What it does

Players pick a combat skill, and it fires on its own the moment they hit someone. No extra buttons, no cooldown bars, no menus in the middle of a fight. A duel stops being a plain trade of hits: what you picked before it starts to matter.

Four skills out of the box

• Zeus' Blessing: lightning on the target for 6 damage, triggers every hit. A solo skill, doesn't combine with others
• Hellfire: sets the target on fire for 10 seconds
• Poisoner: Poison II for 3 seconds
• Flyer: Levitation I for 3 seconds

The last three stack, so "burn, poison and lift" in a single hit is a perfectly legal combo. Compatibility is set per skill.

Your own skills, no code

A skill is built in config.yml from three building blocks, one line each:

# LIGHTNING;<damage>;<chance 0..1>
# FIRE;<burn seconds>;<chance 0..1>
# EFFECT;<effect>;<level>;<seconds>;<chance 0..1>

skills:
  storm:
    display: '&9Storm'
    permission: cloudskills.storm
    combinate: false
    features:
      - 'LIGHTNING;4;0.3'
      - 'FIRE;5;0.3'
      - 'EFFECT;BLINDNESS;1;2;0.3'

A skill can have as many features as you like, each rolls its own chance. Any vanilla effect, any level, any duration.

Features

• Every skill has its own permission, which makes it a ready donor perk through LuckPerms or any other permissions plugin
• A title shows for both sides when a skill fires: the attacker sees "skill triggered", the victim sees "you got hit by a skill". Timings are configurable, titles can be switched off with one option
• Player choices are saved automatically (every 5 minutes by default), restarts lose nothing
• All plugin messages are in the config, regular color codes
• No resource pack, no client mods

Commands and permissions

Installation

1. Drop CloudSkills-1.0.0.jar into plugins
2. Restart the server, plugins/CloudSkills/config.yml will appear
3. Give skill permissions to the groups you want

Good to know

• Paper, Spigot or Purpur 1.16.5 and newer
• No dependencies
• Default skill names and messages are in Russian. Every line is in config.yml and can be translated

На русском

Что это

Игрок выбирает себе боевой навык, и тот срабатывает прямо в момент удара по противнику. Никаких кнопок, перезарядок и лишних меню посреди драки. Бой перестаёт быть обменом ударами: начинает решать то, что ты выбрал до него.

Четыре навыка из коробки

• Благословение Зевса: молния в цель, 6 урона, срабатывает всегда. Навык-одиночка, с другими не совмещается
• Огонь Ада: поджигает противника на 10 секунд
• Отравитель: Отравление II на 3 секунды
• Лётчик: Левитация I на 3 секунды Последние три живут вместе, так что «поджечь, отравить и подбросить» одним ударом вполне законная связка. Совместимость задаётся каждому навыку отдельно.

Questions and ideas are welcome in the comments.