Magic talents¶
This tree is for spellcasters - Magery and any school that pushes its damage through the standard spell pipeline. Every damage and crit bonus here bites creatures only; none of it touches another player.
Three columns. Offensive (Pyromancer) is damage and burst. Defensive (Abjurer) is warding and mana recovery. Efficiency hands you a clickable mana refill and the focus to keep casting while something chews on you.
Offensive path¶
T1 - Mana Surge¶
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive |
| Max ranks | 5 |
| Cost / rank | 1 pt |
| Effect / rank | +5% spell damage vs creatures |
| Rank | Spell damage |
|---|---|
| 1 | +5% |
| 2 | +10% |
| 3 | +15% |
| 4 | +20% |
| 5 | +25% |
T2 - Quickcast¶
Prereq: Mana Surge.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive |
| Max ranks | 3 |
| Cost / rank | 1 pt |
| Effect / rank | -5% cast time |
| Rank | Cast speed |
|---|---|
| 1 | -5% |
| 2 | -10% |
| 3 | -15% |
T3 - Ignite¶
Prereq: Quickcast.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive proc |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 2 pt |
| Trigger | Spell critical strike on a creature |
| Effect | Burns the target for 20% of the crit's damage, ticking once a second over 4 seconds. |
Ignite per-tick damage
tick = (crit_damage × 0.20) / 4
Total over 4 s = 20% of the crit hit.
T4A - Mystic Strike¶
Prereq: Ignite. Branch-exclusive with Lightning Call.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active (single-target burst) |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 2 pt |
| Cooldown | 60 s |
| Damage type | Fire |
| Base damage | A true 2× Flame Strike on the same target. It runs the same Eval Int + Magery scaling your Flame Strike does, so a maxed mage lands about twice their own Flame Strike - roughly 120 where the Flame Strike hits 60. Sharper Eval Int and Magery, bigger hit. |
| Crit | 15% chance per cast for a 1.5× damage burst (*critical* lands in the caster's journal) |
| Bleed | After the primary hit lands, the target bleeds for 50% of the dealt damage spread over 9 seconds in 3 ticks of 3 s each |
| Hotbar verb | meteor |
Mystic Strike damage
primary = 2 × (Flame Strike on this target) - i.e. 60 × spell_damage_scalar × 1.25 where spell_damage_scalar is the same Eval Int + Magery multiplier a Flame Strike applies (×1.5 on crit)
bleed_total = 0.5 × primary (split across 3 ticks of 3 s)
T4B - Lightning Call¶
Prereq: Ignite. Branch-exclusive with Mystic Strike.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active (chain) |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 2 pt |
| Cooldown | 60 s |
| Max targets | 5 (primary + up to 4 arcs) |
| Arc range | 6 tiles from the previous target |
| Damage | Standard spell damage with a +40 bonus and a 1d5 roll, scaled by 1 + 0.15 × rank per arc |
| Stun | Each struck creature is paralyzed for 3 s |
| Hotbar verb | chainlightning |
T5 - Arcane Cataclysm¶
Prereq: Mystic Strike OR Lightning Call. Capstone.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active buff |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 3 pt |
| Cooldown | 90 s |
| Duration | 15 s |
| Effect | For 15 s, your spells cost 50% less mana AND crit for +50% bonus damage. |
| Hotbar verb | arcanecataclysm |
Defensive path¶
T1 - Wardweave¶
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive |
| Max ranks | 5 |
| Cost / rank | 1 pt |
| Effect / rank | +5% spell-damage reduction |
Wardweave multiplies incoming spell damage by 1 - rank × 0.05 and stacks multiplicatively with Iron Skin's all-damage reduction. It's hard-capped at 90% reduction, so a future rank-cap bump can never hand you immunity.
| Rank | Spell damage reduction |
|---|---|
| 1 | -5% |
| 2 | -10% |
| 3 | -15% |
| 4 | -20% |
| 5 | -25% |
T2 - Reflective Ward¶
Prereq: Wardweave.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive |
| Max ranks | 3 |
| Cost / rank | 1 pt |
| Effect / rank | When a monster's spell strikes your active Magic Reflection, a 15% / 30% / 45% chance (per rank) that the reflection is not consumed - so it keeps reflecting the next spell too. |
Rolled on every incoming creature spell. PvM only - against another player's spell, Magic Reflection behaves normally (consumed on the first hit).
