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Elementalist Elite Skill

Stonewark

Earth Element

Summon a floating "Stonewark" in front of the caster from the ground. The Stonewark consists of a floating earth attuned orb with 4 stone blades mirroring themselves on the top and bottom of the orb. The Stonewark is as tall as the caster.

Stonewark counts as a wielded item and changes the first five skills on the bar as so.

1) Action (Read 2 - 5 to decipher the usage)

2) Bulwark - Stonewark floats close in proximity to the caster, and they can use it as a powerful shield, blocking attacks and passively increasing magic resistances. Action performs a shield block.

3) Bladewark - Stonewark's blades change into an "X" shape, allowing for a boomerang like attack with the action command. Triggers a 5 second cool down while it flies there and back. Damage is distributed assuming the attack can hit on the trip there and back.

4) Leviwark - Hop atop the Stonewark as it drops under you allowing you to move 25% faster for the duration of the action, also ignoring roots but increasing the length of snares by 2 seconds. Action allows you to "Jump" on your Leviwark. This also skids over water.

5) Warkwark - Propel the Stonewark to a designated area, eventually triggering a small earthquake. Using this ability slows all enemies in the area of impact for 4 seconds and damages all enemies 4 seconds later on detonation. This ability destroys the Stonewark and puts in on cool down for 5 minutes. Action brings up the interface to throw the Stonewark.


Afterwords: I honestly want to be a designer for Guild Wars 2, I have been working on a paper based game for 13 years and GW2 is the first game that has ever come close to what I envision "my" MMORPG to be like. I like to design skills and weapons and tools that make the player go "That skill alone is all the reason I need to play this game."

I am hoping that Stonewark is a fun enough skill to make people say that. I understand that all of my dreams are quite far fetched, but at the very least I'd like all of your imaginations to run wild at the possibilities of this skill. This was specifically designed as a "Any situation, provided you have ample control over your character" skill. It should feel extremely fun to think up things like... Charge at an enemy while riding your Leviwark only to dynamically switch to your Bladewark and toss it at the enemy, casting one of your 6 - 8 skills while waiting for it to return.

Thanks for hosting this contest, it's nice to know that someone somewhere wants our imaginations to run wild instead of restricting conversation to facts and science.

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 10:08pm by n3verendR

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 10:31pm by n3verendR

Black Signature
Necromancer Elite Skill (Blood Magic)


Skill Cost: Very small (see below)
Skill Recharge: Very small (see below)


Skill Effect: Sends a jet of empowered Dark Ink towards target location (may be cast on any point). The ink will travel and lay on the ground, leaving a trail that will stay for 5 minutes.

Dark Ink is a very sticky substance. Any enemy that is hit by it mid-flight will be sligthly slowed and marked by ink for 5 seconds.

Consequent Dark Ink trails may be laid down forming special shapes. Once a shape is formed on the ground, the Ink will resonate with energy, releasing the specific powers of the design. Once this happens, mana will be drawn, a bigger cooldown will be applied, and all trails of ink anywhere will disappear. Beware: If the Necromancer releases many drawings with the same trail or underestimates the amount of magic required, any amount of mana he/she can't pay will be substracted from his life bar. That said, triggering many effects at once should be more effective than doing so one by one (think of it as budget discount).


Drawing 1: Scythe
Design: A cross.
Effect: When the cross is formed, two blood-soaked blades will emerge from the ground, centered on the cross, and spin in the air damaging anyone nearby and covering them in ink for 5 seconds. Size of the drawn cross directly reflects size of the Scythe, and bigger Scythes will have bigger cooldown and cost.
Cooldown added: Medium.
Mana cost: Medium.



Drawing 2: Prision
Design: A square.
Effect: When a square is formed, four steel spikes emerge from the corners, trapping anyone inside the shape. Trapped enemies are stunned for longer the smaller the square shape was. Stunned enemies take 50% extra damage from other Drawing effects.
Cooldown added: High.
Mana cost: High.


Drawing 3: Spear
Design: A triangle.
Effect: When a triangle is formed, three blood stained spears will raise and travel in the directions of the three angles. Spears will travel straight unless there is an enemy marked by ink nearby, in which case they'll actively search the closest ink marked target.
Cooldown added: Low.
Mana cost: Low.






Explanation:
This skill is supposed to define your playstyle, making you a creative killing machine. Drawings should not be considered separate spells, but as pieces of a big puzzle. By reading it you probably realized they empower each other somehow. Scythe marks with Ink, which triggers the homing spears, which are benefitted by the debuff from prision. Mix and match them by drawing the perfect design so, when you lay down the LAST trail of ink, all drawings will resonate at once and release their power.

For example, a good idea would be an almost finished square with an almost-finished triangle on top (think of it as the typical schematic "house" drawing without a door) with a vertical line crossing the space between the aforementioned shapes. With a single trail, you could end the three shapes simultaneously, thus stunning, marking and piercing the target all at once. And this is just a small example! Triggering many effects at once is really important since cooldown will be applied after an effect, so you'll get a much bigger burst and less average cost.

Another idea could be finishing a Hourglass shape, which will release two triangles and a cross. The spears would fly away and "smell" the recently marked enemy, to inmediatly turn around and tear him/her to bits. Poor you if you're caught inside!

Obviously, you won't always have time to lay down amazing designs, so if you're in the middle of a battle you may consider simply using a faster, less intrincate design, or simply 1 design like a cross, since the mana cost and cooldown is applied on specific drawings. Another ad-hoc tactic would be to lay down two trails in a "V" shape and finish the triangle while making sure you hit the enemy with the trail of ink itself. This will mark him/her and trigger the homing spears.



Edited, Nov 17th 2010 5:15pm by Nikorasu90

Class: Ranger
Weapon: Short bow
Skill Name:Stab and shoot

Description: Attempt to stab a nearby foe's eye with an arrow stunning or blinding the target and then fire the arrow at the same or different target.

I heart this opportunity to have a skill idea assessed by the pros. ^_^

My pitch is for a slightly higher powered necromancer minion, that consequently can't be summoned with a simple button click.

Infernal Damnation
[Utility | Targets foe | 5 Second channel | 10 Second recharge]
Drain target's health. If your foe dies while being drained, an infernal fiend is summoned at their location.

* The damage dealt is minor, as this is a utility skill - usually down to conditions, minions & allies to actually deliver the kill.
* The infernal fiend is a shadowy wraith with fiery hands, hood & skirt - an insubstantial blending of shadow & fire.
* Infernal wraith attacks are only as powerful as a bone minion's, but inflict burning.
* The visual effect of the draining is a wreath of flickering black flame around the target's head.
* The channeling animation is simply to point at a foe, ideally with the player character murmoring if facial animation is possible.

After a successful summoning -> Infernal Descent
[Replaces Infernal Damnation | Quick cast | Recharge N/A]
Dismiss your infernal fiend to set the ground ablaze at it's location.

* Creates a fiery area effect akin to the ranger Bonfire/Set Ablaze skill, that similarly burns enemies within it and interacts with other skills.
* The visual effect is the fiend raising it's hands then plunging into the ground, splashing outward to create a circle of fire (ideally with a pentagram or sigil of fire within it).
* The casting animation would be something quick & concise, such as pointing at the floor or a thumbs-down emote.

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 6:46pm by Vulturion

Edited, Nov 18th 2010 5:30am by Vulturion

I have many ideas don't know if know if we can submit more but here we go

Elementalist

Skill Name: Fiery Endeavor

Skill Affect: Imbued in a fiery human form, you go into frenzy for a short time and only when below 65% health. You can attack enemies and do double damage with fire spells but is burned for 2 seconds.

Cast Time: 2-5 seconds
Recharge Time: 3 minutes


Ranger

Skill Name: "Get'em boy!"

