It's been a while now so it should no longer be meta to list the specializations, especially with the spellcost sheet.

Right now, these are the base trees and their specializations:

Fire: 2
Earth: 6
Water: 3
Air: 2
Holy/Cosmic: 1
Occult/Illusion: 1

This means that unless you're Earth, you have one effective specialization you can go for for most trees (i do not respect sound nor plasma)
(ice/blood are ok)

Earth on the other hand had all very good trees except for sand which 'okay'. It's okay.

A few more specializations will make a few of these trees not feel so tied down by spellcosts and dipping!

Character Name / Contact Information: Athos Endore/Xioen#0339



Extra Attendees: Rhea Endore, Neklous Endore (assuming you're joining)


Event Synopsis: The Endores have, in the past, been a family of Hunters. Hunters that sought out and eliminated Occultic Presences, and forces of the Dark. However, with the disappearance and lack of true authority to enforce such upon the current generation, the black sheep will begin to stray from the herd. Whispers grow in their ears as their own internal hatred begs to lash out. Rumors floating in the wind of a den in the Western Marshlands. One in which that has rumored to hold a presence that forces the very air around it to become twisted. What it was remained a mystery, let alone if the rumors held true. These Hunters led astray seek not it's destruction however, but instead, they seek it's power. (Feel free to change it as you wish if you think it needs changing)

Risk: Up to DM

Specific Requests: Dark and twisted adventure, some form of Occult source (i.e. Demon/Witch, Old Texts, etc.), Occult Development for Characters

DM: Needed

Think that covers it about

There are two good spells in Air Magic. Shockwave, if you can land it, and Flurry for the free slow (which is worse than Overheat).

All the other attempts I've made to ask people about Air Blast, Twister and Tornado have been met with "they're not worth it", "they're garbage" or "twister's okay but the other two suck".

I propose Air Blast is made into a low damage, fast and low cool down homing with decent range. I propose you buff Flurry to have 12 tile range so it can compete with the entire RPB box range Overheat has better and bump it to 1.2 spell damage. Make Twister have better damage to compensate for not allowing you to attack during it. Remove the charge on Tornado and see how that does. Leave Shockwave as is because it's actually the only thing holding Air Magic together damage-wise and it's still not competing with other base magics.

Razor Wind is okay but other auras put it to shame pretty easily. Good if you have nothing else to use though.

"All power demands sacrifice and pain. The universe rewards those willing to spill their life's blood for the promise of power."

Tales from the grapevine and books of ye old times speak about tales of the first blood mages across Esshar, Average people who took in the occultic art and allowed their minds to be warped. Turning them into a former figure of themselves. This legend has been carried for as long as the land existed, The cult often using their magical influence to drag in aspiring blood mages to join which continued the evil ways for tales to come. 

Lately, rumors have been spreading about people being kidnapped in the middle of the night. Either through the sickening magical influence that haunts people's dreams or through more forceful measures. Some witnesses even claim that the beasts that have been dragging men, women, and children out who wander too far from the kingdom resembled what used to be humans. Mismatched body parts,  emotionless creatures crafted by corpses and blood magic. 

Reina has been feeling the same influence as of late, Prodding at her mind as she slumbered, calling her out to the secluded locations in the mountains to join in on the blood adventures. Not wanting to let her occultic curse take the better of her, She plans on taking a few brave souls to march upon the occultic group. Dealing with both the bad influencing dreams and terrible abominations that are the blood cultists. Maybe taking some of their power for herself.

She has posted about the call openly to firstly any other blood cursed magi publically and to the order.

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Contact: actual bear#3728

Other Attendants: Fellow blood mages, Some hardy boys from the order to whoever voluenteers and maybe an acquaintance. 

Risks: Spooky risk, CoI/CoD depends on the GM,  Creepy monsters and rituals, Cultists. 

Requests: Blood related trinkets/Blood magic DEV, Maybe some stray materials for crafters

DM: Needed

Time: Whenever

On Chronicals of Esshar, I've been focusing on builds that aren't the best persay- yet still quite viable. However I try to follow a certain style of theme, and for me a three course meal is the best sort of theme! For example, on Melora I can make the Metaphysical Trifecta! Gravity, Illusion, Time. And the build ends at 180 RPL with every single bar filled.

However....

I've found that making a trifecta with advanced magics that is functional and has a full bar by 180 RPL is only possible with the following:

Armed, Unarmed, Metaphysical, Ether, Holy & Occult.

Unarmed and Armed have the most bang for their buck at 20 RPL for Openers (Albeit, you technically don't NEED an armed style).
Metaphysical, Ether, Holy, & Occult are 30 RPP flat to adapt into the trees.

