IRE Asks: What Class Would You Create?

But it would require the introducon of historical firearms, which is just beyond (and not too far) Achaea's tech level. But screw it, we have alchemists, I want gunpowder so I can have a gunslinger type class who fires off musket pistols and stabs with bayonets and such.

Skillsets: Brawl, Mercantilism, Roma

Brawl- Club and hand to hand street fighter based combat style.

Mercantilism- Abilities to harvest comms from environment, fashion Gypsy items, transing with a mobile shop/wagon

Roma-Song and dance based buffs, survival skills.

I'll give it a little thought, and post back here again. An original race would be easier *smile*

I have noticed that while the pk cause system does serve a necessary purpose, it very much interferes with proper roleplaying of militantly good characters (who, properly speaking, would try to kill those who hunt denizens marked as innocent whether they have cause on the hunter or not.)  While of course changing the pk rules is dangerous, an alternative would be to create a class (call it the Guardian or something along those lines) built around the idea of protecting and avenging denizens:

The Guardian's first skill would be Protection, filled with defensive abilities usable on denizens (or even on all nonaggressive denizens, not counting city guards, in the area) and occasionally adventurers.  The capstone would likely be something along the lines of negating all attacks on nonaggressive denizens in the area (the attack would still provoke a counterattack).  The abilities would show that they're in use whenever they are relevant (e.g. someone attacks a protected individual), and would create pk cause in the same manner that blocking and hindering do.

The Guardian's second skill would be Devotion, just like the existing skill, but with an additional ability: Attention.  This would (for a small Devotion cost) call the attention of the Light to a particular denizen or to the Guardian himself, allowing the Retribution skill to be used against those who attack the denizen or Guardian.  It would also inform any Guardians in the area when someone attacks that denizen.  When someone attacks a denizen protected by Attention, they would receive a message telling them of the protection.  When used on the Guardian, he would be unable to use any attack abilities (but could use abilities in the Protection skill and the Invoke ability in Retribution.)

The Guardian's third skill (the one gained when embracing class) would be Retribution.  This would work somewhat similar to Vodun and Puppetry, in that it would require a certain amount of Wrath (equivalent to Fashions in the aforementioned skills) to use abilities, and each ability would use some (or all) of the stored Wrath.  Wrath would be gained through the Invoke ability, which could be used within 2 seconds of the target attacking someone protected via Attention in the same area or on a target in the same room against whom the Guardian has at least 5 Wrath.  Due to the difficulty of attaining Wrath against an enemy as well as the other weaknesses of the Guardian (he has no hunting skills, no crafting skills, and very few offensive skills outside Retribution), it would have correspondingly powerful effects, ranging at low amounts from bestowing afflictions to at higher amounts slaying the enemy outright, draining their karma or essence, or even draining experience or destroying gold and resources (but probably not equipment) in their possession.  Wrath would be lost when either the Guardian or the target is slain or logs out, but one ability would allow the Guardian to set certain abilities to expend the remaining Wrath to activate at that time.

A little too complicated for us to create

I really like Werins Idea, however it is actually unfeasable in that it would depend entirely on a list of denizens that is created and modified at will by a set of individuals

Take Swashbuckling from the bards, explosives from the jesters, and add in the shiny new Buccaneering skill. It would include classmobs like parrots, trained monkeys, probably something for theft or looting, dirty fighting, and stuff of that ilk.

I'd like to see a class that would use 'pets' that attack

I would make a character that uses two handed weapons like a bastard sword or halberd, it makes me sad some items are unused :(

A class that uses shadow magic ftw! SHADOW MAGIC!!!! WOOO!!!! Seriously! Cool in concept and sounds like a ton of fun if done right. I just hope it would be something truly original. Whatever they make it MUST be original and preferably have several niche roles and for god sakes...BE RELEVANT!

Lusternia lacks a thief/rogue class, would add them. Monks just isn't the same. Though I wouldn't make such a class actually be about stealing.

We don't need any more classes. We seriously didn't need blademaster, although alchemists seem interesting and a chance for good rp.

Maybe a class that can mirror skills used by others

god

Warriors need a halberdier spec, so they can use polearms.

