Dancer Praetorian Strain

[Runian]

About The Pull Request

Port of CM's Praetorian's Dancer Strain. Sprites are taken from there as well.

Button Icons: Dodge, Impale, Tail Trip

Normal Praetorian vs. Dancer Praetorian Sprites

Slashing someone applies a mark that lasts for 4 seconds which enhances their abilities.
They get 2 additional melee damage (on par with Ravager).
They lose 5 armor (melee, bullet, laser, energy, fire) for -0.3 speed.
They lose acid spit and acid cone in exchange for three abilities:

• Dodge: Gain a speed boost upon activation and the ability to pass through mobs. Enemies automatically receive bump attacks when passed.
  • Speed buff of -0.5.
  • 6 second duration.
  • 10 second cooldown.
• Impale: Impale a marine next to you with your tail for moderate damage. Marked enemies are impaled twice.
  • 25 brute damage.
  • 8 second cooldown.
• Tail Trip: Target a marine within two tiles of you to disorient and slows them. Marked enemies receive stronger debuffs and are stunned for a second.
  • 0.1 second paralyze. If marked, 1 second.
  • 4 second stagger. If marked, 5 seconds.
  • 0.9 slowdown. If marked, 1.2 slowdown.
  • 23 stamina damage.
  • 8 second cooldown.

No unique Primordial ability for it; thus, has the normal Praetorian's acid dash as a placeholder.

Why It's Good For The Game

Looked cool. New strain in this barren xeno feature landscape. No idea how balanced this is, but that is something to find out.

Changelog

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add: Dancer Praetorian Strain & Abilities: Dodge, Impale, Tail Trip.
imageadd: Button Icons for: Dodge, Impale, Tail Trip.
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[Devinil]

I suggest to give automatic IB on marked target for Impale. Too OP?

[Aporhtonoma]

mark seems like its not working when slashing with dodge since people only tripped when i tail tripped them and the damage dint feel 56 when i jabbed them.But pretty fun

my one suggestion would be to add runner dodge for primo since it would fit the overall dance around rines theme

[lKiseki]

A few things to note:

• Caste goes extremely fast with Evasion. Might need a small total speed nerf.
• Abilities can attack allied xenos; please add the appropriate checks to prevent that!
• Tail trip is largely underwhelming and may need a buff.

Everything else about the caste seems genuinely fine.

[PibeCantina]

Add to valhalla maybe?

[PibeCantina]

Also it's missing the seethrough ability

[Lauwma]

I will reiterate but dodge needs to have more downtime, make the cooldown 15 seconds

[Araulius]

ravager btfo

[Pariah919]

Dodge should really not basically have such a low C/D. Also why does it even need Ravager damage? This caste is moving faster than Ravager with more single target damage on impale.

[FunkyMonke47]

It doesn't have the same slash damage as rav tho, rav has 15 ap on its melee strikes as well.