Class: Harvester
Races: Human, Erudite, Dark Elf
Armor: Cloth/Leather
Weapons: Dagger, Can equip things like cones and energy shields(like cryosilk webshield) in offhand.
Stat Focus: Int and Dex
Deities: Bertoxxulous, Cazic-Thule
Abilities: Dodge, Double attack, Harvest
Description Harvesters will be a fire and forget pet caster with minor melee abilities focused on debuffing.
The flagship ability of the class(harvest) begins a 5 second window in which the harvester uses his dagger to "bleed" an enemy to capture the essence of rage and fear during their victims last breathing seconds. If the victim dies in this 5 second window the Harvester receives an essence token.
Harvesters require a class specific container in their inventory which have unique properties that allow them to hold essences. Essences can not be held in regular bags/boxes because they do not have the magical properties required to quell the rage of the contained essences and the essences would drive the carrier to [/scary voice] madness.
A small quest from the guild trainer would give the Harvester their first Essence Box(2 slot) and a series of quests as they level up will give them better boxes with more slots. In addition, later essence boxes will have properties such as +10% pet abilities and such. The best of the boxes will obviously drop off raid mobs.
Pet mechanics:
Tokens(and mana) are traded for fire and forget pets. There will be a variety of different pet styles available to the Harvester which they can deploy depending on what the situation calls for. Here are some brief thoughts about the possible pet lines:
Hero Line: These were the ancient warriors of battles who sacrificed themselves to save their comrades. They will be a high HP AE taunting pet which can serve to buy the group time to mez/evac/run.
Warden line: These were the priests of ancient times. During their duration they will cure slows/dots and do some healing for group members under 50% life.
Fury line: This will be the straight up damage dealer pet, nothing special, just teh deeps
Diviner line: These will be a moderate damage caster pet with a focus on interrupting mob casting.
These pets come in the form of ancient restless souls which still haunt the battlefields of Norrath. The model of the pet will be based on battles from the gamelore. For example, in Befallen you'd summon the old elves, in guk you would summon a troll or froglock to reflect on their ancient battle for the city. The models would be cosmetic only, but I think it adds some spice to the class.
Melee
The melee of the Harvester will not be meant to do much damage in itself, but to proc debuffs on mobs(trying to use dex). The harvester will have the choice to cast a variety of short duration self only buffs(instant cast that takes mana). While this buff is on, the Harvester has a chance to proc things like -hit chance, -resists, or whatever depending on which buff they cast. The procs stack on the mob, so the more dex you have the greater the chance the mob will become more and more debuffed.
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