Chapter 153: Trees

Chapter 153: Trees

Two days after sparring with Ameliah, Rain was still sore. His armor was uncomfortably tight too, already overdue for another resizing. Mercifully, though, his hunger had been less constant of late. The changes weren’t done, but it looked like they were at least winding down. That was good. While Tallheart could resize his armor endlessly, there was nothing any of them could do for his Forceweave. The stretchy fabric had its limits, and Rain was already feeling a bit like an overstuffed sausage.

It was the 27th of Fallow, not even a week since they’d entered the depths. It was amazing to think that so much had happened in so little time, but despite that, Rain was already anxious to move on. Tallheart wasn’t ready, however. Even now, Rain could hear the rhythmic clanging of the cervidian’s hammer as he worked on Ameliah’s new bow.

One of her old ones—technically half of one—was currently serving Rain as an oversized stylus. After Tallheart had shooed him away from his anvil, Rain had spotted the broken weapon lying where Ameliah had dropped it. To keep himself busy, he’d picked it up and started tracing simple runes in the dirt. The runes were mostly an idle curiosity, born out of a desire to better understand what exactly it was that Tallheart was doing. Soon enough, however, he’d given up and transitioned to just idly doodling in an attempt to relax. That, also, hadn’t lasted long. Now, Rain was still scratching at the dirt with the broken bow, but his thoughts were on something else entirely.

Yesterday, too soulstrained for more physical training, Rain had devoted the morning to working on his soul and the afternoon to running some experiments of more immediate practicality. Ameliah had asked for his help in planning her build, and he was determined to do a good job. That had involved getting a baseline.

Calculating the damage of a mundane bow shot was more straightforward than it seemed at first glance. The key thing to realize was that the arrow didn’t matter that much—not when it came to how the system calculated damage, anyway. Provided that the projectile survived being fired, the most important factor was the bow. Higher draw weight and longer draw distance directly translated to increased damage.

When an archer pulled on a bowstring, they were essentially storing energy. When they let go, that energy would then be transferred to the arrow. A bow, at least as far as the mathematics was concerned, was just a spring. The transfer of elastic potential energy to kinetic energy was one-to-one—assuming you ignored the mass of the bow, its motion, friction, and other such bullshit. When fired, the arrow’s velocity would sort itself out based on the energy stored in the bow relative to the starting mass of the projectile. Once it was flying, more bullshit non-idealities popped up, particularly air resistance; however, as long as the arrow wasn’t stupidly light or the target ridiculously far away, such things could be mostly ignored.

Rain wasn’t after a perfect mathematical description. He was just looking for a way to exploit the physics involved. Working with a spherical archer in a vacuum was good enough for that.

Unfortunately, his hopes had been dashed, just as they’d been dashed weeks ago when he’d tried stone-throwing with Velocity. There would be no taking advantage of the squared term in the kinetic energy equation. There was only one skill they’d found that directly increased arrow speed, and it explicitly stated that it didn’t affect damage. Whoever or whatever had designed the system, the label ‘killjoy’ definitely applied.

Undeterred, Rain had continued his experiments. Not having a way to measure the speed of an arrow, he had instead turned his attention to calculating how much work the archer was putting in.

The force required to draw a bow wasn’t constant. Before you started pulling the string, it was zero, obviously. The further you pulled it back, the harder it became. ‘Draw weight’ was simply what people called the required force at full draw. Rain had discovered that he hadn’t actually known much about bows from his old life. Granted, that wasn’t too surprising, but there was also a notable gap in his YouTube history on the subject. Fortunately, through his discussions with Ameliah and some practice, he’d found that it wasn’t that complicated.

The force needed to draw a bow was a linear function of distance, F=k*d. ‘F’ for force, ‘d’ for distance, and ‘k’ for ‘springiness’. He was sure there was a real word for what k represented, but he wasn’t going to beat himself up for not knowing it. It was just how bendy the bow was. If you drew a plot with force on one axis and distance on the other, ‘k’ was the slope.

Making that plot had proven to be a bit of a trial.