Then there's elemental spells. Attunement is 20 RPP, Openers for most are 30 RPP, with one being 20 RPP: Riptide.

So you're usually spending 50 RPP just to buy into these advanced trees (The Attunement, and the Opener). 

Whereas Metaphysical, Either, Occult, Holy, Unarmed and Armed are standalone that require no such attunement. Attunements give a basic +5 stat boost to either POW or VIT which is nice but, that's one slot of your bar that is unfilled for 20 RPP. Whereas for 10 RPP more you can have a damaging attack that is rather useful in the other fields.

Below, I'll list a few Build Combinations which are thematic and possible with Ether, Meta, Holy, Occult, Armed, Unarmed, and will not exceed 185 RPL.

Quote:The Master of Reality: Gravity, Time, Illusion
Gravity: - Compression (30), Push (10) = 40
Illusion: - Distort (30), Mind Fray (10), Darkness (10)  = 50
Time: - Decay (30), Transcendence (10), Wither (10), Accelerate (10), Time Heal (15), Time Beam - 15 = 90
Total = 180 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 10

Time & Space: Gravity, Time, Cosmic
Gravity: - Compression (30), Push (10) = 40 
Time: - Decay (30), Transcendence (10), Wither (10), Time Heal (15) = 65
Cosmic: - Meteor Dash (30), Star Rain (10), Invigorate (10), Nova Ray (10), Meteor (20) = 80
Total = 185 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 10

The Dragonball Z Fan: Unarmed, Energy, Gravity
Gravity: - Compression (30) = 30 
Unarmed: - Iron Fist (20), Jab (5), Weighted Punch (10), Assault (15), Flying Kick (15) = 65
Energy: - Force Wave (30), Constriction (10), Blue Shroud (10), Energy Shield (10), Energy Beam (10), Energy Burst (10) = 80
Total: 175 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 10

The Chosen One: Cosmic, Holy, Armed
Cosmic: - Meteor Dash (30), Astral Ambiance (10)= 40
Holy: - Light Orb (30), Guardian (10), Mend (10), Shield (10) = 60
Armed: - Dash Strike (15), Blade Style (5), Sweeping Cleave (10), Fatal Strike (15), Phantom Strike (15), Power Smash (15) = 75
Total: 175 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 10

Quote:The Doctor: Bone, Blood, Nature
Earth: - Attunement (20) = 20
Water: - Attunement (20) = 20
Blood: - Scarlet Darts (30), Miasma (15), Bonds of Blood (5), Blood Pall (10) = 60
Nature: - Spores (30), Ingrain (20) = 50
Bone: - Reform (30) = 30
Total = 180 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 6

Explosive Finale: Explosion, Magma, Plasma
Fire: - Attunement (20) = 20
Plasma: - Strike (30), Tesla (15), Overcharge (15) = 60
Explosion: - Bang (30), Inferno (15), Pyroclasm (15) = 60 
Magma: - Slide (30), Aura (10) = 40
Total = 180 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 7


The Commando: Armed, Metal, Explosion
Fire: - Attunement (20), Flame Shroud (5) = 25
Explosion: - Bang (30), Inferno (15), Pyroclasm (15) = 60
Earth: - Attunement (10) = 20
Metal: - Lance (30), Binding Chains (10) = 40
Armed: - Dash Strike (15), Blade Style (5), Double Slash (5), Sweeping Cleave (10) = 35
Total = 180 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 8

Incandescent Shards: Ice, Crystal, Holy
Water: - Attunement (20) = 20
Ice: - Field of Ice (30), Winters Talons (10), Blizzard (15) = 60
Earth: - Attunement (20) = 20
Crystal: - Shardshot (30), Shimmering Javelin (15), Shardform (10) = 55
Holy: - Light Orb (30) = 30
Total = 180 RPL

Bar Slotted Spells: 6

1. Add right clicking the spells in a tome to see it's stats. Is this a conscious decision not to add? Because if so, why?

2. Add if a spell is GCDE to it's right-click description. Pretty much the same reason as above. All not giving all the information does for me is give me trouble in picking what spells I want, and makes it easier to make a horrible build(Being able to ask for non-starter refunds isn't much alleviation unless people are allowed to refund things themselves).

3. Add stats and details(like GCDE) to hidden spells on the wiki(Spells that aren't in a tome). To me it's really dumb to go for one of those by yourself without knowing everything it does, possibly a huge waste of time, and it's dumb to have to ask for everything it does. Your character is probably going to have an idea of what it can do(it's stats) by the dev rp for it.