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The Chimera, a shapeshifting hero

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Class Mods: New Class

Tags: New Hero, Shapeshifter, Chimera, Old Hunter

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Description

"Once a Proud Hunter, now a wandering traveler who offers his services to anyone willing to pay them. A shape-shifting warrior, that uses the power of the beasts he used to hunt before to his adventage. The Chimera tries to give a new sense to his life, after all the mistakes of his past, he is ready to dive into the infinite, clutching darkness, in search of his own Redemption..."

~~~~~~~~GAMEPLAY~~~~~~~~~

Special Traits

While is body its extremly fragile, it is also very elastic and reactive. Every 10% HP that Chimera loses, he gains a -2% Critics received bonus, that lasts for 5 rounds.
Additionally, the Chimera doesnt has a move button: Instead, he has Refreshig waves, an skill that is used every time after the combat ends...
While scoring a critical hit, Chimera will gain an ACC buff and will clear every debuff from himself. Additionally, he will buff any monster-based hero if they are Trasnformed (Abomination, Werewolf, Lamia, etc)

Chimera has 1 custom Affliction and 1 custom Virtue, both have 50/50 chance to happen. Due to code limitations, this means he is NOT affected by quirks, trinkets, items, etc that buff or debuff his Virtue chance.

Combat skills

Teeth Rake

XOOX OOOO
Random target, Bleeds the target and Pulls it 3 cells if it was Bleeding
Guarantted Crit vs Bleeding

Blooming

OOOO O+O+O+O
Heals every party member beside himself a litte, and hurts him in the proccess
Buffs the other heroes with DMG Reflection
Moderate chance to generate 1 Block for himself

Terrifing Howling

OOXX OOOO
Small damage, ignores a lot of status effects, and clears them
Has a chance to shuffle its target and to make it more vulnerable to future critics

Peck

OOOO O+OXX
Moves self 1 cell forward
Deals DMG that pierces targets PROT, and debuffs the future heals they take
Has a very low Bleed chance, that gets amplified among its DMG the more farthest that is released

Wicked Surge

OOOO O+O+O+O
Chance to Stress heal party
Clears Horror and buffs they ACC and CRIT chance

CRIPPLE THEM!!

XOOO O+O+O+O
Low DMG, moves self 1 cell back
Debuffs all the resistances of the enemy targets

Infuse

OOOX OOOX
Medium DMG
Blights the target and reduces the healings he does
Adds Molt to himself, a delayed-friendly skill-trigger:
Next friendly skill heals and cures stress on himself. Gains more effects the more leveled its the skill.

Passive Skill: Refreshing Waves

OOOO O+O+O+O
Replaces the Move skill
Cannot be used in combat, its used at the end of every combat
Adds a small Regeneration and ACC buff to his party

Trinkets and Camping

Chimera comes with 18 trinkets, one being shared for all heroes (Including DLC, and Sunward!) and 4 unique camping skills. You can take a look at them on the screenshots above. To prevent the classical "trinket bloating" issue that most heroes (including vanilla) have, every Chimera trinket is limited to 1. He has a very low chance to find them at combats end, so this will ensure you have a chance to meet them while playing him! The rarity of the trinkets you may find depends on the difficulty of the Dungeon you are playing in.

Other Info

-His canon name is Kafka
-Is Religious
-Formerly, he was a respectable Hunter, that due to illnes, started to loose his vision and had to stop working
-He obtained his shapeshifting abilities after an experiment, covered by "a tall, bearded man with a deep voice". It didnt ended well...

Additional info regarding "The Wild Hunt"

Translations

If you'd like to help us with translating our mod into another language, please message Mafe either on Steam or on discord (Mafe#3196)
At the moment, this mod is only avalible on English

Credits

Mafe - Coding, original character idea and design, sounds, Spine tweaks, art, barks, testing
Anonymous_Koala, Adon, Carnifex, SoulSmile - Help regarding Spine
