Fallen and Alchemist previews

Slyphe

Hi everyone! As per Razmael's request, we've decided to preview two of the newly announced, upcoming class releases. Since the individual lore will be explored within their assigned guilds, I'm going to just give a brief explanation of some of the changes to the mechanics in the reflavored classes. Mechanically the classes are nearly identical, with some variations within the same theme to keep the abilities fresh and exciting.

The Fallen class keeps much in spirit with the existing Luminary class, choosing to instead explore the domains of desecration and corruption in their quest to spread truth across the realm. Blasphemy encompasses the use of an eveningstar and shield in conjunction to obliterate foes, alongside the use of a nightmarish nachash, a fallen's angel, to grant them prowess in battle. At their most powerful, a Fallen may use their nachash to bolster their own defenses to incredible heights - protecting against nearly any affliction, while simultaneously dissolving the mortal form surrounding their opponent's soul.

Summon              Summon an enslaved nachash to your service.               
Commune             Sense the strength within your servant.               
Eveningstar         Call forth a wicked eveningstar to rend flesh.               
Blast               Gather up the light and turn it upon itself.               
Call                Call your eveningstar to you when it has been lost.               
Symbols             Paint your shield with the unholy symbol of a God.         
Chill               Order your nachash to dispell the essence of Fire.               
Bubble              Bring forth a bubble of energy to shield you.               
Discord             Strike fear and panic into the mind of your enemy.               
Parasite            Permit your servant to leach off your superior strength.               
Sentinel            Cause your servant to stand watch for your enemies.               
Smash               Deal a wicked blow with your morningstar.               
Respite             Grant your unworthy servant a brief moment's respite.               
Strike              A simple attack with your shield.            
Siphon              Draw out the essence of your servant to sate your needs.               
Manifest            Manifest the form of one you seek before you.               
Mindtap             Tap into the minds of those around you.               
Draw                Draw the unfit unto your presence.               
Crush               Strike at your foes limbs with mace and shield.            
Sentence            Pass down a mortal sentence upon the unwashed.               
Peel                Peel away the layers of defenses that surround your foe.               
Ripples             Your nachash will watch for harmonic ripples.            
Facesmash           Smash your shield into your foe's face.            
Dissonance          Disrupt and scatter most harmonics.            
Subdue              Deal a mind-numbing blow to an enemy.            
Battle              Comamnd your nachash to follow your directives.            
Presences           Seek out those in the local area.               
Crash               Crash your shield into your foe's head.            
Stalk               Your servant will stalk another's movement.               
Extract             Extract the mana from your foe's reserves.              
Punch               Punch your shield into your foe's stomach.            
Succor              Direct your servant to the task of your preservation.               
Torment             Torment your foe's soul.               
Bastion             Order your servant to seek out solitude.               
Rapport             Direct your servant to tend to your health.               
Slam                Slam your shield into your foe's chest.            
Remit               Bestow a gift unto your servant.               
Forsake             Forsake the protection of your servant for a boon.               
Corporality         Prevent those who would mist away.               
Execration          Dissolve the corporeal form about a soul.               
Overwhelm           Overwhelm your opponent with a devastating combo. 

Slyphe

The skill of Worship is a powerful tool, akin to the strength of Devotion. By granting their faith to an unholy divinity, the Fallen may gather the power of 'belief', used for offensive and defensive purposes alike. They employ the use of liturgies to generate passive effects in their rooms, draining their foes of blood while transferring many of their own maladies to their victims. Some of the greatest feats performed include torturing the angels of the devout until they are driven mad with bloodlust, or creating an omniscient void-eye capable of spotting players on any plane.

Faithful         Discern the truth of your fanaticism.
Darkpact         Draw upon your faith to mend your wounds.
Vaporize         Erase bodies of water from your sight.
Reality          Bring forth your own incarnation of truth.
Liturgies        Perceive the presence of unholy sacraments.
Offering         A dark offering will instill fulfillment.
Fervor           Grant unholy fervor to empower your strikes.
Euphoria         A vision of false divinity to soothe ills.
Transversal      A liturgy that draws a demonic gate to your plane.
Corruption       Fill their soul with impermeable darkness.
Hellchains       Shackle an angelic entity.
Spite            Infuse their soul with unending wrath.
Terror           The liturgy of terror sends enemies fleeing.
Umbergrasp       Let hands of shadow anchor your being.
Unending         Dispel any notions of hunger.
Hellsight        Grant them a vision of this world's fate.
Glimmer          Draw their mind into a stupefied trance.
Bloodsong        The liturgy of the blood will bleed them dry.
Censor           Release the energies of your liturgy.
Watcher          Gaze upon all with the eye of the void.
Ignorance        Cast mortal maladies aside.
Succumb          Overcome their feeble willpower.
Beckoning        Those who trespass answer only to you.
Mending          The liturgy of mending will regenerate wounds.
Rouse            Bring forth the fire within their soul.
Convene          Empower your followers with the spoken word.
Torturer         The liturgy of the torturer banishes spirits.
Resurrect        Reap the rewards of your zeal.
Agony            Shatter their will with endless pain.
Binding          The greatest of liturgies brings inescapable doom.

