Game Mechanics Acrobat ability suggestions

Edit: The name for Skystruck Blade is now Shunpo. I can’t change the poll options, but it means the same ability.
Same thing for Stronger Dash. It has been renamed to Skystrider.

Here are some abilities that I think would fit well in Acrobat’s ability kit.

Shunpo: Holding shift and casting Dash will perform a long, aerial jump, swiftly moving you 20 blocks in any direction and dealing damage to enemies below and around your path. (5 second cooldown)
Damage: 180% Neutral, 30% Air
Mana cost: Your Dash cost +15. Does not add to the spell cycling cost addition.
Damage Range: 32 blocks (below) ~ 2 blocks (around)
Movement Range: 20 blocks (all directions)
Cooldown: 5 seconds
Node color: Purple
Particle Effects: Grayish-blue “after images” will follow the player for the duration of the jump (lasts about 0.5 seconds).

This will be very useful for when an enemy is teleporting around faster than you can get to them. It also will help during travel as another mobility tool to help you get around.
Also, it’s great for style points.

Nimble Escape: Touching the ground after being airborne for 5 seconds or more will grant an 80% multiplicative walk speed bonus for 3 seconds. Dodging attacks during this time will completely negate the damage.
Walk Speed bonus: 80%
Duration: 3 seconds
Node color: Yellow
Particle Effect: A white and blue star shape (the same shape that is Tempest and Death Magnet) will briefly appear on the ground before dissolving into smaller, grayish particles that follow your feet until the duration ends.

This will be useful in those situations where you have to go on the ground to get somewhere, like exiting the Witness Church, which can be deadly if you aren’t quick enough. It will also be useful if you screw up really bad and end up on the ground, acting as a sort of failsafe.


Skystrider: If cast while airborne, Dash will continue its momentum for 1.5 seconds, or until cast again.
This one might be a little confusing. Basically, if you cast Dash while airborne, it will behave more similarly to Charge in that it is not just one small boost. It will continue to push you forward until the duration runs out or you cast Dash again.
Duration: 1.5 seconds
Node color: Yellow

This will help for traveling as it will greatly increase your flight speed. At least, if I am thinking about it correctly. It also won’t mess with combat too much as it will be a directional upgrade. So if you are looking down, you won’t go as fast as you would be if you looked straight ahead.

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That’s all of the new abilities I can think of. One smaller change I would make is that Lacerate’s second boost would have more forward momentum, as to make flying more efficient. The vertical movement would stay the same, just not going straight up.

I don’t think that these suggestions would be possible in the current tree, even if they get considered as an addition to the game, because of how tight the Assassin tree is on Ability Points. Maybe when Fruma comes out and the level cap is increased, there will be enough AP to fit these, or others, into the tree.

Also, do keep in mind that I don’t think Acrobat is missing anything important right now. It’s well-balanced. I tried to make this post less of “Acrobat needs these abilities desperately” and more of “if more abilities are added, i think these would work well”.

Let me know what you think about these, and have a nice day/night!

 

As an acrobat player, I actually disagree with this one. The thing about acrobat mobility is that it's not just for traveling, it's also for combat. Removing Lacerate's upwards boost removes the possibility of triggering Weightless conveniently in the early game (edit: I forgot about Psithurism lol. But I think the point still stands. Having to look up to Dash kinda breaks your flow in combat). It will also make it much harder to stay above ground (edit: or gain altitude), making you only rely on Pirouette, Hop, and Righting Reflex in order to stay off the ground which is not enough at all.

These ability suggestions are nice, though. They can help acrobat cover more distance when traveling and help with combat. I like bouncing around with Aerodynamics + Whirlwind Strike, so I'm especially a fan of Stronger Dash. Maybe just call it Aerodynamics as well? Acrobat shares Hop with boltslinger anyways.

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Suggestion for Skystruck Blade name uhhhh, Shunpo? Or are japanese words exclusively a shadestepper thing lol

edit again lol
Also a little bit of constructive feedback for this suggestion (which is actually constructive feedback I received myself), you might wanna include the reason as to why acrobat needs these abilities in the first place. In what way do they help acrobat? Some prompts for this include: Anything it adds that acrobat lacks? Is acrobat boring right now and needs some flair? Anything not fitting thematically that needs replacing?

