Hello all!
Spent some time theory crafting what a new weapon could look like in conjunction with a Trade(Refining) skill and here is what I came up with. Let me know your thoughts/feedback, if you could see this happening in game!
Introducing The Arcane Tome and Conjuring
The Arcane Tome would be a 1 (or 2 handed) weapon used to draw upon Arcane power to help defeat enemies in Aeternum. This weapon’s primary abilities summons Arcane creatures with various different stats and powers using pouches created from the Conjuring trade skill.
I’ll start by introducing the new features paired with this.
Conjuring
Essence:
- Mobs would now drop Essence. For example killing a Wolf would drop Wolf Essence, Alligator, Alligator Essence, Corrupted Hound, Corrupted Hound essence so on and so forth.
Conjuring:
- A New trade skill used to create Essence Pouches for use with the Arcane tome. Might fit better up top with Crafting but there was a nice space in Refining I figured I’d use.
- Take these new Essence to the Arcana station and combine with Linens, Azoth and Wireweave to form an Essence Pouch of [Creature Name]. Granting Conjuring Experience and the new pouch. Using higher tier linens creates higher tier pouches (more on this a little later) which in turn grant more exp. These would then be used as a new ammo type and the primary way to use the new tome. Without a pouch equipped a generalized creature would spawn, with less power and less health, think of it like an Arcane blob of light.
Arcane Tome:
Crafting:
- With the new skill we need a new weapon to make use of these pouches. The Arcane tome would be crafted in the Arcana Station or received as a drop from various places. To Craft the new Tome you would need to use Leathers as the primary source, Metals for reinforcement, A new item type Pulp and Soul motes (with the additional room for Craft mods/Scarabs/Azoth for bonus perks)
Pulp:
- Pulp is a brand new material introduced for this new weapon. It can be made by taking various woods to a woodworking station to create wood shredding (i.e Wyrdwood Shredding) Combine this with Azoth Water to create Pulp. Lego Pulp would follow the same daily limit of 10
Abilities
- Left Click (Normal Attack): Throw a bolt of Arcane dealing Arcane DMG. This will also cause any conjured creature to attack the same enemy.
- Heavy Attack: A charged version, costs more mana, more dmg, but slower. (Similar to IG or FS but the dmg is Arcane)
Two trees will be present for the weapon. Aggressor and Protector. However one default ability will be present and auto selected for both trees
- Ability 1: Quick Summon: Use a pouch and some mana to summon an Arcane Creature. (Auto Selected and cannot be removed)
Aggressor (More Offensive Styled enhancements, Scales off INT)
- Ability 2: Recall: Causes the creature to explode at the current location dealing AOE Arcane damage.
- Ability 3: Call of the Wild: Causes the creature to become enraged increasing attack speed and slight increase to damage. Makes the creature expire faster
- Final Ability: Upon expiry arcane energy is released rooting enemies next to it and deals damage
Protector (More Defensive Scales off FOC)
- Ability 4: Safeguard: The Creature merges with selected Ally giving them a shield that absorbs damaged until it is depleted or after a certain amount of time.
- Ability 5: Mending of the Wild: Drains its remaining health and distributes it to the lowest health’d Ally
- Upon expiry: Arcane energy is released giving a small temporary shield to your allies
Now for the fun numbers!
The Tome would scale of Con for the health and Either INT or FOC depending on attribute on the tome. Ideally if you are running the protector tree you would want CONFOC. Agressor would be CON/INT. If you had a tome with Focus and INT it would scale off them equally but make their respective abilities far less potent and the creature would not last as long.
Con would relate to the amount of time the Creature Remains/health.
Foc would related to the amount of healing/shielding
Int would related to the damage done
That pretty well sums up my idea! Again its all just for fun but could be an interesting way to bring in an Arcane DMG Weapon into New World 