[Contest] Best concept for a skill idea for Path of Exile gets a key! [Closed]

Ultimate shield:
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Description:
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After casting the skill, the dmg you recieve will be first absorbed by your mana pool.
Duration:
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depend on skill lvl, max 10 sec
cooldown:
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depend on skill lvl, max 5 min
Restrictions:
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need more than 80% mana to be able to activate the skill. if the mana % below 15% the skill stop working.
self casting only.
effect:
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Mana pool sphere start to blink and over your head a little blue flame effect for the skill duration.
usage:
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can be used when u low on hp and need time to recover, this allow u to recover your hp while mana pool recieve the dmg, of course the dmg applied to the mana pool is higher than the real one u recieve if the skill is maxed.


Medusa:
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Description:
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after casting the skill, theres a % of probability that your enemies get turned to stones for a short period, stones enemy cant be harmed in any way, after the effect is gone, they recieve a % of movement speed debuff.
Duration:
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stone effect 10 sec
slow effect 5 sec
cooldown:
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10 min
Restrictions:
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short range area effect.
some monsters are immune to the skill
have more success rate on targets with low hp


Chaos:
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Description:
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Put the enemies in chaos, confusion, so they attack each others.
Duration:
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10 sec on max skill
cooldown:
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1 min on max skill
Restrictions:
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can put on chaos up to 6 enemies on max skill, starting from 1 enemies and so on.
enemies that have been put on chaos and the effect is gone continues with the low hp they have.
can be casted on another player summons
success depend on skill lvl and enemy lvl.


Injection:
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Description:
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You inject the enemies with a virus, that lower their defense, movement speed, but make them rage and raise their atk power.
Duration:
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5 sec fixed
cooldown:
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depend on skill lvl
Restriction:
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cant be casted on skeletons


voodoo:
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Description:
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create a fixed dark effect on ground under the caster, anyone entering the area will get his hp lowered by a %, mov speed lowered.
Duration:
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7 sec
cooldown:
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depend on skill lvl
Restriction:
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cant cast it if theres no enemy inside the selected area.
effect is gone after 2 sec with no enemy inside


Invisible Barrier:
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Description:
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cast a circle aroun d the caster invisible to enemies, if an enemy try to go inside, get stuned when touching the border only, once inside the effect is gone.
if casted with enemies inside the circle, they suffer no effects until they try to get out after u.


Crow Army:
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Description:
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summon an army of crow atacking from a corner of the screen every enemy in the selected area while casting, then after some sec they fall dead on the ground.



if i got more ideas ill edit it xD tnx for reading

I suggest not only quoting the winner, but saying who the runner ups were.

It would make the losers feel a bit better if they were in the top 3 or 5.

Hmm, the crow army idea would be really awesome. Perhaps it could even be transfered to other animals as kind of a powered up version.

For those that missed it, the dead line was like 1.23hr ago sorry ^^. I'm just reposting. I'm still currently re reading though it.

After all is done I'ma PM/get in contact with a dev and see if I can get more Keys for this simple contest since I'm seeing a lot of really good ideas that I really like.

I've actually got every thing written down on every entry (not all flattering), but I'll post some of the stuff I put down for some of the better ones.


Contest was closed on the 10th page sorry guys.

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RenoFox wrote:

For those that missed it, the dead line was like 1.23hr ago sorry ^^. I'm just reposting. I'm still currently re reading though it.

After all is done I'ma PM/get in contact with a dev and see if I can get more Keys for this simple contest since I'm seeing a lot of really good ideas that I really like.

I've actually got every thing written down on every entry (not all flattering), but I'll post some of the stuff I put down for some of the better ones.


Contest was closed on the 10th page sorry guys.

Thanks again for the opportunity RenoFox, I'm unfortunately going to have to call it a night, since its 3:30am so i'll have to wait til morning to see whom to congratulate!

Cheers.

Skill name: last hope

Target: enemies, self

Description: this a an emergency spell for tanks.
your character gathers up souls from fallen enemies (1 per enemy), up to a total of 150. once your character drops below 10% hp you can cast this spell.

to not make this spell a repeatable every 5 seconds one, you consume all the souls upon casting and have to have at least 50 souls to cast it again.

the cast time should be around 1 sec to fit with the visuals.

this spell has two effects:

-it passively increases your total hp up to 250% (the 100% u have + 1% per soul u gathered) for 5 seconds.

e.g. u got a total health of 1000 and u drop down to 100 with 150 souls gathered.
you activate the skill and instantly get a max health of 2500, what means your current health increases to 250 for 5 seconds. you still get the same damage as before but this gives you some survivability.

- the second effect is an area of effect damage and knock back off all enemies in a close range of your character.
the damage is your weapon damage + up to 150% of the your weapon damage based on your gathered souls.

e.g. u got surrounded by a lot of enemies and most of them are melees. once u drop to 10% of your total health and activate this spell, all enemies in close range are knocked back and take 100% + x% of your weapon damage based on the souls u gathered.