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks for the detailed response! I should clarify what i meant by that last part about Lacerate. It would still boost you upward, like normal, but instead of being almost purely a vertical movement, there would also be some forward momentum to it.

I’m glad you like the ideas, and i definitely think Stronger Dash needs a more unique name. But I don’t think it should also be called Aerodynamics, as that would lead to much confusion. However, the same way that Hop and Leap are similar abilities with different names, a name like Aerodynamics might fit well.

Edited this part now that you explained it and I thought about it more. I’ll change the name!

Thanks for reminding me about this!
For Shunpo, it’s for those moments where something is moving around faster than you can keep up, and you want to get close to it quickly as to deal damage. It also would come in handy outside of combat, just as an extra way to keep your pace. I should mention that it can be aimed in all directions, so you can use it to go up and down if you need to.

Nimble Escape is for times like when you are exiting the Witness Church and all the mobs swarm the door. You have to be grounded to leave, and if there are too many mobs, you are pretty much screwed. Nimble Escape will help solve this by giving you extra mobility when you are grounded, but limited so you can’t abuse it.

Stronger Dash came to mind almost purely as a way to make traveling faster. It would work with Lacerate so that if you cast Dash together with it, you will continue to have that same momentum boost for a longer period of time, effectively increasing your air speed. It would also help in combat, as looking straight ahead with this ability active will grant you bonus speed to catch up, while looking down to attack will not make it tedious by zooming you around the arena.

Overall, I don’t think Acrobat is lacking anything too important. I think that what this post says is less of “Acrobat needs these abilities desperately ADD THEM NOW”, and more, “if new abilities are added in the future, here are some ideas!”
The only thing that I think would be good for right now is something like Stronger Dash where it increases the speed at which you can fly.

One thing I absolutely love about Acrobat is that there are so many different ways to fly around, inside and outside of combat. I know at least 5 methods of flying with different levels of difficulty and different results.
I hope that, if these even get CONSIDERED to be additions to the game at some point, it won’t take away from that versatility and uniqueness and just add more ways to make it work.

Thank you again for the feedback and advice. Have a nice day/night!

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Alright, I edited the post to add some things you suggested. Thanks again!

 

I see. I personally don't mind a change like that. You should add that to the poll!

Oh it's Leap for boltslinger, I thought it's also Hop. Well I'm out of ideas lol.

It doesn't have to be about stealth to have a Japanese word fit it! Shunpo is "a movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow," which I thought fit what the ability does. I'm not trying to convince you of this at all; the name of the ability is still up to you! I just thought I should explain this because saying that a Japanese word is unfitting just because it has less emphasis on stealth doesn't make a lot of sense.

Anyways, I'm glad I could help!

 

I’ll add it.

Lol yeah, and apparently there are like no synonyms for aerodynamics and I’m not smart enough to think of one so idk lol

Oh wow, that’s cool. I’m… not really sure why i said it was unfitting, I probably should have picked a more clear definition. I feel like Acrobat is less about the cool moves and more about the flow of combat, which for some reason clicked in my brain as unfitting. The more I think about it, the less it makes sense to me. So I’ll change the name lol. Thanks for the suggestion! And sorry if it was unclear, and maybe offensive, i didn’t mean it that way.
And Acrobat has lots of cool moves and Shunpo is a cool move so I don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore.

Also, I changed the ability to a fast jump through the air rather than a teleport. Acrobats in real life probably can’t teleport, but they can do cool jumps, so…

 

Some changes I made:
Renamed Stronger Dash to Skystrider
Nimble Escape now makes dodging attacks completely negate damage during the ability’s duration.
Added particle effect ideas to Skystrider and Shunpo
Made Shunpo deal 10% more Neutral damage
Made Shunpo launch you 20 blocks instead of 16

Okay, before you say it, I know this suggestion is not actually in Wynncraft. Nonetheless, I do care about this post, and I’m gonna try to get it to be the best suggestion I can make it, hence these itty bitty changes.