Magic Schools and skills, Re: [CF-Devel] Bugs on crossfire.metalforge

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       The other thought is that there are probably enough spells to easily 
     
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      make 3 or 4 skills viable.  The problem in retrospect is that by 
     
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      grouping them by damage type, that left some skills without a lot of 
     
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      spells.
     
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     I think this is the problem I have with pyromancy - grouping spells by 
damage type really puts you in a bind since you need a range of damage 
types to be sucessful.  One of the first tings I can see happenging is 
people wanting to add cold based and poision and magic damage based 
attacks to pyromancers and fire and lightning based to evokers.  Really 
the schools should be seperated by play style where for example 
sorcerers would get the different runes, evokers the wall attacks and 
summonners the elementals.  In this case pyromancers would become 
something more like an attack school with many cone and exploding attack 
spells (of all types) but say not the runes or more passive attack 
spells (walls and auras).  Anyway back to the main topic - I agree that 
having 3-4 schools is good but the spells should be different but they 
shouldn't be seperated along damage type lines.

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       How about this for an idea - spikewall?  Makes a wall of those spikes 
     
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      that move up and down?  this would be passable at times, but not 
     
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      others.  Gives a wall with phyiscal attacks (and something that makes 
     
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      sense).  Wouldn't require any new graphics either.
     
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     trying to use spikes with traps (after adding connection field to traps) 
has been so far pretty lame - existing spikes don't do a very good job 
of damaging players - they are too slow for one.  I want to make a new 
spike archetype for this purpose actually...  A hidden spike shoots up 
quickly and that does do some variable damage (like the spike trap but 
usable as a triggered object for other things too)


If and when the new blocking code is added there are a whole range of 
new wall type spells that would be fun to have - creating a wall that 
blocked flying would give you a missile shield, different walls that 
blocked fire or lightning, or even magic propigation would give you a 
magic shields against fire lightning or magic...


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