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In this thread you can submit your skill ideas. Be as creative as you can, and keep in mind what we know about Guild Wars 2 so far.

Edited, Nov 19th 2010 12:59pm by Inde

Edited, Nov 25th 2010 5:43am by Jeahr Lock Thread: Contest Closed

Edited, Dec 1st 2010 7:16am by Jeahr

Necromancer Utility Skill

Skill Name: Armored Minion
Skill Effect: Summon an Armored Minion that absorbs half of the damage suffered by the caster.
Cast Time: 3 Seconds
Recharge Time: 180 Seconds

If we're allowed to submit suggestions for a chain skill as a follow up I'd suggest this...

Armored Minion Chain Skill Name: Meat Shield
Skill effect: Sacrifice your minion to take no damage for 3 seconds.

Edited, Nov 18th 2010 3:21pm by joyfuljester

Edited, Nov 18th 2010 3:21pm by joyfuljester

Charr Racial Skill

Skill Name: Arousing Musk
Skill Affect: Causes members of the opposite sex within the area of effect to begin dancing provocatively.
Cast Time: 1 Seconds
Recharge Time: 10 minutes

Elementalist skill:

Ward of Frenzy:
Create a ward of Frenzy. Skills within this area do 25% more damage but you benefit 50% less from healing.

Variables ought to be changed, and I don't know if ward skills are even in the game.

Elementalist air skill
Name: Air blast
Skill description: Sends out strong blast of air forth from the caster in a straight line.
Skill effects: Knocks down any enemies moving away from the caster and slows down enemies moving any other direction (in the area of effect). If Air blast hits a fire effect it also ignites enemies for short duration of time. Also if possible it makes cool looking wind effects in the enemies hair/clothes moving in it or atleast cool dust effects on the ground.

Edit: I'm from Finland, but if anyway possible I can pay the shipping cost :)

Edited, Nov 19th 2010 8:34am by okkim88

Elementalist Earth skill
Skill Name: Schism
Skill Affect: Opens up a rift in the ground in a direct line from the caster. Deals damage and roots/slow enemies hit by it.
Cast Time: 2 Seconds
Recharge Time: 45 seconds

Elementalist Air Spell

Lightning Vehemence: Charge Enchantment Spell – Target ally becomes enchanted with Lightning Vehemence. While charging this skill, it deals small amount of lightning damage to foes adjacent to target ally. When this skill charge is finished, a lightning burst strikes foes in X distance away dealing a low amount of lightning damage to foes caught in it's blast. Target ally then runs faster and dodges farther for X seconds plus X seconds for each second this skill was charging.

Notes:
The amount of time charging affects the distance for the lightning burst, from adjacent to in the area kind of distance. The amount of charging also affects the length of the enchantment.

Uses:
1. Being more of a supportive aspect, it works wonderfully on both aggressive front-line attackers to passive back-line support. While charging this spell, it's AoE ability will urge the other allies to reposition in the fight in order to hit more foes with AoE effects, giving battles a more strategic feel. The caster might not be able to move while charging but the target ally can.

2. It's also good for solo play, if you happen to stumble across a bandit camp full of bandits this would give you the agility to either flee or fight against the large group of bandits by repositioning to a better area to give a better advantage (running up a hill for height advantage etc.)

3. Because of the usefulness of charging the skill, using this skill to buff strategically is much better than using it's strength on recharge. For examples, if some Orr Warriors is harassing the necromancer while a warrior is focusing on the Orr Mesmer, it would be better quickly cast it on the necromancer, than on the warrior. The enchantment may only last a few seconds but the necromancer can take full advantage of it's speed increase to evade a decent amount of distance and quickly recover. Another example the teams warrior charges into a mob of Orr, you can cast this skill and hold it while the warrior if the main focus. Dealing decent AoE damage to the foes focusing on the warrior, as well as boosting his speed and dodging for a decent amount of time.

Visual:
When charging the skill, a yellow static charge forms around an ally. The static becomes more erratic and more frenzied the larger it is charging. When fully charged the ally will briefly fully glow yellow then a lightning blast is released. When the charge is released a electric shock wave explodes from the character damaging foes. While enchanted the character moving will leave a small static trail and when the character dodges a small aura illuminates the character figure briefly before vanishing.

Statistics
Recharge: Low recharge, if the fully charged skill duration lasted 15 seconds when fully charged then the recharge would be around 20 seconds or 15 seconds range. This skill can be used often, but it's usefulness depends more on situation. Using it only as speed buff or only as damage isn't ideal.

Damage: Ranges from median to low amount, if foes continuously attack target ally while the skill is charging and get hit by the burst it does around median damage. If just the blast, low amount. Although the blast range can be fairly large.

Casting: Has a 5 second charge limit, each second increases it's duration and blast range.

Energy: Low to average cost. As a quick buff to assist your ally in trouble it won't require much energy. Fully charging it requires an average amount so it won't discourage players on experimenting and then mastering the skill.

@ ArenaNet: Although the very impressive art is a nice reward, what would be a nicer reward if you added the winner skills in the game. Adding the skill in the game is a better reward than a 150 dollar value huge piece of gorgeous artwork. That is how physicked you making Guild Wars 2 fans about Guild Wars 2. So, add it pleeeeease?

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 7:00pm by ZodiacMeteor

Elementalist Elite Earth attunement Skill

Quicksand Pit

You create a Quicksand pit at your current location. For 45 seconds foes in this area move 10% slower cumulatively each second they remain in the pit. Slowing effects are removed if player leaves pit area. If player remains in pit for 10 consecutive seconds they become buried alive. When foes become buried alive they enter a downed state. Other movement effecting skills do not stack with Quicksand Pit.

