Early v3.0 Dev Plans | Patreon Weekly #280

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to cover my loose plan for how the Cleric will be developed.

There’s also a new poll this week! Patreon Poll #58 is a feedback survey on the rewards this Patreon currently offers! Please vote and share your thoughts!

The Cleric Checklist

Here is the rough order I plan on implementing things for the Cleric. I imagine you’ll be seeing more details on each of these in coming weeklies as I get into developing v3.0.0:

• Firstly I need to implement basic Cleric features, such as coding the existence of the class into the game, making them selectable, adding their unique items, and adding a UI for casting their spells.

• After that all of their base class talents need to be implemented. This is the usual assortment of 4 T1 talents, 5 T2 talents, and 2 T3 talents. It’s possible a couple of these talents could be deferred until later if I don’t have any good ideas for them yet.

• Then at least one subclass and one armor ability must be fully implemented (including 3 talents for each). Additional subclasses and abilities are important for variety, but the first one is necessary.

• At this point the Cleric would be considered playable, and so I’ll likely try to do some polishing and balancing and release an alpha/beta. I can’t really fully publish the update before the class is complete, but this way things are at least a little iterative.

• Moving toward release would then obviously be about finished up implementing the remaining elements of the class, and addressing balance data / feedback. I’m going to try to release the Cleric a little strong, as I undershot the Duelist pretty significantly.

Of course there’ll likely be some other content in v3.0 too, but I’m going to aim for it to be fairly light on that front. The important thing is getting the Cleric out and having the update not take forever. I’ve also felt pretty overworked the last while, so going light in extra content is one way for me to be a bit easier on myself.