[Warframe Concept] Lucan - The Scholar v0.922

[FerretKnight]

Version 0.922

 

Hello, everyone! This is a warframe concept that I’ve been working on for awhile and that I wanted to share with you all. Lucan is a support-oriented frame that also can dish out a bit of damage. His powers are based on his archives—essentially a pocket dimension—that carry countless ancient books and scrolls. Also, there is not any artwork to go along with this as I am not an artist. Anyways, without further ado, here is Lucan!

 

 

Lucan

This is Lucan, the scholar, the wise.

 

Empowered by ancient texts, he wields intelligence as his weapon of choice.

 

Codex:

With the insight of ancient texts, this scholar can take command of the battlefield with tactical precision.

 

Stats

Health: 125 (375)

Shield: 75 (225)

Armor: 100

Energy: 200 (300)

Sprint Speed: 1.15

 

Passive - Wise: Whenever Lucan casts a skill, he gains an evasion bonus.

Skill 1 - Chant: Lucan summons a grimoire from his archives and harnesses the magic held within, causing a magical eruption at the target location.

Skill 2 - Runic Geyser: Lucan creates a portal that floods the area with pages and runes from his archives, creating a circular area that attaches runes to allies and enemies, aiding friends and debilitating foes.

Skill 3 - Enlighten: Lucan activates the runes that cover his body, causing them to glow, emit an aura, and grant Lucan increased casting speed. Allies within the aura have their energy restored each time Lucan casts a skill while enemies have their shields and armor reduced with each cast.

Skill 4 - Scholastic Surge: Lucan summons scrolls from his archives to surround him, increasing his threat level and absorbing all incoming damage for a short duration. Once the duration ends, the stored damage is amplified, sent back at enemies in a wave of powerful magic, and converted into power strength for nearby allies.

 

In-depth descriptions of Lucan's skills:

 

Spoiler

 

Passive: Wise

Whenever Lucan casts a skill, he gains an evasion bonus. Each cast grants 3% evasion, stacking up to a maximum of 50% evasion. Lucan's evasion bonus begins to decay after 3 seconds from the last skill cast and decays at a rate of 1% evasion per second. Scholastic Surge grants 6% evasion rather than the standard 3% on cast.

 

 

Skill 1: Chant

Lucan summons a grimoire from his archives and harnesses the magic held within, causing a magical eruption at the target location. Enemies caught in the explosion are knocked down. Targeting a foe when casting this skill causes the eruption to take place at their location.

 

• Energy drain: 25
• Explosion damage: 300/400/500/600 blast damage
• Explosion radius: 4m/5m/6m/8m
• Synergy: Enemies affected by Lucan’s runes (see skill 2) take 2x damage from this skill.
• Synergy: While Enlighten is active, this skill has its energy cost halved.

 

Explosion radius is affected by range mods. Explosion damage is affected by power strength mods and Lucan’s secondary weapon’s damage mods.

 

 

Skill 2: Runic Geyser

Lucan creates a portal that spews pages and runes from his archives, creating a circular area that attaches runes to allies and enemies. These runes bolster and heal allies while debilitating foes. Runes will linger on targets that leave the range of the geyser for a short duration. Lucan may have up to 3 fountains active at a time.

 

• Energy drain: 50
• Duration: 7/10/13/16 seconds
• Lingering duration: 2/3/4/5 seconds
• Armor bonus: 50/75/100/125
• Healing: 25/35/45/50 health per second
• Slow: 10%/15%/15%/20%
• Range: 7m/10m/12m/15m
• Synergy: While Enlighten is active, the lingering duration of runes is doubled.

 

Armor bonus, healing, and slow are affected by power strength mods. Duration and lingering duration are affected by power duration mods. Range is affected by range mods.

 

 

Skill 3: Enlighten

Lucan activates the runes that cover his body, causing them to glow, emit an aura, and grant Lucan increased casting speed. Allies within the aura have their energy restored* each time Lucan casts a skill while enemies have their shields and armor reduced with each cast.

