Mage

Pre-alpha footage of a Mage using offensive and Utility skills, such as Mage's escape and Mage's detection.^[1]

Mage poster from PAX West 2017.

In a world of high magic, no party would be complete without a mage. Masters of the arcane, they bring terrible elements to bear in devastating spells. If reality needs changing in some fashion, ask a Mage to help.

Mage classes

Class	Primary	Secondary
Acolyte	Mage	Cleric
Archwizard	Mage	Mage
Battle Mage	Mage	Fighter
Shadow Caster	Mage	Rogue
Sorcerer	Mage	Bard
Spellhunter	Mage	Ranger
Spellstone	Mage	Tank
Warlock	Mage	Summoner

Skills/abilities

Skill	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
After image	Summon shadows of yourself to confuse your enemies, granting you momentary invulnerability. Lasts 4 seconds.^[3] Mirror image evasion buff.^[4]	Increased evasion.^[4]	Bonus damage while buff is active.^[4]
Arch lightning	Launch a bolt of lightning in a forward line, damaging all within its path.^[3]^[5]	Adds damage over time to targets hit.^[5]	Chains to nearby enemies that are not hit. Anyone who is outside the line has a chance to get a bolt jump to them.^[5]
Black hole	Pulls all enemies to a point picked by the caster after a short delay.^[6]	Snares targets after pull.^[6]	Black hole explodes at the end of the pull duration dealing damage.^[6]
Charged beam	Channels a beam attack to a single target.^[7]	Damages over time after channel.^[7]	Damages enemies between caster and target.^[7]
Cloth armor (passive)	Increases armor given by cloth armor.^[8]	Further increases armor given by cloth armor.^[8]	Bonus mana for each piece of cloth armor.^[8]
Elemental (passive)	Increases to elemental damage. The more the mage changes their element type the more damage is done.^[9]	-	-
Forcefield	Eats mana based on flight height and duration. Mitigates incoming damage by eating mana at a high consumption. Has mixed utility and defensive application.^[10]	-	-
Ice prison	Target an enemy and summon a prison of ice around them, paralyzing them.^[3]^[11]	Adds damage over time.^[11]	Snares after root breaks.^[11]
Ice sheet	Creates an area where enemies are knocked down.^[12]	Snares two targets in area.^[12]	Increases size and duration.^[12]
Implosion	Launch a powerful burst of fire (fireball) against a single target.^[3]^[13]	Becomes a burn (damage over time).^[13]^[3]	Area of effect around the target.^[13]
Mage's detection	Reveal secret passages and magically hidden terrain around you. Casts light and reveals magical explosive hazards.^[14]^[3]	-	-
Mage's escape	Step into another dimension momentarily and emerge far ahead of your original position.^[3] Blink teleport out of danger.^[15]	Clears targets and aggro reduction.^[15]	Clears crowd control.^[15]
社区主页	Create a portal under the caster and place a second portal in a location picked by the caster. Portal will only work for a certain number of players. May be able to be used offensively.^[16]	Increases range.^[16]	Using portal reduces threat and clears targets.^[16]
Quake	If your focus is at 80%, cast this spell to split the earth itself before you, launching a line of AoE damage.^[3]^[17]	Knock down those hit by your arcane might.^[3]^[17]	Reduces focus cost and cooldown for the skill.^[17]
Safe space	Targeted party member (can be self) is removed from combat for duration. They are sent to some extra dimensional location.^[18]	Banished target gets extra mana while banished.^[18]	Reduced cooldown.^[18]
Spellbook combo	Target an enemy and use magic missiles from your spellbook to strike with multiple blows. Dealing damage and powering up your focus with this weapon attack.^[3]	-	-
Tentacles	Creates an area of effect around the caster that roots targets.^[19]	Adds damage over time to targets and increases range.^[19]	Increases duration.^[19]

Elements

There will be elements (such as Fire, Water) in 创造的灰烬 each with their own resistances.^[20]

Elements may have more influence in certain seasons and environments. For example, frost abilities may be stronger in winter.
This affects both PvE and Pvp.^[21]

We've discussed a little bit about how the seasons and biomes will react with different types of skills. Like if you have a fireball and it's summer it might be a little bit different. If it's winter and you have a frost ability it might be different.^[21] – Steven Sharif

We want to get a nice spread of abilities that that are influenced by what's going on your zone.^[21] – Jeffrey Bard

Spellbooks

Spellbook 3D render.^[22]

Spellbooks are a type of ranged weapon in 创造的灰烬.^[23]

When we were creating the book we have for Alpha-0, one the ideas floating around was to have a large tome with a chain that held the tome; and you could swing the tome to hit your targets as a melee book. Whether or not that comes to fruition we will see, but it was an idea on the sketchboard.^[24] – Steven Sharif