Rise of the Old Gods - Character Skills

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Rise of the Old Gods - Character Skills

Post by jbouley » Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:57 am

OK, the skills for the new mod are going to be of three types: "common" skills that all characters can access (with one exception, the succubus character); character-specific skills; and item-only skills.

I'm still working out the character-specific skills, because many of them are going to be based on existing skills but moved around to suit my new characters in the mod (don't worry, plenty of totally new skills will also be created). But I think I have figured out the "common" skills, so I'll start off by letting you know what those are. For some background on why the succubus can't access all the same skills as the other 6 characters, you can look at my "Character Basics" thread at viewtopic.php?t=47722.

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SPELLS/SKILLS - GENERAL

Each character has 12 survival/combat skills and 28 other skills split between two other categories specific to the character, for a total of 40 learnable skills. Additional skills that are only found on items are also available.

Survival/Combat Skills

Common Survival/Combat Skills
(All characters have access to these skills)
• Awareness (Similar to the Inner Sight skill of the original D2 Amazon)
• Find Potion (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Find Item (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Shout (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Battle Orders (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Flurry Attack (Similar to the Zeal skill of the original D2 Paladin)

Mortal Survival/Combat Skills
(All characters but the succubus have access to these skills)
• Sword Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Axe Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Mace Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Polearm Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Spear Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)
• Throwing Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Barbarian skill)

Demon Survival/Combat Skills
(Only the succubus has access to these skills)
• Claw Mastery (Similar to the original D2 Assassin skill)
• Weapon Block (Similar to the original D2 Assassin skill)
• Burning Claws (Similar to the Fist of Fire skill of the original D2 Assassin)
• Rending Attack (Similar to the Dragon Claw skill of the original D2 Assassin)
• Derision (Similar to the Taunt skill of the original D2 Barbarian)
• Fury Attack (Similar to the Charge skill of the original D2 Paladin)
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Re: Rise of the Old Gods - Character Skills

Post by Adam Diggins » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:35 pm

The idea for shared skills is going to make an almost infinite number of character builds available. It will be interesting to test that.
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