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Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Tyrantos » Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:56 am

So hey! As you all know, I've been playing a Wizard recently that focuses in fire magic. And only fire magic. And that got me thinking, its kind of odd that there are no real elementalist path out there on Arelith yet, so I got to work and started to ponder of some ways to implement that.
And this is what I came up with: The reason I posted it here rather than in suggestions, is because I realise I will need help to crunch the numbers, as well as get an idea of what people think.
So without further ado... Here is what I've come up with so far!


Elemental savant (Wizard path)
Requirement: Wizard with general school (no specialisation)
*Chooses an element at creation of the character, either Fire, Ice(water), Acid(earth) or lightning(air)

*Gains resistances to their chosen element every 5 levels (5, 10, 15, 20) (In increments of five.)

*Every damaging spell the caster uses turns into the element they have chosen- Even magic missile. They cannot change elements of their spell.

*Every 3rd level, the elemental savant’s spells apply a “vulnerability” to their element upon casting it at foes with immunity, starting at 10 % increasing by 5 % every 3rd and stopping at 55 % vulnerability upon cast (Might need some tweaked numbers?)

*Every 10th level, the elemental savant’s spells apply vulnerability to those creatures without immunity to their elements, starting at 10 % And halting at 30 % (Once again, the numbers might need to be tweaked.)

*Gains the ability to turn into the element they have chosen at level 15 (If its not too much, that is.), And can turn into an elder elemental at level 25.

Cons:
*Loses their wizard bonus feats (If possible?)

*Loses access to the Necromancy school, as well as the ability to summon creatures with the conjuration school.

*Cant pick EDK, Nor EMA.

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Gods_Kill_People » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:01 pm

I like this suggestion except with the addition of cutting out conjuration as that is what wizards need to survive is their summons ( Speaking as someone that plays a mage ). So perhaps they would lose the rights to Necromancy and Illusion? Thus keeping their summons...like their fire elemental, also to add to this, your selected path would also lock the type of elemental you can summon, regardless of the stream.

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Tyrantos » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:05 pm

Gods_Kill_People wrote:I like this suggestion except with the addition of cutting out conjuration as that is what wizards need to survive is their summons ( Speaking as someone that plays a mage ). So perhaps they would lose the rights to Necromancy and Illusion? Thus keeping their summons...like their fire elemental, also to add to this, your selected path would also lock the type of elemental you can summon, regardless of the stream.
Thats actually what I had in there to begin with, but that they could not summon creatures until they reach the elemental summoning stage (Which would be thematically fitting too), which of course is locked to their chosen element.

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Nitro » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:07 pm

Why only a wizard path though? Sorcerers could use some love and this looks like it'd fit right down their alley as well.

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Tyrantos » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:14 pm

Nitro wrote:Why only a wizard path though? Sorcerers could use some love and this looks like it'd fit right down their alley as well.
Honestly, I suppose that would be possible? But I figured that with the trueflames, and weavemasters they were already set?

*EDIT* Realise they dont have weavemaster anymore, uh. Sorry about that!

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Kirito » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:38 pm

You could always add in lower tier elemental summons... (or a reskin a la totem druid)

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by CragOrion » Thu Aug 17, 2017 3:39 pm

Nitro wrote:Why only a wizard path though? Sorcerers could use some love and this looks like it'd fit right down their alley as well.
This

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Re: Elemental savant (Wizard path) discussion

Post by Tyrantos » Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:23 pm

Any other tips or thoughts before I post this in the suggestion box? (And start looking into coding proper, Hehe.)

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