(Merc) Ignis

(HunterAssassin5) #1

this is…a bit of a joke, really, but if its diversity we’re looking for, diversity is what I’m delivering. Also i sort of copied the layout from another thread, so there. Someone needs to make a template for this sort of post.

Name: Ignis

Class: Fire Support

Nationality: British(?)

Gender: Female

Description: A peculiar woman with an unusual obsession with bad puns and an unknown history that quite literally came out of nowhere into the merc industry, bringing with her firestorms that seem to materialize whenever and wherever she’s on the job.

“My name means ‘fire’…and YOU. ARE. FIRED! HAHA!”

Stats:

  • 110 Health
  • 450 Speed
  • 5s Arm
  • 8s Disarm

Abilities:
Gift Of Prometheus

  • A massive fireball falls from the sky to land on the spot where Ignis cast- um, I mean, what I meant to say was the spot where she “activated” the sp- the ABILITY. sigh Dealing AOE damage as well as 5s of DOT to enemy players and Ignis herself if caught in the blast radius.

Explosive Explosives

  • A small supply of ammunition that only resupplies enough ammo for one full magazine for the primary weapon of whoever picks it up, but for the next reload, the entire magazine’s ammo is capable of setting ablaze any enemy it hits via an unknown concoction within the slugs. can be picked up my enemy players.

Primary weapons:

  • Dragon’s Breath Shotgun - I don’t know which one to be exact, maybe even a new one, but the default primary will be a shotgun with Dragon’s Breath shells, which are basically shotgun shells that shoot incendiary rounds. obviously, the resulting range is very short, almost one corner to the next in the first point in Underground, but high damage, plus maybe 3s of DOT.
    http://i.imgur.com/pOA8sCE.gif
  • Other shotgun or SMG

Secondary Weapons:

  • SMG or Pistol

In case I didn’t drop enough hints, I’m trying to mess with whatever lore’s in place as well as logic to make a fire sorceress that somehow managed to teleport into the world of Dirty Bomb. I’m not that big of a stats guy, as well as an overall game character balancer, so I’d appreciate anything you want to say about this one.

(mendaciousPole) #2

Fire supports need ammo drops. She could summon um- drop explosive bullets. Would have a longer cool down and would only give a clip at most.

(HunterAssassin5) #3

sounds great. also, not explosive rounds(do those even exist? outside of explosive artillery shells), incendiary rounds.

what to cross out? Gift of Prometheus or Explosive Entrance?

(Impeccable Lemon) #4

Move her shotgun to her Q ability (Stoker already has an AoE fireball of sorts) and keep the incendiary rounds as her ammo perk.

Dragon’s Breath rounds honestly do not have the same punch that steel/lead shot do, but one thing they do very well is intimidate. Instead of being an outright damage buff, enemies could take additional damage from other sources, plus a small DoT, which would tick just often enough to keep medkits and Aura’s healing station from being able to heal well. And since this would not be an outright player killing tool like Rhino’s minigun, this would keep Ignis as a fire support rather than putting her in the assault category. The shotgun should probably not recharge on a shell by shell basis like Nader’s launcher, but rather recharge as a whole. Using it pops out the shotgun, lets you use as much as you want to for a short period of time, then recharges based on how much of it you used.

As for her ammo packs, let them completely refill anyone who picks it up, but only give the first full reload the bonus. And you could say the rounds are tipped with white phosphorus, I suppose. Would give them a nice look, visual wise. Unsure if it would be wise giving her both a damage amp on her ability and a damage amp on her ammo packs, but worse comes to worse all they’d have to do is change them to normal ammo packs.

(omegaskorpion) #5

[quote=“TheRyderShotgun;32954”]sounds great. also, not explosive rounds(do those even exist? outside of explosive artillery shells), incendiary rounds.

what to cross out? Gift of Prometheus or Explosive Entrance?[/quote]

There are explosive bullets (just don’t expect them do do Michael Bay explosion fest)

(they have real tiny explosion but trust me, when that small explosive bullet goes to your stomach, there nothing left of it)