Visuals: on activation your character first cowers and then releases all the gathered souls in a blast, which means your the epicenter of it. the souls should first look like a circle of fog and with increased radius u should be able to see some tortured ghostly faces in it.

Sounds: your character should make some sound like "hhhhnnnNNGGG" when he cowers for the 1 second cast time. and a big "RAWR" with the release of the blast. or use the flavor text as sound. *cowers + whispering* my death ... *roaring* IS NOT IN YOUR HANDS

Flavour text: my death ... IS NOT IN YOUR HANDS (i know there are better words or grammar to use this sentence but as english is not my mother tongue i cant find any, sorry)

*picture*: i am terrible at drawing and dont think i can google up some nice pictures that would fit. but i tried :D

http://s7.directupload.net/images/110920/f5vhwhpy.jpg

Note: this skill could be a part of the skill tree. with every point you spend, you increase the duration of your passive health boost (starting with 1 second + 1 second per skill point up to a total of 5 seconds). or/and with every skill point you can gather up more souls (starting with 30 souls + 30 souls per skill point up to a total of 150)

i am not part of the beta yet, so you might consider that the damage of 250 weapon damage is too much/less. all the variables (duration, damage, increase per skill point, range of damage and knock back) can and should be changed to a balanced amount.

i am glad someone let me share my idea with a hope of a beta key.

good luck to all.

zyanas

haha i missed the deadline by drawing the pic and making up the skill.

my bad :)

congrats to the winner i am going to sleep

2 post due to size:
Okay so I've picked my top 9:

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nyydia wrote:

Skill name: Banshee's Grave

Target: Enemy Corpse

Description: When cast on enemy, a banshee will move straight line from the original corpse all the way to the caster, damaging everything in his way and debuffing targets with slow. Debuff can stack and on 3 it has chance to change the targets into Ghost minions what fight for you small amount of time.

Visuals: Your characters hands go slowly over his head and hands are purple, then you see female ghost running with trident rapdily towards you. When struck on enemy bright flash appears.

Sounds: You hear slight humming on the hand perioid and when the spell is struck, you start hearing ear tearing scream volume decreasing all the way to zero when getting to character.

On hit, "ethereal blow" Something close when you drop water on hot and tune it up abit with pro tunes. ;)

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Anmat wrote:

Skill name: Charged Bayonet

Target: Active Skill

Description: Fires a magically enchanted arrow with 100% weapon damage that pierces all the enemies in it's path, planting charges in every enemy it hits that will detonate after 3 seconds in a small radius for 30% weapon damage. If an enemy dies by a detonation, there will be a larger explotion for 700% weapon damage. Cooldown: 30 seconds to prevent spamming.

Visuals: Normal bow attack animation, more details in attached pictures.

Sounds: A deep magical sound effect to reinforce the raw power of the skill, small screen shakes with every detonation.

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Taric wrote:

This assumes that the final class is a Bard (which fits perfectly, by the way) Being the final class, I'm assuming the Bard would be female, so descriptions use "her" as a term. Have not played the game so I do not know if there are status effects, but I assume there are and I make one up :)



Skill name: Twilight Aria

Target: Group/Party/Allies (AoE Buff to Allies nearby)

Description: "Support buff. The Bard sings a high and light aria that instills a warm an incandescent feeling to her allies."

*Allows for an increased light radius/slight increase to resistance to "Darkness" status effect (or something similar). This allows for previously treacherous terrain to become a little more manageable. Possibly even be a sought after skill in some really dark places. Battlefield awareness is key, after all.*

Visuals: Bard spreads her arms and opens her mouth as a glowing musical score swirls around her and shoots off notes to various allies in the vicinity, finally being absorbed into each player. Once absorbed each player with the buff is granted a slight glow (which is the suspected cause of the increased light radius).

Each note, and her general aura during has a light white glow.

Sounds: Bard sings a light and high tune. The tune is fairly short and has no discernible words. It goes like this:

Rating each sound on a scale of 1-5, 1 being highest note, and 5 being lowest)

Ahhhhhh (1), Oooooo (2), Oooooo (3), Oooooo (4), Oooooo (3), Oooooo (5)






NOTES:
The Buff applies when the last note is finished, and the Bard cannot move during the casting this particular ability.

As the level of the skill increases, the radius that party members have to be inside grows, the duration lasts longer, and the resistance increases. The light radius boost itself doesn't get an increase.

I wish I had a picture of some-sort, but I do not. If you want more description, just ask. I love Bards and I love making things up :D

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hydris wrote:

Skill name: Merge Minions

Target: (Summon)

Description: Targetted minion will merge with x amount of minions of the same kind, creating a super-minion, stats scaling with the amount of minions consumed.

A superminion will have an exclusive skill depending on the minions used.

Visuals:
Player character kills the minions and from the bodies, comes the superminion.