Lusternia needs a shaman/wytchen class!

Telekenesis, Telepathy, very cool options for skill all up in there.

So far my favorite has been the pirate class idea. bring it on haha

We've got too much classes as it is already. If I could really choose, I'd make a tradeskill oriented class. And a way to use trades to level. I'd let everyone else keep their original tradeskills, even make it an option for them to level through it as well, but this class would have two tradeskills by default. Their skillset would be a combo of making them better at trades, ways to use trades in combat, and support skills that can be used on others.

Pet based class

A new class that can create bigger and better illusions, even illusionary creatures and denizens. they could have a phantasmal killer for combat which is a mental attack which makes people hurt themselves if they believe it. They could be able to use color with their illusions like jesters do. Hallucinations, mind tricks, an illision which acts like hypnosis if believed. This would create an opportunity for people to steal if they don't want to be a serpent. The possibilities are endless. oh an illusion that makes people believe their best friend is actually trying to kill them thereby adding people to their enemies list. To powerful?

To be honest, I can't think of any new class that would be significantly different from any of the existing. Adding another class bears the risk of simply producing a more or less exact copy of one of the already existing classes, just with other ability names, which would not really add anything to the game. I can only agree to the others here, that would need a lot of careful thinking, planning and possibly researching, which would certainly go too far for this comment section.

Cult that reveres death.  This could be accomplished through more subtle means such as poisons (poisoned food, drink, etc) for that more RP feel.  Or through steathly means using things like vital strikes from stealth (a garrote).  Or straight up combat typically wielding swords or daggers.

RIght now we have three classes that share forging, 4 classes that share concoctions, if you count the alchemists which you may as well, but only one class that can make venoms and only once class that can enchant I think a new class which is akin to magi or serpent would be a nice addition or perhaps even a combination of both like a venom making enchanting something then you only have to create one unique skillset. After all we basically have 4 class specific things that are marketable skillsets. 1. Enchanting, 2. concoctions - or its the alchemy version  3. forging 4. venoms.

Combine Puppetry and Vodun and have some sort of puppetmaster class that could control ents. Not just Occultist or forestal ents with passive attacks, but control the attacks they use and whatnot.

I like the idea of a Pirate class

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mmmm. a class who would be a dezien! who would spend its days handing out quests !

I thought of that, in fact I once heard of a class called conjurer that derived it's power from summoning other creatures and then having them do whatever it was that needed doing. For instance a small ice deamon would be summoned if a freeze spell were needed. However this seemed to be to close to the domination skill that we already have in occultism and so I dropped the idea.

For Midkemia Online I would have to go with Ranger, which would use a longbow (which would fire a range of a room or two and would fire several times quicker than a crossbow) and a pair of daggers to fight (daggers for when the enemy is hitting you over the head range). It would have two starting class skillsets: Archery and Tracking. The archery skillset would allow for many types of arrow shots, including how to attach bombs to the arrows, and how to shoot them in any part of the body, as well as being able to use four types of arrows (armor piercing, swallowtail, blunt and broadedge). The use of daggers would also be snuck in there somewhere. Tracking would allow you to track NPCs and Players accurately and make you somewhat sneaky (giving you access to hide from subtlety), especially in woods. It would have a specialization of Dagger Mastery, which would allow you to use daggers more effectively, so as to parry with the daggers, throw the daggers (you could recover them from your oppenents corpse, if you killed them), dagger fury (swing the daggers at insane speeds for damage, costs a lot of adrenaline and endurance), dual strike (attack with both daggers at once to different parts of the body, making it impossible to completely block with one weapon), as well as many other cool moves.

I would love to see actual necromancers in MKO, since we already have an Order that centres around undeath.

I want to raise an army of zombies and make them dance, please.

I'd personally love to see a another knight class, with the standard chivalry and forging, but with a chaotic slant to them.. maybe Occultist abilities in the place of runelore/devotion/necromancy.

Just so the three fronts of alignment eg. Good, Evil and Chaos all have their own specific knight class, would make the world so much more interesting in my opinion

I think Achaea has a nice range right now. Maybe work on those a bit more, rather than add a new one.