Rain had needed an accurate weight reference to make his measurements, and for that, he’d gone to Tallheart, asking him for a 5cm iron cube. With Le Nouveau Faux Grand K, a beam balance, a tree, a bucket, some rocks, a very patient Ameliah, and more time than he should probably have spent on this project, Rain had finally gotten himself a graph. From there, it was just simple calculus to get the area under the curve.

Technically, you didn’t even need calculus. You could do it with geometry. The line made a right triangle with the axes, the area of which worked out to E=1/2*k*d2.

On average, the steel training bows Tallheart had made boasted draw weights in the 80-kilogram range—kilograms-force if you wanted to be pedantic—or about 800 newtons. Crazy, but not too crazy. Rain didn’t feel bad about rounding, given how little he trusted his initial measurement. Ameliah’s draw distance was 63 cm, so by the formula, the energy stored was 1/2*k*d2=1/2*(800N/63cm)*(63cm)2=252J.

J was for joules.

Rain’s confidence in the accuracy of that number was abysmal, given all his sources of error, but it was something he could worry about when they were back on the surface.Ascension already had councils, so adding one for weights and measures wouldn’t require any significant changes to the codes.

To find the relationship between energy and damage, he had enlisted Ameliah again, who had been more than willing to shoot him at this point.

After compensating for her Sharpshooting passives and his own Force resistance, a full-draw shot had done 504 damage. Exactly twice the number in joules.

The evenness of the conversion factor was a little scary.

To make sure, he’d then had Ameliah shoot him with the bow only half drawn. The equation predicted that the base damage would be 126, and the result was 123. Rain had been even more surprised than Ameliah at how close his prediction had been.

Apparently, she had never doubted him, despite all the teasing she’d been doing about how he chose to spend his free time.

In any event, though the ratio between joules and damage was suspect, Rain could now use his formula to predict the damage of an arrow for various scenarios with some level of confidence.

Scenario one was an unawakened archer. Assuming a regular, wooden bow with a more reasonable, though still respectable, draw weight of 30kg, the formula predicted just under 200 damage from full draw. That sounded moderately fatal, given an average person only had 200 health, but it was more complicated than that. Someone hit with a 200-damage arrow in the forehead would be dead, no question. Someone hit in the toe would survive easily—minus said toe and barring any unfortunate infections. They wouldn’t even lose the full 200 health from the experience. The buffering effect of health was another complicated topic.

Staying on track, the second scenario was the case of Stint. At level five and invested in the Sharpshooting tree, he’d have access to Strong Draw. Assuming it was rank ten, the skill would double the effective draw weight of any bow he cared to use. 200 damage became 400. Also, being awakened, Stint had likely invested points into Strength. That would let him use a better bow like the steel ones, bringing the damage up to four digits.

It was an impressive number for someone at level five, and it was fairly indicative of why you tended to see more warriors than mages in that level range. Already, however, problems were starting to appear. Not everybody had access to a legendary blacksmith who could make a bow out of metal while keeping it supple enough to function. Bowstrings became an issue, as did the arrows, which also needed to be stronger to survive the rapid acceleration.

Skills made it worse.

The term for the effect was ‘item strain’ or, more commonly, just ‘strain’. The accepted rule of thumb in the adventuring community was that a weapon skill would deal 10% of its damage back to the weapon. It wasn’t that simple in practice. Not all skills did damage, but using them would still cause strain. The extension to the rule of thumb was, therefore, to guess based on the damage of a similar skill in the same tier.

At low skill ranks, most materials had sufficient hardness for item strain to be only a minor issue. By silver, however, standard equipment could no longer stand up to the forces involved. Warrior, mage, defender; it didn’t matter. Use too much power, and you’d find yourself unarmed, perhaps literally. Rain could speak from experience there; though fortunately, the Focus stat ring that had failed on him hadn’t detonated with quite that much force.

Getting back to the scenario, the Drilling Shot skill at rank ten would let Stint double his damage again, bringing it up to 2,000, or thereabouts. A steel bow would survive that, possibly even unscathed, but a wooden one would have trouble. There were skills like Sturdy Bow that helped, but they had their limits, as evidenced by scenario three.

Rain looked up from his doodling, a blue window popping into existence before his eyes.

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Sharpshooting

An offensive tree focusing on physical skills with bows and crossbows.

