First off, I'd like to say that this was a really interesting class to play, and I can see a lot of potential for it. That fact that I'm writing at length about it is a big indicator that I believe that this class can be truly unique. I'll be providing my feedback/criticism in different categories. By no means this is anyone else's feedback nor is this fact/truth; I can be wrong but this is my own, personal opinion about where this mod is currently.

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Designing a new class from the ground up is hard. but I think that The Chaser could lean into its swiftness a little more.

Originally posted by FastCat:

The Chaser is an unknown pursuer from the foglands. He corners targets with swift movement.

One direction I thought this class was going to go was playing lots of cards for little/no cost and little/no damage (DoT, not burst). and it did that REALLY WELL. I expected Swift it to appear on more cards/be more viable than it currently is; I thought it would really lean into it more. I think that Swift either needs to be on more cards, or reworked a little bit.

Here is my suggestion for a potential rework of Swift:

Change swift from being a requirement for a card, but make it into stacks. Have your starter relic be something that gives you a stack of Swift for every 4 (or 3, or 5 , or 2, whatever you feel is balanced) cards you play in a turn.

For a certain amount of stacks of Swift, add an effect to your character. For example:

• At 3 stacks, deal 2 damage after each attack
  
• At 5 stacks, bonus damage is done to every enemy
  
• At 10 stacks, every 3rd attack deals double damage.

Something along those lines that scales with more stacks that you have. You can then have cards that also play off of Swift, like you currently do (eg. if you have played 4 cards then the card does something different/has a bonus effect).

Some card suggestions:

• Deal n damage for every stack of Swift (n = 2 or 3 or 4 or whatever)
  
• Gain n block for every stack of Swift (n = 2 or 3 or 4 or whatever)

You can also have relics or powers that reduce the stack milestones by 1 (for the example, 3 stack requirement becomes 2)

Quickness also works well with this mechanic but I would have cards dedicated solely to quickness for balance purposes. Quickness and Swift (for me) really drive home the theme of The Chaser.

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Another direction you can take The Chaser is that they expend a lot of energy to move swiftly. Have high cost cards (similar to Meteor Strike from the Defect) that deal immense amounts of damage. Have more energy building in the deck. Deal with enemies SWIFTLY, run them down.

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Definitely nothing major, and 100% not necessary, but I don't really get The Chaser theme of swiftness from looking at the character. It's pretty much like The Silent with a different mask and a hood.I imagine someone with robes like that wouldn't be able to move swiftly.

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I think this mechanic is actually really cool, though I don't know if really fits into a The Chaser's theme of swiftness. It may be a unique enough mechanic to be its own character.

Right now I think that building off of self debuff is really too easy. Currently there's a bug with Spirit of Conquest where it says It currently only adds strength per UNIQUE debuff, which actually balances it out, but if it were for cumulative stacks, it would be broken. Proxy is too good; it's easy to build and you get no negatives out of it. I think similar to my feedback of the Swift mechanic, there should be mechanics that lean into it harder. Make Proxy harder to stack, make the other debuffs easier to stack, or apply a new kind of debuff, like take 10% more damage (instead of the usual 25% from Vulnerable, for balance). This would make the other cards that play off of debuffs feel more useful. Maybe make bleeding a debuff you can apply on yourself.

This mechanic was actually the one that I liked the most because you have tradeoffs and decision-making inherent in applying a self debuff (whereas it's really not a choice for applying proxy: if you have energy to stack it and that's the build you're going for, just do it).

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All in all, this mod has HUGE potential. I had a lot of fun playing the class, I had a lot of fun writing this review/feedback, and I have NEVER written a review/feedback on any game/mod on steam.

Open to discussion and feedback on my own reviews here. Thanks for a great mod!