Talk to the Team: Reaver

[AmonGwareth]

Reaver was mentioned in another thread as a school that isn't used much and needs help. I spent a few minutes looking at it and its another school that has no real definition or purpose... Is it a spellcaster, a warrior, a tank, what?

Some quick and probably crazy brainstorming came up with some ideas:

Replace Syphon with:
- Syphon Blade - A self-buff that causes the weapon to drain life of targets to heal the Reaver. Target’s hit by this attack have a chance to gain a debuff, Spiritual Weakness
- Spiritual Weakness - A debuff that causes the target to take greater damage from Spirit attacks and reduces the target’s Ethereal Armor. Conflicts with Spiritual Bleed.


Replace Area Syphon with:
- Aura of Pain - An aura that slowly drains the life of allies to heal the Reaver, but provides those same allies with a boost to Ethereal Armor and causes attacks to have a chance to convert damage to Ethereal
- Target’s that have Spiritual Weakness have a chance to heal the attacker.
- Target’s that have Spiritual Bleed have a chance to cause maximum damage.


Carve
- No longer reduces target’s damage. Has a chance to cause Spiritual Bleed. Also lowers the target’s ethereal armor by 10-50%.
- Spiritual Bleed - A debuff that causes a Spirit DoT. Conflicts with Spiritual Weakness.


Evisceration of Life
- Ethereal damage. If it went against ethereal armor then lowering it would make this more powerful. Boost damage output by 2x perhaps. Should be a special attack, not a spell attack. Use the Reaver’s blade!
- If the target has Spiritual Weakness, then Evisceration causes 50% greater damage.
- If the target has Spiritual Bleed, then Evisceration also heals the attack for 50% of the damage inflicted.


Group Ethereal Blade
- Rename to “Aura of the Ether”. When active causes allies’ attacks to do ethereal damage, the Reaver becomes incorporeal, but generates 4.5x threat, lowers damage output by 50%


Ethereal Blade
- Leave as is, self buff that causes weapon to do ethereal damage.
- Convert to be a non-masterable passive.