this is a suggestion to how the skill system can be done, involving more anime (yay)
alright, this first part is a serious idea and the last part is something that would be extremely cool but prob hard to make.
So first, i suggest you start with a few basic abilities given to your weapon type and you could get more in 2 ways.
- you have the required proficiency, and have completed a set of requrements hidden to you (yes they will end on wiki soon enough)
to illustrate.
You use a sword and start with the ability quickslash
quickslash deals a certain amount of damage, in a short burst, from using quick slash you can unlock a new skill by
- having 50 profiency in sword
- having killed 100 enemies with quickslash
- have dodged (if they have a roll ish system) 50 enemy attacks with a sword in hand.
Using the skill and dodging you found out that you could combine the two, and now you unlocked a new skill called side step slash, which allows you to move unto the side of an enemy in a quick motion and then hit it in the side with an attack.
and then kinda make a system based around of that that would differ in requirements depending on what the skill is.
that would be 50% of your abilities you would unlock that way.
the other 50% would be found in scrolls which would drop or lie in hidden chests, so you just cleaned a dungeon and at the end you find a scroll. the scroll allows you to make 2 weak slashes in a row and then jump back to safety. you now have 1 more ability.
that is the first thing, now over to the more awesome anime version which might actually work.
This is from the anime called Log Horizon (if you havent watched i i highly suggest you do)
The system is pretty simple, you can level from 1 - 90 and whenever you get a level or complete certain quests you get a mastery point. as you level up.
whenever you get a level you unlock an automatic skill but there is a system to it,
you abilities have 4 tiers of understanding.
Comprehension: Automatic learning of skill
Beginner: Requires 1 mastery point put into it
Intermediate: need the use of ââintermediate scrollsââ these scrolls can drop from quests and is not extremely rare although it takes some time to get, a person who have a skill can use the right materials which are harder to get to transfer their knowledge to the scroll. allowing a beginner to use it and then get intermediate ability tier unlocked (still requires mastery points to learn both ways)
Hidden: Requires the use of a ââHidden Scrollââ which can be obtained as rare drops or from quests of higher degree difficulty, they require a large amount of mastery points to learn, but they greatly increase the ability a large percent so it is not unusual to train it.for bigger guilds which can obtain them
Secret: these can be obtained from quests that involves mainly large-scale battles (raids) these are extremely hard to get and they change the ability drastically, as an example if you play assassin and use it on a shadow step ability, instead of only shadow stepping you will shadow step and summon 5 clones of yourself that can confuse the enemy and deal damage, only 1 of these secret spells can be learned at any time and as i said they can be applied to any skill, so if you are lucky enough to find it then you will be one of the few who owns it and will greatly change your way of fighting.
To take an example.
ââDeadly Posionââ is a level 12 assassin technique.
It is automatically gained, and at the same time the ability to upgrade it to ââDeadly Poison I Beginnerââ is added in the skill tab.
The character will automatically learn ââDeadly Poison Iââ at level 12 because it is automatically aquired, there is an for it called ââDeadly Poison IIââ which you automatically get in level 22
Now then, on the skill upgrade list there exists a âDeadly Poison I Beginnersâ. There is a need to spend the required amount of mastery point(s) to register this. Damage of âDeadly Poison I Beginnerâ is higher than âDeadly Poison Iâ
High level Assassins can write down (describe) their technique on a scroll. Paper and ink from a Scribe is required for this. A scroll made in this fashion is called âIntermediate scrollâ. Using this scroll allows the Assassin to learn the corresponding technique. âDeadly Poison I Intermediateâ is then registered to Skill upgrade list Again, this is only possible only if you spend the required amount of mastery points.
Some powerful monsters may drop a âHidden Scrollâ, this is a very rare item. It is also possible to get this from very hard quests. The abilities of Hidden are even stronger than Intermediate. In many cases the damage is increased by several dozen % compared to the basic âComprehensionâ. Using the scroll registers âDeadly Poison I Hiddenâ to skill upgrade list. With this current system, Hidden is the highest most skills go.
Deadly Poison I Secretâ is also added too once the proper scroll is acquired and is registered to the skill upgrade list, but it requires a considerable amount of mastery points to learn. it will make the ability insanely effective and change how it functions. only 1 skill can be trained up to Secret.
when the skill level upgrades the techniques follow. so ââDeadly Poison I Secretââ becomes ââDeadly poison II secretââ when it is aquired
well that is my rant @ben what do you think of the first system? the second is amazingly cool but seems like a ton of work for you guys xD
can you do a tl;dr at the bottom?
And Log Horizon can go beyond level 90 
Seriously, I like the ideas, but I would like to see a cap on how many extreme skills a single Avatar can possess.
