[1.0.4] Arcane Ascetic (playable beta)

[Avernite]

Everyone's going off about this lack of crowd control. Meanwhile, you have the start of this magic monk, and he's not turning funny colors, screaming, abusing steroids, or blowing up crowds with giant balls of KIIIIIIIII! Thank you for doing none of these things. Now I'd like to see what you've got planned instead.

Agreed. Some kind of circular attack would be nice though.
Some staves out there got that 'release damage in circle/cone' affix.

Meta does nothing for this class, and should be removed in place of something else.

OMG bro! Disperse Magic was the only usable skill of all non-generic trees for me!!! It crushes sustain-based mages (the Master, the Weirdling Beast, Celia).
Do not touch meta!

Advanced Staff Magic / Aspect Invocation: when you use the Channel Staff spell, gain a benefit based on the Staff's aspect.

The best staves out there are artifacts. Therefore the Channel Staff is absent for them. Maybe you should give a passive to this skill to enable Channel Staff for every staff. Could be a great way to give more potency to the class lategame, although not sure if that's even possible to code.

PS again, sorry for my English, lol.

[Kaja Rainbow]

A possibility would be creating a new tree that includes a Disperse magic equivalent of some kind, and then you can safely dump Meta.

[Doctornull]

Everyone's going off about this lack of crowd control. Meanwhile, you have the start of this magic monk, and he's not turning funny colors, screaming, abusing steroids, or blowing up crowds with giant balls of KIIIIIIIII! Thank you for doing none of these things. Now I'd like to see what you've got planned instead.

Agreed. Some kind of circular attack would be nice though.
Some staves out there got that 'release damage in circle/cone' affix.

Yeah, I actually really like how those circle & cone attack staves become a LOT more exciting for an Ascetic than they are for a Mage who's going to be like, yawn, I can do better area attacks in my sleep.

A circle attack is certainly coming.

OMG bro! Disperse Magic was the only usable skill of all non-generic trees for me!!! It crushes sustain-based mages (the Master, the Weirdling Beast, Celia).
Do not touch meta!

Oh good, someone else is using Meta! Okay, it's safe.

The best staves out there are artifacts. Therefore the Channel Staff is absent for them. Maybe you should give a passive to this skill to enable Channel Staff for every staff. Could be a great way to give more potency to the class lategame, although not sure if that's even possible to code.

My plan for this effect was that you get:
- Standard perks for standard staves; or
- Specific perks for specific Artifacts; or
- Damage-type perks if neither of the above apply; like if you've got an artifact staff which deals Nature damage, but which I didn't put on the artifact list, it'll get a specific effect.

A possibility would be creating a new tree that includes a Disperse magic equivalent of some kind, and then you can safely dump Meta.

If so, it'll use a melee effect.

Hmm. Some kind of Unweaving melee tree.

[Avernite]

Hello
So when can we expect the next version?

[Doctornull]

Hello
So when can we expect the next version?

Sorry, I took some time off of writing in order to play, so I'd have a better idea if my mechanics ideas were broken or not.

Maybe I can get something working this weekend... no promises, though!

Thanks for your patience.