WAC Working out the skill based system

KenFisher

I've been working on the skill system for WAC.

 

There are four primary gear skills:  light armor, heavy armor (includes shields), light weapons (includes dual wield), and heavy weapons.

 

Additionally, there are 10 skills that can be mixed or matched as part of character customization (no classes).

 

That makes a total of 14 skills, each with a range of 1 to 60.  With skill training maxed at 300 points, the most a character could do is max a total of 5 skills.  Two of the 5 will be their weapons and armor (if they want them maxed), so that leaves 3 out of the 10 below.

 

I'm thinking about moving shields from heavy armor into "Fortitude" which would make shield use exclusive to characters with a tank build.  I had thought about moving offhand weapons to "Evasion" but that's not a good fit because non-Rogue builds would also want to have access to dual wielding.

 

Just throwing this up to see if there are ideas on these skills, or maybe other ones that would make a good addition to the game.  One that I see that is missing is some sort of dagger throw for non-casters to use for pulls.

 

Comments thoughts?

 

NOTES:

The ones marked "---" are abilities that I want to have and don't have written yet.

There are no pets (they screw up FPS combat), so henchmen, conjured companions and tamed pets are out.

There are no bows because the animations don't sync up properly.

 

Skill	Similar to Class	Description
Combat	Warrior Offensive	Melee Attack    Slash Melee Attack DOT    Bleed Offensive Self Buffs    DPS Stance
Domination	Warrior Aggro/CC	AOE Fear    Battle Fear AOE Stun (short duration)    Battle Stun AOE Debuffs    ---
Fortitude	Warrior Defensive	Self Heal and HOT    Regen HP Self Defensive Self Buffs    Tank Stance
Destruction	Mage DPS	Projectile Damage (elemental)    Fire Bolt    Frost Bolt AOE Damage (elemental)    Fire Blast    Frost Blast AOE DOT (elemental)    Smolder
Illusion	Mage Aggro/CC	AOE Fear    Primal Fear AOE Stun    Primal Stun Stealth    Ghost
Transmutation	Mage ???	Regeneration    Regen MP Self Spell Armor    Mage Armor Offensive Self Buffs    Caster Stance
Restoration	Priest Heals	Target Heals    Mend Target    Heal Target Group Heals    Mend Group    Heal Group Performance Self Buffs    Healer Stance
Divination	Priest Blessings	Target Blessings    Bless STR    Bless BDY    Bless AGI    Bless MND    Bless WIS    Bless MYS
Invocation	Priest DPS	Projectile Damage (holy)    Holy Bolt AOE Damage (holy)    Holy Blast AOE DOT (holy)    Damnation Spell Armor    Divine Armor Stealth    Divine Veil Feign    Intervention AOE Fear    Banish <--- remove
Evasion	Rogue CC Stealth	Sneak    Sneak AOE Stun (long duration)    Stun Feign    Feign Death

 

ArChWind

Originally posted by XAPGames

There are no bows because the animations don't sync up properly.

Why can't you make a arrow a spell type since the spells work?

Just wondering.

KenFisher

Originally posted by ArChWind

Originally posted by XAPGames

There are no bows because the animations don't sync up properly.

Why can't you make a arrow a spell type since the spells work?

Just wondering.

 

Yep, the arrow projectile would be tied into the spell system.

 

Issue is the bow shoot animation in the character art package.  It raises the bow from holding it at waist height,draws and then fires (made for tab target system).  If I sync  projectile with the fire part of the animation, it's impossible to hit a moving target with first person aiming because of the 2.5 second or so delay.

I'm thinking I can chop the animation down and let the engine's tweener transition quickly so there's much less delay.  Just not happening soon.  Too many things on fire at the moment.

BTW: great list of engines in dev corner.  Once WAC's been running for a while I want to try my hand at an MMO for Android.

 

ArChWind

If it is a timing problem like I said make it entirely spell based. The casting time is the bow animation and if it is FPS then the player needs to learn to shoot a bow against a moving target.

BTW if you're going android then esenthel or Unity