Hmm, I think there should be a choice to either choose one of the many guilds of Lusternia, or go rogue and each race would have their own rogue-type class/skill. For example, if you were an Elfen, there would be a skill called Wilderness, where you could swing around on vines in nature environments, and forage. They would also have a specific bashing attack called Thorn, which you would need a rosebush for. It lets you throw a thorn at their eyes. To get a rosebush, you would need the ability called Plantfind, which lets you pick any plant you wish. That's only my Elfen idea! Don't get me started on the other races.

A class that would use plants like vine whips and exploding seeds as weapons would be interesting as well

puppet oblierate in achaea please!

Hey, why not a psychic class too. I'd love that personally. Just depends on what kind of psychic. I know there is the Psionics skillset, but I mean something that makes the whole class Psychic.

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Work on the current classes would be better. I'm not sure though.

Achaea has three knightly classes, Paladins (good), Infernals (evil) and Runewardens (Neutral). I'd mix in a few other knightly classes. Maybe a swordmage class, with a variant of elementalism that boosts sword attacks (say, switch firelash for flaming sword), or a forestal knight that has groves as its third ability, and grows armour and weapons from wood the same way other grovists grow their quarterstaves.

Everyone seems to have their favorite type of class. However it seems that the majority of votes are going towards pirate class.  I wonder if this will be upcoming and what it will do to seafaring?

To be completely honest, if I could, it wouldn't be a whole new class I'd add. I'd just add a polearms spec for warriors!

I would like a class where I can shoot things and blow things up to smithereens.

Pirate is the most interesting class so far

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I'd love to see a class where you earn your abilities separate from learning. I find it more interesting to get an ability through a quest or something like enslavery so I'd love to see a class take that idea and really run with it. The absolute basics would be included in the skill. But for the rest of the abilities you'd need to use those basics to get them. Performing rituals in sacred locations, researching phenomena, etc. You would need to explore a bit to get everything in the skill, but the neccessities would be on your orgs turf.

Being from Lusternia, the idea is vague enough to allow all six orgs to have their own incarnation of the class. You could have scientists from Hallifax using a research flavour, while the mystics from Gaudiguch have drug induced vision quests.

How about other undead, not just vampires (i.e., zombies, wraithes, ghosts, etc.)

dont we have an entire mud for undead?

An important figure in any society is often a craftsman. It would take the basic skills of alchemy, tailoring, smithing, etc and create a class that would allow them to be a master of crafts, and use those skills to provide as well as defend for himself

I'm a big fan of gnomes and tinkering. It appeals to the engineer within me (although I am not an engineer, sadly). So the tinkerer would largely be dependant upon gadgets and thingamabobs imbued perhaps with magic to make them a little more interesting. But not too closely bordering on the "technomage" realm... imagine being able to call in a precision catapult or ballista strike on your enemies if you're within a certain range of a city (either for seiging or for defense, depending on the situation!). I would also imagine they might have some type of technologically advanced crossbow that could shoot scattershot with a pouch, or regular bolts, or poison-tipped bolts, etc. as various abilities to give them diversity and bashing. Maybe you can figure a better name than Tinkerer, but those types of things would be really neat in my book!

No idea

It may be a bit sci-fish, but a gnome race added to the playerbase along with an Engineer-like class could probably fit it in with the Aetherships and all in Lusternia.

Other than that, I can't think of anything. Lusternia's got its bases covered.

specialise in fighting with a chair leg, highly improvised

instead of adding a class

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I'd be torn between a dual wield specialist (Twin Fang) or a shield specialist (Defender) for MKO soldier classes.

Because Sirens in Mhaldor is just silly

I wanna see more warrior weapon specs in lusternia.  maybe some knife fighters or a polearm warrior I jut wanna see more than the speed weapons used. 

Some sort of multi-lycanthrope. Set it up so it can adjust forms to take on different situations, maybe a base set of skills that change based on what kind of form they're in. Like instead of claw, it'd be use left arm or such.

I just want to fly. Flying sounds absolutely awesome, especially when you know the layout and everything of the land below. (So yeah, tried other Iron Realms games, was completely surprised by sheer size of worlds.)

Also...maybe plant magic / crystal magic terts? D: