Some Ideas (5th Job, bosses, and other stuff)

Wow, great ideas. I really miss the story and quest component of maplestory. What I liked about the new classes created is that they had a nice story line that I didn't get with explorers. Your suggestions are really well thought out and it'd be amazing if the 5th job we get is similar in design. Although I'm dreading the grind, I'm excited about new skills.

Thanks. I wouldn't say they're really well thought-out or anything, just stuff I'd like to see. I, for one, love a good story, so here's hoping they actually give Adventurers some story at least. Better late than never, eh?

When I was thinking about this stuff, I was trying to keep balance in mind. Especially for the status effects. Would it be too screwed up? Would it be too easily shrugged off?

 Thought Process(?)

For Karmic Balance, I initially thought of a status effect that forced players to keep attacking or die, but that wouldn't exactly hamper them so I made it so that players are forced to strike a balance between attacking and not attacking. Partly influenced by the light novel/anime Sword Art Online, where party members split into tactical teams and took turns to attack bosses to screw with the AI's aggro.

Tranmogrification (I initially dubbed it Demonshift) was born as sort of a counter to Cursed Weapon's weakness of exploitability, using the concept of making the party fight among themselves by turning them into monsters temporarily. Kinda zombie-ish if you ask me, but whatever. And of course, though I did say the damage they'd do would be the same as any other monster of the same level, I never said they wouldn't have magic attacks and multi-hit moves.

Meanwhile, the whole DrK quest thing was just me winging it. Always did wing my essays and stuff, so...the problem was with the skill that was to be the reward; the Beholder deceives the player, so there's no special technique to be learnt. After some thought, I went with sealing and "enslaving" the Beholder for good so the player would have full access to all of its powers without it being able to resist. The next problem would be the skill's effects, but I left the specifics out here because I can't really balance stuff like that well. :x