When it comes to defining what a ‘bow’ is, it needs to bend and have a string. Bows are fine, obviously, but so are crossbows, whether lever or crank.

Extremely unconfirmed rumor: even something like a ballista can be okay if you can manage to pick it up before you fire it. Anden the Strong did it in Legends of the Green Wood. Probably bullshit. #todo: build siege weaponry, test.

There is no distinction between an “arrow” and a “bolt.” Common uses the same word for both.

Most physical skills require a valid target to gain experience. “Valid” is somewhat subjective. For bows, the condition seems to be that the target is either alive or a challenge to hit, such as a distant archery target or a falling coin. Or me :/

Tier 0



Drilling Shot



Shoot an arrow that spins, dealing increased damage



Multiplies base physical damage by [1+(RNK/10)*(1+STR/200)]



Cost: 10 stamina



Seeker Shot



Shoot an arrow that tracks its target



Turn speed [(RNK*90)(1+FCS/200)] deg/s



Tracking effect expires after [10*RNK] meters



Note: Target does not need to be an entity



Cost: 10 stamina



Tier 1



Hardened Arrowheads



Hardness of arrows multiplied by [1+RNK/10]



Note: Despite the name, it is the whole arrow, not just the arrowhead



Requires 5 ranks in Sharpshooting



Sturdy Bow



Durability of bows multiplied by [1+RNK/10]



Requires 5 ranks in Sharpshooting



Strong Draw



Bow draw weight multiplied by [1+RNK/10]



Toggleable



Requires 5 ranks in Sharpshooting



Piercing Shot



Shoot an arrow that ignores [RNK*5%] of target’s hardness



If physical damage is dealt, arrow pierces through the target



After piercing, physical damage to any secondary target is reduced by the hardness of the primary target



After piercing, magical damage to any secondary target is reduced by the appropriate resistance of the primary target



Effect can recurse indefinitely



Cost: 25 stamina



Requires Drilling Shot 5



Tier 2



Sharpened Arrowheads



Multiply physical damage of arrows by [1+RNK/10]



Requires Hardened Arrowheads 5



Endless Quiver



Conjure a copy of any arrow in your possession



Copy persists for [RNK] minutes



Cost: [100/RNK] stamina + [SM] mana



Note: SM = mana stored in the arrow



Note: Copies function like lair-matter, not mana constructs



Requires Hardened Arrowheads 10



Pinning Shot



Fire a shot that roots an enemy



Effect only activates if physical damage is dealt



Cost: 50 stamina



Root the enemy for [RNK*6] seconds



Requires Seeker Shot 10



Sniper Shot (Hidden)



Fire a powerful charged shot with extreme range



Multiply physical damage by [1+(RNK/3.33)*(1+STR/100)]



Arrow is not affected by gravity or wind within 1km



Note: “wind” may or may not mean air resistance in general. More research is needed.



Cost: 100 stamina



Charge time: 10s



Requires Piercing Shot 10



Requires Drilling Shot 10



Tier 3



Bleeder Shot



Shoot an arrow that drains the target’s blood



Effect only activates if physical damage is dealt to health



Target bleeds freely for [RNK] minutes until wound is sealed



Note: Bleed is a status effect that deals 1% of the original physical damage of an attack every second as additional physical damage, not affected by physical defenses



Bloodless entities are not affected by bleeding



Cost: 200 stamina



Requires Sharpened Arrowheads 5



Requires Pinning Shot 5



Splinter Shot



Arrow splits into [2*RNK] arrows just before impact with the original target, striking up to [2*RNK] enemies within [RNK/2] meters



Split arrows deal [50%/RNK] of the original’s damage



Split arrows have [50%/RNK] of the original’s hardness and durability



Note: Copied projectiles function like lair-matter, not mana constructs



Cost: None



Requires 50 ranks in Sharpshooting



Multishot (Hidden)



Fire an arrow that splits into [RNK*2] projectiles



Each projectile deals 10% of the original damage



Arrows fly in a fan up to 45 degrees wide, equally spaced



Note: unlike with Endless Quiver or Splinter Shot, these copies are mana constructs. They no longer have hardness/durability, but are now susceptible to metal absorption/disruption.



