Create Your own Skills (Elite and Normal)

[Shadowleaf]

If you're going to suggest new skills with the honest intention that ANET considers them, they'd need to be a bit more creative than an elite version of an old spell. Keep in mind that in GW:EotN, there will be 100 new skills and 50 PvE only skills. There are 10 professions, so that makes only 10 new skills to be used in PvP for each profession. They damn well better be interesting, useful and fresh.

Even 15 new skills doesn't leave room for junk skills and/or clones if we're to expect the new skills to be interesting at all.

[Akirai Annuvil]

Falling Star

5e/3s/30s
Elite Spell. Target foe and all nearby foes are struck for 7...91 fire damage and knocked down. This spell causes exhaustion. (Att. Fire Magic)

Isn't that just Meteor with a slightly large AoE? Why does that deserve elite status?

The KD effect is extremely nice... I think, actually, a Nearby one would be a bit imbalanced in Fire Magic.

The opinions are a bit divided on these types of skills.

Way of the Dagger
5e//0s//12s
Elite Stance. For 5..17..21 seconds, you deal +10 damage with dagger attacks. If you are enchanted, all your lead attacks deal another +1..12..16 damage. <Critical Strikes>

Black Fox Strike
5e//0s//4s
Elite Lead attack. If this attack hits target foe, you deal +10..22..26 damage and target foe suffers from Deep Wound for 10 seconds. If target foe was Hexed, this attack cannot be missed. <Dagger Mastery>

Serpent's Fangs
5e//1/4s//12s
Elite Hex Spell. Target foe suffers from Poison for 5..17..21 seconds. For 15 seconds, target foe takes 8..20..26 damage per second that foe is poisoned. <Deadly Arts>

Shadow's Sight
15e//1/4s//15s
Elite Enchantment Spell. Teleport to target ally. Your next 5..14..17 attacks cannot be blocked. If one of your attacks misses, you return to target ally and gain 75 health. <Shadow Arts>

Golden Passage
5e//1s//15s
Elite Spell. If you are enchanted you teleport to target foe's location. <attributeless>

[MStarfire]

Quarantine (attrib: Protection Prayers)
10/2/30
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 4..24 seconds, whenever target other ally recieves a new condition, all other allies within earshot become immune to that condition for 2..18 seconds. This skill is disabled for an additional 7 seconds for every condition target other ally receives.

Deafening Haze (attrib: Shadow Arts)
5/2/40
Elite Hex spell. For 2..18 seconds, target foe cannot be the target of Shouts, Chants, or Echoes.

[MStarfire]

Quarantine (attrib: Protection Prayers)
10/2/30
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 4..24 seconds, whenever target other ally recieves a new condition, all other allies within earshot become immune to that condition for 2..18 seconds. This skill is disabled for an additional 7 seconds for every condition target other ally receives.

Deafening Haze (attrib: Shadow Arts)
5/2/40
Elite Hex spell. For 2..18 seconds, target foe cannot be the target of Shouts, Chants, or Echoes.

I need to edit the mechanic on Quarantine.

Quarantine (attrib: Protection Prayers)
10/2/30
Elite Enchantment Spell. For 4..24 seconds, whenever target other ally recieves a new condition, all other allies within earshot become immune to that condition for 2..18 seconds. This skill is disabled for 7 seconds every time target other ally receives a new condition.

[jouninassasin]

Fire Blast
15e./3s/10s
Elite Spell. Send out a Fire Blast to target foe. If this attack hits, target foe and all nearby foes are struck for 7...91 fire damage and are knocked down for 3 seconds. This spell causes exhaustion. (Att. Fire Magic.)

This is an Elite Form of Fireball

Falling Star
5e/3s/30s
Elite Spell. Target foe and all nearby foes are struck for 7...91 fire damage and knocked down. This spell causes exhaustion. (Att. Fire Magic)

Elite Form of Meteor

[MStarfire]

This is an Elite Form of Fireball



Elite Form of Meteor

And both with absolutely no reason to use them. I can think of better ways to KD someone, and Falling Star is a weakened version of Meteor. The only difference is a slightly bigger AoE. I'd rather use Dragon's and save the elite slot.

Anyway.

Branded Death (attrib: Death Magic)
5/.25/30
Elite Enchantment spell. For 4..18 seconds, if target creature dies while enchanted with Branded Death, that creature's corpse can only be exploited by friendly corpse exploitation spells.

[Shadowleaf]

Fire Blast
15e./3s/10s
Elite Spell. Send out a Fire Blast to target foe. If this attack hits, target foe and all nearby foes are struck for 7...91 fire damage and are knocked down for 3 seconds. This spell causes exhaustion. (Att. Fire Magic.)

This is an Elite Form of Fireball

Imbalanced because it's a "nearby" sized KD with Fireball damage with a 10 second recharge. The energy cost, exhaustion and elite status do not balance this skill at all. Again, I ask you to recall the imbalanced NF elites.

Falling Star
5e/3s/30s
Elite Spell. Target foe and all nearby foes are struck for 7...91 fire damage and knocked down. This spell causes exhaustion. (Att. Fire Magic)

Elite Form of Meteor

This one has that painful recharge like Meteor. IMO, no one would use it.

[DarkWizard]

Heaven Fall
Elite Spell
Protection Prayers
5 EN/ 2 CT/ 10 RT
Target ally is healed for 25..63 health. If target ally is below 50..75% health, all adjacent foes are knocked down for 2..3 seconds.

Grand Mirror of Equity
Elite Spell
Illusion Magic
10 EN/ 3 CT/ 30 RT
All enchantments, conditions, and hexes of all non-spirit targets within range are applied to all non-spirit targets within range.

[jouninassasin]

hhm..maybe the fire blast seemed stupid, falling star can have a lil less rehcarge time

[Shadowleaf]

Heaven Fall
Elite Spell
Protection Prayers
5 EN/ 2 CT/ 10 RT
Target ally is healed for 25..63 health. If target ally is below 50..75% health, all adjacent foes are knocked down for 2..3 seconds.

This one is amazing, conceptually and I think, it would be in practice too. But I think it's actually just what Smiting Prayers needs and more characteristic of Smiting. What about...

Heaven Fall
Elite Spell
Smiting Prayers
5 EN/ 1 CT/ 12 RT
All foes adjacent to target ally are knocked down for 2...3 seconds. For each foe knocked down, that ally is healed for 25...63 health.

Sorry if I butchered it, but I couldn't help it.