It’s interesting and I would love to hear you elaborating on how exactly it will work, in my opinion both the weapons and shards should be considered a vessel as at the end of the day wardens main ability comes from their soul from what I understood.
This one can be really interesting and maybe work via linking the user’s soul to the enemy and then inflicting insanity as we know wardens will probably endure it and it might also add to the dark sea lore and the mysterious so called priests.
Imagine fullbringers from bleach. turns normal objects into weapons with some correlation. clock to glock with attacks that leave hazards because time
there are 3 theories about their playstyle rn
debuffer/buffer, summoner and just… masochist warrior
im hoping it either of the first 2, preferably the first cause summoning wouldnt either sucks and or broken in this game tbh
Warden at a baseline will have the highest tiers for spirit weapons along with the highest damage reduction with Ekrix. As for potential 1st awakenings, I can see it going two ways:
Warden’s lose their energy bar and charging now regenerates health instead of energy. Healing may be reduced depending on if they’re in combat or not.
A Warden’s energy bar is converted into what I’ll refer to as a “life reserves” bar. This bar is equal to 1/10th of the players max HP, spirit weapon skills will pull from this bar before pulling directly from your health. This one is more a personal concept than a popular community-wide theory.
as a warden, taking damage would be more risky if you’re actively attacking the other person, since you can’t regenerate health while you’ve selected your weapons. That would be a lot more balanced and interesting than just taking a flat percentage of your max health each time you attack and thus lowering your total max health by like 30%, just like how drawback works.
Instead, warden players will have 3 options. They can either play more aggressively and risky, they can choose to try to stay back and use longer ranged attacks for less damage but more safety, or they can choose to simply stop attacking for a while to regenerate their HP.
Besides, I think like Ekrix works much better with my idea than with just baked in drawback.
Having a dash that reduces damage taken would work well with the first option of playing more aggressively and risky, and having to time the dash exactly right to negate some damage brings in a bit of skill while also closing the gap. With drawback it’s still useful, however you do have insanely high hp and regeneration, so it’s not that useful.
Also I think that this is a more skilful and more rewarding style of fighting compared to just having baked in drawback. With drawback, you would just have to find good opportunities to drain your health for an attack, and then just wait a bit to regen it all again. With my idea, warden players would have to commit more to being aggressive and risky in order to deal the most damage, but they will still have the option to stay back and be safer while dealing less damage.
Warden players would, of course be able to equip 3 different weapons. And since the spirit shards work like imbuements, this will allow players to quickly switch their way of fighting. This could lead to way more varied builds and different synergies, unlike a certain other statbuild (warrior, it’s literally just the same build over and over again). This would also allow warden players to quickly switch to their ranged option, when they’re at low health, and try to play more safely.
My idea for warden is a bit more of a tanky mixup class (like warrior), with a more high risk playstyle focussed around taking as little damage as possible while trying to do as much damage as possible. Besides, I feel like this would also simply work better with the different hybrid vitality classes, since it encourages them to use both aspects of their build in a fight. (If you’re a paladin, you would probably use the spirit weapons first, and then start using magic once you take damage to heal up.)
Tl:dr. baked in drawback for all spirit weapons is boring and kinda stupid. It makes more sense to disable health regen, since that would encourage a playstyle that’s more interesting and skilled.
forget i said anything
I think they’ll be necromancers
not even a suggestion tho
boutta steal this idea buddy 
you see, hes talking about what he wants warden to be like
I know. and if it isn’t added to AO it’s mine now hehehehe
wait no i got fooled
i thought this was the original post
i think i’ve seen the post before so it sent me to the newest thing
It’s not?
yeah he knows that it’s not and you would know he knew if you read the message above yours
edit: if that came across as rude sorry 
I just did 
i don’t really care but it better win the first community vote
The most likely winner will be Arcanium weapons, this is simply due to the large amount of conjurers in the community
My guess for spirit weapons will be a combination of 2 things
The first path would be using items from strong deceased hero’s/villain’s of the past whose items have been unintentionally imbued their items with their “soul” or whatever you wanna call it allowing them to use said items special skills by summoning the weapon owners “soul” or wardens could imbue their own soul onto an item to create their own skills. (Basically zanpaktou from bleach)
Wardens could use their own soul to create summons to help them aid them in battle (picture stands from jjba)