Mage Armor (520)
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Mage Armor manipulates the elemental forces within a wizard's body, forming a layer of elemental energy that shifts with their movements. This self-cast spell provides additional protection from physical attacks in the form of critical padding.
The base amount of padding for native casters is somewhat at 20 Major Elemental ranks, increasing every 15 Major Elemental ranks to a max of heavy padding at 95 ranks. Note: Non-native casters can only achieve light critical padding with this spell, and elemental aspects are not available to non-native casters. Note: The critical padding provided by this spell and it's aspects stack with other forms of padding.
The armor can be further enhanced by focusing on specific elements to further shore up defenses via CAST <Element>. Focusing on an element will produce additional defenses based on lore training in the respective elemental lore.
- Focusing on the Fire Aspect of this spell allows a mage to channel his defenses into stronger offensive attacks.
- Focusing on the Water Aspect of this spell boosts the mage's defenses against dispel attacks.
- Focusing on the Earth Aspect of this spell will shield the mage in a layer of rock when he becomes stunned.
- Focusing on the Air Aspect of this spell will allow the mage to carry more.
- Focusing on the Lightning Aspect of this spell will stun all enemies in the room for a short time when the mage becomes stunned.
Lore Benefits
Fire Aspect
Focusing on fire allows the mage to gain higher stance bonuses while remaining in a lower stance when channelling spells. The base benefit of this aspect is a +15 stance bonus. Training in Elemental Lore, Fire will increase the stance bonus based on a seed 1 summation. Obtaining 15 ranks in fire will grant a +20 stance bonus, allowing the mage to remain in advanced stance while obtaining all benefits of offensive. The maximum benefit (base+bonus) of +36 is obtained at 231 fire ranks.
Water Aspect
Focusing on water will allow a mage to negate dispelling attacks. The base benefit of this aspect is the negation of one dispell every 30 seconds. Training in Elemental Lore, Water will reduce the 30 second cooldown one additional second based on seed 1 summation. The maximum benefit of this aspect is a 21 second reduction, to a minimum of 9 seconds, obtained at 231 water lore bonus.
Earth Aspect
Focusing on earth will allow the mage to be protected by a layer of stone when stunned. Training in Elemental Lore, Earth increase the crit padding provided by the stone layer based on seed 3 summation. The base benefit of the padding starts at somewhat with a maximum benefit of superb padding. This benefit stacks with the base benefit of the spell, so a stunned mage with 95 major elemental ranks could potentially see phenomenal levels of padding.
Air Aspect
Focusing on air allows the mage to increase his carrying capacity. The base benefit of this aspect is an extra 10 pounds of cc. Training in Elemental Lore, Air will increase the cc bonus based on a seed 1 summation. The maximum benefit of this aspect is 31 lbs at 231 air lore bonus.
Lightning Aspect
Focusing on lightning allows the mage to aoe stun all enemies in the room for two rounds every 30 seconds. Training in Elemental Lore, Lightning will reduce the 30 second cooldown one additional second based on seed 3 summation. The maxmium benefit of this aspect is a 20 second reduction, to a minimum of 10 seconds, at 250 ranks.
Messaging
- Initial cast
- Fire Aspect
- Water Aspect
- Earth Aspect
- Air Aspect
- Lightning Aspect