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What rain+ice spell?


What ice spell?

What huge AoE ?


That doesnt exist in the game, as far as i can see.

Bolt of ice does not make an AoE ice effects. It only creates a very small ice spot. Barley enough to cover one meter of ground or less.
Enemies do avoid it and walk around it.


There is no spell that gives burst of multiple ice shards.

Ice elemental is level 9 spell. And you cant aim it at water and make it create AoE surface. It just does that when it dies.

Seems to me you have no idea what you are talking about at all.

Fire is used for damage but I don't expect the 3 other elements to have the same attack power because each element usually has its own purpose. Heal and slow for water, speed and stun for air, armor and resistances for earth.
You cannot specialize in only one school in this game because a lot of ennemies have immunities, even at the low levels of this beta. What can you do as a fire mage against the twins ?

What we lack in the early game is spells to give some support to the fighter. There is so much poison and fire surfaces in this game that the fighter cannot get close to targets without being affected by heavy conditions. And when he succeeds he is hit when the target dies leaving a poison or fire surface. This is what makes the spider so useful in the early game because you can use it as a tank and later when you can summon elementals you can use them as tanks too.

One idea to prevent hybrids from being overpowered and specialists from being redundant would be to reintroduce skill requirements for learning spells.

Your warrior wants that sweet Meteor spell? Now he actually has to earn it, instead of spending one point in Fire and ignoring it for the rest of the game.

You do need high inteligence to learn higher level spells.

You do need high inteligence to learn higher level spells.

Meteorstrike, a level 19 spell, requires you to have 12 Int to learn. At level 9, I have 15 Int (12 base, 1 Know it All, 2 gear).

Honestly, the level requirements are unneeded; all you need are the skill and ability requirements. Skill gating works better than level gating, two people with equal Intelligence should not have the access to the same level of spells if one has 5 Fire and the other no points in the skill.

Yes but would like to see "specialized" spells/skills that require more points into certain skill/school for more specialization instead of skill points only allowing you to learn more of a certain school.. don't know if i'm saying it right or not.

Meteorstrike, a level 19 spell, requires you to have 12 Int to learn. At level 9, I have 15 Int (12 base, 1 Know it All, 2 gear).

Honestly, the level requirements are unneeded; all you need are the skill and ability requirements. Skill gating works better than level gating, two people with equal Intelligence should not have the access to the same level of spells if one has 5 Fire and the other 2 points in the skill.