Runes of Magic US / AU

Seeing the thread of the lvl 80 elites got me thinking about all the forgotten classes that are just utterly useless that no one will ever see them. Here is just a couple of random ideas I had.


R/P - I see it as the OP PvP class, but is just outclasses by R/M in basically everyway
Kick - CHANGE to increase in your OWN damage to inflicted target by 50% instead of the movement speed where anyone can slow people by hitting them from behind.
This will help its ability to burst down tankier targets.


Slowing Poison - CHANGE to an AOE with no cast time (like Enlivened Blade) rather than single target.
A 1 sec cast to one target just seems so useless on how fast pace PvP is.

Sinister Methods - COMPLETE CHANGE - When Holy Aura is in affect, your critical hit rate is 100% and critical damage is increased by 50%.
An option of survivability vs. Burst dmg. or even sometimes both :O

Mana Surge - CHANGE to recover energy instead of Mana (10 energy when hit). "Energy Surge"
Who needs mana -.-

LvL 80 Elite - Empowered Regenerate, Recover 2% HP a second.
Would really make it powerful as a roamer and true solo class.



Priest/X
Honestly I feel like all the right priest changes were done in P/Wl but it's unfortunate basically all of the existing priests are humans XD

Insane single target heal, as well as temporary raid heals. Utility with putting Holy Aura on friendlies as well as moving them out of harms way (or to troll them XD)



R/L - what could've been something OP
Dark Soul Smelt - Change it to magic damage based off PHYSICAL ATTACK like ghostly strike.
I think with this small change, I think it would be really good.


I was trying to think of PvE class combo changes but people will eventually always go to what is best dps. I remember R/WD and R/M sort of competed, but R/M eventually just outclassed it then every rogue turned R/M


I'd like to see other people crazy ideas
Some were already seen on the other thread. And try to refrain from, "class x does low damage, increase x damage by 100%"
Let's also assume that R/W isn't terrible and might consider looking at the forums.

The forgotten humans, elves and dwarves will be forgotten no longer! kappa

Thanks!

S/P - seems like a good support DPS class, but doesn't give enough and do enough itself to matter.
Mana Arrows - I feel like this could be really good, just 18% seems low.

Vampiric Transformation - At level 65 Vamp Arrows, also reduces damages by 10%.

Spiritual Lead - Places a banner target location. ANY friendly (regardless of party) within 100 has increased attack speed by 15%. Stacks with everything. Lasts 30 secs. 1min CD

Aggro Lead - CHANGES to whole party instead of one target. So the 70 elite is 10% damage for whole party.
It'll still probably be a G2 DPS, so this is useless.


Level 80 elite - Banner of Power
Places a banner at target location. All enemies within the area (150?) receive increased damage by 10%. Lasts 15 secs. 2min CD.

It'll solidify it for being a great support DPS while still doing decent DPS itself.

This is mainly inspired by the fact that Human Physical Warrior DPS is screwed over for sustain damage.

Shadowstab Perfection
Also causes the target to be vulnerable (obviously only W/R shadowstab would be able to do this, if anyone is wondering)
Just seemed appropriate to do, idk maybe its worthless

Speed Up
Passive bonus applies to mount speed as well. Also increases attack speed by 1% for every 200 range you travel by foot. Stacks 10 times. buff lasts 8 secs. (yes you can essentially just pace back and forth so this permanent attack speed as long as you stay mobile)
Gotta go fast! Why not gotta go fast for a purpose! Stay mobile = more dps!

Blood Dance
Increases your own and party member's attack speed by 5% on use. Lasts 10secs, cannot be triggered again for 30secs. Stacks with everything.

50 Elite - Change to "Tactical Mastery"
No longer need a 2H weapon for this skill to work. Goes off shadowstab bleeds as well as slash bleeds.
The way I wanted it to work is that it will count slashes first, then any extra shadowstab bleeds, it will count them as well.
i.e 3 slashes and 4 shadowstab bleeds. This new tac attack will hit a total of 5 times. 1 for the base, 3 from the slashes and 1 more for the extra shadowstab. if it gets to complicated then just ignore the latter part. Cuz 13 or so hit tactical from 5 w/r is insane lol.......

60 Elite - Change to "Agility Perfection"
Able to activate agility to double its effect for 30 secs. 1 min CD, passive does not go on a CD

80 Elite - "Off hand Mastery"
20% of your offhand damage is treated as your main-hand damage. (no I don't want this on rogues since we always have an off-hand. This is meant to be an incentive to use 2 1h axes to be truly effective as a W/R)

Math (based off RoM Database, i really hope this is right lol)

Lethal Betrayal t12+16 OD
20509 DMG @ 3.2 attack speed = 6410 DPS

Foot Soldier of Perdition t12+16 OD
25214.9 DMG @ 3.7 = 6800 DPS

With the 80 Elite
2 Lethal Betrayals at t12+16 OD
24610 DMG @ 3.2 APS = 7690 DPS

like i said, its meant to really make W/R use 2 1handers.
If tiering 2 weps for 1 class combo seems to much, another idea i had was to take 15% speed of the off hand and treat it as main hand. I have no idea how the math works for that, but potentially could make it so they would try to find the fastest offhand and i think that would be too insane.