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Date:    2013 May 16 00:06
From:    draak
Subject: butting heads and bashing shields
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Headbutt seems like a clone of bash, with your head. Shield strike is
already covered by bash. Here's some alternative ideas to tweak warrior:

jab -- with a free hand functions as before. With items in both hands or a
two-handed weapon, you can jab with your elbows, which does half damage,
doesn't discharge hand spells and doesn't use the damage type of what you
are wearing on your hands. You could not jab when using a two-handed
shield. This would make it more usable if you get stuck with jab in your
combos.

lunge and leap attack -- make both unuseable without a weapon unless you
also know the unarmed combat skill.

bash -- automatically uses your about_body item for damage type unless you
are shield blocking, see below.

feint -- this is clearly a thief skill, not a warrior one, with its focus
on intelligence and deception. Copy it to thief, replace vnum with:

shield block -- similar to riposte stance, you activate the ability and
slip into a blocking stance for a few rounds, which slows your attacks but
increases your shield ac bonus (50-100%) and lets you attempt to block
certain thief and warrior skills like kick, bash, jab, pommel strike,
bloodletting stab and other abilities that are strikes to the head and
midline of the body (i.e. not trip and stomp).

You cannot use certain power attacks like leap attack and charge when
shield blocking. Lunge should work well with shield block, and bashing with
shield block active automatically uses your shield's damage type instead of
your about_body item's.

This would go in the warrior fighting styles tree, dependent on defensive
fighting.

A higher level skill, phalanx, could be added dependent on shield block
which allows you to shield block on behalf of another character.

spinning kick -- hit multiple melee targets with your foot.

Random other suggestions:

change shield to force shield as someone else once suggested

Give static blast a lingering effect that adds a small amount of zapsave,
to justify it costing 9 mana, put it on parity with shower of sparks and
chill touch, to add a unique effect not on any other castable spell thus
giving it utility even for the highest level players. 


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