Falconer
Main stats: Dexterity, Attunement
Main weapons: Bow, Crossbow, of hand melee weapon.
Philosophy: The Falconer has his own goals and morals, he doesn’t keep a great deal of faith in other humans, and finds his peace among the wilds. He wants for little, but what he does desire he pursues with a cunning wit and the aid of his trusted hunting falcon.
Class passive trait: the falconer is accompanied by a single, untargetable falcon which augments all rogue and falconer abilities.
(Falcon passives for rogue abilities)
Mutilate: Falcon also attacks the target.
Vanish: Falcon lets out a piercing cry, fearing all nearby enemies instead of stunning them.
Shadowstep: can now be used without a target to swap locations with the falcon.
Dagger throw: Falcon applies blind and bleed to the target.
Spike trap: Falcon taunts enemies towards the trap
Evade: Falcon gives you an assist, increasing the range of evade.
Kick: falcon intercepts the kicked enemy, causing them to take damage even if they don’t collide with terrain or another enemy.
Core Falconer abilities:
Hunters mark: Mark an enemy, causing them to have a higher chance to be critically hit. Hunters mark is permanent, but you may only have 1.
(Falcon passive): Falcon will prioritize attacking enemy with hunters mark.
Honey Trap: Lay a trap at your feet, detonating when an enemy walks over it. Enemies hit by honey trap will be beset by wild badgers until they are dead, enemies can only be attacked by one badger at a time.
(Falcon passive): falcon will carry the trap to a desired location, granting infinite placement range.
Shank: stab your off hand weapon into an enemy, causing them to bleed. Shank generates higher than average threat.
(Falcon passive): Falcon gains frenzy while attacking the victim of shank.
(High tier/ Falconer only abilities)
Phoenix Flight: Empower the falcon to burst into flames and become a mighty phoenix, dealing constant fire damage to all nearby enemies and igniting it’s main target with every attack. Phoenix has rapidly decaying health and can be attacked by enemies. When the phoenix dies, or when this ability is re-activated, the phoenix explodes, dealing large fire damage to enemies in a huge area. The falcon rises from the phoenix’s ashes after 5 seconds
(Falcon passive): All falcon passives are disabled while the phoenix is active.
Birds of prey: Summon a second falcon to attack enemies. (this falcon will not become a phoenix)
(Falcon passive): All applicable falcon passives for other skills will apply twice, will also allow falcon passives to occur during phoenix flight.
Passive nodes (aside from the generic ones)
Bird man: The falcon deals more damage, but you deal less damage.
Into the fray: Melee attacks deal more damage at the cost of ranged damage
Tactitian: Traps can detonate twice after a delay.
What the flock: Your falcon is now 3 smaller falcons that each do 50% of the first’s damage, falcon passives are unaffected.
And a honey badger…: You are also accompanied by a honey badger that periodically taunts a single strong enemy and mauls it.
