Keystone Brainstorming

Then do it , Maaan

Cluster Arrows
Your arrows break on impact. Causing a small physical AoE.
-10%range of arrows

Ethereal
-15% physical damage dealt
-15% physical damage taken
+15% spell damage dealt
+33% spell damage taken
Can walk through enemies as if they weren't there

I have two ideas for this one:

Shield Regeneration (A)

Removes all of your passive live regeneration, and converts 75% of it into Energy Shield regeneration per second, in combat.

Or:

Shield Regeneration (B)

Removes half of your avaliable Energy Shield, and exchanges 5~10% of the removed Shield into Energy Shield Regeneration per second, while in combat.

Once the delay kicks in, either of these would either shut off until shield is missing, or just keep running along side it.

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Lachdanan wrote:

The nicest thing would be a dev showing up and saying we could need some thoughts on this in combination with "arrow-velocity", to keep the thread alive, and not (im sorry to say this, this is nothing against humans from this board) a person with a lash to enslave the others. Direction we need.

Hi,

So, what I have on my list of Keystone gaps is:

Two archer keystones, that are different to each other, such that a viable bow user could have one or the other, or neither, and all three would be viable and different builds.

We have lots of ideas of bow user keystones, but need more to find something that fits the requirement above.

We need a really good offensive damage based caster keystone.

General rules we have for keystones:

- They are absolutes when the rest of the game is generally about transitive values. So goods words for that are "never", "always", "all" etc.

- If you have something massively overpowered, try thinking of "what would I need to do to allow us to put something so OP in the game".

- Negatives trump positives, so if a keystone conflicts with another, the negative one wins

- They shouldn't become the only way they build a character, so not having it needs to be roughly as viable as not having it

- They shouldn't be self supporting, they should require other elements of a characters build to make them viable (gear and/or other passives)

Feel free to tell how we have failed to follow out own guidelines on the keystones we do have in the game.

And feel free to post your ideas, we love to read them. And feel free to come up with crazy ideas you think we'd never go for. Some of our favourite passives are toned down versions of more powerful ones. We also have a small collections of keystone ideas we love, but will never ever go in the game.

Zen Archery (deep int/dex)

Maximum dexterity becomes zero.
Dexterity requirements for bow gems become intelligence requirements for this character.

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We need a really good offensive damage based caster keystone.

Seems to be plenty of those in this thread, I think. Are you guys looking for something that synergies with high damage mages or something that enables even moar high damage mage shenanigans?

Your single-target bow attacks are area-of-effect.
Reduces accuracy rating by x%

Your spells never crit.
Your lightning spells always shock
Your fire spells always ignite
Your ice spells always freeze

+x% Spell damage
All elemental damage is converted to Chaos damage (i.e. no freezing, shocking, or igniting)

Temporal Arrows
Your arrows move at a quarter of their normal speed, but deal 30% more damage.

Frost Aura Arrows
Your arrows radiate frost, dealing cold damage as they pass by enemies. Arrows pulse every 0.1 seconds, dealing damage equal to 3% of your normal attack damage.

Energy Vampire
Life Leech now applies to spells and restores Energy Shield instead of life. Life flasks effectiveness dramatically reduced.

Inversion
When energy shield is full, the next cast depletes it entirely and deals additional damage based on how much shield was consumed.

Elemental Coalescence
When a target is simultaneously shocked, frozen, and burning, it explodes. Alternatively, if the target dies while shocked, frozen, burning it explodes for even moar damage. Not sure what's an appropriate downside for this one.

Deflection
Attacks that hit the energy shield are countered with energy blasts. Energy shield now takes double damage.

Channeling
Automatically expends an power charge per cast to amplify the damage of the cast spell. Power Charges no longer give passive bonuses.

Blast
Critical hits cause the spell to splash over its damage. Critical hits no longer increase damage dealt. Critical Damage Multiplier is now converted into +% AoE on the splash effect.

Moar after dinner.

Firestarter

Burning enemies have a chance of X to ignite nearby enemies.
Cannot use cold spells.

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konfeta wrote:

Elemental Coalescence
When a target is simultaneously shocked, frozen, and burning, it explodes. Alternatively, if the target dies while shocked, frozen, burning it explodes for even moar damage. Not sure what's an appropriate downside for this one.

When you are shocked, burning, and frozen, you explode. ^^