World Offhand Slot Suggestions Megathread

As a premise,
I wanted to create a couple suggestions for the possible uses for the offhand slot. Yes, I knew that there are other threads about this. I searched for them, and couldn't find any that were posted in the last month. So, I decided to find all of them and compile the ideas.

Any class items:



Emerald bank:
I wasn't looking through all the "more space" or "fix banks" threads so I didn't find anyone else suggesting this. Basically, all the emeralds you pick up fit in the same slot and that slot may as well be the offhand slot.

Grappling hook:
This thread, which I will come back to later, suggested that assassin could have a grappling hook in it's offhand as a mobility item. @Zernoxi suggested that the grappling hook could attach to any block within a 20 block radius blocks in any specified direction and pull you up to 9 blocks in the direction of the block. It may also be applied to mobs, but I'm not sure if the mob should move or you should, and how much damage to deal.

Rock:
Inspired by this thread, I came up with the idea of holding a rock in your offhand that voids knockback. Pretty simple, and clearly not worth implementing without adding something else you could put in your offhand.

Runes/Glyphs:
An idea I cam up with after reading this thread, you could have something where you can hold a new type of accessory in your offhand that gives you buffs/debuffs(@ItsFreakinHarry).


Bracelet slot:
Once 1.9 compatibility is implemented, the bracelet slot could be moved to the offhand slot.

Swap-hand abilities:
(Implementing these would mean that the item in your offhand can't be activated in any way.)



Ultimates:
There are plenty of threads about adding ultimates, so here's 3:
Ultimates
Hidden Power
Class Ults

Dual wielding:
Serving as a mythic saver and a time saver, if you hold a weapon in your offhand it's impossible to drop it by pressing q (thread). Along with that, you might want to dual wield wands or something (thread)? Warp and Manablast? Here's a thread of new types of items that you might want to dual wield.


Class based items:



Mage:
Tomes (ids and spells)/Totems (ids and a building)
Magic Book (passive buff you)/Orb (passive buff and/or debuff to all entities near you)

Warrior:
Shield(ids and spells)
Shield (increased def)/Whip (+melee range, enemies you hit receive slowness)
My suggestion: Flail. +15% melee and +150% charge damage, -20% speed

Archer:
Elemental/tipped/covered Arrows (ids and spells)
Tipped Arrows(I hope you know what these do)/Trap(basically lingering potions)
My suggestion: Quiver. +1 attack speed, -10% speed, + 15 int(so you get faster spells as well as melee.)

Assassin:
Gloves(ids and spell)/Hooks(ids and I explained the spell up there^ where I suggested it for everyone.)
Bombs(flashbangs, incendiaries, etc)/Thowing knives(basic ranged weapon)


5th spell:
I didn't look for any threads with suggestions for more spells, so I don't know if any threads like that exist, but I'm pretty sure this is self-explanatory. If the admins want a 5th spells I'm pretty sure they won't look at general suggestions to decide them.


Endnote:
Yes, I know this thread lacks detail, and isn't original. That's why I spent 5 hours going through the first 65 pages of general suggestions and looking for anything remotely related to the offhand slot, and a further 3 hours on this thread. If you want more detail, go to the threads I linked.
Also, don't necro those threads.

 

Pretty sure the big issue is that they still have 1.8 compatibility, and therefore can't use any of the actual 1.9+ features.

 

1.8 support will drop soon enough, so I think it's fair to brainstorm some ideas

 

What he ^ said.

 

aye people actually read my threads still

Honestly tho I would rather not have my system (Glyphs) be linked to an offhand slot. While I highly doubt it will be actually implemented in any form, if it were I would rather it not be in the form of a single offhand slot that could be used for so much more than a simple Glyph. Glyphs (in my opinion) are meant to be a system as a whole, not a singular slot where you can augment a build, thats for armors and powders to do.

Anyways, neat thread, lacks detail but I understand detail isnt the point of this thread

 

I'll admit, I did just read your thread, and go, hey, you could have something similar to this with a single item in your offhand slot. I was sticking out for simple, easy to explain ideas in this thread. I have changed the section about glyphs to reflect that.

 

CLASS-BASED ITEMS YASSS



Isn't guardian technically a shield tho

 

Technically guardian is a spear.

 

eh your right, this is the real shield https://wynndata.tk/i/Praesidium


dual wielding needs to be added, 1 Praesidium + 1 Guardian = gg

 

lol can you imagine dem tank warriors

 

how about double bonder mages

 

HoW aBoUt cAtA + cAtA

 

lol nope