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Star Sage (Class)

! Replaces Spellsword class

What if this game had a purely resource-based (no cooldowns but GCDs) and stance switching (abilities change based on stance) class? Not your ordinary Spellsword or Hidden Blade, the stars have aligned to reveal the Star Sage. Use Defensive to switch between two stances, Dawn(close-range/gainer) and Dusk(long-range/spender), that revolve around gaining and spending a shared resource, Lumina(LP), to cast higher damaging spells. While this class is mechanically and technically complex, it can be as simple as doing Primaries until Special is up and everything else is DPS optimization. As far as rotations go, this class can freestyle as DPS is closely balanced around LP cost/gain. I had fun designing and playing this class and hope you will too... if you can handle it /laughing.

TERMS:
- 1 :: Primary
- 2 :: Secondary
- 3 :: Special
- 4 :: Defensive
- .d :: Dawn stance
- .D :: Dusk stance
- LP :: Lumina stacks/points

SKILLS:
- 4 :: Switch Stance (Dawn <=> Dusk)
- Dawn
- 1 :: Front Attack + 2LP
- 2 :: 2s Mine + 1LP
- 3 (8LP) :: Invulnerability
- Dusk
- 1 :: Ranged Attack + 1LP
- 2 (6LP) :: AoE Hits
- 3 (9LP) :: Vertical Beam

PLAYGUIDE:
- 1.d until you have enough for 3.D for standard rotation
- 1.D if 1.d does not reach
- 2.d for downtime mechanics or requiring movement
- 2.D for AoE or to avoid overcapping LP
- 2.d, 1.D x2 for treasure rotation
- 3.d for invuln (not instant and GCD based)

PITFALLS:
- 3.D (and some upgrades) always targets an enemy even while focusing
- The stance buffs(Dawn, Dusk an Focus) are implemented as debuffs since they are mostly visual indicators. Everything else is a buff like Twinkle.
- Avoid relying on passive LP regeneration and do another filler instead if lacking LP for an ability

ADVANCED:
- Before switching to Dusk, do 1.d for the delayed LP and DPS gain
- Secondary effects from gem upgrades are designed to be DPS increases
- Return to Dawn stance after as much as possible to avoid issues being in the wrong stance

CAVEATS:
- Not really a "complete" class mod since has no custom art, cleaner image edits, attack colors and some quirks but tested to do solid solo Lunar DPS.
- This class is heavily balanced around the 50DPS per skill upgrade so this might be slightly underpowered for its complexity.
- Since this class has no cooldowns, it loses out on some of the best loot and is negatively impacted by CDs and GCDs since the main cost is still LP.
- No Diamond mod/upgrades
- Only supports English localization.

THANKS TO:
- alchyr (@Alchyr)
- tomeking (@garnet secondary)
- Chyromyr (@Chyromyr)
- xgit (@Neko/Niko)
- lakuronekobaka (@LaKuroNekoBaka)

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