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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BozzNugg" data-source="post: 6715122" data-attributes="member: 6801318">Idea for 4e Wilder:WilderClass Traits:Role: Striker. You channel raw psionic energy to destroy your enemies. You lean toward either defender or controller as a secondary role.Power Source: Psionic. You have the inborn gift of psionic power. You unleash it by channeling your raw emotions and vitality.Key Abilities: Wisdom, Constitution, CharismaArmor Proficiencies: Cloth, Leather, HideWeapon Proficiencies: Simple Melee, Simple RangedImplements: Orbs, StaffsBonus to Defense: +1 Fortitude, +1 WillHit Points at 1st Level: 14 + Constitution scoreHit Points per Level Gained: 6Healing Surges per Day: 8 + Constitution modifierTrained Skills: Choose four skills from the list below:Arcana, Bluff, Diplomacy, Dungeoneering, Endurance, Heal, Intimidate, Insight, PerceptionClass Features: Wild Surge, Psychic Enervation, Surging Euphoria, Wild Talent, Volatile MindWild Surge: Once per encounter you may expend healing surges to boost your offensive power in the following way. You may spend 1 to 3 surges to gain a +1 to 3 bonus on your next attack. Additionally, for each surge you spend, that attack does extra psychic damage equal to ½ your level to all creatures in the attack’s affected area.Psychic Enervation: After you use your Wild Surge class feature, you must make a saving throw to avoid becoming enervated. If you spent 1 surge, you make a saving throw. If you fail, you are dazed until the end of your next turn and suffer a -1 penalty on attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws until the end of your next turn. If you spent 2 surges, you make a saving throw with a -5 penalty. If you fail, you are stunned until the end of your next turn and suffer a -2 penalty on attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws for 2 rounds after that. If you spent three surges, you make a saving throw with a -10 penalty. If you fail, you are stunned until the end of your next turn, fall prone, and suffer a -3 penalty on attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws for 3 rounds after that. There is no way to avoid these conditions and penalties apart from succeeding on the initial saving throw.Surging Euphoria: If you succeed on your saving throw to avoid becoming enervated you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws for a number of rounds equal to the number of surges you spent on your wild surge. This bonus increases to +2 at 11th level and +3 at 21st level.Wild Talent: You gain the Psionic Focus class feature which acts like an augmentable at-will power. You also gain 1 power point that may only be used in conjunction with the Psionic Focus class feature.Psionic Focus: At-will *Psionic Wilder FeatureStandard Action (Special) PersonalEffect: You gain a Psionic Focus for a number of turns equal to your Wisdom modifier. While you retain this focus, you gain one of the following benefits:o + 5 bonus to one of your trained skillso + 2 bonus to saving throwso + 1 square to all movemento Regeneration equal to your Wisdom modifierYou must expend your Psionic Focus as an additional cost in order to gain one of the following benefits, which you may use at anytime as a free action:Augment 1: You gain resistance to all damage equal to your 3 + Constitution modifier.Augment 1: You may shift a number of squares equal to your 3 + Charisma modifier.Augment 2: You may spend a healing surge and end any ongoing effects and one condition.Special: You may use this ability a number of times per encounter equal to ½ your Wisdom modifier to a minimum of one.Volatile Mind: Each Wilder utilizes their inborn gift differently in order to survive in the world allowing them to add additional effects to their attacks, which provide both offensive and defensive bonuses. Choose either Psychic Feedback or Psychic Barrier as your latent gift.Psychic Feedback: You gain the Psychic Feedback class feature, which acts like an at-will power.Psychic Feedback: At-will *Psionic, Psychic, Invigorating Wilder FeatureFree Action (Special) SpecialTrigger: You hit with an attack during your turnTarget: One creature hit by your attackLevel 11: One or two creatures hit by your attackLevel 21: Each enemy hit by your attackEffect: The target takes damage equal to your 2 + Constitution modifier.Special: You can use this power only once per round. Temporary hit points gained from this power stack. The range of this power is the same as the range of the triggering power.Psychic Barrier: You gain the Psychic Barrier class feature, which acts like an at-will power.Psychic Barrier: At-will *Psionic, Psychic Wilder FeatureFree Action (Special) SpecialTrigger: You hit with an attack during your turnTarget: One creature hit by your attackLevel 11: One or two creatures hit by your attackLevel 21: Each enemy hit by your attackEffect: The target takes damage equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier and the target of the triggering attack is dazed until the end of your next turn. You gain a +1 bonus to AC and Reflex against the target of your Psychic Barrier class feature until the end of your next turn.The damage increases by 2 at 11th level and by an additional 2 at 21st level. Increase the bonus to AC and Reflex to +2 at 11th level and to +3 at 21st level.Special: You can use this power only once per round. The range of this power