Unique Class Talents:
(X indicates the damage type your staff is aligned to)

Spell/Battlemage
Talents for fighting and defending with your staff and shield.

Arcane Guardian: Allows you to wield a 2h staff in your main hand and increases shield damage. Staff attacks will trigger a shield attack as X damage type, once per target per trun.

Mystic Ward: Passively deflect energy damage ( non-mind, non-phys) based on your block value. Successful teleports will also trigger Block if it is not on cooldown. Blocking and deflecting damage will each restore a small amount of mana.

Magical Defense: Passively gain block value based on Spellpower and any non-blockable damage greater than 12% of max life will trigger an effect for Y turns which will allow you to Block the triggering damage type.

Greater Staff Focus: When you cast Channel Staff you will also project a melee shield attack as X damage type if the target is within range 4, up to once per target per turn.

Spell/Magical Assault
Talents for assaulting your foes.

Magic Burst: Deals X damage type to all targets in a radius 4 narrow cone and reduces target Defense and Spell Save by Y for 3 turns.
You may target yourself instead to project the spell in a radius 1 around yourself.

Sorcerous Slam: Deals Y shield damage as X damage type in a radius 4 narrow cone. Targets struck will be afflicted with Occult Obstruction  for 3 turns. Melee hits against  targets suffering from the effect will put up to Y talents on cooldown for 3 turns, at most once per target per turn.
You may target yourself instead to project the spell in a radius 1 around yourself.

Arcane Projection: Deals Y staff damage as X damage type in a radius 4 narrow cone. Targets struck will suffer from Magical Malady for 3 turns. Melee hits against targets afflicted with Magical Malady will increase all negative effects you have applied to them by 1 turn. For each effect extended, all positive effects on the target will lose 1 duration, up to Y or 50%(rounded up), whichever is greater, potentially negating the effect.
You may target yourself instead to project the spell in a radius 1 around yourself.

Empowered Arms(sustain): Melee attacks will deal an additional Y damage as X damage type. Critical hits will repeat the damage in a radius 1 ball, striking the initial target again.
Targets struck by Magic Burst will also be afflicted with Eldritch Echoes, dealing Z% of the initial damage each turn for 3 turns. Each tick can crit and any time Eldritch Echoes deals more than 5% of the target's life in damage they have a chance to be Disarmed, Silenced, or Pinned for 3 turns if they fail to save against your spellpower with their spell save.

Spell/Phasing
Talents for battle mobility and defense.

Phasestrike: Teleport to and attack a target in range 5 for Y damage as X damage type, potentially dazing enemies in radius Z around your destination for Z turns.

Phase Charged: gain spell and phys crit and X damage type penetration for Y turns after hitting with Phase Strike.

Phase Shield: gain W% increased resistance caps and, while Blocking, you have a Z% chance to shrug off detrimental effects, for Y turns after hitting with Phasestrike.

Phase Shifted: increases critical shrug off chance by Z% and gain W% affinity to all damage  for Y turns after hitting with Phasestrike.

Spell/Battle Channeling
Sustains for combat utility.
Maintaining any one or more battle channels will reduce your movement speed by 25% (except on the world map).

Blinkguard: any direct damage that would hit you for more than 8% of your max life will have a Y% chance to cause you to teleport to an empty tile within range 1, avoiding the damage and then instantly teleporting back to your original location. This can occur at most Z times or once per empty tile in range (whichever is less) per turn. This requires and consumes 8 mana, increased by fatigue.
Increases fatigue by 10%. No sustained mana cost.

Deepsight: gain accuracy, apr and range Y telepathy of all creatures.
Increases fatigue by 10%. No sustained mana cost.

Boltfury: Each time you cast a non-instant spell and after each teleport, you will cast Channel Staff at all targets within range 4 with increased crit chance and crit damage. Casting in this manner consumes no mana, bypasses other targets, and cannot fail, but the base damage of the spell will be reduced by 75%.
Sustaining this spell reduces the base range of Channel Staff by 4. Increases fatigue by 10%. No sustained mana cost.

Phasestride: While sustained you will teleport in place of normal movement. Each teleport takes only Y% of a turn and consumes 8 mana , increased by fatigue.
Increases fatigue by 10%. No sustained mana cost.

Spell/Mage adept ( locked, high level)
Gain greater control over magic.

Magic Beam: Fire a beam of X damage type up to 5 tiles.

Magic Pull: Deal X damage type to a target up to Y tiles away and pull it up 5 tiles toward you.

Magic Blast: Deals X damage type to all hostile targets in a radius 2 ball up to 2 tiles away.

Shield Casting: Magic Burst, Magic Beam, Magic Pull and Magic Blast will have a Y% chance to also strike targets with a shield blow dealing Z% damage as X damage type. Targets hit by a shield strike will have a Y% chance to be stripped of one sustained effect.

Spell/Sorcerous might (locked, high level)
Absorb and store energy with your shield, using it to empower yourself.

Ensorcelled Shield: Each time you Block damage you gain a stack of Sorcerous Might for 8 turns, stacking up to 4 times with new stacks refreshing the duration. Each stack increases Spell Power by Y and Spell Range by 0.Z tiles. If you know Mystic Ward, you have a 25% chance to trigger Sorcerous Might whenever it reduces damage, up to once per turn.

Quickening: Consume 2 stacks of Sorcerous Might to increase attack speed by Z% for 6 turns. (12 turn fixed CD). While Quickened, melee attacks will reduce the cooldown of a random spell by 1/3 (rounded up, minimum 1), up to Y times per turn. This can affect the same spell multiple times. This will not affect talents with a fixed cooldown.

Conversion Field: Consume 2 stacks of Sorcerous Might to create a conversion field for Z turns which will have a 50% chance to reduce incoming damage by 50%, with Y% of negated damage converted to healing.

Sorcerous Block: If you take a hit for 12% of your max life or more you will consume 2 stacks of Sorcerous Might to instantly activate Block and preemptively reduce the damage by Y% of your total block value. This will not check or trigger Block cooldown. Talent cooldown decreases with level. Will not occur if you have less than 2 stacks of Sorcerous Might.
Passively increases the maximum number of Sorcerous Might charges by Z.


Spell/Medic  (generic)
Talents useful to a field-medic.

Mend: Heal yourself for Y and Y more over 5 turns as regeneration.

Phase: Teleport to an unoccupied space up to Y tiles away. Alternately, you may target yourself to teleport randomly in radius 4Y with minimum range 2Y, but tripling the cool down  (8 CD for direct port, 24 CD for random port).

Field Conditioned: Increase disarm and silence immunity by Y% each and raw mental save by Y.

Cure: Remove up to Y each of Wound, Poison and Disease effects instantly, and each turn for Z turns.

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