Speculation: mana construct arrows might be compatible with some metamagic, such as Guide Sending. Could compensate for the aim disruption that comes from a metal bow. More research is needed.



Cost: [10*RNK] mana



Requires Mana Manipulation 10



Requires Endless Quiver 10



Tier 4



Stacked Shot



Up to [1+RNK] Shot skills may be combined



Cost: additive



Requires 60 ranks in Shot skills



This document was one of several, a compilation of Rain’s hard numbers with Ameliah’s more intuitive grasp of what the listed skills did. Tallheart, too, had supplied a good bit of info, most notably concerning the T4s and hidden skills. He’d seen them in action, after all. As for the formulas, Rain’s default skill interface was still stubbornly refusing to give him anything other than the final number. He’d had to piece them together the hard way.

The end result was a bit disorganized, but reasonably accurate, he thought.

Nodding to himself, Rain opened another window.

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The Ameliah Number

189.8

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Skill

Type

Rank

Numeric

Meaning

Cost

4

Drilling Shot

Attack

10

2.9

Physical Dmg Multiplier

10 SP

5

Seeker Shot

Attack

10

1754

Turn Rate (deg/s)

10 SP

6

Hardened Arrowheads

Passive

10

2

Arrow HRD Multiplier

None

7

Sturdy Bow

Passive

10

2

Bow DUR Multiplier

None

8

Strong Draw

Toggle

10

2

Draw Weight Multiplier

None

9

Piercing Shot

Attack

10

50%

Hardness Ignore

25 SP

10

Sharpened Arrowheads

Passive

10

2

Arrow Dmg Multiplier

None

11

Endless Quiver

Utility

10

10

Copy Duration (minutes)

10 SP + x MP

12

Pinning Shot

Attack

10

60

Pin Duration (seconds)

50 SP

13

Sniper Shot

Attack

10

9.7

Physical Dmg Multiplier

100 SP

14

Bleeder Shot

Attack

10

10

Bleed Duration (minutes)

100 SP

15

Splinter Shot

Attack

10

20

# Arrows

(5% dmg each)

None

16

Multishot

Attack

10

20

# Arrows

(10% dmg each)

100 MP

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Stacked Shot

Attack

10

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# Skills

Sum MP

His spreadsheet application was still a bit jank, but it had already proven itself worth all the swearing. This window showed what you got if you crunched the numbers for every Sharpshooting skill using Ameliah’s stats with +10 from accolades. Ameliah didn’t have all of these skills unlocked yet, of course, let alone at rank 10. This was just Rain’s way of getting a glimpse at one possible future.

As an example, say Ameliah DID have the ranks listed. Rain could then calculate the damage for something like Drilling Shot, using a base damage of 500 from the 80kg-draw training bow. Drilling Shot was a 2.9x multiplier, Strong Draw was 2x, and Sharpened Arrowheads was another 2x. That worked out to 5,800 damage.

The steel bow needed to withstand 10% of that—more than enough to overcome the hardness stat of the unenchanted metal. It probably wouldn’t break it completely, though, at least not with a single shot. Sturdy Bow wouldn’t stop the weapon from taking damage, but it would allow it to endure more punishment overall. The arrow—also steel—would likely survive as well, even without Hardened Arrowheads. It wouldn’t bear any of the item strain, merely the mundane forces of the launch, considerable though those might be.

Returning to damage, 5,800 was about half that of an Overcharged Fireball with Ameliah’s previous build. It didn’t seem that impressive until you realized that Drilling Shot only took 10 stamina and a single arrow to activate. Further, it could be used as quickly as a person could draw and shoot, more or less. There was no cooldown beyond the default system tick of one second.

Rain’s eyes slid down the window, stopping to rest on Sniper Shot.

After the ten-second charge time, the skill would deal 500*9.7*2*2=19,400 damage. That was less than an Overcharged Fireball with Triplicate Casting, but it came with a redonkulous range and could be done for the measly cost of 100 stamina, one arrow, and, probably, one training bow. Tallheart hadn’t enchanted the weapons. He’d said it was for Rain’s safety.

And then there was tier 4.