LokiLaufey, Shay - Help regarding Sounds
Very_Whale - Help regarding Trinkets balance
Anti'copter - Creative help on the desing of the trinket art of "Maws of the Insatiable", help regarding Gimp
Cryptix - Additional help regarding Gimp, help regarding Blacksmith description
Badger - Help and feedback regarding the desing of the "Wartorn Daikatana" trinket
Sasji, O'Nightmare!, Jens (Dragonborn) - Help regarding Code
RedDyeNo5 - For the aswesome pack of free Icons assetts. Her Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/RedDyeNo5
Ishi, Samira, Mocha, Nacha and Lucia - Essential contributions to the modder mental health and general good mood
An important thanks to all the people who were kind to me and motivated me to finish this project. You all are the best!

They Workshop/Nexus pages (quality content creators and human beings!)

Know Issues

-The buffs of "The Wild Hunt" are intentionally, invisible, to prevent UI bloating. This cannot be fixed.
-The mod has some harmless debug output errors. This cannot be fixed, and are intended for his correct perfomance.
-Sometimes, Maws of the Insatiable and Cursed Relicfinder crash on the Nerub boss fight, for no peculiar reason. The makers of Nerub have been informed of this issue.

Disclaimer

This mod is not an official Red Hook Studios product or product modification, and Red Hook Studios Inc. is not responsible in any way for changes or damages that may result from using the mod. Furthermore, “Darkest Dungeon” and th

25 Comments

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Glengar Hawke 16 Feb, 2021 @ 6:27pm

Very interesting idea for a class, personally I think it should be used more or less as a hero class though, just because of the visually unique design of the character. Way I ended up using him was taking the first one I got, naming him as "The Chimera" and then when he died, I just sold all my Chimera Trinkets and unsubbed from the mod (Not that I had any issues with the character though).

Would love to see more stuff like this.

TROPICANA Apple 21 Dec, 2020 @ 9:06am

Korean man

Urbanmast27 20 Dec, 2020 @ 7:27pm

Would be cool if you described what the custom affliction and virtue do

Bathios 17 Nov, 2020 @ 8:07pm

English. The one that I remember being broken is the intro line, like the blurb when he becomes virtuous, and the one where he heals himself. There might be others that I haven't seen yet

Mafe [author] 17 Nov, 2020 @ 11:52am

@Bathios [GiT] Could be that they are bluestrings if I made an oopsie in the loc

What language you were playing?

Bathios 17 Nov, 2020 @ 8:50am

It looks like there is an error when it comes to his virtue barks. about half of them are in placeholder text, not actual text.

Mafe [author] 10 Sep, 2020 @ 9:36am

@Друманин Дрин Issue is, my actual PC barely runs the game, just installing a record software would be enough to melt it xD but if someone records an overview for him, I dont have any issue into attaching it to description

Monk is beyond busted, even with the nerfs he got. But yeah, you got it, in some way, he is like a Leper (low ACC, high DMG) but he doesnt limit to just dealing DMG, can also be built to support on the backline, debuffer, and he is very fast but squish

Друманин Дрин 9 Sep, 2020 @ 11:41pm

@Mafe So, he is like fast squish character? Somebody who could make high and fast damage, but pretty fragile? Maybe like Monk among mod's characters?
And what do you think if Ill make small preview video about this class? Nothing special, but its better than nothing?

Mafe [author] 9 Sep, 2020 @ 1:31pm

@Друманин Дрин Sadly no, I dont have any video of him in hand, but I can tell you some things stat wise:

-Same DMG range as Abom
-High SPD
-Low ACC on most skills
-Low HP and base Dodge

I tested him enough by myself to ensure he wasnt game breaking or disbalanced, but any feedback you can have is also welcome

Друманин Дрин 9 Sep, 2020 @ 4:21am

Are there any video with that char? Id like to see it, just to be sure it is what I see and that he is no invicibly strong.

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