 

• Energy drain: 15
• Energy drain/second: 5
• Casting speed bonus: 20%/30%/40%/50%
• Energy per cast: 8/10/12/15
• Armor/shield reduced per cast: 100/150/200/250
• Range: 10/12/14/15m
• Synergy: Enlighten’s range is increased by 5m while Lucan has runes attached to him (see skill 2).

 

Casting speed bonus, energy restored, and armor/shield reduced are affected by power strength mods. Aura range is affected by range mods.

 

*As this is a channeled ability, Lucan does not gain energy himself

 

 

Skill 4: Scholastic Surge

Lucan summons scrolls from his archives to surround him, increasing his threat level and absorbing all incoming damage for a short duration. Once the duration ends, the stored damage is amplified, sent back at enemies in a wave of powerful magic, and converted into power strength for nearby allies.

 

• Energy drain: 100
• Invulnerability duration: 2.5 seconds
• Damage multiplier: 5x/6x/7x/8x
• Damage range: 7/8/9/10m
• Allied buff range: 11/14/17/20m
• Power strength bonus duration: 8/10/12/14 seconds
• Power strength bonus: base 5% + 1.50% per 100 damage (capped at 50%)
• Synergy: If cast while targeting a Runic Geyser, a second instance of Scholastic Surge will be activated from the fountain.
• Synergy: Scholastic Surge activates Enlighten’s effects twice per second while Lucan is invulnerable.

 

Damage multiplier and power strength bonus are affected by power strength mods. Invulnerability duration and power strength bonus duration are affected by power duration mods. Damage and buff range are affected by range mods.

 

 

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Lucan's Collection:

PERANTA

The Peranta is an ornate longbow covered in ancient proverbs. Used in generations past for sport by the noblest of society, this bow turns foe into game to be hunted.

Stats:

Spoiler

• Total Damage: 500 (50% )
  • 100
  • 250
  • 150
• Charge Time: 1 second
• Critical Chance: 55%
• Critical Multiplier: 2.0x
• Status Chance: 20%
• Punch Through: 3m
• When wielded by Lucan: 1m extra punch through

 

SIBYLA

A set of curved daggers with ink-stained tips. Previously used for display, these daggers are surprisingly adept at slicing anything into pieces.

Stats:

Spoiler

• Total damage: 50 (70% )
  • 4
  • 11
  • 30
• Attack Speed: 1.17
• Critical Chance: 25%
• Critical Multiplier: 2.0x
• Status Chance: 5%
• When wielded by Lucan: +5% status chance

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So there's the concept! Let me know what you think! (more updates to this coming SOON TM)

 

Changelog:

Spoiler

v0.922

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• Added signature weapon bonuses for when Lucan is wielding the Peranta and Sibyla.

v0.921

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• Added statistics to the Peranta and Sibyla.

v0.92:

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• Added Lucan's collection weapons (the Peranta and the Sibyla)

v0.911:

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• Adjusted formatting of post.
• Added a "TLDR" description of Lucan's kit for easier consumption of the concept.

v0.91:

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• Passive: Wise
  • Clarified passive mechanics
  • Increased evasion bonus per cast from 2.5% to 3%.
• Scholastic Surge:
  • Increased invulnerability duration from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds.

 

 

Edited July 31, 2019 by FerretKnight
v0.922

[keikogi]

15 hours ago, FerretKnight said:

Passive: Wise

Whenever Lucan casts a skill, he gains Wisdom. Each instance of Wisdom grants 2.5% evasion, stacking up to a maximum of 50% evasion. Wisdom begins to decay after 3 seconds from the last skill cast and decays at a rate of 1% evasion per second. Scholastic Surge grants 2 instances of wisdom when cast instead of 

Seens way too hard to stack , also use it is better to give 3 stacks of wisdom per skill cast and them lose 1 stack of wisdom per second , each stack grants 1% evasion. (It is weird gaining stacks and losing percent buff)

15 hours ago, FerretKnight said:

 

Skill 1: Chant

Lucan summons a grimoire from his archives and harnesses the magic held within, causing a magical eruption at the target location. Enemies caught in the explosion are knocked down. Targeting a foe when casting this skill causes the eruption to take place at their location.