Stacked Shot would let you fire a volley of twenty spinning, target-seeking, piercing, pinning sniper shots that split on impact and inflicted bleeding wounds. Ignoring the fact that the training bow would explode the instant you even THOUGHT about activating that kind of combo, the total damage would be 114,400, split across 400 arrows, each dealing 286 damage. Even that was far from the full story. Each projectile would ignore half of its target’s hardness, and, assuming it did damage, it would inflict bleed and pin before piercing. After the pierce, Splinter Shot would trigger again, splitting each surviving arrow into twenty, dealing minor additional damage to anything nearby.

It was essentially a Meteor made out of toothpicks.

Unlike Meteor, however, Stacked Shot was good for other tricks as well.

Say you activated the same combo only without Multishot and Splinter Shot. You’d get a single projectile dealing 57,200 damage plus bleed and pin. When it hit its target, it would almost certainly pierce, and then, thanks to Seeker Shot, it would turn right the hell around and hit the target again. And then again. And then AGAIN. Each time, it would inflict another stack of bleed and refresh the pin duration.

Granted, the arrow would probably break on impact. Even if it survived, the piercing would eventually stop after the target’s defenses whittled down the remaining damage, or, barring that, when the range of Seeker Shot expired. But still.

It was, on paper, completely insane.

And that was only one skill tree.

One.

Rain ran a hand through his hair, his doodle long forgotten. More windows appeared.

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Elemental Archer

A buffing tree focusing on magically empowering arrows.

Anything that multiplies elemental damage here also multiplies any elemental damage enchanted on the arrow.

“Arrow” is a keyword, like “Aura”. One Arrow buff can be used at once. They count as spells and are subject to things like Mastery/Synergy/Affinity, etc. They aren’t evocations, though, so no Overcharge, Guide Sending, Triplicate Casting, etc.

Arrow skills do nothing for the arrow’s physical damage, hurting it if anything. They cause item strain, but the arrow just has to survive it long enough to reach its target. The buffs will work with metal arrows, too, but will reduce accuracy significantly.

Tier 0



Fire Arrow



Wreathe an arrow in flames



[(5 to 10)*RNK*(1+FCS/200)] Heat on impact



Sufficient damage causes ignition



Cost: 5 mana



Ice Arrow



Encrust an arrow with ice



[(5 to 10)*RNK*(1+FCS/200)] Cold on impact



Sufficient damage causes slow



Cost: 5 mana



Tier 1



Shock Arrow



Charge an arrow with lightning



[(5 to 10)*RNK*(1+FCS/200)] Arcane on impact



Sufficient damage causes paralysis



Cost: 5 mana



Poison Arrow



Douse an arrow in poison



[(10 to 20)*RNK*(1+FCS/200)] Chemical over 10 seconds



Effect only activates if physical damage is dealt



Sufficient damage disrupts regeneration



Cost: 5 mana



Stone Arrow



Jacket an arrow with stone



[(5 to 10)*RNK*(1+FCS/200)] Force on impact



Arrow will not be affected by wind



Cost: 5 mana



Arrow Affinity



Multiply elemental damage of arrows by [1+RNK/10]



Requires 1 skill of each element



Requires at least 10 ranks in Elemental Archery



Tier 2



Radiant Arrow



Envelop an arrow with the power of the sun



[(5 to 10)*RNK*(1+FCS/200)] Light on impact



Arrow velocity is increased to maximum



Physical damage is not affected



Cost: 5 mana



None

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Smell Bound Item

Passive

10

5

Range (km)

None

16

Repair Bound Item

Utility

10

289.8

Repair Rate

10 SP/s

17

Recharge Bound Item

Utility

10

289.8

Recharge Rate

289.8 MP/s

18

Unknown

?

10

?

?

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Equipment Mastery

Passive

10

50%

Item Strain Reduction

None

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Heavy Armor

A defensive tree focusing on heavy armor. Skills are generally about boosting defenses and protecting yourself. A piece of armor is considered “heavy” if it is mostly rigid. Typically, this means metal, but it also allows things like stone, crystal, wood, etc. Chain does not count as heavy, even though it is metal.

Some related trees are Light Armor, Shieldwielding, and Threat Attraction. There’s some other armor stuff scattered, like Bramble Armor and Hauberk of Spite.