Energy Cost: (Significant in order to make it so it would require the Elementalist to use energy potions to maintain for long periods of time.)
Casting time: 2 seconds. You are easily interrupted while casting this spell (Similar to setting a Ranger trap in GW1.)
Skill Recharge time: 30 seconds. (This would make it so foes need to enter the pit or use ranged attack to easily interrupt before it is recast.

You could have some cool animations for sinking into the pit further as the 10 seconds goes on. Also there could be a cool animation for pulling your ally from the pit if you 'revive' them from their downed state.

Ranger Utility Skill

Name: Scout as One

Context Sensitivity: A different effect depending on whether or not the player is currently engaged in combat. Both effects are sustained until either manually or forcibly deactivated.

Skill Effects (Out of Combat): Meditate for 3 seconds to take control of your pet and see through their eyes. While this skill is active your pet may not attack, but receives a 25% boost to movement speed. Your pet teleports to your location when this skill is ended. Ends prematurely if the ranger enters combat or the pet is defeated.

Skill Effects (In Combat): Your pet moves 25% faster. You move 25% slower.

Cooldown: 30 seconds, starting from the time the skill is deactivated.

Visuals: The ranger sits to meditate, the pet receives an afterimage or glowing eyes, and the player's screen is subtly tinted to simulate "animal vision." For the in-combat version, just the afterimage on the pet.


In-depth Description: The idea of this skill is to allow rangers to fulfill the role of the archetypal "scout" so often neglected - scouting! Simultaneously, it provides the player with the sheer fun of controlling their various animal companions directly, albeit not during combat. Since the player can neither see nor control their actual character while using this skill out of combat, they must plan ahead by making sure they're in a safe location. The alternate effect keeps the player from having a useless skill slot during combat and, as most pets are melee-oriented, further supports the scout-like flavor of the skill by providing an incentive to focus on bows and one's pet when using this skill. Practical purposes would include advanced pulling or distracting of enemy groups, honest-to-goodness scouting ahead, and buffing one's animal companion if using a bow.

Note: It's obvious, from a design perspective, that directly controlling one's pet in combat presents a number of difficulties. This skill is my attempt to let the player experience the fun of running around as a wolf or swimming about as a shark, but while steering clear of the problems that force pets to be non-controllable in the first place.

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 10:59am by Raemi

Edited, Nov 18th 2010 8:29am by Raemi

Pillar

A pillar raises up below the caster, raising them into the air.
In combat situations this would take the user out of melee combat range, but not protect against ranged attacks.

If it were a charged spell that went higher as it charged then it could be used to go up next to walls or cliffs and jump onto them.

The pillar could have armor and health rating so enemies could knock it down prematurely, depending on the duration you give the effect.

I had initially thought of the obvious Pillar of Earth, but the concept is general enough to be used in may ways. Pillar of water (geyser like graphic), pillar of air (levitation or a whirlwind graphic), tree tower (tree springs up beneath), Asurans could have a levitating disc or extending pole/platform. There are lots of ways creative ways a skill like this could be skinned for various races and classes.

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 2:01pm by dndhatcher

Dance of the Water Dragon
Elementalist Water Skill

Description: A water dragon flies out from you and flies to several surrounding enemies (works similarly to phoenix) hitting them for moderate damage (equivalent to 50 points in GW or about 10%-12% of their HP total), when it returns to you, you are healed lightly (equivalent to 20 points in GW) for each enemy that was hit.

Cast time: 2 seconds
Recharge time: 15 seconds


Skill attributes: since there are several ways to modify skills in GW2, here are some for consideration to go with the skill

Rushing Dragon: This modifier lowers the damage of the skill by about 20 points, but gives it a chance for knockdown/knock back
Curing Dragon: This allows you to lose one condition for every 2 foes hit (minimum 1)
Torrent Dragon: this gives a 4 second snare effect on the foes hit
Life Dragon: this causes the skill to target allies, centering the dragon on them and letting them get the benefit of healing. This will revive a downed ally.
Running Dragon: this will move you away from the last foe it hit
Storm dragon: half of this skill's damage is converted to air/lightning.

Hello, ZAM community! I feel this skill concept would be quite fun:

Elementalist skill

Plasma Shackles: Conjure spell

Creates an environmental weapon that attaches to one foe for a certain duration and doesn't affect his skills, but prevents him from moving beyond a certain distance from you. The weapon provides a skill that throws the end of the shackles that you're holding. So you could either tether the foe to a point on the ground, pass the "leash" to an ally, or attach two foes together.

The idea could also work for a Ranger or Warrior skill, in which case it would produce a chain or rope instead of a spell.

Piercing Thrust

You thrust your sword through your opponent, causing severe bleeding (2...5 stacks).
If a foe is standing behind him (i.e. opposite to you), that foe also suffers from bleeding (1...3 stacks)
This skill has 25% armor penetration

Recharge: 25 sec
Energy: I'll leave that up to Izzy


Concept:
A shortsword skill that gives a large amount of bleeding and that rewards positioning.


Animation
Throw up your sword (Doesn't have to be very high, just enough to switch the way you're holding it) and grab it backwards (so that you're holding it the same way as a Tengu does). Turn 180° and smash it into their abdomen.
The primary target is stunned during the animation (1~2 seconds).
Note that since you turn 180°, you are might be vulnerable to backstabs from opponents who where standing behind your target.