Nouvelle classe de Pirates : Boucanier.

The Buccaneer is a new Pirate career that would provide more diversity to the pirate faction. With the introduction of Buccaneers, the existing Pirates would become Cutthroats and see moderate changes to their skill set. Some of the extraneous skills (such as economic skills) would get stripped away, condensing the Cutthroat skill set into one focused on speed and damage. Where the Cutthroat is analogous to a Blackbeard-style pirate that takes no prisoners, the Buccaneer would have more in common with the mafia – organized crime that attempts to hide behind a legitimate business front.

Creating the Buccaneer would mean adding more skill functionality, allowing us to create skills that aren’t possible in the current system. Around one third of the Buccaneer’s skills would use new functionality. Gameplay-wise, the Buccaneer is focused on actions that impact his surroundings, and not on sustained damage or toggles. That means the Buccaneer has lots of buffs, group buffs, debuffs, special attacks and survival skills.

Individual skills include:

1) Increased range for dismantling shot
2) Debuffs that rely on the size of the target ship
3) A DR-ignoring attack
4) Attacks and debuffs that get stronger as they hit with more shots (up to a limit)
5) Improved combat capabilities when outnumbered (usable during a fight after someone has died)
6) A chance to score critical hits
7) Additional crew damage with all ammos types
Exceptional economic abilities in enemy ports
9) High-impact short term buffs to stats like damage and defense
10) Passive stealth and attack range boosts for the Open Sea.
11) Group toggles

Buccaneers would have access to a mixture of ships similar to current pirate and freetrader ships, while many of the cutthroat refits would get changed or replaced.

A moderate amount of the new skill functionality would propagate to other careers and their skills, meaning that everyone would get new stuff (and a free respec). To go along with this, we’d look into making it possible for players who already have a level 50 character to create a new character that starts at level ~20.

Même si historiquement, il est difficile de rattacher le boucanier à la nation pirate (ce sont quand même plus souvent des mercenaires et coureurs de la jungle prêts à offrir leurs services et leur fusils légendaires à tel ou tel gouverneur,fût-il français, anglais, espagnol ou hollandais), c'est une très bonne idée qui aura au moins le mérite d'attirer peut-être plus de joueurs côté pirate afin de rééquilibrer les serveurs et de donner plus de profondeur à cette nation.
C'est assez positif de voir aussi que les devs apportent de nouvelles idées concrètes.
Pourvu que ça dure !

Sir Jarvis