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Abysswalker

Description
Final overhaul. This mod has excellent synergy with Lord's Blade: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1433161277

Thank you, Geptor555, for the recent Spanish translation!

Abysswalkers are knights who follow the precedent set by Wolf Knight Artorias: halt the spread of evil through any sacrifice. Unmatched with greatswords, these legendary knights confront monsters and provinces reminiscent of the Abyss. Their exposure to the Abyss corrupts their souls, affecting their demeanor and fighting style. Elegant swordsmen? Raging berserkers? The line blurs depending on the severity of their corruption...

You are highly encouraged to play inside the affliction, and dance between 100 and 200 stress with this character. He gains damage every 10 stress above 100, and gains 10% to most stats in total darkness during his affliction.

Abilities

Abilities are inspired by Abysswalker Artorias' lore and boss fight in Dark Souls.

Knight Stance

1) Overhead Slam: The Abysswalker strikes with his enchanted sword, doing extra damage to Eldritch monsters.

2) Abyssal Thrust: The Abysswalker glides forward, thrusting his blade into enemies. Extra damage to Eldritch monsters.

3) Feint: The Abysswalker shifts backward, gaining dodge and a riposte with weak damage. The riposte minorly bleeds & blights enemies in addition to marking them. This gives great synergy with the Lord's Blade class mod.

Wolf Stance

4) Somersault Slam: The Abysswalker strikes with intense force, stunning enemies. He may perform this action twice in a row. Gains extra damage against stunned targets. Less accuracy on the 2nd strike. Causes stress damage.

5) Savage Leap: The Abysswalker leaps onto the back two targets, damaging them and breaking their guards. He suffers stress damage from this ability.

6) Wolf Blood: The Abysswalker flushes his stress into another character, additionally granting them enhanced strength and accuracy. This ability works with trinkets for additional effects (guard, buffs, etc).

7) Embrace the Abyss: This ability changes his stance between Knight and Wolf.



Trinkets

1) Wolf Ring: Gain move resist, stun resist, and minor prot at the cost of stress sensitivity.
2) Covenant of Artorias: Gain crit & stress resist in the dark.
3) Silver Pendant (CC): Gain stress resist, stress damage reduction, and a stress healing reduction. Minor speed nerf.
4) Cleansing Greatshield (CC): Gain a bonus to health, prot, and a debuff to damage and speed. Wolf Blood gains a guard effect.
5) Greatsword of the Legend: Gain strength against mankind's enemies, but weaknesses against mankind.
6) Blood of a Companion: Gives allies above 100 stress significant crit & damage buffs.


Future Plans

None.

Known Issues

None at the moment. Please send any errors to the bug forum.

Huge Thanks

Slightly Startled Seal gave life to AceroSteel's animations. Thank you forever, buddy.

Thank you to AceroSteel, the legendary artist.
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Caedwyn  [author] 25 Oct @ 5:51pm 
Artorias.
Shara 25 Oct @ 4:56pm 
Does he have an canon name?
Antarex100 22 Oct @ 5:41pm 
Thank you very much!
Caedwyn  [author] 22 Oct @ 5:21pm 
You know, I think there's a fair argument here. Him barking at others while afflicted could be too much to expect players to manage when he has a stress dump skill that puts stress on others, in addition to managing Abysswalker's stress. That's a good point. That's something worth subtracting when I get the time.
Antarex100 22 Oct @ 3:38pm 
That's amazing news you got there !
Yes he does big damage when set up right but at the cost of the whole team, in pitch black you gotta tank hits which will build up stress further enhanced in darkness. Taking hits that already build up high stress in the dark will be increased even more by the occasional affliction flaming lines. In the end if you really want him to be the MVP you will have to tank lots of stress for the whole team non stop while still slotting a healer. You're right about the power thing for free, but to me the major issue would probably be that 2 default affliction interraction were he increases stress further when an ally hit or get hit (occasionally). There is already lots of stress management needed with pitch black and the stress team wide interraction that occasionally happen with afflicted units. That's just my opinion though, don't think too much about it, in any case thanks a lot for the answer and good luck with what's next !
Caedwyn  [author] 21 Oct @ 8:12am 
Hi, Antarex. Thank you for the feedback.

1. Custom affliction / virtue chances are hardcoded. This is flexible if you're using default ones from the game, but for custom resolve states, it's not possible.

2. Animations are primitive. I agree. There's someone amazing in the community who'd love to remake the Abysswalker animations with me (See SirFartzalot's incredible work with Dragonslayer), but he and I both have infants & full time jobs. That's a WIP with a full overhaul design behind it, but each ability would have dual animations & purpose depending on stance.

3. This majorly sounds like a learn to play issue. What makes you think you should you get a ton of power for free? Especially with a virtue state? There are so many ways to reduce stress taken, and it can mitigate much of the risk. But risk is central to getting his power maximized. This guy one-shots, or nearly one-shots, enemies with the right set-up.
Antarex100 20 Oct @ 8:30pm 
After testing it for a while sadly even though the base design is amazing, the animations for most are really not great and the skills are lacking for the price you have to pay. You will have WAY more success playing him outside of affliction and keep him as far as you can from it, Most of the time he will just screw the whole team over, very rapidly... In the end you're better off playing him with as low stress as possible in pure dark, the great part though is the Lord's blade mod that pairs with him, his real value at the current state is being a tank with decent stats in the dark boosting the lord's blade after camping. It might be a crazy take but if you ever wanna update it and take ideas: keep the affliction as it is and add a custom virtue that does about what the affliction would do without constantly screwing the team, add with that new/reworked trinkets that DECENTLY boost virtuous chances and it would probably fix the whole thing.
Don Vito CORNETO 17 Oct @ 5:51pm 
Hey dude i cant use this mod with my other Knight skin can you make it compatible with other skins?
Zerald 9 Oct @ 11:12am 
based
𝓚𝓪𝓲𝓷 12 Jul @ 9:33pm 
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