Bard jobs suggestion for NC, Part 1:

Blystos Re · Post by **Blystos Re** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:21 pm

Bard jobs:

Meet with Armsmaster Cherise at the Sanctum Arcanum, she will be your point of contact for Bard jobs.

Seeker:
Cherise will send you to speak to Bristol, who will assign you a reconnaissance task. There has been a strange creature sighted in a cave in the Daeron Outskirts. Your instructions are to investigate to discover the nature of the beast, but do not attack.

Level 1: Travel to the cave to discover the fire mephit lurking there, return and report back to Bristol.
Reward: +1 to tumble/spot/listen/perform/UMD

Level 2: Bristol sends you on a mission to collect 5 coldstones, with which he will make a special wand to help combat the fire mephit.
Reward: +1 to tumble/spot/listen/perform/UMD. Seeker’s Goggles – Item grants Darkvision 1x/day.

Level 3: Bristol gives you the wand and sends you to destroy the mephit. Use the wand on the mephit to weaken it, then kill it. Retrieve item “flame essence” and return to Bristol.
Reward: +1 to tumble/spot/listen/perform/UMD. Seeker’s Goggles improve to Ultravision 1x/day.

Level 4: Bristol and Cherise use the “flame essence” to distil an elixir to "fireproof" shields and armor. Deliver a sample of this to Grand Highmarshal Brea and report back to advance to Master level.
Reward: +1 to tumble/spot/listen/perform/UMD. Seeker’s Goggles improve duration of Ultravision, grant immunity to blindness for 1 round + 1/3 character level.
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I tried to make these bonuses as balanced as possible, somewhere along the lines of the other NC jobs. This does not grant a full +1 to AC from tumble, and does not grant an AC bonus. Also, make this ONLY available to bards, and make it so they cannot take the other NC jobs if they tell Highmarshal Cristoph they would rather use their magic to aid the Coalition.

Thoughts?

Post by **LinuxPup** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:50 pm

Doesn't NC already have 2 jobs? But I guess AO has 3. I wish MA's job bonus included perform.

Kirg · Post by **Kirg** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:42 pm

AO has 3 unfinished jobs you mean.

I guess the first job would require a separate area with the mephit in it. OnEnter or OnExit would give you the variable to being able to progress in the job.
Else you would have to place a guard there, which you would have to speak to, to change the value.
Or maybe something entirely else

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Don't know if immunity to blindness isn't too good. Immunity to WoF and other Blindness causing spells is quite good. Actually very good indeed. At least the duration seems to be right. And the trade off is you don't get the other boni.
Maybe you could give bards an item which would lower the Arcane Spell Failure? Although not sure if this could be scripted.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:27 pm

AO was 1 finished job, 1 incomplete job, and 1 job that doesn't even start.

Post by **LinuxPup** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:39 pm

It seems odd to me though that NC would get better Bard bonuses than MA (the arcane specialists). They're lucky to even have bards. If they do get said bard bonuses, it seems Rogues of MA should get something too since they (along with Clerics) are our unpopular folk.

That said, SL is in need more than anyone of jobs.

Ajantis. · Post by **Ajantis.** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:13 pm

When you first talk to High Marshal Christoph, you have an option to favor an arcane occupation, however, if you click on it, you get an error.

Kirg · Post by **Kirg** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:16 pm

Hm, and I always thought it was divine and not arcane. As you get sent to the cleric, I assumed that job would be for the clerics.
Maybe a spelling error somewhere?

Ajantis. · Post by **Ajantis.** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:24 pm

Perhaps, yeah. I don't remember. Something secretive anyhow. When I first talked to him I clicked on that option and when I got that error, I just assumed that the jobs weren't scripted and didn't realize there were others because I kept getting weird errors when I talked to him again.

kgb · Post by **kgb** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:48 pm

I would think some quest surrounding the Fey Cave (Crevasse) would be more appropriate given that essentially that area does nothing other than be a conduit to a broken shortcut to melencia.

Perhaps the quest is that the Fey Queen wants you to rid her home of the mephit???

Sounds kind of funky to me.

Edit: Perhaps when the conduit is fixed the coldstones could be retrieved off a certain number of pixies/nymphs/dryads/ other flit-flits which i forget starting with g lol - in melencia itself making it a bit of work to get items.

Blystos Re · Post by **Blystos Re** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:09 am

The function in the conversation with Christoph could be either arcane or divine, all it would take is a get_class in the conversation, then Christoph could send them off to either the temple next door, or the Sanctum.

Making it so the bard could not take the other jobs, I feel, would make it a balanced bonus. I had another idea for further bard jobs beyond this, but that can wait. Also, you would have to be about level 3 or higher if the mephit had a fire cone attack, otherwise you won't survive.

The cleric job I have in mind would be more than likely a healer/protector job. I have some ideas on this, but they aren't completed yet.