Tier 0



Heavy Armor



Multiply mass of heavy armor by [1+RNK/10]



User does not experience the added mass



Mountain Stance



User is [1+(RNK/10)*(1+END/100)] times harder to knock back



Requires user to be wearing heavy armor in the feet slot.



Automatically deactivates if user loses contact with the ground for more than 3 seconds.



Requires focus to maintain



Cost: 10 stamina/minute



Tier 1



Thickened Plate



Multiply durability of heavy armor by [1+RNK/10]



Requires Heavy Armor 5



Hardened Plate



Multiply hardness of heavy armor by [1+RNK/10]



Requires Heavy Armor 5



Resistant Plate



Adds [RNK*END/10] resistance to selected elements when the appropriate slot is occupied by heavy armor



Chest – Force, Arcane



Legs – Heat, Cold



Helmet – Chemical, Mental



Gloves – Light



Boots – Dark



Requires Heavy Armor 5



Conductive Plate



Increases mana conversion rate of metallic armor by [RNK*5%]



Speculation: mana conversion capped at 100%?



Speculation: might work for non-heavy metal armor (chain)



Requires Heavy Armor 5



Tier 2



Draining Plate



Multiply mana dissipation rate of metallic armor by [1+RNK/10]



Requires Heavy Armor 10



Deep Plate



Multiply saturation limit of metallic armor by [1+RNK/10]



Requires Heavy Armor 10



Heavy Resistance Enhancement



Multiplies resistance buffs from heavy armor by [1+RNK/10]



Requires Resistant Plate 5



Ethereal Helm (hidden)



Reduce perception impairment of helmet by [RNK*10%]



Speculation: past rank 10, makes you see better????



Speculation: makes helmet invisible for others as well???



Note: no Heavy Armor tree requirements! If I take Mana Sight, I could take this! I NEED MORE SKILL POINTS!



Requires Mana Sight 5



Tier 3



Grease Exterior



Reduce exterior friction by [RNK*10%] for a given piece of heavy armor



May be activated on multiple pieces at increased cost



Note: channeled, subject to channel mastery



Speculation: likely capped at 100%, otherwise, negative friction



Speculation: “exterior” is subject to intent, meaning this might not make you drop your weapon if you grease up your gauntlets



Cost 10mp/s



Requires Conductive Plate 5



Regenerative Plate



Heavy armor passively recovers durability at a rate of [H.Regen*RNK/10]



H.Regen is reduced correspondingly



Note: can’t be switched off



Note: mildly dangerous, TH says above rank 10, hurts you to heal your armor



Requires 50 ranks in Plate skills



Heavy Armor Inventory (hidden)



Banish and summon heavy armor



Up to [RNK + FCS/20] pieces may be stored in the soul



Note: rounded down



Note: armor must be equipped to be stored



Note: slot must be empty to recall



Note: this skill explicitly mentions the soul!



Speculation: there are versions of this that let you store other things!



Cost: ??mp/kg



Note: Cost is based on weight, but TH can’t remember the conversion factor. Rumbled at me when I suggested hitting him with a Winter Nova for something so “trivial.” Tempted to do it anyway to get back at him for not mentioning this skill when I asked about bags of holding. Guess I’ll find out what it is once Ameliah unlocks it. An item-enchanted version of this skill is how Tallheart does his helmet trick. He doesn’t have the skill, obviously, but he was able to figure out the runes for it by studying Lilly...somehow. The effect is a little different and works on charges, and he can’t restore those without GranTel. Every time he summons his helmet, he is depleting charges with no easy way to get them back. He says don’t worry about it, but won’t tell me how many he has left. Can he do this for other skills? Yes, see my shield. Why does that use mana, but this use charges? Why the hell am I writing a journal in my skill notes? #todo move this to th_questions2.odt #todo fix max document size bug



Requires 50 ranks in the Heavy Armor tree



Requires 50 ranks in the Equipment Use tree



Unknown Hidden Skill



Requires Mana Manipulation



Requires ???



Tier 4



Living Armor



Transform into a golem, merging flesh and armor into one



Health and durability become a single pool



Speculation: Healing/repair become the same thing, etc.



