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Ok, so I am running a pure magick build because I like casting. Arborists Shield needs to not be taken off the player just because they cast something else. Also, my biggest thing, I would like to be able to have a few spells going at once. This is mostly for 220 Jana and the like. Give the spells a DoT type timer that they're active for and scale the damage with magick score on the character. One other thing you all REALLY REALLY need to put in... Direct damage spells. I do NOT want to be able to one shot a boss... But if I fire off a lighting bolt for example that hits as hard as someone with a nice ranged or melee build and it's done and over... That would really be cool/ Magick right now is a bit underwhelming. I love it but we need to be made viable like the other builds. I've been testing different things on a pure magick build all day with some friends and we do find the magick system needs a lot of work. If some, or better yet, all of these ideas can be put into the game at some point, I for one would love it and there's a lot of people on the Discord that want to run casters as well.
| Category Tags | Combat |
| Mode | Online |
| Sentiment | Critical |
I agree.
I think they are being conservative about server load right now which is why they haven't jumped on the object count limit yet or let us do summons.
I want to see more magic BUT not something I play in every fantasy game. A Fireball or Magic Missile would be sad - I just cranked up D&D games like BG3 and Wrath of the Righteous - we have enough Fireballs.
What are fae / Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell / Labyrinth style magic ideas?
One that just cleans up everything on the ground in your Abeyance Realm with fairy helpers around the house?
Curses of some sort - that could be low intensity on the graphics / server load and nerf enemies with specific debuffs - that could get you running multiple spells without the server costs going through the roof. It was interesting hearing Inflexion talking about hiring server resources through Epic, I guess they run something like AWS/Azure/Google servers and/or hire those services.
Witchy black magic - Kahz had the idea of paying with Health instead of Stamina. Controlling or stunning enemies. I guess we already have Jana's Roar.
Lewis Carrol inspired like Vorpal Swords from the Jabberwock - does one big hit but doesn't linger, an alternative to Hermetic Flame that maybe DOESN'T have a damage type. It just does flat damage to anything.
Illusion magic - make a copy of yourself to tank attacks and turn invisible as long as you don't attack?
Taboos - make melee not inflict damage for I dunno 10 seconds or the same for guns. Or reflect damage on the attacker?
Step into a shadow and teleport in Line of Sight. Actually aim at your teleport location. We have Skyhooks soon so that isn't as insane as it sounds. I'm sure I'll get stuck somewhere.
What other ideas are fae/witchy/gaspunk and NOT traditional western fantasy?