Class Deep Dive: The Draconic Defender 🐉

[p]Hey Timetravelers![/p][p]The Draconic Defender is the ultimate frontline tank. By converting Armor into raw damage, this class can take a beating and dish it right back. Let us break down the stats.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]⚔️ Weapon: Immortal Halberd Auto Attack[/h2][p]The Immortal Halberd applies a minor launch and time dilation effect on every hit.[/p]

[p]Base AP Scaling: 1.15[/p]
[p]Cooldown: 1.1s drops to 0.7s (at max evolution).[/p]
[p]Evolution Highlights: Upgrading this weapon grants a permanent passive Armor bonus (+50 at Evo 1, up to +100 at Evo 4). It also starts granting a small shield based on your Max HP every time you attack.[/p]

[p]💡 Behind the Scenes Secret: A portion of the damage calculation for the Halberd scales directly off your total Armor stat (0.1% of your Armor is converted into damage).[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]🎯 LMB: Piercing Thrust[/h2][p]Piercing Thrust pulls enemies toward you and generates shields.[/p]

[p]Base AP Scaling: 0.1[/p]
[p]Max HP% Damage: Scales from 1% up to 2.5%.[/p]
[p]Cooldown: 5s drops to 3s (at max evolution).[/p]
[p]Evolution Highlights: The number of Banner Spears thrust forward increases from 3 to 8. The shield you gain per enemy hit also jumps massively from 0.25% Max HP up to 1.25% Max HP.[/p]

[p]💡 Pro-Tip: This ability scales insanely well with defense. The internal Armor damage scalar jumps from 0.2 all the way to 1.0 at max level, meaning your defensive items are directly increasing your burst damage.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]🚩 Q: Battle Standard[/h2][p]Battle Standard drops a flag that buffs allies and eventually explodes.[/p]

[p]Base AP Scaling: 3.0 (Impact).[/p]
[p]Cooldown: 30s drops to 20s (at max evolution).[/p]
[p]Evolution Highlights: The standard pulses an aura that grants a constant 200 Armor and scales your movement speed up to +400. The shield amount increases from 3.5% to 17.5% of your Max HP.[/p]

[p]💡 Behind the Scenes Secret: The explosion from the Battle Standard is actually triggered by your Piercing Thrust ability! The spikes that erupt also scale heavily off your Armor (up to 1.0) and Health (up to 0.06).[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]🐉 Armor: Dragon Form[/h2][p]Dragon Form lets you completely unleash your draconic power.[/p]

[p]Base AP Scaling: 0.675 (Impact) and 0.81 (Impulse).[/p]
[p]Cooldown: 40s drops down to 20s (at max evolution).[/p]
[p]Evolution Highlights: The duration of your transformation increases from 10s to 18s. Evolution 2 adds a 20% Max HP shield for the duration. Evolution 4 adds a lingering flame trail on the ground that extends your damage.[/p]

[p]💡 Pro-Tip: Because the max duration is 18s and the max cooldown is 20s, fully upgrading this ability allows for a near-permanent Dragon Form.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]🥾 Boots: Flame Walk[/h2][p]Flame Walk is a dash that leaves a burning trail of destruction.[/p]

[p]Base AP Scaling: 1.4[/p]
[p]Cooldown: 16s drops to 8s (at max evolution).[/p]
[p]Evolution Highlights: The dash distance increases from 700 to 900. The Damage over Time (DoT) starts dealing bonus damage based on the enemy's Current HP%. It also clears debuffs instantly on cast.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][h2]🛡️ Helmet Passive: Dragon's Greed[/h2][p]Dragon's Greed turns your collected loot into pure survivability.[/p]

[p]Core Mechanic: For every 1 gold you pick up, you gain 0.2 permanent Health and 0.2 permanent Armor for the rest of the run.[/p]
[p]Evolution Highlights: Rarity upgrades drastically increase the gold you find (up to a 50% chance to spawn gold drops on mob kills). It also passively increases Armor for all Tank helmets by up to 20%.[/p]

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