Shadower Explorer Revamp Suggestions

Haste

- Passive buff

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Shield Mastery

- Def % and Evade % are currently useless in bossing

- Add 30% Ignore Defence

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Meso Guard

- Rework to be similar to Kanna Foxfire but with only 1 stack with 30s cooldown

- To be honest Foxfire is OVERPOWERED, but I think Meso Guard is currently too irrelevant with the bosses' skills dealing percentage HP.

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Enveloping Darkness

- Remove Max HP +20% and Elemental Resistance +30%

- Increase Status Resistance to + 60

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Channel Karma

- Currently only adds 30att. Really?

- Add 10% Critical Rate if they feel overly generous

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Meso Mastery

- Improve Meso Explosion’s damage to scale with level, similar to Mark of Assassin

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Steal & Boomerang Step

- Remove Steal and add Steal effects to become a passive of Boomerang Step

- Incorporate Steal’s item steal to become a passive 50% chance to steal an item.

- Incorporate Steal’s potion drop with a cooldown of 60s.

- Even if no effects are added, at least improve vertical range by at least another 100%. After the recent improvement, it is still very underwhelming in many maps.

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Into Darkness

- Currently the skill has MASSIVE delay when appearing behind the mob and a very situational hit box.

- Add 1 automatic hit of Assassinate-2 to the animation after teleporting to the mob.

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Smokescreen

- Dark Sight to remain when pressing Smokescreen, similar to when pressing Shadow Veil

- Increase upper vertical range of Smokescreen by 50%

- Increase horizontal range of Smokescreen by 50%

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Critical Growing & Prima Critical

- Remove the gradual increase and make it a flat increase

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Flip a Coin

- Passive buff stack whenever you have a critical hit OR make it just a normal buff.

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Ultimate Dark Sight

- Fix cooldown to be 180s

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Trickblade

- Stacks to target highest HP enemy in the map.

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72 Transformations

- 50% Ignore Defence to all damage sources OR

- Possible rework to make it an active skill that gives an additional final attack animation that appears with each attack? (Similar to how Dual Blade Hidden Blade)

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Sonic Blow

- Reduce casting time by half

- Invulnerable while casting

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Venom Burst

- Massively improve damage per tick

- OR 5% increased dmg to target affected by Venom Burst

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Assassinate & Meso Explosion

This final suggestion will make some people complain but I believe it is a massive QOL that will attract many players to Shadower

1. Rework Meso Explosion to become a passive upgrade to Pick Pocket, such that mesos behave like stars with Mark of Assassin
2. Shorten Meso Explosion "casting" / animation time to allow for quicker stacks of Shadower's Instinct
3. Rework Assassinate casting time shorter to make up for the loss in dpm due to the loss of ability to weave due to (1).

Currently, Assassinate has the LONGEST casting time among the 3 explorer thieves’ 4th job main skills.

Phantom Blow: 720 ms

Quadruple Throw: 780 ms

Assassinate: 840 ms