A Song of Magic and Staves

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As part of our ongoing attempt to balance and improve our magic system, we are making some updates to staves and tomes. Notably, staves are getting the mastery system applied to them.

First, tomes:

• Mastery level magic is being removed.
  
• Advanced level magic post level has been increased to 250
• Final tomes are being removed

• Dark magic
  • Luna tome has been re-added as an offensively based magic
  • Elflux weapons are being removed with the addition of Luna

• Light magic
  • Shine tome has gotten a buff to its advanced powers to make them more offensive
  • Luce tome has been rework and rescaled into a debuffing and buffing magic
  • Ivaldi tome has been removed
  • Divine tome has been added as an offensively based magic
  • Aura tome has been re-added as an illusion magic
  • Ellight weapons are being removed with the buff of Shine and the addition of Divine

• Anima magic
  • Excalibur has been rescaled

Next, staves:

• The Mend staff is being removed
• The Rescue staff is being removed
• The Sleep staff is being removed
• The Berserk staff is being removed
• The Recover staff is being removed

• Re-tooled staves:
  • Physic:
    • Basic - Heals minor wounds of a person within eyesight
    • Advanced - Heals major wounds of a person within eyesight
  • Fortify:
    • Basic - Heals minor wounds of people within a 20 foot radius
    • Advanced - Heals major wounds of people within a 20 foot radius
  • Barrier:
    • Basic - Put a barrier that blocks physical and magical attacks around a single person
    • Advanced - Put a barrier that blocks physical and magical attacks around an area
  • Warp:
    • Basic - Teleport a person within eyesight to the user
    • Advanced - Teleport the user to a person within eyesight

• Added staves:
  • Silence
    • Basic - Creates a field that negates sound
    • Advanced - Weakens the magic of a single target
  • Strength:
    • Basic - Buff the physical strength and speed of a single person
    • Advanced - Buff the physical strength of multiple people
  • Nightmare:
    • Basic - Inflicts drowsiness on a foe, slowing their movements and their reaction time.
    • Advanced - Inflicts waking nightmares on a foe, sending them into a blinding rage that does not discriminate between friend or foe

For any additional questions, please consult a mod.