U54 Preview 1: Tabaxi and Tabaxi Trailblazer

[Halciet]

Barbarian
Bard
Cleric
Fighter
Paladin
Ranger
Rogue
Sorcerer -
Wizard

[ahpook]

I really do not get the monk choice for a cat race.
I have owned cats all my life, and not one of them could be
called 'lawful' anything.

They are leaning rather heavily on the fantasy part of the game aren't they.

[Artos_Fabril]

- Another Eberron race...can we get another FR race at some point? There are some interesting possibilities with FR deities, but right now the options are so limited with ML being deity-locked and only really PDK having much synergy with Silvanus or Helm

I'd like to know where on the map of Ebberon SSG think Tabaxi live. Previously, races that were added at least had something to do with the source material, and the ones that don't belong on Ebberon got relegated to the forgettable realms.

- Another SWF-aligned race too...any chance Cat Scratch could gain a T4 multiselector with Deep Scratches that turns it into a cleave?

Better yet, make it a 2[W] whirlwind, so that it has some synergy with TWF/handwraps too.

- Trailblazer: I feel this really needed to be handcuffed to an overhaul of the Henshin Mystic tree, because its clearly designed to align into Staff Monk

Really this would have been the perfect opportunity to do a pass on all the monk trees (ignoring that Archmage needs one even more) but I guess they were busy "retuning" Shiradi.

Love High Places if simply jumping with max jump and having ff activates it.

Yeah, ability is either great (maybe a little too good) or complete garbage, depending on how much control you have over triggering it.

I like that the iconic makes sense unlike the shifter iconic.

Iconic Monk makes sense, Iconic Qstaff monk doesn't really. Likewise Iconic Barb makes sense for Shifters, but not Iconic Handwraps Barb. In fact, these are almost perfectly reversed from what would make them actually Iconic.

Should the req here be 2HF instead of 2WF? It seems most of these are qstaff related and requiring 2WF makes no sense in this context.

Correct. I have fixed the post text, will fix it in-game as well.

There would have actually been something halfway interesting here if the unique animation was a TWF based use of the Qstaff as a double weapon (with some unique Strikethrough bonuses otherwise only available in T5 Tempest) but alas...

[Artos_Fabril]

Natural Climber: +50% Movement Speed while climbing Ladders and other climbable surfaces (such as Vines)
(Known Issue: This ability is being cut for technical reasons, but has not been replaced yet in this build. We are open to suggestions on its replacement).

Morale bonus +1 damage +2% Run speed for 5 seconds after breaking a breakable, stacks 5 times.

[Kza]

I really do not get the monk choice for a cat race.
I have owned cats all my life, and not one of them could be
called 'lawful' anything.

Haha agreed! (3 times thrown out new flowers today and using the vase to drink water from).. I want to throw em out but wife not accepting that :-)

[HastyPudding]

1. Is the scar permanent on the Trailblazer iconic? I didn't see any options for that in creation.

2. Overall look is...a tiny bit too cartoony, to me. The muzzles are too long, they almost look like dogs with some options, and the heads are about 10% too big.

3. The hunched posture makes capes and longer hair styles very glitchy. The cape is attached way too high on the body, causing it to clip through hair.

4. Tumbling doesn't move the camera properly.


Will test more later.

[Michaelaz2]

Hairball attack - you cough a magic hairball at your opponent 1d4+1 per level PLUS target is nauseated 1d20 secs no save

[Nickodeamous]

Why just Q-staff? now is the perfect time to introduce nunchucks and make it compatible with 2WF as well. Instead of cleave trip, which I have no doubt that will be used in conjunction with a certain T5 LD ED, make it a blunt weapon (nunchucks, handwraps) cleave stun stun for 3 seconds, thus giving actual handwrap monks a chance to actually run in GMOF with a decent AOE stun. lets face it, GMOF drifting lotus is terrible and slow. Anyway, I digress...

Add some elements for the handwrap monk, and make this a true monk race, cause right meow, it only applies to 1/3 of the monk trees. pretty please!

Nico

[Cadveen]

Natural Climber: +50% Movement Speed while climbing Ladders and other climbable surfaces (such as Vines)
(Known Issue: This ability is being cut for technical reasons, but has not been replaced yet in this build. We are open to suggestions on its replacement).


REPLACE WITH:

Although I think all rogues should have this: PROWL: Tabaxi does not break sneak when opening doors or interacting with levers, etc.

or

POUNCE: Tabaxi jumps foward like abundant step but goes into sneak.

[Kza]

Wide sweep could be used both with dex or wis (highest) for dc. I think it should be ok be wis based if want also? = more versatility always nice!

(And as others have stated- had been awesome with a selector for staff/shortswords/handwraps for all staff abilities = more versatility = more fun!)

