The Masquerader
A hero's Tale:
As magic and mystics became more understood, many found a way to improve their day-to-day lives. For some, however, magic became the worst thing to ever happen to them. One such person is Ms. Melody.
Living an uneventful life, Melody sought to use magic energy to change her vocal cords and fulfill her dream of being a songstress. However, something went wrong. Despite studying flesh manipulation magic for months, she was scarred forever.
Her family and friends thought it was a freak accident, gifting her a mask to hide her face.
She, however, knew it was her fault. Desperation that drove her to procure shady ingredients from shady people.
Yet, when she looks in the mirror now, she smiles beneath her mask.
The deformity left her unable to speak, but granted her the ability to sing magic into existence. Enamoured by her new power, she learnt to control her magic, soon finding that the flesh manipulation could be used to revive the dead and command them with only a hum.
Unsatisfied by being only able to hum, The Masquerader seeks to have her voice returned to her, and will do anything to become the world's greatest singer. Even if her audience is nothing but dead men.
Tags:
Versatile - Necromancer - Desperate
Passive - Songstress:
The Masquerader sings softly while not taking damage. Her song changes based on her mask.
Weaponry:
Unsatisfied Song
Close Range - Spreadshot -
The Masquerader holds a hand to her chest and extends her other hand outward, sending fast moving, slow damaging sound waves with a small hitbox that grows with distance travelled. Dissipates upon maximum bullet falloff range.
4.4 Bullet Damage
20 Bullets per sec
120 Ammo
2.85 Reload Time
57 Bullet Velocity
25 Weapon Range, scales by 0.5 meters for each boon
The Masquerader holds both hands to her chest to reload.
Ability One - Song of Summoning:
Charged - 40 second cooldown.
The Masquerader Sings a song, decreasing her move speed by 60% during a 0.65 second channeling period. After channeling, all charges are used at once. For each charge, summon one minion with 250+1xSpirit HP with a DPS of 20+0.30xSpirit.
Once summoned, the ability can be reactivated to change minion behavior.
Behavior One - Follow The Masquerader
Behavior Two - Attack nearest objective
Behavior Three - Follow nearest ally
1 AP - Increase minion HP scaling to 1.5x.
2 AP - +1 Charge.
5 AP - Increase minion DPS scaling to 0.45x.
Ability Two - Mask Swap:
No cooldown.
The Masquerader swaps her masks around, giving her new abilities based on which mask is equipped. Decreasing her move speed by 30% during a 0.3 second channeling period.
Mask One - Hatred:
The mask of hatred increases her minions damage by 10+0.5xBoons% and gives her 10+0.5xBoons spirit power. Her minions become tinted red.
Mask Two - Love:
The mask of love increases her healing by 10%. Her minions switch to healers, halving their HP and DPS. Healer minions heal 40+1.3xSpirit hp every 6 seconds. Minions become tinted green.
Mask Three - Indifference:
The mask of Indifference increases her HP by 15xBoons. Her minions become brawlers, their model size increases by 10%. Brawler minions HP increases by 2.5xSpirit. Minions are tinted blue.
Mask Four (Conditional) - Desperate:
Upon reaching 20% HP, The Masquerader’s mask automatically breaks, revealing her deformed face. She gains a buff for 15 seconds. This buffs her minions all scale their current stats by 1.5x. The Masquerader gains 7 regen rate for each minion killed during this period.
1 AP - Unlock Mask Four.
2 AP - Gain 60% bullet resistance and 30% spirit resistance during channeling period.
5 AP - Reduce Mask Channeling period by 0.25.
Ability Three - Singer’s Voice:
46 Second cooldown - 6 Second duration - 8 Meter range
The Masquerader orchestrates with her hands, buffing any nearby allies and minions based on the equipped mask. She loses 45% fire rate.
Hatred:
25% Weapon damage and 25% Fire Rate.
Love:
Heal by 25 HP/sec, scales with 1xBoons
Indifference
15% of bullet resistance and 15% spirit resistance.
Desperate:
2 m/s of movement speed and 2 regen rate.
1 AP - Give all masks a 0.4 move speed buff.
2 AP - The Masquerader doesn’t occur a fire rate penalty while channeling.
5 AP - 11 Second cooldown.
Ability Four - The Masquerade:
310 Second cooldown
The Masquerader sings loudly, reviving one of the nearest dead allies at the spot they died. The revived teammates are forced to wear a mask, draining 4% max HP a second. Upon dying, the ally’s respawn timer is halved by the current maximum respawn timer.
1 AP - -1 max hp drain
2 AP - +1 Ally revived
5 AP - +2 Ally revived
Notes:
I based this character off of mixing two ideas. A turret mcginnis that was actually good, and a character who's more of a jack of all trades rather than a master of one. Probably not perfectly balanced but I hope my math is alright. I'm open to changes.
