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Adds the Puppeteer, a Mage class that manipulates and maintains three puppet companions that fight in their stead. Puppeteers pull the strings of the battlefield from a safe distance, rapidly laying out powerful weapon attacks by proxy through their puppets and letting them intercept the enemy's action in turn. They possess techniques to repair damaged puppets or protect them from harm. No mere conjuror, a Puppeteer is at once tactician, healer, and lynchpin.
Puppeteer talent trees include:
Puppet Warrior: Unleashes devastating melee bursts!
Puppet Archer: Steadily wears foes down from afar!
Puppet Knight: Redirects and absorbs enemy attacks!
Puppet Maintenance: Repair and protect your marionette minions!
Puppetcraft: Fine-tune your bond with your puppets!
Puppet Gladiator (locked): Upgrade your Puppet Warrior to shatter foes with overwhelming force!
Puppet Arbalest (locked): Upgrade your Puppet Archer to inflict crippling wounds!
Puppet Holdfast (locked): Upgrade your Puppet Knight to punish attackers!
Puppet Mage (locked): Gathers energy into destructive magical blasts!
War Puppetry (locked): Channel magic through your puppets to fire lasers or detonate them catastrophically!
Staff Combat (generic)
Divination (generic)
Conveyance (generic, locked)
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[1.7.6] Puppeteer - Mage Class (v1.0.0)
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Re: [1.7.6] Puppeteer - Mage Class (v1.0.0)
Quick primer guide since this class has a lot to read and understand:
- For your race, pick Shalore (speed, spell crit, CD reduction), Yeek (silence immunity, speed, emergency disable), Higher (damage, resistances, and spell save), Halfling (crit chance and spell save), Ogre (inscription management, crit, spell save), or Cornac (class points).
- Pump Magic first. After that, build a combination of Dexterity so your puppets crit harder and Cunning so your puppets crit more. Willpower makes your puppets tankier but it isn't important at first.
- Unlock Rapid Fire > Shield Rush > Combo Slash > Repair in that order.
- Open fights with Rapid Fire into Shield Rush (you can use 2 puppet talents in a turn), then Combo Slash on the next turn. Channel Staff can serve as filler for dead turns in earlygame.
- On gear, look for Spellpower, Spell Crit, Physical damage boosts, Spell Save, and damage resistances, along with the above mentioned stats. Always attune your staff to Physical.
- Your first category point should go into either Conveyance or an inscription slot. You won't have the class points to spare for advanced trees until later.
Once you're situated and comfortable with how the puppets work, feel free to ignore any or all of the above! Good luck.
- For your race, pick Shalore (speed, spell crit, CD reduction), Yeek (silence immunity, speed, emergency disable), Higher (damage, resistances, and spell save), Halfling (crit chance and spell save), Ogre (inscription management, crit, spell save), or Cornac (class points).
- Pump Magic first. After that, build a combination of Dexterity so your puppets crit harder and Cunning so your puppets crit more. Willpower makes your puppets tankier but it isn't important at first.
- Unlock Rapid Fire > Shield Rush > Combo Slash > Repair in that order.
- Open fights with Rapid Fire into Shield Rush (you can use 2 puppet talents in a turn), then Combo Slash on the next turn. Channel Staff can serve as filler for dead turns in earlygame.
- On gear, look for Spellpower, Spell Crit, Physical damage boosts, Spell Save, and damage resistances, along with the above mentioned stats. Always attune your staff to Physical.
- Your first category point should go into either Conveyance or an inscription slot. You won't have the class points to spare for advanced trees until later.
Once you're situated and comfortable with how the puppets work, feel free to ignore any or all of the above! Good luck.
Re: [1.7.6] Puppeteer - Mage Class (v1.0.0)
Nice to see you 
I will definitely have to check this out
I will definitely have to check this out
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smithfield
- Halfling
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Re: [1.7.6] Puppeteer - Mage Class (v1.0.0)
Its always a good day to see MrFrog return.
When the puppets die, if I understand correctly there's a 10 turn CD to
respawn. Be really nice if that were in the temporary status display, ala the
temporal hounds.
When the puppets die, if I understand correctly there's a 10 turn CD to
respawn. Be really nice if that were in the temporary status display, ala the
temporal hounds.
Re: [1.7.6] Puppeteer - Mage Class (v1.0.0)
Oh shoot I guess I didn't clarify this anywhere, but when a puppet dies it's gone period until your puppets all disappear out of combat or you cast Reconfiguration. I'll think about how to communicate this to the player (the puppet talent description is already about as long as it can feasibly be)smithfield wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2026 10:34 am Its always a good day to see MrFrog return.
