New Class Idea: The Brawler

Kalifas · June 2015

The Brawler

Class description and Party Role:

A class built around the premise of a Caestus wielding monk trained in the marital arts with a twist. The brawler has unique gauntlets crafted by an ancient craftsmen that allow him to channel a power generated from his boots which concentrate that energy flow into his hands as magic that controls time.The amount of energy built up in the hands is determined by how much magnetic density is generated in the boots. The boots are made of a special lodestone that have power over weakening gravity and allowing the brawler to jump higher, move faster, and kick harder but they cannot float or fly. I want to clarify this class would have mechanical parts but is not a cybernetic being.

Party Role: DPS or Tank or Debuffer

Possible Gear Motifs: (Just ideas not wanting a copy)

Leather Armor Long sleeves or Vest with leather or plate pants.

Or if looking at the brawler as a heavy armor wearer instead

Animation Building:

Animation/Skills:
If you need any ideas for animations or unique moves. I am going to link a very substantial list of reference materials. Any on of these could very easily fit into a nice combative skill. Animations probably won't be as fancy as most shown here, it can be simple kicks or punches.

club540.com/tricktionary

And just in case you want to throw in some environmental parkour. I have a reference link to that as well.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkSWMsQVjqtHD7Q72su8k6hEQo_t3Q-R

https://youtube.com/watch?v=06LAXhXNLLQ

If inspiration needed:
Here is a movie/game list.
-Mortal Kombat=Raiden,Sub-Zero
-Big Trouble in Little China= The 3 guardians of Lo Pan
-Dragon Ball Z
-Xenogears= Fei Fong Wong
-Street Fighter= Ryu, Ken
-Jupiter Ascending= Channing Tatum's character's boots

Suggestive Combat Purpose:
Each one of the moves selected is designed to develop kinetic/magnetic energy that allows the brawler to manipulate time and space. How can time and space be manipulated? Well time can be frozen, sped up, slowed down, reversed, fast forwarded, stop, etc. Space or matter can be manipulated as vanish, shrink, grow, implode, explode, expand, vibrate, freeze, burn, solidfy, liquefy, etc.

I did not get into any specific things I would like to see because the post would get too long and I wanted to see what the devs came up with and be pleasantly surprised if this class did get in. Please let me know what you think.

Lynx7386 · June 2015

There's no reason to add an entire class focused around what really just amounts to a weapon skill tree.

On top of that, if we're going to start adding new weapon skill trees or weapon types, they'd damn well better start off with polearms and crossbows - weapons that actually have a use in the kind of siege warfare we do in this game.