is the same as the triggering power.Points of ConcernArmor Prof.: I'm wondering if this is too much to give him hide or perhaps even leather. I purposefully left out a class feature that increased base AC like the Monk and Barbarian has. Likewise, I have no 'ability swap' for AC defense like the sorcerer. The Wilder's Volatile Mind class feature is meant to shore up some of this by providing either temporary hit points or conditional AC bonuses but I'm not sure if this will be unbalancing if they have Hide armour. I chose to include Hide tentatively because like I said there is no feature and the class itself does not key off of Intelligence or Dexterity at all. EDIT: On second thought, I was looking at the defense bonus provided by Hide and now I wonder if it might be too little without an additional feature. The reason I'm hesitant about another feature is because I feel like that would give the class too many but that might just be in my head.Surges per Day: I decided to make the class's hit points on the same order as the avenger. The defendery build (Con based) is going to be focused on close blasts, but even the Controllery build (Cha-based) will only be a medium range combatant (utilizing bursts). This relative close range necessitates I feel boosted hit points, especially in light of the relatively weak AC I mention above. I didn't want to give this build as much HP as the Barbarian but due to it's heavy reliance on Healing Surges, I thought it would be appropriate to give the base number of surges as 8 + Con modifier though I might be willing to reduce it to 7 + Con mod if a sound rationale can be found.Wild Surge: This is one of the things I'm most concerned about balancing, I think having to expend healing surges with the potential for basically being rendered incapacitated for at least one round is a reasonable penalty for using this power and since the additional damage keys off your level, I don't think it will be overwhelming in the advantage it brings, though it will certainly be useful in a pinch. EDIT: On second thought, I'm wondering if this will be underpowered at lower levels and would invite anyone's thoughts on how to boost its power at low levels while preventing too much boost at the top end. I don't want to do the typical, "Your attack does +1d6 damage. +2d6 at 11th, +3d6 at 21st" That mechanic seems rather trite to me now and really doesn't fit the flavor of what Wild Surge used to be. I thought about making the extra damage 1/2 level + Wisdom modifier psychic but at thirtieth level, that means you'd be doing about 70+ damage with a +8 modifier each encounter. I'd really like to keep it an encounter ability but I'm not sure if that'd be balanced considering it will be targeting areas and not just single targets.... It also occurred to me that I might be better off writing this up as a power rather than as it is. Thoughts? BTW I based this ability loosely off of the barbarian Rage Strike. I feel like it should be slightly more powerful because it has a higher associated cost though, and that was kind of the point in the first place. Wild Talent:I wanted to make this to essentially be a psionic version of Channel divinity, with racial feats (instead of divine), which present different augment options. I was envisioning it as a way to resurrect the 'Naturally Psionic' and "Psi-Like" abilities of the XPH by allowing PC's to multiclass into Wilder, gain a slightly altered form of this feature and then gain racial augments for it. Beyond that, I wanted something for the actual class that acted in a more or less similar way to the Psion's/Wizard's 'cantrips' but with somewhat more flexibility to reflect the Wilder's more mercurial nature. Moreover, I wanted something approximating the Psionic Focus of 3.x, which you could gain by taking an action to concentrate and then expend for various effects keyed off feats (e.g. Psionic Shot). I feel like this fits well flavor-wise because the Wilder needs more or a focus than other psionic classes to keep it from over-exerting itself.Volatile Mind: Though these two powers are admittedly slightly more powerful than those given to the monk (which they are based off of) I don't think they are game breaking for subtle reasons. The AC/Reflex bonuses and the temporary hit points are addressed above as a way to shore up defense since the Wilder is lacking those and is intended to be a close to mid-range combatant, the increased damage and dazed effect on the Psychic Barrier are there to balance it with the fact that a Con-based Wilder will have access to powerful Wild Surges more often, while the Cha-based Wilder would other-wise get a bit shafted in that respect. Over-all I think this could be a very playable class. More than that though, I hope it will be a very flavorful class that is constantly tempting the player to push themselves (via Wild Surge/Surging Euphoria/Augmenting Psionic Focus) while providing very real consequences for not maintaining control of their impulses. Moreover, I like the idea of a Striker that gains his extra damage primarily by managing his personal reserves rather than by using hunter's quarry or warlock's curse things that sort of 'mark' a target. It seems to fit better with not just the Wilder but with 4e psionics overall. I know it's not perfect but I hope you guys like it, let me know if I can tweak anything to make it better! Thanks!</blockquote>

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