Multiply the effect of all Plate skills by [1+RNK/5] while transformed



Become physically larger proportional to investment in Plate skills



Cost: [RNK*1,000] stamina to activate, [RNK*10] stamina/s to maintain



Note: $%&* this is expensive! Halgrave is a beast! (assuming this skill is why he looked so big compared to Westbridge when they were fighting up in the sky... #todo ask Mahria)



Requires Regenerative Plate 10



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Skill

Type

Rank

Numeric

Meaning

Cost

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Heavy Armor

Passive

10

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Increased Mass

None

5

Mountain Stance

Stance

10

3.9

x Harder to Knock Back

None

6

Thickened Plate

Passive

10

2

Durability Multiplier

None

7

Hardened Plate

Passive

10

2

Hardness Multiplier

None

8

Resistant Plate

Passive

10

189.8

Resistance Adder/slot

None

9

Conductive Plate

Passive

10

50%

Conversion Adder

None

10

Draining Plate

Passive

10

2

Dissipation Multiplier

None

11

Deep Plate

Passive

10

2

Max Saturation Multiplier

None

12

Heavy Resistance Enhancement

Passive

10

2

Resistance Multiplier

None

13

Ethereal Helm

Passive

10

100%

Helmet “Clearness”

None

14

Grease Exterior

Utility

10

100%

Slickness

10 MP/s

15

Regenerative Plate

Passive

10

79.1

Repair/hr

79.1 HP/hr

16

Heavy Armor Inventory

Utility

10

19

Pieces

?

17

Unknown

?

10

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Living Armor

Xform

10

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Plate Skill Multiplier

10,000SP + 100SP/s

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#todo make this file less of a disaster

List for Ameliah:



Airwalk



Healing Word (#todo find out why Ameliah is so touchy about higher-tier healing spells. I really hope I’m wrong...)



Healing Affinity



Message



Brace (maybe not needed with armor)



Attract (we can probably do without this)



Mana Sight



Lunar Orb (maybe can do without this, use Radiance and torches?)



Intrinsics (which ones?)



Mute



Stamina Transfer (dump it, got Energy Well)



Energy Well



Lifespring



Healing Trance



Alacrity



Body Strengthening



Magical Synergy



Physical Synergy



Efficient Movement



Masteries (should be one for each element)



Can’t find: Light, Dark, Mental



Subelement Affinities



Found: Earth, Fire, Ice, Lightning (hidden), lunch,



Synergy Skills



Same as affinity skills, these work on keywords.



Skills scale the more skills you have with that keyword.



Not everything with Synergy in the name is a Synergy skill. Magical Synergy, for example.



Affinity Skills



These work on subelements. Fire, ice, lightning, water, air, etc.



Boosts skills with that subelement keyword, but not all effects of that element.



Example, Fire Affinity wouldn’t boost Immolate, but it would boost Fireball, including both the Heat and Force damage



There are also “affinity” spells with keywords that aren’t subelements. Is there an Aura Affinity???



Seriously, the formatting in this file is cursed. Why is this one a number?! Why won’t it go away!??



Elemental MasterySkills



There is one for each element, in some tree or another, but some are hidden



Boosts all effects of that element



Not everything with “Mastery” in the name is a Mastery skill. Channel Mastery, for example, is its own thing.

Elemental Resistance Skills



These boost how much resistance you get from each point of Endurance



There is one for each primary element, but some are hidden.



Could there be a bow kata?

#todo ask Val about Light Mastery

#todo ask Val about tree recombination

#todo ask Staavo about the definition of a ‘weapon’

#todo ask Staavo if oatmeal is a soup

#todo start official skill compendium

#todo figure out hyperlinks between documents (wiki-like?)

#todo build a search tool for #todos

#todo sit down and actually work on all the #todos – an hour a day?

“Hey,” Ameliah said, startling Rain quite severely. He moved aside the windows so he could see her standing there in her iron armor. She was smiling at him with her visor raised and was holding an enormous, cruel-looking recurve bow in her left hand. The weapon was made of a dark, dull metal, matching that of the oversized arrows peeking over her shoulder.

Adamant.

Only then did Rain realize that Tallheart’s hammering had stopped.

Rain must have been making a funny face, as Ameliah was laughing as she reached through his interface to offer him her hand. “Shall we test it out?”