T3 - Quick Recovery¶
Prereq: Reflective Ward.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive (conditional) |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 2 pt |
| Trigger | Mana drops below 25% |
| Effect | +50% mana regeneration (interval reduced to 0.667x) until mana climbs back over the threshold. |
T4A - Force Field¶
Prereq: Quick Recovery. Branch-exclusive with Mana Shield.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 2 pt |
| Cooldown | 60 s |
| Duration | 10 s |
| Effect | Take zero damage from all sources for 10 seconds. Each absorbed hit shows a single "Force Field absorbs!" overhead on your character. The hit does not register: no floating damage number, no spell interrupt, no Combat-Region tick - you simply do not take it. |
| Hotbar verb | forcefield |
PvM only
Force Field does nothing against damage dealt by another player. A blanket 10-second immunity is fine against creatures but would be oppressive in PvP, so when the source of a hit is a player, the shield is skipped and you take the hit normally. Creature damage (including creatures' summons and pets) is still fully nullified.
T4B - Mana Shield¶
Prereq: Quick Recovery. Branch-exclusive with Force Field.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active |
| Max ranks | 3 |
| Cost / rank | 2 pt |
| Cooldown | 60 s |
| Duration | 10 s |
| Effect / rank | For 10 s, 15% / 25% / 35% of incoming damage is drained from your mana instead of your health - 1 mana per point absorbed. When your mana runs out, the shield stops absorbing and you take full damage again. |
| Hotbar verb | manashield |
Example (rank 1, 15%): a 100-damage hit tries to absorb 15 → drains 15 mana, you take 85. If you only have 10 mana left, it drains 10 and you take 90.
T5 - Time Stop¶
Prereq: Force Field + Mana Shield. Capstone.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active |
| Max ranks | 1 |
| Cost | 3 pt |
| Cooldown | 90 s |
| Duration | 4 s |
| Radius | 5 tiles |
| Effect | Freezes every hostile creature within 5 tiles of you for 4 seconds. |
| Hotbar verb | timestop |
Efficiency path¶
T1 - Arcane Reserve¶
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Active (clickable mana potion) |
| Max ranks | 5 |
| Cost / rank | 1 pt |
| Cooldown | 60 seconds |
| Effect | Press to instantly restore mana: 20 at rank 1, plus 5 more per rank, up to 40 at rank 5. |
| Hotbar verb | arcanereserve |
| Rank | Mana restored |
|---|---|
| 1 | 20 |
| 2 | 25 |
| 3 | 30 |
| 4 | 35 |
| 5 | 40 |
T2 - Iron Focus¶
Prereq: Arcane Reserve.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Passive |
| Max ranks | 4 |
| Cost / rank | 1 pt |
| Trigger | You take damage from a creature while casting |
| Effect / rank | 25% chance that the hit does not interrupt (disturb) your spell |
When a creature's hit lands mid-cast, Iron Focus rolls to keep the spell alive. At rank 4 the chance is 100% - no creature's damage will ever interrupt your cast.
| Rank | Uninterrupt chance |
|---|---|
| 1 | 25% |
| 2 | 50% |
| 3 | 75% |
| 4 | 100% (never interrupted) |
PvM only
Iron Focus does nothing against damage dealt by another player. In PvP your casts can always be interrupted - the roll only fires when the interrupting damage comes from a creature. The chance is rolled per incoming hit (it is not a one-per-cast guarantee below rank 4).