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Amalgamation: Veil Walker Primary Spec

Description
"These patient assassins specialize in weaving in and out of concealment. The rare witnesses describe them as a "Person came from the walls""


General

This is a primary Vektor Rifle spec focused on concealment mana skills to deal high damage, and entering back into temporary concealment when killing for safety and repositioning, always looking for the next target.


Skills

Squaddie
  • Path of Unheard Steps: Gives 2 mana while in concealment, will be used later for skills.
Corporal
  • Vanishing Takedown: Whenever this soldier kills an enemy, attempts to enter concealment. Will fail if flanked.
Mana usage deck(Seargent & Captain)
  • Twin Runeshot: Costs 5 mana, shoots twice like rapid fire with no penalty.
  • Quick Runeshot: Cost 3 mana, doesn't end turn.
  • Caustic Runeshot: Cost 4 mana, deals much increased acid damage and inflicts acid burning.
  • Curse Runeshot: Cost 5 mana, deals much increase psi damage and inflicts bloodcurse.
  • Blast Runeshot: Cost 4 mana and deals damage in an area.
Passives Deck(Lieutanent and Colonel)
  • Hit and Slither: Gain a movemetn action points after shooting at a flanked target.
  • Lone Wolf: Gainst 10 aim, crit and defense while no ally is near 7 tiles of this soldier.
  • Stalker: Gain 10 aim and 3 mobility while in concealment.
  • Surprise: Gain +2 damage while concealed and +1 damage against flanked targets.
  • Pririty Target: Gain +10 aim and crit against the closest enemy.
  • Anatomy: Gain +15 crit chance and 2 armor pierce.
  • Anatomist: Gain 1 crit dmg per enemy killed of a specific type.
Conceal Deck(Major):
  • Reactive Camouflage: Attempt to regaintemporary concealment when struck.
  • Fear and Wonder: Attempt to enter temporary concealment on crit.
  • Thaumic Conceal: Cost 6 mana, attempt to enter true concealment.
  • Misty Step: Cost 2 mana, teleport anywhere within squadsight.

Brigadier
  • Inside the Veil: While the skill is active, regain 1 action when leaving concealment from its own actions. Lasts 1 turn and has a 3 turn cooldown.

Balance and Ideology

At first I wanted to make a concealment based spec but with Sawed Off. When I helped Drumax with his Desperado spec I felt I needed to do something with that cursed knowledge. Well, it was more cursed: I needed either a lot of mods or an even more cursed skill tree. Instead, I opted for the Vektor Rifle and, to make what I wanted for a long time, more than one thing even: A good damage Vektor spec that benefits from the weapon's high crit dmg(The spec has hidden flanking crit and aim bonuses to help that more), and a Concealment spec that isn't just a scout, instead, use concealment to reposition into a safe, yet aggressive position from which to strike next. Weaving in and out of concealment is fun as heck and I had a blast while playing with it.

This spec is a bit on the slow side, both on its growth and playstyle. Needing 3 levels before you can use the mana it starts with, albeit the vanishing takedown is powerful, can feel a bit clunky, but it gets really good real fast. In mission you might want to play slow to gain its mana, and with the fact it doesn't have Phantom, makes quite a balancing act. All in all, i'm satisfied with it. It's a bit on the strong side of specs, having very high damage potential, but most of it comes from Quick Feet or its eventual Runeshot combos. It's weird at the start, but becomes quite fluid the more you get into it, both in experience and playstyle.


Outro and Thanks

Wow, this one was intense. Am playing in and out with it for the past couple weeks, and am very happy with it.

Always thankful to XpanD for getting me into Spec creation and getting started on my first mod

Evilbob for the awesome icon

H4ilstorm for creating Amalgamation classes

Mitzruti, Favid and Kiruka for their awesome perk packs

And for all modders out there for working on this game

As always, if there is anything you found that needs some fixing, please comment, and i'll take a look

Have a good one!
5 Comments
RUBY 1 Dec, 2024 @ 3:28pm 
se puede usar con LW?
Ethegeek92 4 Nov, 2024 @ 11:02am 
This is awesome! Thank you. I have been playing around with stealth builds like brigand, assassin and scout to make hit n run squads. It has been my favorite style yet. This is definitely going in my list.
Medias 31 Oct, 2024 @ 8:24pm 
OHHH it all makes sense now! Yeah I'll definitely be adding this, my favorite playstyle gets a primary spec? Yes please!
Drumax 31 Oct, 2024 @ 2:13pm 
Gratz on release!
XpanD 31 Oct, 2024 @ 11:03am 
Ayy, congrats on release!