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

reason bailiwick?

dogma bonus type?

change quiescence to conviction

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
  • In addition, any attack made against an marked foe (by the partisan) includes a slide
• 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
• does not get free attacks against foes who ignore him. Must achieve stickiness through slides and splitting damage w/allies

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:

highest damage path, strength of their convictions

1	add WIS to all damage
5	swift action: attack an enemy within 20 feet, dealing damage and sliding them up to 4 squares; must end slide inside your zone.
10	25 ft, slide up to 5 squares
15	30 ft, slide up to 6 squares
20	two enemies with 30 ft., slide up to 6 squares
25	two enemies within 35 ft., slide up to 7 squares
30	two enemies within 40 ft., slide up to 8 squares
35	two enemies you can see, slide up to 10 squares

Inquisitor

more status conditions / debuffs - can affect roles; more concerned with how convicted other people are than themselves

1	add WIS to Reflex saves (in addition to DEX)
5	swift action: make a maneuver offense check to inflict a -2 penalty on saving throws of one enemy in zone until start of your next turn. Works on roles.
10	up to two enemies in zone
15	-3 penalty
20	up to 3 enemies in zone
25	-4 penalty
30	up to 4 enemies in zone
35	all enemies in zone

Samaritan

best healer; believes convictions can best be spread through goodwill and trust

1	add WIS to fast healing
5	swift action: can reduce a status condition of one creature in zone (including self) by 1 step.
10
15	up to two creatures in zone
20
25	up to three creatures in zone
30
35	all creatures in zone

Dissident

toughest path; believes convictions must be leveraged to change the status quo

1	add WIS to AC (including FF and Touch)
5	choose one energy type (from fire, cold, electricity, acid, sonic, negative, and positive). As swift action, gain ER equal to Partisan level against that chosen energy type.
10	choose a second energy type; swift action activates ER for all selected energy types
15	choose a third energy type; swift action activates ER for all selected energy types
20	choose a fourth energy type; swift action activates ER for all selected energy types
25	choose a fifth energy type; swift action activates ER for all selected energy types
30	choose a sixth energy type; swift action activates ER for all selected energy types
35	swift action grants ER (partisan level)/- (all energy types except Primal) until start of next turn.