Slyphe

Finally, the skill of Taint draws directly on the realm of Chakrasul to empower the Fallen's tactics. Enchanting their eveningstars with demonic jadefire, the Fallen is capable of drawing on their inner seed of corruption to instill a variety of effects. By drawing out this inner taint, the Fallen may control the ruin around them - corrupting the land itself with their might and dissolving any barrier in their path. The greatest of Fallen may generate corruption in their victim itself, until the seed blossoms and their victim becomes their rightful, lifeless minion.


Nightsight       See in the darkest of nights.
Detection        Check the state of your inner seed of Corruption.
Shadows          Bind shadows to your location and banish the light.
Jadefire         Wreathe your eveningstar in darkened flame.
Blacken          Corrupt your body to guard against magical harm.
Innerlich        Your body regenerates beneath frigid touch.
Subversion       Allow the seed within you to grow.
Rotting          Bring decay to the barriers in your path.
Decadence        Invoke decadence and watch the world shrivel.
Choke            Pull the very air from their lungs.
Senseless        Rob your victim of their senses.
Foresight        Spot traps before triggering them.
Savor            Draw pleasure from that which afflicts you.
Contingency      Consume corruption itself in an emergency.
Hatred           Let your wicked presence pour forth.
Undermine        Return the favor when granted pain.
Dismissal        Lesser entities are beneath your presence.
Enervate         Their maladies are beyond comprehension.
Taintwall        Generate a shadowy wall of corruption.
Cowardice        Bring their inner fears to life.
Despair          Your touch corrupts body and mind.
Tremor           Cause their body to fall to pieces.
Blight           Spread a wave of blight through your location.
Violate          Instill a seed of corruption in their mind.
Poison           Coat your body in a layer of venom.
Recover          Shrug off the effects of death itself.
Entrap           Corrupt their will beneath your command.
Everflame        Let them burn in perpetuity.
Infect           Spread madness in your wake.
Defiler          Generate an aura of death and destruction.
Untouchable      Twist their body into an abomination.
Blossom          Let your corruption burst forth.

Slyphe

The Alchemist class shares many of the same concepts as Bloodborn mechanically, while retaining a theme that is distinct and exciting. The skill of Mutation allows the Alchemist to warp various parts of their body, obtaining inhuman strength, agility and mental prowess to overwhelm their foes. With mastery of Mutation, an Alchemist may maintain a half-dozen mutations at once, gaining stats and resistances unparalleled by virtually any other class. Rather than using blood to power their effects, an Alchemist uses the power of science itself - powered by their own research.

Analysis         Distinguish boons and flaws in your form.
Nativity         Return your body to its natural state.
Drain            Draw the lifeblood from your target.
Ravage           Empower your limbs and batter your victim.
Reconstruct      Repair the flaws in your body.
Hypervision      Enhance your vision and see in any state.
Flexibility      Empowering your joints will improve avoidance.
Fading           Blend into your surroundings.
Fitness          Strengthen your lungs against assault.
Subtlety         Hide the true nature of your mutations.
Dashing          Sprint great distances in a single bound.
Alacrity         Move with unmatched grace and stealth.
Dissolve         Remove protective barriers with acidic spit.
Clotting         Command your body to prevent bleeding.
Reflexes         Pluck arrows from the sky.
Bloodlet         Strike at their vitals with a moment's notice.
Thickskin        Steel your body against physical harm.
Flight           Sprout wings and soar into the sky.
Celerity         Quickly move about the land.
Blocking         Prevent your foe from movement.
Unstoppable      No barrier can keep your fists out.
Separate         Dissolve your body into its core constituents.
Repair           Simply fix that which is broken.
Sleuth           Discern the presence of any around you.
Resistance       Protect your body from magical harm.
Disappear        Snap your fingers and vanish from sight.
Launch           Knock them into the sky with a devastating uppercut.
Fragment         Embed a fragment of your being in the ground.
Transfer         Instantly move your consciousness as you reform.
Hypertrophy      Create muscles upon muscles.
Vanish           Move quicker than mortal vision can spot.
Restore          Bring your shattered limbs to life.
Purge            Remove vile poisons from your body.

Slyphe

The skill of Potions allows an Alchemist to directly employ their mastery of chemistry in a variety of ways, by brewing potions containing potent, toxic chemicals. They may then hurl these flasks at their opponent, using the momentum generated from their mutation-driven assault to perform the throws free of balance. At higher ranks, they may even mix effects into a single flask, dose themselves against individual afflictions or simply slay those unable to withstand their academic might.

