ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I've sketched out a few variations on that sorta thing - several ways to create blocking terrain, and a pull talent for the advanced 'melee' tree.

For reference, here's my current draft of categories:

Class
Lava - as mentioned before, basic damage category through slingshots
Forgefire - fire caster. lots of fire damage and debuffs that melt armor, weapons, effects, saves...
Tectonics - physical caster. terrain creation/destruction
Stonesmith - conjured weapons. think TK weapons(s)+dreamhammer sorta thing
Earthshaping - utility/summoning tree. main way to manipulate terrain and turn terrain into summons
Volcanism (Locked) - summon volcanoes, makes volcanoes do a bunch of stuff. lots of passive damage
Rock (Locked) - advanced terrain. get buffs from summoned walls, summoning walls triggers effects and so on
Stonespear (Locked) - melee tree. buffs your staff/conjured weapons and rewards you for close combat
Magnetism (Locked) - ranged tree. buffs your slingshot attacks and gives some advanced techs for it

Generic
Geomancy - utility stuff like wall walking and buffs for being inside terrain
Earthen Armory - improves your conjured weapons, lets you conjure armor and shields out of stone
Sand - field control, creates sand tiles that you can manipulate
Crystal (Locked) - use gems to buff yourself and summons, create summons from gems
Metal (Locked) - weakens equipment of enemies, uses the stolen metal to buff yourself

Given the class has a lot to do with terrain, it would be a shame if there is no lasting trace of the geomancing that happened during a battle. With this in mind I am thinking about a tree that is visually appealing, and at the same time would bring some unique flavor to the class:

Tree: Primeval Power

Drought: Passive which does additional effect for each raw talent level
TL1: You constantly radiate intense psychic power, shattering everything around you into dust in a radius of 1, and leaving a trail of sand wherever you go. Ground tiles and walls under effect become sand tiles and sand walls permanently, and you move x% faster in the sand.
TL2: Blood dropped into the sand invigorates you, damages you do to enemies standing on sand tiles heal you for a % of their damage taken
TL3: The sand sears everything standing on it. The sand tiles will be wreathed in flames permanently, and deals moderate damage similar to that of Devouring Flame.
TL4: Radius of this talent increases to 2

Sand Tunnel: Teleport enemy standing on sand tile to another sand tile. Number of enemies you could teleport increases with talent level. Alternatively you could cast it to yourself.

Horrid Wilting: Target an area in ball shape and make the ground tiles and walls under effect into sand tiles and sand walls permanently. Deals high damage. The passive effect gained from Drought also applies here.

Sand Worm: Sand is a portal to different worlds to an adept Geomancer, and they could summon horrible monsters from sands. Summon a sandworm to a target sand tile to aid you in battle. The sandworm could not travel outside sand tiles however.

Bit like the sketch I had for Sand. Though mine is under generic, so wouldn't have any direct damage stuff, more just general utility.

I was wondering if Sand immunity would make it somewhere. About that teleport, if an enemy is on a sand tile do you switch places with the enemy?

About other debuffs, the only things I can think of are save or defense reduction due to being difficult to move in. Save reduction would make Entomb stick a lot more often I guess.


I was thinking about this way too from the sound of it. A very nice thing that's worth spending points in, especially if your shots happen to do something like cripple.

This talent tree looks super cool.

I kinda want to add an advanced Sand/Desert themed tree to go alongside the unlocked generic, but might be making the class too bloated and spreading ideas too thinly. Will see.

Also next up for coding, Forgefire, the fire caster category with a bit of support for weapon attacks and general debuffing:

Thanks! Here's some more idea if anyone is interested. The basic premise of my Geomancer is that they get stronger as they turn more areas into sand. Feel free to borrow some these if anyone find them interesting.

Tree: Sandshaping. Summon creatures from sand tiles. They are fairly immobile but as you create more sand tiles you could teleport them to more strategically favorable locations. This is a tree with some tower defense flavor.

Sand Cannon: You summon from sand tiles immobile cannons which cast Throw Boulder every 2 turns. The number of sand cannons you could summon increase with talent level to a maximum of 3. The power of Throw Boulder is reduced from the normal ones so as not to make it OP

Awaken the Warriors: Largely stolen from Erenion's addon. Summon multiple golems from sand tiles. They could not walk out of sand tiles however.

Sanctuary: Erect a temporary structure fox x turns. When you take refuge in it you cannot make any attack, but you take less damage and have a faster cooldown/health/resource generation,

Fortress: Construct a 2x2 structure which does a number of things simultaneously per turn based on your selection. You could select 3 effects out of 5 options at level 5. Option examples include:
1. Pin enemies nearby
2. Shoot stone arrows that has high APR and a small chance to daze
3. Create a huge explosion upon collapse. Stuns and reduces stun resistance to those impacted

And some slight change to the Primeval Power tree:

Sand Tunnel: Teleport enemy / friendly creatures / yourself standing on sand tile to another sand tile. Number of creatures you could teleport increases with talent level.

Sand Worm: The sandworm could teleport from one sand tile to another but not travel outside sand tiles.

Yeah on further thought I'm going to rework some of my ideas to fit a Desert tree in as the basic 'fire caster' tree rather than Forgefire. Some of the themed functions like armor/weapon debuffing will go into Metal, as on testing it it's super strong (having a skeleton go from hitting me for 50 to 5 with Crucible was fun). Rest will be similar but new stuff. Course I need to plan it out a bit more now, so instead I'm moving onto my favourite category and the first one I designed when thinking about Geomancer. There's a couple of talents that might get tweaked but I like the core concept and theme so far.

Blade Halo would have a cooldown of 0, right?

Yep. Can toss out as many swords as you like, but the less you have the fewer passive hits you get. At the moment you get 4 swords, 1 per 5 turns. It's be the core damage mechanic for the class.

Would Stone Fangs be a cone or a pbAoE circle?

Large circle pbaoe. I kinda like the idea of rethemimg it as a stone axe/scythe and tweaking it to a cone sweep though, hmm.

ohaidere Irelia

I'll have you know I definitely did not ripoff LoL.

I ripped off MTG instead! http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Nahiri%27s+Wrath

My first thought as well.