A hero's Tale:
As magic and mystics became more understood, many found a way to improve their day-to-day lives. For some, however, magic became the worst thing to ever happen to them. One such person is Ms. Melody.
Living an uneventful life, Melody sought to use magic energy to change her vocal cords and fulfill her dream of being a songstress. However, something went wrong. Despite studying flesh manipulation magic for months, she was scarred forever.
Her family and friends thought it was a freak accident, gifting her a mask to hide her face.
She, however, knew it was her fault. Desperation that drove her to procure shady ingredients from shady people.
Yet, when she looks in the mirror now, she smiles beneath her mask.
The deformity left her unable to speak, but granted her the ability to sing magic into existence. Enamoured by her new power, she learnt to control her magic, soon finding that the flesh manipulation could be used to revive the dead and command them with only a hum.
Unsatisfied by being only able to hum, The Masquerader seeks to have her voice returned to her, and will do anything to become the world's greatest singer. Even if her audience is nothing but dead men.
Tags:
Versatile - Necromancer - Desperate
Passive - Songstress:
The Masquerader sings softly while not taking damage. Her song changes based on her mask.
Weaponry:
Unsatisfied Song
Close Range - Spreadshot -
The Masquerader holds a hand to her chest and extends her other hand outward, sending fast moving, slow damaging sound waves with a small hitbox that grows with distance travelled. Dissipates upon maximum bullet falloff range.
4.4 Bullet Damage
20 Bullets per sec
120 Ammo
2.85 Reload Time
57 Bullet Velocity
25 Weapon Range, scales by 0.5 meters for each boon
The Masquerader holds both hands to her chest to reload.
Ability One - Song of Summoning:
Charged - 40 second cooldown.
The Masquerader Sings a song, decreasing her move speed by 60% during a 0.65 second channeling period. After channeling, all charges are used at once. For each charge, summon one minion with 250+1xSpirit HP with a DPS of 20+0.30xSpirit.
Once summoned, the ability can be reactivated to change minion behavior.
Behavior One - Follow The Masquerader
Behavior Two - Attack nearest objective
Behavior Three - Follow nearest ally
1 AP - Increase minion HP scaling to 1.5x.
2 AP - +1 Charge.
5 AP - Increase minion DPS scaling to 0.45x.
Ability Two - Mask Swap:
No cooldown.
The Masquerader swaps her masks around, giving her new abilities based on which mask is equipped. Decreasing her move speed by 30% during a 0.3 second channeling period.
Mask One - Hatred:
The mask of hatred increases her minions damage by 10+0.5xBoons% and gives her 10+0.5xBoons spirit power. Her minions become tinted red.
Mask Two - Love:
The mask of love increases her healing by 10%. Her minions switch to healers, halving their HP and DPS. Healer minions heal 40+1.3xSpirit hp every 6 seconds. Minions become tinted green.
Mask Three - Indifference:
The mask of Indifference increases her HP by 15xBoons. Her minions become brawlers, their model size increases by 10%. Brawler minions HP increases by 2.5xSpirit. Minions are tinted blue.
Mask Four (Conditional) - Desperate:
Upon reaching 20% HP, The Masquerader’s mask automatically breaks, revealing her deformed face. She gains a buff for 15 seconds. This buffs her minions all scale their current stats by 1.5x. The Masquerader gains 7 regen rate for each minion killed during this period.
1 AP - Unlock Mask Four.
2 AP - Gain 60% bullet resistance and 30% spirit resistance during channeling period.
5 AP - Reduce Mask Channeling period by 0.25.
Ability Three - Singer’s Voice:
46 Second cooldown - 6 Second duration - 8 Meter range
The Masquerader orchestrates with her hands, buffing any nearby allies and minions based on the equipped mask. She loses 45% fire rate.
Hatred:
25% Weapon damage and 25% Fire Rate.
Love:
Heal by 25 HP/sec, scales with 1xBoons
Indifference
15% of bullet resistance and 15% spirit resistance.
Desperate:
2 m/s of movement speed and 2 regen rate.
1 AP - Give all masks a 0.4 move speed buff.
2 AP - The Masquerader doesn’t occur a fire rate penalty while channeling.
5 AP - 11 Second cooldown.
Ability Four - The Masquerade:
310 Second cooldown
The Masquerader sings loudly, reviving one of the nearest dead allies at the spot they died. The revived teammates are forced to wear a mask, draining 4% max HP a second. Upon dying, the ally’s respawn timer is halved by the current maximum respawn timer.
1 AP - -1 max hp drain
2 AP - +1 Ally revived
5 AP - +2 Ally revived
Notes:
I based this character off of mixing two ideas. A turret mcginnis that was actually good, and a character who's more of a jack of all trades rather than a master of one. Probably not perfectly balanced but I hope my math is alright. I'm open to changes.