Chemistry        Lead the way, with science.
Imbibe           Consuming beneficial potions to bolster your body.
Hurl             Sharing your less beneficial potions with others.
Vitan            Attune your vision to life itself.
Morsum           A potion of mortality to sense death.
Terrorem         Cause great fear in your victim.
Protection       The dose makes the medicine.
Anxia            An elixir that leaves a foe restless.
Timere           Cause enemies to turn upon allies.
Titrate          Determine the relative health of a target.
Perturba         Disrupt their mental equilibrium.
Stultus          Slow your foe's cognitive processes.
Caelum           Elicit a distinct fear of open spaces.
Condense         Turn their mental faculties to goo.
Dolore           Find bliss, in agony.
Hypnotic         Focus their attention on the mundane.
Solitarios       Generate feelings of profound loneliness.
Conscius         Enhance your mind to sense telepathic networks.
Concentrate      Thicken your brews and double their effects.
Pauorem          A brew designed to frighten away steeds.
Paxum            Cause serene, unbreakable pacifism.
Exhaurie         Share their mental powers, unwittingly.
Agitabit         Send their nerves into a fit.
Esurientum       Induce repulsion to any food.
Oblivisci        A potion to induce short-term amnesia.
Simplex          Force them to forgive and forget.
Rabidus          Insanity awaits those who cross you.
Contemplate      Assess the strength of their mind.
Viridie          Cause excessive rage in your victim.
Securitas        Complete indifference to one's surroundings.
Cadens           An inability to move between altitudes.
Exterge          Leech their physical health to others.
Temere           Fill their mind with thoughts of heroism.
Allure           A scent that is impossible to resist.
Venenum          The deadliest concoction.

Slyphe

Finally, the skill of Alchemy involves complex calculations and chemical knowledge, combined with planar magics to perform alchemical transmutations. While the individual effects of these methods are best left to the researchers themselves, their effects are known to be potent and widely varied in purpose. Mastery of Alchemy allows the Alchemist to form collaborative research teams, empowering their colleagues to share in their research and reap the benefits. Additionally, they may retain their transmutation methods within a research tome, which itself may be converted into a powerful autonomous minion in battle.


Reagents         Gather and organize your components.
Sample           Draw upon a target with a stray hair.
Transmute        Perform a transmutation ritual.
Annotate         Record your transmutations within your tome.
Anatomy          Find compounds in the strangest places.
Protocol         Track the details of a transmutation.
Cipher           Hide unfinished transmutations from eye.
Colleagues       Consult other expert alchemists.
Shunning         Strip a colleague of their recognition.

Ensorcell        Empower your tome with magical forces.
Identify         Your tome will notice stray components.
Barrier          Invoke a barrier directly from your book.
Inksplatter      Coat your victim in a layer of oily ink.
Purification     Improve the potency of your concoctions.
Razoredge        Paper can be a deady weapon.
Explosion        Explode your tome in a last ditch effort.
Solvent          Dissolve your surroundings with a solvent.
Erudition        Your sheer knowledge will protect you.
Slash            Order your tome to physically strike.
Whispers         Madden your foe with unintelligible secrets.
Aether           Draw upon latent forces to transmute freely.

Meyvitch

...April fools?

Piper

Waiting to hear about Dragoons. I want to bounce on my enemies after I leap into the air. COME ON! PAYING MILLIONS OF CREDITS HERE TO FIND OUT MORE! SOOOooo many credits!

Xiuhcoatl

I really wish this wasn't an April Fools prank. But something in my gut, tells me something is wrong with a really good idea showing up suddenly. 

Aarbrok

Slayer and Dragoon, and Pistols....

@Arbre better get ready to start brewing the cure for alot of people.

Piper

I don't even need the cure but I want one for Dragoon. Mmm, final fantasy...

Calipso

*Cry*

Warlocks and Defilers.

if only.

Defilers fit me so damn well!


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Aarbrok

Dragooooooon!

Damonicus

I...this better not be a joke.

Lin

I'd play an Alchemist for real

Ezalor

Xavin

Despite Razmael's attempt to convince me, I'm not holding my breath.

Ezrax

Why does everyone have to declare their knowledge of an April Fools prank every time one happens? You're supposed to be kayfabe so those who DON'T realize get tricked.

Moirean

I want dragonhounds.

Kiyotan

Guys, you're missing the point. The real April Fools joke here is how much time and energy they've put into the fake copy-classes. 

New lycan races? Mage revamps? Fumology? April Fools!

Rivas

Yeah Kiyo, you're totally ri--OH GOD SHUT UP ABOUT FUMOLOGY ALREADY

Lin

It'll come out, he'll make two cigarettes and then never use it again.

Ilyon

Probably April, yea, but I hate that these are thematically more interesting than the existing lumies/bb

Azrael

I can't even lol at this cruel joke.

Balzic

Wow... that is the real joke.. The time they put into the deceit. I'm quite.. impressed.

Sarkis

I'm not sure if this is a joke or not...oh my heart, be still!

Kiyotan

Lin said:

It'll come out, he'll make two cigarettes and then never use it again.

I think you have me confused for..uh, you.

Exayne

April fools!

Milvushina

Man, if only. So many classes I would love to play. :<

Sarkis

Wait. Waaaaait. What if this is serious? What if the April's Fool joke...is that they're making this seem like it's a joke?

That would be too cruel!

Malok

Aarbrok said:

Dragooooooon!