Talk:Partisan

Theme

primary tank class

• secular, rather than religious
• agents for change, but (sometimes) within the constraints of the law or local government (community organizers?)
• have some goal or political agenda, usually grand in scope:
  • e.g. end slavery, win the war against neighboring country, abolish all dancing (Footloose), eradicate a particular faith, weed out all spies from the empire, etc.
  • should choose a goal at creation, but can change as time passes. It's less about achieving their goal, or even staying true to it, than it is about them having a goal.
  • unlike paladins, they don't lose anything if they change goals, or completely change alignments -- instead, they lose their mojo if they're ever left without a goal to seek

zone

• stance, swift to activate, free to sustain
• creates 5-foot aura around partisan, enemies in aura treat it as rough terrain and are marked by partisan until start of his next turn
• enemies remain marked even if they leave the zone
• can expand radius of aura 5 feet with 1 quintessence
• can slide one marked foe each round as a free action, can slide additional foes for swift/move/standard actions
  • swift - one foe
  • move - two foes
  • standard - all marked foes
• at higher levels, difficult terrain expands to other/all movement types
• while in stance, movement by the partisan is very limited (akin to CoH Stone tank's "rooted" and "mudpots" powers)
  • at low levels, 5 feet of movement as move action (no 5-foot steps)
  • at higher levels, can be any movement type, ignores difficult terrain
  • at higher levels, can move as a swift instead of a move? (once per encounter?)
  • maybe give them a power that lets them get into their "center of the fight" location early in the battle more cheaply?

stickiness

• warded zone is hard to leave, and easy to get pulled back into.
• can split damage with allies in zone (before defenses are applied) to gain quintessence

durability

• would like to keep partisan as different from fighter-based tank as possible. Should feel completely different.
• suggestions:
  • high hit points / ac

"" fast healing

• • partial / total negation of attacks some of the time
  • share damage between allies
  • maybe some status condition reduction ability (similar to fast healing?
  • DR and ER should only come from external (non-class) sources (adamantine, shield, etc.)

• spend 1 quintessence to mitigate an attack (reduce/negate) (immediate action)
• spend 1 quintessence to reduce a status condition one step (free action)

resources

Need to make sure that 1/3rd of resources are used up each combat... perhaps quintessence is more like Ki pool, limited by day, instead of accumulating each round?

• would allow resource to be separate from hit points, meaning that fast healing could be on all the time.
  • maybe give a way to turbo-charge fast healing during combat, but costing quintessence?
• could give a way to gain quintessence as an action or by sacrificing some other thing
  • share damage with an ally in the zone, to gain quintessence?

paths

• Zealot
  • higher damage path?
  • can also mark and slide a foe once per round that is outside of his zone? (swift?)

• Inquisitor
  • inflicts more status conditions / debuffs?
  • needs something that works against roles (without trivializing the role)

• Samaritan
  • better healer, splitting damage w/allies mechanic is more efficient/effective
  • faster regen

• Dissident
  • toughest path
  • saving throw re-rolls
  • gains 1 element that heals instead of harms
    • limited set of available energy types, but changeable via quintessence