User:Balefire/Corsair

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— Wiley robbers and highwaymen, the corsair brandishes an axe to ensure it gets its spoils. Slow and hard-hitting, these brigands make use of dangerous gambits to ensure a rich take from any foe. Capable of stealing everything from health, to endurance, to boons, the corsair leaves all of its foes at a complete loss.

Corsairs is an elite specialization for the thief that focuses on gambit skills and enables them to use plunder skills. It also allows the thief to wield a main-hand axe.

List of corasir skills

See also: List of thief skills

Profession mechanic

Plunders are the corsair's profession mechanic, occupying the F1-F3 slots above the skill bar and replacing Steal. Each plunder skill will attempt to steal a different resource from a foe when activated, and if it fails, each will trigger a different secondary effect.

Skill			Description
Hook Shot	½	10	Shoot a grappling hook at your foe, stealing a boon. Bleed them if they have no boons.
Wring Out	½	20	Strike your foe, stealing 50% of their endurance. Damage them if they have no endurance.
Ransack	1	30	Leap at your foe, stealing health. Regain initiative if you miss.

Main-hand only

	Skill	Type			Description
Axe
1	Hack		½	-	Hack your foes.
	Slash		½	-	Slash your foes.
	Cleave		¾	-	Cleave your foes, applying bleed and vulnerability.
2	Boarding Axe		3½	2	Throw your axe in circle so it returns to you, stealing boons from each foe struck.
3	Broadside		¾	4	Strike your foe with the flat of your blade, dazing them and making them vulnerable.

Healing

Skill	Type				Description
Spoils of War	Gambit		¾	15	Consume your boons, gaining health for each one.

Utility

Skill	Type				Description
Make Scarce	Gambit		0	30	Sacrifice your endurance in exchange for breaking stuns, shedding movement impairing conditions, and gaining stealth.
Payback	Gambit		½	30	Strike your target, dealing more damage the less health you have
Sudden Impact	Gambit		¾	45	Set off an explosion, launching yourself and nearby foes.
Desperation	Gambit		0	20	Remove conditions, losing health for each condition removed.

Elite

Skill	Type				Description
Death Match	Gambit		¾	90	Challenge your foe to a death match. You each take periodic damage until one of you is downed.
Surrender			1	-	Surrender the death match, losing all boons and initiative.

Corsair Traits

Tier	Name	Description
Minor Proficiency	Axe Proficiency	You can wield axes.
Minor Adept	Smuggler	Apply vulnerability when you plunder from a foe.
Adept	Arm Twist	Improves the side effects of plunders.
Adept	Murderous Spoils	Boons you steal have increased duration.
Adept	Long Reach	Axe skills deal more damage and have increased range.
Minor Master	Escape Plan	Regenerate endurance whenever you gain a new boon.
Master	Collateral Damage	Plunders can strike multiple foes around your target.
Master	Shake Down	Weaken foes when you make them vulnerable.
Master	Gambling Spree	Reduces recharge on gambits and reduces their side effects.
Minor Grandmaster	Browbeat	Plunders are unblockable and steal a boon on hit.
Grandmaster	Profiteer	Your next attack after stealing a boon has a 100% critical hit chance.
Grandmaster	Tip the Scales	Gain might whenever you strike a vulnerable foe.
Grandmaster	Dead Man's Luck	Regenerate health while you have boons. If you have three or more boons, you will instead lose them if you take a lethal blow.

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