Skill Affect: Only with a companion, you can kick up the enemy with your companion and shoot the enemy with a arrow. (Knocks back, also half damage if successful)

Cast Time: 1-3 seconds
Recharge Time: 4 minutes


Necromancer

Skill Name: Feeding Thrust

Skill Affect: With 3 or more minions, this spell enables you to basically call a enemy to the minions and they will focus their attack on that enemy.(sacrifice 15% health)

Cast Time: 5-7 seconds
Recharge Time: 2 1/5 minutes


That is all for now

Narsil




Edited, Nov 17th 2010 6:24pm by Narsillighthand

Necromancer Elite Skill

Signet of the Lich

Passive: All your necromancer minions do extra damage.
Active: You instantly summon a Flesh Beast and two Bone Horrors. 60 second recharge.


Notes: For the summoned minion names: I used Bone Horror because it's in the original Guild Wars, and according to the official GW2 wiki no currently known minion type is named 'Bone Horror'. As to the Flesh Beast, it'd be a parallel to the Guild Wars Flesh Golem, but I wanted to steer clear of the word 'golem' given the Asura's golem-related skills.

Strategic Abandon
For the next 4 seconds the next time you successfully dodge roll away from an attack made against you recover X% of your energy, and Strategic Abandon recharges instantly.

Ranger skill ideally. Dodge rolls should be rewarded when used successfully but it comes down to whether or not this can feasibly be implemented. X should be greater than the cost of the skill itself but less than the cost of a dodge roll

Aw man, US only? Nothings ever shipped to Canada. :(
None-the-less, just for fun I made up my own skill anyways. Even if I can't win a prize, maybe ArenaNet will like the idea? :P

Necromancer skill
Death Magic
Name of skill: Equinox minion
Description: This skill has two effects that take place at different times of the day.
In the day you summon a burning minion that causes burning for # seconds but when night time comes, this minion no longer burns and steals # health.

Skill Name: Mark of Pestilence
Effect: Conditions spread between foes and conditions allies inflict last longer.

Varients: Perhaps conditions on allies transfer to enemies as well. Condition stack limit is increased. Single applications of conditions now apply two stacks or more.

ELEMENTALIST SKILL

NAME: Aspect of the Fish
ATTRIBUTE: Water
DESCRIPTION: Enchantment. For (6...15) seconds you have + (1...3) health regeneration and move 33% faster. Only usable underwater.
CAST TIME: 3/4 second
RECHARGE TIME: 30 seconds

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 11:17pm by zajinn

Elementalist

Skill Name: Essence of Life
Skill Cost: TBD

Skill Effect: Create an "Essence of Life" – object is being automatically picked up by the hero. Hero’s weapon skills are replaced with “Essence of Life” object skills.

"Essence of Life" object effects / skills:

Static effect: Life regeneration
Skill 1: Throw "Essence of Life" – can be thrown within ### distance from the hero. Essence can be thrown to the ground OR to a teammate. If it is thrown to the teammate, receiving hero will automatically pick it up. If it is thrown to the ground (also happens when receiving hero gets out of range), "Essence of Life" can be picked up by anyone, including enemies. If not picked up within ### seconds, "Essence of Life" fizzles away.
Skill 2: Unleash "Essence of Life" – "Essence of Life" is consumed, the result: enemies within ### radius of the hero are knocked down, hero is healed for ###. (If it is not overpowered, it can also bring up hero from the down state).
Skill 3: TBD
Skill 4: TBD


Visuals: When "Essence of Life" is unleashed, it creates an energy explosion of a certain radius – knocking down nearby enemies.

Use Scenario: Your teammate is surrounded by a swarm of enemies, her life is low and there is no way out. You create “Essence of Life” and throw it to your teammate. Upon catching “Essence of Life”, your teammate unleashes its energy:

• This knocks down all surrounding enemies, giving a chance to escape.
• It also heals hero for a certain amount of HP giving them a better chance to survive.

This is a new mechanic: The idea is that each hero type/attunement would be able to create its own essences ("Essence of Fire", "Essence of Shadows" etc) with their own unique effects. These essences than could be either unleashed/consumed right away, or shared with the teammates by throwing it to them.


Edited, Nov 17th 2010 11:34pm by GuildFan

Edited, Nov 17th 2010 11:35pm by GuildFan

Elementalist Signet skill

Skill Name: Signet of Wrath
Skill Affect: Increases movement speed by 5% while fighting enemies; can be activated to push enemies in front of the player away.
Recharge Time: TBD