New class: Elementalist

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PowerWyrm
Balrog
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New class: Elementalist

Post by PowerWyrm » Tue 29.06.2010, 12:37

A spellcaster specialized in Air, Fire, Earth and Water.

- resistances for fire, cold, acid, lightning at levels 10/15/20/25 (same as Thunderlord, so TL elementalists are not recommended...)
- auto digging at level 50
- access to five elemental schools (Air, Fire, Earth, Water, Elemental) using Elemental Spellbooks (basic books, no need to scum shops/dungeon for them)
- new spellpower system: elemental spells can be "beefed up" by putting power points into them, letting the Elementalist specialize in certain schools (or even spells) and get more powerful spells, or just use a less powerful version of all elemental spells

Stay tuned, the class will be playable in the next update (1.1.4 build 5)...

Emulord
King Vampire
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Re: New class: Elementalist

Post by Emulord » Wed 30.06.2010, 04:10

Ive always thought that class specialization is a good idea, but if there is no way to change your mind, you might get frustrated if you made suboptimal choices you didn't realize until later. Maybe there should be a way to reallocate points.

Another choices is just to match the other classes and have better versions of spells unlocked as you level up / spells gaining more power as a function of level.

OMG please say we have wall creation. That'd be so leet.

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