[Warframe Concept] Siren - a beauty to lure enemies to their graves...

[ShadowOptics]

Ok time for a new concept... hopefully this one's not been done before... 

Tenno... this is SIREN... 

Crafted in secret as a birthday present for Ballas... but never delivered to him as the Tenno betrayed the Orokin before she could be revealed. She is imbued with the virtues and attributes inspired from a certain Orokin...  Archimedian Margulis. A fitting gift to Ballas to reinforce that his sacrifice of Margulis was right... (for his ego 😉 ) 

• Orokin Beauty (we know from how the Lotus appears that Margulis was a beauty...)  
• A voice that can soothe "Dream... not of what you are... but of what you want to be."
• Distraction and Dreams "This will stop the voices from taking hold. You will have to dream, my angel..."
• Finally a homage to Margulis calling the Tenno an "angel" but with the twist of adding violent claws... turning her angels into angels of death... Ballas twisting her transference technology from therapy to destructive power... (Harpy/Siren inspired transformation)

Use her voice to soothe and lure enemies to their doom... use her beauty to deceive them... use her dreamy lullabies to weaken them... and when you tire of playing with them... evolve and terrify them... using claws and wings of steel to deal beautiful destruction and death to all that oppose her (Our winged heavenly angel of beauty and destruction... inspired by the beauty of Margulis). 

1. Siren's Call - Siren emits a burst of beautify enchanting song that lures enemies away from their current targets to investigate the source of the sound. Mechanic [Siren emits an enchanting song in a cone radius (power strength and range) in front of her causes attacking or un-alerted enemies to disengage their current targets and walk towards the source of the sound (controlled by duration)] enemies that are hit by attacks immediately regain senses. 

2. Beautiful Deception - Siren projects a vision of her beauty into the mind of up to 3 enemies. (each cast would effect one enemy) The enemies affected by beautiful deception are deaf and blind to Siren's actions for X seconds effectively rendering her invisible. [Deadly Beauty] Augment - Beautiful Deception can only affect one enemy at a time, but opens up enemies to Finishers whilst enemies are affected by Beautiful Deception dealing X % more damage. 

3. Deadly Lullaby - Siren creates an ethereal copy of herself playing one of three instruments (lute, lyre or harp) that plays an "enchanting song" in a radius around it. Enemies affected by Siren's Call take X damage per second when entering the radial zone of the siren song. Enemies that take damage from weapons/melee in the zone of the siren song "awaken" and cannot be affected again by the zone unless hit by Siren's Call or a fresh cast of Deadly Lullaby... 

HARP SIREN - causes enemies to be lulled to sleep for X duration. 

LUTE SIREN - deafens and disorientates enemies causing them to attack each other for X duration

LYRE SIREN - creates a protective ward causing enemies to be slowed whilst moving through the area affected by the siren's song. zone persists for X seconds duration.  

4. Winged Fury - Siren lets out a shriek "terrifying" enemies around her as she reveals her true form. Metal wings erupt from her back and her feet turn to claws. If Siren has a "deadly lullaby"  active the siren copy also grow wings/claws and emits a shriek detonating itself and the zone of music to "terrify" and cause enemies to run away in random directions away from the sound zone. 

MOVEMENT - aim glide is enhanced with Siren's wings allowing her to glide faster through the air and stay airborne longer. hitting a wall causes her to auto-latch to it, bullet jumps have increased velocity and now use a custom animation for her with her wings out. Siren can use her primary weapon or secondary weapon whilst gliding/wall latching.  

MELEE ATTACKS - Siren alternates between puncturing and slashing kicks with her clawed feet. She leaps acrobatically using her wings to close gaps and hit multiple enemies with wing spins. Shrieks of her voice open up enemies to finishers (as part of her combos).  

Melee 3.0 style attacks:

• Winged Assault Combo (multiple slashes with her wings to hit enemies in 360 arc around her AOE attack)
• Clawed Kicks Combo (single enemy focused attacks)
• Wing Leap Combo (Leaps with wings open to close the gap to an enemy with a clawed kick to puncture any armour)
• She uses her wings to block enemy attacks.

Passive - Disarming Beauty (yes I know Nyx used to have this... but I think it works with Siren's concept)

Enemies affected by Siren's abilities have a 50% chance of being disarmed  

[keikogi]

30 minutes ago, ShadowOptics said:

2. Beautiful Deception - Siren projects a vision of her beauty into the mind of up to 3 enemies. (each cast would effect one enemy) The enemies affected by beautiful deception are deaf and blind to Siren's actions for X seconds effectively rendering her invisible

You go to raise this target cap , we fight hordes of enemies , just 3 of them ignoring 1 player of the squad does not impact combat at all.

36 minutes ago, ShadowOptics said:

MOVEMENT - aim glide is enhanced with Siren's wings allowing her to glide faster through the air and stay airborne longer. hitting a wall causes her to auto-latch to it, bullet jumps have increased velocity and now use a custom animation for her with her wings out. Siren can use her primary weapon or secondary weapon whilst gliding/wall latching.  

This is the first 'exalted melee' I have seen that provides some benefits while you are using your primary or secondary. I love it.

[ShadowOptics]

Thanks for the feedback Keikogi! 😃

I was trying to thing of something similar in power to Ash's Teleport with the idea of a second ability... maybe it could work like this instead ? 

2. Beautiful Deception - Siren projects a clone of herself at the crosshair, when the clone appears it distracts enemies causing them to attack it, before it detonates in a blinding explosion. The enemies in a radius around the clone are rendered deaf and blind for X seconds and are knocked prone for 3 seconds.  [Deadly Beauty] Augment - Beautiful Deception, Ground Finishers performed on enemies affected by Beautiful Deception give a warframe's melee weapon increased Crit Chance and Crit Damage for  X seconds. 

[Sc10n0fD4rksp0r3]

 

[keikogi]

2 hours ago, ShadowOptics said:

. Beautiful Deception - Siren projects a clone of herself at the crosshair, when the clone appears it distracts enemies causing them to attack it, before it detonates in a blinding explosion. The enemies in a radius around the clone are rendered deaf and blind for X seconds and are knocked prone for 3 seconds

That's a big improvement. Maybe you should think of a sinergy with the rest of the kit , something like if you cast her 3 while the 2 is active the 2 does something else. Also activating the ultimate should do something else with this skill to( similar to what it does with her 3 right now)

But I just realized something her 4 would abruptly end both her 2 and 3. It would not make sense if she was able to use them while using her 4. So I would suggesr that her change both her appearance and kit. I'm for a siren/harpy frame. One side of the kit is cc and debuffs and the other is melee.

Here is my sugested kit while her 4 is active.

1. Sriek

Loud pieched sriek that opens enemies up to finishers

2. Harpy wing's

Clap her wings sending a wave of razor shapr fethers. Enemy's hit by these fethers will take incresed slash damage. Additionally siren will suffer reduced gravity for 5 seconds.

Voracity

Killing an enemy with melee will temporarily increase siren health and armor. Has a armor and health cap. Both caps are affected by power strength.