I think maybe the pull talent I saw that checked knockback resistance was from something odd, like an NPC horror talent, maybe. I played around with those a bit way back when I started modding. In any case, I think I will keep the check and just clarify the description. I don't think it will be a big hindrance to the player and, conversely, I feel it would be unfair for High Guard NPCs to have an irresistible pull.
Mind speed penalty is attached to the same sustains as attack speed. It felt thematicly appropriate, but you're right in that it has essentially no effect. I'm now leaning toward just putting a 10% fatigue penalty on each battle channel and removing all other penalties, at least as a trial.
I probably wouldn't pick ICCTW either, but it is an option for dealing with fatigue. You could also go for light armor and light armor training, or look for gear with -fatigue. There are quite a few prodigy options that could work. I'd recommend defense over offense, but that applies to pretty much everything. One of the things I like about High Guard is that they only really care about one stat, and a bit about one other, so you're free to pick whatever for your third and potentially pick from lots of different prodigies. I'd be curious to see how Eye of the Tiger would work out with a +crit chance build; Boltfury can potentially give you a lot of effectively passive crits. If you have EoR then Range Amplification Device should be fun. I feel there is some merit to not spelling everything out explicitly, giving the player some room for discovery, but I will say here that I used getTalentRange very liberally, so it will increase the radius of your three cone attacks, Magic Blast radius, as well as the radius of Boltfury and Greater Staff Focus. I think that covers them. Phase Strike, Phase, Magic Beam and Magic Pull are also covered, as you would probably expect. Still, there are probably better options. Eternal Guard should be good. Spectral Shield I don't think would be very good, because Magical Defense should let you situationally block the damage type you're most concerned with at the moment. Prodigies that are always good are still good, of course, Cauterize especially, as you noted. (I wonder if you can block the smeared damage? I never checked that.) Whenever 1.6 drops I think the new Elemental Surge / Endless Woes could both be good, considering you can easily control the type of damage you're dealing.
I'm not totally crazy about Sorcerous Block, either, to be honest I kind of wanted to do a passive/reactive block, but I thought it was too similar to a talent I have in my Shield Tactics mod... but that's sort of a silly reason. I'm thinking something that will trigger on hits over x% life and reduce damage based on your block value, as well as triggering block for free, but requiring and consuming two stacks of Sorcerous Might. On a cooldown, of course. Basically the same as the final talent in Shield Tactics. Still passively increasing your max stacks, too.
I feel there's some place for RNG in a tactical game, and I like Conversion Field the way it is. It has a long duration, practically 50% up time, and the potential for very high damage reduction when you incorporate the healing aspect which can be increased up to 250% with healing mod. It's not 100% reliable, but I think that's fine, considering.
Quickening gives the same effect as Quicken Spells, which is effectively cooldown reduction. I'm not sure which of the talents you named that is more like, but I recognize it is not technically the same as spells cooling down faster as stated in description. I'll update the description on the talent and effect to reflect properly how it actually works.
Empowered Arms scaling might not seem that great, but remember that crits double the damage on the main target and hit all targets around it. And yes, scaling is weird. The base number is not a set 'low' number, rather a number used in a factor of the scaling formula to effectively increase how far along the scaling curve your value will start. Effectively it multiplies the max value by a 'spell power factor' and 'talent level factor', where the max possible value for factor each is 1, resulting in the maximum value when you have 100 spellpower and talent level 5.https://te4.org/wiki/Scaling#.28cTSpD.29_combatTalentSpellDamage It's... not the most straight forward calculation, to say the least.
All that said, after looking at the numbers again and comparing it other on-hit damage buffs, I'd say a little bit of a damage increase probably wouldn't hurt it, considering it's the final talent in the tree and all.
Thanks again for the feedback. Most of the tweaks and description/typo fixes are done, I just need to go over the battle channels and code the new Sorcerous Block (shouldn't take much considering I already have a talent that works almost exactly the same as what I have planned).
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