(The look of them are fantastic! And the mounts are just awesome. This looks like it can be really great indeed :-)

[jackatthekilns]

Tabaxi (male at least) cannot finish climbing ladders or other objects.

Here is a video: https://youtu.be/YC7tgYwr1N8

I just confirmed female Tabaxi can climb ladders

[Discpsycho]

- Trailblazer: I feel this really needed to be handcuffed to an overhaul of the Henshin Mystic tree, because its clearly designed to align into Staff Monk. As it stands, I worry it'll have an unavoidable pigeonhole into /1 Rogue for Thief Acrobat's 15% Speed boost. That probably should be mirrored into Henshin ultimately, but in lieu of that, there probably needs to be a (non-stacking) copy of that somewhere in the Trailblazer tree, just to preclude that pigeonhole.

The Henshin capstone, Serenity, grants +15% attack speed with quarterstaves. People splash 1-2 rogue for heroic lives because it's accessible from the get-go (and trapping), but with an Iconic it's not going to matter nearly as much, especially since Bloom carries heroics

[Mindos]

• Natural Climber: +50% Movement Speed while climbing Ladders and other climbable surfaces (such as Vines)
  
  • (Known Issue: This ability is being cut for technical reasons, but has not been replaced yet in this build. We are open to suggestions on its replacement).

Mark your territory: You make a yellow circle on the ground. Mobs lingering in your territory become nausous. Mobs after 6 secs continuous become helpless for 6 second. 24 sec cooldown.

Shrill Hiss: You emit an agressive shriek. Mobs effected have their will save weakened. Mobs hit with your Cat offhand attack when Shrilled are knocked down. dc something something.

Or shrill hiss does 1d6 sonic damage per something, scales with sonic power something.

[rabidfox]

[*]Natural Climber: +50% Movement Speed while climbing Ladders and other climbable surfaces (such as Vines)

• (Known Issue: This ability is being cut for technical reasons, but has not been replaced yet in this build. We are open to suggestions on its replacement).

Jump SLA (self-only)

Cat Nap - rest anywhere as if using a shrine (appropriate longish cooldown of some sort) not usable in raids

[GeoffWatson]

Thoughts before tomorrow's Public Preview...

- Another Eberron race...can we get another FR race at some point? There are some interesting possibilities with FR deities, but right now the options are so limited with ML being deity-locked and only really PDK having much synergy with Silvanus or Helm

Tabaxi aren't from Eberron.
They are from FR (specifically Maztica, the America knock-off).

[FoliumSakura]

That enhancement tree is looking super fun! I love the fall to increase damage part and always need an excuse to use more quarterstaves. Can't wait to see how the new animations look

[enkka1]

I sense slight trolling in this thread so in line with answers i feel that both the trees are very innovative and OP

"SSG always introduces new classes, races and enhancement trees that are OP so people will buy them and then nerf those all later on. Steelstar will surely nerf natural climber (+50% Movement Speed while climbing Ladders and other climbable surfaces (such as Vines)) in coming months"

[Vooduspyce]

Tabaxi look great!

Cosmetically would like to see:

• More fur color options, including blacker (like a black panther), whiter and oranger (like a tiger or tabby cat).
• A long, slender housecat-like tail option

Don't like the stand still to move fast feature. Would rather see a clickie with cooldown.

Would like to see an abundant steplike ability or pounce attack in the tree.

Nice dances! At least a couple of the dances stop after one cycle, so hopefully that will change to make it continuous.

Nice work on dino mounts, they look awesome!

[Tobril]

Iconic Past Lives:

The past life bonuses are quite soft compared to the others.

Recommendation:
Active - (2/4/6 tactics) OR (1/2/3 Tactics + 2/4/6 Trip)
Passive - (1/2/3 Saves) OR (2/4/6 Trap Saves)

This puts the iconic more in line with the others. Especially in relation to melee bonuses. +3 trip vs the current +3 damage or doublestrike is a huge difference.

Higher trap saves and/or universal saves would be a lot more in line with the MRR, fortification, etc of other races.


Cosmetic:

The race looks really good. Females could use some work (beards and hair please)

Shifters should be ashamed of how much better the new cat race looks.


Other:

Tumble is super broken on the iconic. Any direction of tumble results in immediately moving back to the original position. https://www.twitch.tv/tobril/clip/Pl...C3SAw1z4o_pE0x

Headbanging! https://www.twitch.tv/tobril/clip/Hu...f4mj3dbYMKaYiE

1.5 second fall is only possible on a fall from a higher elevation of ~1 hobbit tall. Max jump + featherfall is not sufficient. Is this on purpose?

[Carpone]

Don't like the stand still to move fast feature. Would rather see a clickie with cooldown.

Please no. The game has too many damned buttons already. The T4 enhancement making it 2 sec wait/18 sec zoomer is pretty damned good.