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ghyr-easeus
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Additional Mage Specialization

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Hi,

I've thought that Mages may be additionally divided by elemental specs:

Mage - Fire Mage - Firelord - Fire Avatar (Good damage dealer with great ranged attacks but a little bit weak in close combat)
- Ice Mage - Frostlord - Frost Avatar (Average ranged DD that can stun his enemies, making them to lose 1 turn)*
- Stone Mage - Stonelord - Stone Avatar (Average ranged DD with increased amount of HP and slowing attack - may be used as "semi-tank")
- Storm Mage - Stormlord - Skyfire Summoner (Good ranged DD)

instead of just advancing like "Red Mage - Archmage - Great Mage".
* "Stunner" trait have only 3% of activating.
I'd like to know your opinion.
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Sounds cool. I think it would be awesome.
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hmm, would really like to see storm and ice mages, though maybe giving them more variety? how about having the ice mage with a drain, or the stone lord capable of summoning stone creatures? otherwise they might end up all being good ranged units with fire and cold attacks.

ps: I am not sure how the stone mage would turn out, though he would definitely be the most unique.
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Boldek wrote:ps: I am not sure how the stone mage would turn out, though he would definitely be the most unique.
Maybe he throws pebbles at people at Lv. 1, and some larger rocks at them at Lv. 2. :lol2:

No but really. This is a not-so-bad idea. Now, I doubt this will ever make it to mainline, but it would make a nice era.
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I would if given the chance, but hopefully nobody frankensteins these. That would be horrible for such a great project like this.
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You should all play era of magic (Enlightened faction).
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The (historical) Names for the Elements are Fire,Water,Earth and Air. They have a reasonable Meaning. The Terms above are poetic though senseless (imo).
"Sir! We are surrounded by our enemies!" - "Excellent ! We can attack in every direction!"
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MetalKing wrote:The (historical) Names for the Elements are Fire,Water,Earth and Air. They have a reasonable Meaning. The Terms above are poetic though senseless (imo).
Red and White Mages arent Fire and Arcane Mages :?
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and what is wrong with someone making his own take on wizardry? I play era of magic, and I don't see the problem with another mage bunch. :|
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There's none, but maybe the OP didn't know about it and would be delighted by it. I was just saying.
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Re: Additional Mage Specialization

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Is storm mage a thunder, wind or water user? maybe he could fly?
Stone mage must definetly got impact damage without magical ability (like a catapult or something).
Maybe some of those mages could use 2 different spells instead of basic one?
Like, Ice mage could stun the enemy or make them slower (different damages)...
Fire mages... well, they are good as they are now.

and...

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Re: Additional Mage Specialization

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Great_Mage_Atari wrote:
MetalKing wrote:The (historical) Names for the Elements are Fire,Water,Earth and Air. They have a reasonable Meaning. The Terms above are poetic though senseless (imo).
Red and White Mages arent Fire and Arcane Mages :?
yes .. interesting fact ;)

*edit*
I did think about other (Types of) Mages. The Elements are the Forces that exist and are avialable for Application. I think it's not rational if all Mage specialize on just one of them though if he do he should get better with the Element he did study/train the most. Mages like White Mage, Shadow Mage (grey?) and Dark Mage (Black?) refers anyway to their Alignment. I did translate Red Mage always automatically into Fire-Mage. Also the Lightnings of Delfador matches to Fire.

Assumming that a Mage can decide what Techniques he learns or develop it's reasonable if a Mage specialize on Techniques that focus on Stone. Shall Stone Mage do other Things which concern Stones e.g. making them hard like Stones etc.?
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I don't think red magi are necessarily specialised in fire. In Delfador's Memoirs and the backstory of Liberty they use magic to control earth, and Crelanu's invisibility potion isn't especially fire-related. I assumed they used fire in combat because it was the easiest element to fight with magically.
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Re: Additional Mage Specialization

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Rozard wrote:What! no Dark mages? why?!
They represent the undead faction, so I don't see any need of putting it into "holy" factions (Loyalists, Rebels).
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