insane ideas for new DD spell (in General)

We have DD spells which are cast in all rounds.
We have DD spells which are cast in melee rounds.

Why don't we have a DD spell which casts in ranged rounds only?
And if you would have to come up with such a spell, what should it do?

Share your ideas with me! :)

yes, that sounds great!

Also how about a melee DD that cast every other round but does twice the damage of CoC? If anything it'll be slower in terms of rounds needed to take out the opposition, but at least it'll stand a chance against GA.

Minion's DD is charging.
Minion's DD hits Koy for (lots of) damage!

So for the 5 rounds of Ranged, in which rounds would it cast? 1 / 3 / 5 or 2 / 4 ?

If it's like Hyper beam, the Pokemon didn't need to charge the first round, lol. So, it would fire rounds 1/3/5.

"Share your ideas with me!"

Ok.

Syphons life (HP) from the target to the caster.
Splits with any minions who have Phantom Link.
Minimal damage (equal drain), but ignores AC.
Still affected by magic-specific counters (AMF, Mage Shield, Elven Hauberk, etc.).

Firing in rounds 1/3/5 makes good RPG sense, too. Theoretically, the minion would go into battle with the spell nice and charged up, just like the archers would have an arrow pre-nocked and whatnot.

Make Fireball ranged-only. Increase it's damage.

its, rather. Stupid me.

I will argue for 2/4/6 instead then. It make sense in that HoC still do things. so 2/4/6 would basically mean 1/3/5 with HoC, else its round 2/4.

Goodfish wins

I'd say any DD spell that fires in ranged only would have to be more of a supportive spell then a primary damage source. There's just not enough rounds in there to rely on it as a battle winner.

Still got my insane healing chain idea.

Wich reacts against your GA, your AC and magic defence and opponents AMF.

Crazy stuff, still could help non-GA user against GA users.

Earthquake! The limited FoD/decay based wild card for ranged only.

i like this idea, make SG works only in range please :D

I guess I'll repost this now that people might actually listen to it.

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Direct Damage

Prevents Learning of Enchant Offense Spells

Does more damage based upon placement. Damage is 20% of Spell Level. Total Damage would be effect * 5, like Cone of Cold. - From Left to Right
First Minion - 125% Total Damage
Second Minion - 100% Total Damage
Third Minion - 75% Total Damage
Fourth Minion - 50% Total Damage

Secondary Effect: Increases damage by a set percent based upon placement, this effect will never increase. This increase is only applied to the other minions placed "infront" of the Casting Minion. This effect does not stack multiple times. - From Left to Right
First Minion - 0% Increase
Second Minion - 1% Increase
Third Minion - 2% Increase
Fourth Minion 3% Increase

Bubble

Traps and totally thrashes a Familiar in ranged but pops once melee starts. Spell would need to be of a certain level compared to the familiar. (may or may not render familiar useless during these rounds)

Or if no familiar available it would choose a random minion to trap.

Lightning bolt. Hits front two minions. Every ranged round damage another bolt hits (Everyone knows lightning bolts bounce off of arena walls!). In melee, the caster stops using it because it would.. uhhh... Arc into himself. Yeah, that'll do for reasoning. Or because the bolts only start a small way away from him...

Meteor Rain. First round hits 1&3, second round hits 2&4, back to 1&3, so forth, so on. Stops casting because it would be the ultimate fail to smack yourself in the face with a meteor.

We already have a spell that somewhat backfires, FB. How about a powerful (more than MM or SG) single-target spell that always backfires a certain percentage (like 15-20%, I don't know) of the damage dealt directly to the caster?

Catalyst

Fires in Ranged round 1/3/5

Damage Type: Drain

Explanation: Drains Opponents DD Magic Temporarily to Augment your own. Percentage would depend on how high it is versus your Opponents DD Spell. (Average Beginning 3%. Upgrades add .5% per level or maybe lower)

This is all well and good...

... as long as I can train two DD spells. One for ranged, one for melee.

Like a tank carrying a bow and sword.

Otherwise I am not sure about this whole idea. What happens when ranged is over?

That was the other part of my idea. Why not have a different slot open for this kind of Spell. An Augmentation/Support slot :)

But to ground it in DD only then I would say it would work like this. Lets say it fires 2/4 then in 3/5 it hits for the accumulated damage of the Drain Physically. It would work under similar premesis as the AMF Backlash but instead of small percentages every round it would hit massively every other round.

I am all for more choices, just make them unique and somewhat useable. doesn't have to be very competitive.

sutekh: what happens with minions using CoC or Decay now in ranged? nothing...


This spell would make a mage / tank viable as opposed to a mage archer possibly.


The idea is to come up with ideas, I just want to know different opinions and ideas regarding such a spell since we don't have one atm.

"This is all well and good...

... as long as I can train two DD spells. One for ranged, one for melee."

Seems pretty logical, but we already have spells that only fire in melee, so why should spells that only fire in ranged be any different? There are weapons that only fire in ranged as it stands...

The weapons that "only" fire in ranged also fire in melee too. :P

But at a massive PTH penalty.

Death Seeker

Deals damage to minion with highest health, causes them to take 1/2 health in damage, deals 1/4 of that damage to all other minions.

pretty much ranged Decay that targets minion with highest health while still hurting other minions.

Nayab: That'd be a brutal spell. Targets a PL wall or tank, kills all E's. It'd virtually eliminate the need for DM on quick-kill teams... unless I'm mistaken?

Yes, that would be far too OP.

Why not a "magic" arrow? ^.^ Choose from fire for high damage when it is shot, or ice to slow down your opponent - decreasing its dex for the next fired round. I probably shouldn't be suggesting this as I'm an archer :}

Forgot to mention you have to train archery to use it at full effect... -snickers-

I like Daz' lightning idea to an extent. Though I suggest making it strike only one minion at a time -- and at random. You can't control if it will strike the front minion vs third, etc. You can have it fire in ranged and in melee, but the randomness will make it weaker against 4-5 minion teams.

Meso that is the COOLEST idea ever. Too bad we still don't have ammo so we could have ice arrows and fire arrows and poison arrows, dang.