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

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Sintharios wrote:

Skill name: Demon's grasp / Twilight's grasp

Target: auto-self, 5-12y radius

Description:
The player calls the creatures of the shadow for support. After a 3-10 seconds casting delay and a part of your health as sacrifice these creatures set free their power, damaging and/or fearing surrounding enemies. (Player can't move while casting)


3 seconds are base casting time, but the player can cast longer for higher damage/fear effect. The longer the skill button is pressed, the longer the skill will cast and more health will be sacrificed. Health sacrifice should be exponentially. Beginning with very low health costs ending up immense high. n * x ^ n could be a possible term. n is seconds casted and x is a multiplier with mana, so there is a balance that tanky character can't deal more damage than a caster. (more life -> more time casting time but less mana multiplicator; less life -> less casting time but higher mana multiplicator. Single click for 3 secs cast

(range could also depend on casting time, but could be fix, too)

it shall be a very very mighty and lethal spell, cause of the health sacrifice



Visuals:
The player is thrown to ground by dark purple shadowy hands coming from the ground (within the [initial] casting-range) and is tied. Then the bodies appear as same coloured schemes (of some creatures). The creatures begin to fester the player's body draining the health. This could be visualized with blue pulses going through the schemes each second. while casting time the character tries to defend himself and fidgets. when casting time is over the schemes turn into formless shadows rushing onto every enemy within skill-range (really aimed at enemy, not going to 8 directions or something like that). Meanwhile the character stands up again.



Sounds:
As long as the schemes come to the player and festering him (casting time) there should be some creepy whispering and grunting. The character should yell of sore (depending on what the ESRB, PEGI, USK,... allow). as the schemes starting to rush onto the enemies there should be an aggressive roaring and shouting from the schemes. it should all be kinda creepy




Flavour text:
They're coming for you. (half whispered with a quiet laughing at the end)



*picture*:
i think you can imagine quite good how it should look like :)

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Degn89 wrote:

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Sintharios wrote:

Skill name: Demon's grasp / Twilight's grasp

Target: auto-self, 5-12y radius

Description:
The player calls the creatures of the shadow for support. After a 3-10 seconds casting delay and a part of your health as sacrifice these creatures set free their power, damaging and/or fearing surrounding enemies. (Player can't move while casting)


3 seconds are base casting time, but the player can cast longer for higher damage/fear effect. The longer the skill button is pressed, the longer the skill will cast and more health will be sacrificed. Health sacrifice should be exponentially. Beginning with very low health costs ending up immense high. n * x ^ n could be a possible term. n is seconds casted and x is a multiplier with mana, so there is a balance that tanky character can't deal more damage than a caster. (more life -> more time casting time but less mana multiplicator; less life -> less casting time but higher mana multiplicator. Single click for 3 secs cast

(range could also depend on casting time, but could be fix, too)

it shall be a very very mighty and lethal spell, cause of the health sacrifice



Visuals:
The player is thrown to ground by dark purple shadowy hands coming from the ground (within the [initial] casting-range) and is tied. Then the bodies appear as same coloured schemes (of some creatures). The creatures begin to fester the player's body draining the health. This could be visualized with blue pulses going through the schemes each second. while casting time the character tries to defend himself and fidgets. when casting time is over the schemes turn into formless shadows rushing onto every enemy within skill-range (really aimed at enemy, not going to 8 directions or something like that). Meanwhile the character stands up again.



Sounds:
As long as the schemes come to the player and festering him (casting time) there should be some creepy whispering and grunting. The character should yell of sore (depending on what the ESRB, PEGI, USK,... allow). as the schemes starting to rush onto the enemies there should be an aggressive roaring and shouting from the schemes. it should all be kinda creepy




Flavour text:
They're coming for you. (half whispered with a quiet laughing at the end)



*picture*:
i think you can imagine quite good how it should look like :)

No offense, but how would this ever be entertaining / useful? Channeling for 10 seconds and then sacrificing most of your hp doesnt sound possible in any real situation, and even when possible, not really fun. Or worth it, unless it instagibs the entire map?

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Sintharios wrote:

imho it's more entertaining than a jump into enemies or something ^^
i wrote it should be a quite strong spell
but it's up to the player how long he wanna cast
further you can plan your tactics so you use this spell when the enemies are further away walking into the range so you can cast longer
there should be no problem using it

this spell is about how far the player wanna go. thinking carefully about how much health he can lose without getting in any trouble

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Degn89 wrote:

I guess timing could make it work out :P Dunno, i just prefer *CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK* over *Click -------- Click -------* ^^ Short attention span yo.