The time has come. Someone forgor to close the kitchen door, I snuck in and cooked this. I got some inspiration from Maple’s soul alignments/paths idea.
After first awakening, vitality users gain (Wardens replace energy bar with) a new bar next to their energy bar: the Soul Resonance bar.
The Soul Resonance bar: “An ancient, long forgotten ritual where a mortal should connect their soul with the chosen kind of power in order to learn how to use their spirit to summon powerful weapons”.
After first awakening/interchanging to Vitality build, the user should choose one power to connect their soul with. This will affect their spirit weaponry and their Soul Resonance bar:
Calm Clearmind: “Connects user’s soul with the power of tranquility, you do not need to worry anymore while fighting, calm mind will give you power”. You gain a number on your SR bar, what goes up each time you land a spirit weapon attack. Different attacks (like Ultimate arts) fill it faster than others. Once reached 100%, the bar empties, giving the user massive buff in damage, speed and attack speed for a short amount of time. Each time the bar unleashes its power, it gets more and more contaminated. This makes it fill slower. To clean the contamination, you should charge up energy for some seconds depending of how contaminated the bar is.
Infernal Rage: “Connects user’s soul with the rage compared to nothing, what knows no stop on its path, but needs to be fueled up for existense”. You gain a meter as your SR bar, this goes up each time you use a spirit weapon attack. Each time you repeat the same attack, it will give less % of meter than before, so you need to use different attacks. When meter is below 40%, your attacks are smaller and weaker than usual. When between 40% and 75%, the attacks are a bit faster and bigger than usual. When the meter reaches 85%, you gain increased damage along with previous buffs. The bar empties automatically. To reset the count of same attacks, you need to charge up energy for a time based on how full your meter is, though charging fully empties your meter.
Flow of Excellence: “You connect your soul with an urge to reach the excellence, thus making you being afraid of even the smallest mistakes”. You gain a bar as your SR bar that is full by default, but empties a bit each time you get hit or miss your attack. This bar fills by itself after it hasn’t got smaller for 3 seconds. You also fill your bar by landing spirit weapon hits. When its full, you gain huge buffs in damage and travel speed of attacks. Each time it lowers, you gain your screen distorted and lose your buffs for a second. If the bar goes below 80%, you lose all buffs completely and gain permanent dark hue over your screen. When the bar reaches 50%, you get massive speed and damage decrease, with much thicker hue. Once it fully empty, you die. If you charge energy, you will slowly fill up the bar, but geitting hit while charging lowers the bar even more than usual.
Source of Fear: “You connect your soul to the underworld, filling your attacks with the power of dread and despair, terrifying your enemies”. Your SR bar now shows how much Fear power you have. You can charge energy to fill it up, but it also fills up by default. Each spirit weapon attack used drains some of the bar. If your attack hits someone who doesn’t directly see you or is under any vision-obscuring effect (Sandy, Soaked, Blinded, Thermo Fist’s fueled bar, some of Insanity effects, Flow of Excellence’s hue, and all others), you give them stacks of Fear effect that boosts their speed but reduce their damage and accuracy greatly. Fear can stack up to 10, and when it reaches 10, it clears, and the target freezes on place for some seconds, unable to do anything.
Will to Life: “You connect your soul with the mysterious power of Life, allowing you to support yourself or allies in battle, but in return makes you feel the sorrow for each living being died from your hands”. Your SR bar now shows how much Life power you have, you use it for attacking, and can charge energy to refill the bar. Close-ranged spirit weapon attacks heal a bit and give damage resistance and increased speed, but reduce damage slightly, these buffs apply to any ally or yourself who is in range of an attack. Long-ranged attacks leave soul chunks in place where they landed, these exist for 10-20 seconds and can be picked up by you or your allies, giving the same buffs. Life power drains with each attack, and fully empties when you kill anyone.
