Class: Trickster
Races: Human, Gnome, Dark Elf
Armor: Cloth, Leather
Weapons: Piercing, 1hs, 1hb
Mana or Stamina: Both
Stat Focus: Str, Int, Sta
Staple Abilities:
Enchanter Spell Lines - less powerful variations of many popular enchanter spells, with a few notable exceptions (i.e., the Trickster is not able to cast clarity or any of the non-melee stat-buff enchanter spells [brilliance, insight, adorning grace]). The trickster focuses on mes, haste, stuns, faction spells, illusions, and mem-blurs.
Dual-wield, double attack, riposte, parry, dodge.
Sneak is often used in conjunction with invisibility with the trickster, who is unable to hide like a rogue. This mimics the hide/sneak ability of the rogue, but has the annoying side effect of breaking at random times, making the combination far more useful than invisibility alone (sneaking behind see-invis mobs), but not as useful as hide/sneak. However, due to the Trickster's ability to stun, mes, and memblur, if careful, he is often able to compensate for the tendancy of invis to break.
Kick - as per warriors, this skill has proven invaluable to the Trickster who likes to stay alive when battling casters.
Pick Locks is another skill from the Trickster's rogue heritage which he puts to good use.
From studying the rogue's mastery with piercing weapons, Tricksters have learned that Critical Strikes with piercing weapons, while behind a mob, help compensate for their lack of a backstab skill. This would not equal the damage output of the rogue by any means, but does add a bit of melee viability to this hybrid class.
Basically a rogue/enchanter hybrid, this class is a medium melee dps class (ranger deeps + crits every once in a while), that can use a myriad of mostly evasive enchanter spells to help himself and his party stay alive and do more damage. Unable to utilize chain or the rogue evade ability, the Trickster MUST rely on these spells in order to evade damage more often, as the critical hits do tend to build up quite a bit of aggro (although not as much as backstabbing).
Also, Tricksters may often be found dual-wielding with a robe on. So fuck you.
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