 

If you want this to do damage , allow it to scale with weapon mods. Also allow it to hit allies giving them shields ( in this way his 1,2,3 and 4 affect both allies and enemies ).

15 hours ago, FerretKnight said:

Skill 2: Runic Geyser

Lucan creates a geyser that spews pages and runes from his archives, creating a circular area that attaches runes to allies and enemies. These runes bolster and heal allies while debilitating foes. Runes will linger on targets that leave the range of the geyser for a short duration. Lucan may have up to 3 fountains active at a time.

 

• Energy drain: 50
• Duration: 7/10/13/16 seconds
• Lingering duration: 2/3/4/5 seconds
• Armor bonus: 50/75/100/125
• Healing: 25/35/45/50 health per second
• Slow: 10%/15%/15%/20%
• Range: 7m/10m/12m/15m

You probably can afford to increase the lingering effects strength. Also increase the lingering duration to 8 seconds ( so you get the full duration during enlightened)

15 hours ago, FerretKnight said:

Skill 3: Enlighten

Lucan activates the runes that cover his body, causing them to glow, emit an aura, and grant Lucan increased casting speed. Allies within the aura have their energy restored* each time Lucan casts a skill while enemies have their shields and armor reduced with each cast.

I would go with enemies hit by Lucan skills have their armor reduced and alies hit by Local skills have their energy restored.

16 hours ago, FerretKnight said:

Skill 4: Scholastic Surge

Lucan summons scrolls from his archives to surround him, increasing his threat level and absorbing all incoming damage for a short duration. Once the duration ends, the stored damage is amplified, sent back at enemies in a wave of powerful magic, and converted into power strength for allies within Lucan’s affinity range 

 

• Energy drain: 100
• Invulnerability duration: 2 seconds

Increse the duration to become compatible with harrow ultimate.

[FerretKnight]

4 hours ago, keikogi said:

Seens way too hard to stack , also use it is better to give 3 stacks of wisdom per skill cast and them lose 1 stack of wisdom per second , each stack grants 1% evasion. (It is weird gaining stacks and losing percent buff)

I realize now that the phrasing was confusing. This mechanic works similarly to Atlas' Rubble mechanic where picking up rubble increases his armor. You aren't necessarily collecting "stacks", rather casting skills just increases your evasion bonus. I'll edit the description to hopefully make that more clear.

4 hours ago, keikogi said:

If you want this to do damage , allow it to scale with weapon mods. Also allow it to hit allies giving them shields ( in this way his 1,2,3 and 4 affect both allies and enemies ).

It (being his skill 1: Chant) already scales with secondary weapon mods (it's listed after the skill facts). I'll look into a potential allied effect, but I think having it be both incredibly offensive and supportive might be too strong for a 25 energy cast, so I believe it's fine as is.

4 hours ago, keikogi said:

Increse the duration to become compatible with harrow ultimate.

This skill actually functions more similarly to Wukong's Defy, hence the duration and damage reflect. As you gain increased threat rating during this skill, a longer duration isn't necessary as you will be drawing more fire.

I'll be making some adjustments after this post so keep an eye out!

[FerretKnight]

Hello, everyone!

I've made the following adjustments and additions to this concept:

• Added a "TLDR" description of Lucan's kit (the detailed descriptions have been moved into a spoiler)
• Added Lucan's signature weapons: the Peranta and the Sibyla

I also have plans to update this further with some additional lore about Lucan, so stay tuned for the next update!