Spawning uberminion:
Megazombie:
http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k540/hydris2/poecontestconceptsuperzombiecopy.jpg (thought image would be too large for fourms)

Sounds: (Depends on the Minion used, follows the death sounds of the minions and then a voice clip from the superminion). Shared lines with different voices and effects.

i.e Zombies ----> Death Sound ----> "By your will"

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mooseme2u2 wrote:

Skill name: Kinetic Battery

Target: Any

Description: Places a kinetic shield on the target that lasts 15 seconds. The shield absorbs 10% damage taken. At the end of the duration, or if target is killed the shield explodes dealing damage equal to 5x the absorbed damage in an area around the target.

Visuals: As the shield absorbs more and more damage, the shield emits a more profound electric visual effect. The more charged, the more profound the explosion is (as an electric nova)

Sounds: As the shield charges, it emits more and more static-like effect. When the shield explodes, it shocks each enemy affected

Flavour text: Give me all you've got.



The point of being able to target enemies is that you could use it to create AOE damage out of single target attacks. The shield may not seem like much, but it can't be very strong if it is to have an AOE nuke attached to it. It would be very good to use on an ally tank, or on a beefy enemy surrounded by other units.

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MinusHuman wrote:

Skill name: Wall of Swords

Target: Instant (Self)

Description: When cast, creates a wall of swords around the caster. Any enemy that comes into contact with the wall, will suffer damage. Parts of the wall can be attacked and destroyed. The wall does not move with the caster, but the caster takes no damage from the wall and is able to destroy a part of the wall with a single hit, to either let monsters in or to escape himself (i.e. the ability can be used both offensively and defensively).

Visuals: A deadly, razor-sharp mass of all sorts of different blades and swords is risen from the ground. Dirt and dust flies. (Perhaps it would look a bit like the Bone Wall ability of Diablo II's Necromancer?)

Sounds: Some sort of slashing when enemies come into contact and/or when the wall is attacked. When created, some rumbling and the scissoting sound of blades rubbing against eath other.

Flavour text: "Come and get me!"


Additional Idea: Perhaps the swords could be launhed outward by using the skill again as in first click would create the wall and second click launch it. Would make it much more offensive.

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Chivalrous wrote:

Skill name: Ball and Chain

Target: All nearby enemies.

Description: This is an escape skill suitable to any class. Upon activating Ball and Chain, a cupid is summoned. The cupid immediately shoots an arrow into any and all surrounding foes. Affected targets instantly fall madly in love with each other and forget that they ever wanted to heinously murder you. As we all know, relationships can often become very complicated very quickly. Thusly, after a brief (very) romantic interlude, all of our new lovers become immobilized by the inevitable "Ball and Chain" leaving you free to go about your business unharmed.

Visuals: A cute cuddly cupid with heart tipped arrows and fluffy white wings. Floating heart shaped bubbles appear near struck targets. The bubbles pop once the classic wrought iron ball and chain appear.

Sounds: A gong sounds as the cupid appears. Its bow creaks cutely as he draws the string back. The arrows 'thunk' hollowly into their targets. A string orchestra soothes us as the heart bubbles rise. Finally a harsh metal clack as the former lovers are clapped in irons and the bubbles pop.

Flavour text: And you thought it was just a bad cliche.

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ravage23 wrote:

My concept art is more so for the Female* Dex/Int class that is to be released. The skill information can easily differ based on male or female character, but for the sake of the original idea I had, I wrote it based around the upcoming class. Hope you like it.

Skill name: Cry of the Undead
Gem Color: Green
Target: Self Buff, 10yrd radius from center of caster. Buff gained only from Undead creatures in range when casted.
Description: Absorbs 1% damage, movement speed and attack speed from each surrounding undead creatures for up to 10 seconds.
Visuals: Changes your physical look into an undead for the duration of the buff.
Sounds: A loud female warriors battle cry. (no not like Xena)
Flavour text: "There is nothing more frightening than a woman scorned"

Skill Icon


Skill Tooltip


Visual Demonstration


Skill Graphic


Thank you for the contest, It was nice to design something for something I enjoy, instead of just for work. I hope you like my suggestion.

Ingame Screen shots taken from :
http://www.pathofexile.com/gallery/#/preview/i104
http://www.pathofexile.com/skills/

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brutaliz wrote:

Skill name: Elemental Storm
Target: Enemies

Description:

Each time you use skill that does Lightning or Fire damage. You will gain Elemental orb (stacks up to 5 times, lasts 15 sec).
Every stack increase damage of next Elemental Storm by 10%.
When you release Elemental Storm upon your foes it will do high elemental damage to anyone caught in area of effect (consumes all orbs).


Visuals:

See the picture below :)

Sounds:

Sounds like fire burning and lightning hitting the ground :)


Flavour text:

Nothing over the top, but kinda fits the game perfectly i think.


Image used: http://www.pathofexile.com/gallery/#/preview/i43

Now I'll do a random number to see who gets the key. I just want to say There were farm more then 9 great concepts, but sadly I only have 1 key to give so here goes.



Congratulations ravage23, I'll be PMing you the key now. Enjoy!

And to the rest, good luck with getting a key I'll see if I can get some more for this competition.

Good competition. And fun!