go AFK seince they cant hit you. Other than the model problem with the telekinetic powers of floating objects, they are pretty balanced as a race. I have yet to actually try elves, Steves and dwarves, but i hear they don't have anything, so i will go off of that. The Dwarves obviously need some mining bonus, thats what they do, but they also should get a passive 25% damage bonus from axes, making axedwarves a good option for warriors. Elves should have a passive 25% regen speed increase for both health and mana, that alone makes the class worth it. And steve? 10% bonus EXP and Currency gain. Standard for the 'balanced' race.

I saw somewhere that you should lower the common item drop rate, i agree with that doubley so. I have had times where i would leave my home town for five minutes and come back full of vendor trash to sell. as much as i love the money, i dont like having to play fed-ex every time i leave town to go mining.

speaking of mining, again saw somewhere that you should increase mob levels as you go down. Agreeing with this too. if mobs spawn between layer X and Y, they are Z level. if they spawn between A and B layers, they are C level. so on so forth. as well as adding diffrent mobs down there. Rock Golems, Worms (Using the Roflconda model with a stone texture) And as you get to bedrock, you begin the hunt to find Lava caverns, surrounded by Ash stone, home to the Core Beasts, giant four-legged monsters that breathe fire and.. you know. Evil fire dogs that are 20 feet tall. Maybe lava naga? would be sick.

And for dungeons, not one dungeon i have been in has had any loot of importance. there were chests, but no 'final chest of cool stuff' like the Towers have. This makes the underground dungeons very unappealing to me as a player, forcing me to go bust my balls in the towers to get good items.

And now for my own ideas.. about things based off of things that arnt in the game, rather than are.

Healers: We've talked about them, people want them. its planned, but what i think is that healers (Clerics probably, maybe Paladins?) should have enough abilities to 1: Keep a group alive during a heavy engagement. 2: Support allies with buffs, Demoralize enemies with debuffs. 3: Still retain the feel of being a squishy character through the self-healing abilities, 4: Willpower primary stat to scale healing, NOT buffs and debuffs. So i came up with this kit of 9 abilities:

(As a rule. all targeting is "Targets the closest player to your cursor, if no player or wolf is adjacent to your cursor, spell targets self" for Words and Boons, and "Targets the closest enemy NPC to your cursor, if no enemy is adjacent to your cursor, the spell does not activate" For Judgements. Players may only have one Boon on them at a time, and Boons all have a 5 second cooldown, and last 5 minutes. Same one-per-person rule is applied to Judgements, but judgements have a 10 second cooldown and last 25 seconds. Banes scale off of intelligence, providing a 0.1% per point scaling. Boons scale off of willpower and intelligence, providing a 0.075% scaling for each. [it takes some skill get the same scaling with hybrid abilities as pure stat abilities because chances are, the pure stat user will always have a bit of the other stat as well, thus making a 0.1% on hybrid each have more effect thatn 0.1% on pure stat)

1) Word of Healing: Heals for X health. 2 second Cooldown.
2) Word of Renewal: Provides a 20 second boost to health regeneration. 10 second Cooldown.
3) Word of Holy Light: Provide a light of level 15 around you, healing all allies within a 5 block radius for X health. 15 second Cooldown.
4) Boon of Strength: Provides a 5% Damage boost to your weapons (Not your strength or int or dex, your actual overall weapon damage)
5) Boon of Resolve: Provides a 5% Boost to your total health pool (Not vitality)
6) Boon of Swiftness: Provides a rank 1 speed bonus and a 5% attack speed increase.
7) Judgement of Life: Attacks made on the judged enemy heal the attacker for 5% of the damage dealt.
8) Judgement of Exposure: Attacks made on the judged enemy have a 5% chance to deal double damage. this stacks with critical strikes.
9) Judgement of Chains: The Judged enemy has a rank 2 slowness, 5% reduced attack speed, and takes a flat 0% of its health every time it moves one block. (0% scales 0.01% for Inteligence)

This kit provides Clerics with less "Yawn" factor, allowing you to get into the fight and throw around Judgements to help the fight succeed. as well as providing great solo-ability with self heals, Boon of Strength and Judgement of Life. Or you can use Boon of Swiftness and Judgement of Chains to quickly catch up to your target.

Also, Class items. Do it. We need Class items, and items with Set bonuses (Mainly for multiplayer, people can collect sets of items by killing mobs and such, and sell them to others for profit, or keep them to wear)

And we could whip up some consumables that actually work, like mana potions.

heres a concept: Replace the starting compas with a "Home Compass" That will always point to a block you set by right-clicking with it. That way, you can set it to your current home instead of the spawn point, in case you want to journey to higher level zones.
Comments wanted!