When the puppets die, if I understand correctly there's a 10 turn CD to
respawn. Be really nice if that were in the temporary status display, ala the
temporal hounds.
e: If the puppets ARE spontaneously respawning in combat then that is a bug lol
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Caliginosus
- Cornac
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- Joined: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:17 am
Re: [1.7.6] Puppeteer - Mage Class (v1.0.0)
Hey mate!
The polish of this class is incredible! I barely encountered something you could call a bug, the balance is great and the visuals amazing. Stuff like Laser Legion and String Shield look gorgeous. The descriptions are very detailed and there's even stuff like the low life "!". I never had a problem with the Puppets not spawning, not despawning or something like that, which I find impressive.
I played to the East, on Adventurer Insane. I don't enjoy the game that much anymore after reaching the East, so I am not sure if I will continue the character. Maybe I'll start a Gladiator build on EoR, or just another run to the East with a Gladiator/Arbalest.
I went with Cornac. Inscription into Holdfast, Tinker and War Puppetry. Last cat point I'd spend on Puppet Mage. I did not unlock Conveyance, a Blink Rune felt suffice. Went with Adept into MoD.
The class has many ways to play and unlock, I went with a "Holdfast build" because it sounded the most gimmicky and I am not disapointed in my choice.
I use many addons. The most notable for balance reasons are: Selectable Escorts and tankier escorts, free Skill Point and Stat Point allocation (which I only used for unlocks and testing out skills). At the start of the game I picked up 5k gold from the God Merchant. I didn't go for excessive shopping, only bought all infusions and runes at the beginning of the game.
The first few levels were pretty easy with 3 body blockers and attackers. I had my first death in Norgo's. My Puppets went down and it was the first time I realized I didn't know what to do when my Puppets are all down. It was a fun and memorable moment.
My gear was pure trash up until end of T2s but I was able to manage. Survivability around that time felt good, if not a bit bouncy. Single target damage was pretty bad for a long time, which was partly due to the bad gear and probably partly due to me picking the "tanky build".
Second death was in SWL. I spammed wait because I felt strong and save with an Air Recycler.
Survivability of the Puppets felt on point. It is fun to actively cleanse and heal the Puppets. With an active Bastion me and my Puppets were unkillable.
Single target damage felt bad up until end of Dreadfell but very consistent! Now matter how tanky the enemy, I would slowly wittle down anyone in my way.
I even finished Godfeaster without any problem.
All in all the class is very fun to play and build. A cozy amount of offensive skills and a big amount of support and heal. I especially enjoyed having to wager if I can blow up my Holdfast to immediatly respawn it or if I have to keep the respawn CD because the battle ahead is tough.
The class is quite active despite having 3 permanent pets. I do consider this a good thing but it also means I can't just rush trough the very long second part of the game. Not the classes fault though.
I only really encountered one bug, which happens with Puppeteer+Fearscape classes. The Puppets are not teleported into the Fearscape. It's no problem for the player because we have a skill to recall them. But after killing the enemy in the Fearscape, it's minions are left behind as friendly npcs. I couldn't do anything with them but they interupted auto explore.
Also, enemy Puppets show the low life "!" just as the player ones do. It's a bit distracting. Nothing big but probably not intended.
I had one LUA error. I couldn't find anything special that happended at that moment. Maybe it's a conflict with another addon? Anyway, I'll post in just in case:
Lua Error: /engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:351: /engine/interface/Actor.lua:324:/engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:190: /mod/class/NPC.lua:166: bad argument
Thanks for your work, cheers!
The polish of this class is incredible! I barely encountered something you could call a bug, the balance is great and the visuals amazing. Stuff like Laser Legion and String Shield look gorgeous. The descriptions are very detailed and there's even stuff like the low life "!". I never had a problem with the Puppets not spawning, not despawning or something like that, which I find impressive.
I played to the East, on Adventurer Insane. I don't enjoy the game that much anymore after reaching the East, so I am not sure if I will continue the character. Maybe I'll start a Gladiator build on EoR, or just another run to the East with a Gladiator/Arbalest.
I went with Cornac. Inscription into Holdfast, Tinker and War Puppetry. Last cat point I'd spend on Puppet Mage. I did not unlock Conveyance, a Blink Rune felt suffice. Went with Adept into MoD.
The class has many ways to play and unlock, I went with a "Holdfast build" because it sounded the most gimmicky and I am not disapointed in my choice.
I use many addons. The most notable for balance reasons are: Selectable Escorts and tankier escorts, free Skill Point and Stat Point allocation (which I only used for unlocks and testing out skills). At the start of the game I picked up 5k gold from the God Merchant. I didn't go for excessive shopping, only bought all infusions and runes at the beginning of the game.
The first few levels were pretty easy with 3 body blockers and attackers. I had my first death in Norgo's. My Puppets went down and it was the first time I realized I didn't know what to do when my Puppets are all down. It was a fun and memorable moment.
My gear was pure trash up until end of T2s but I was able to manage. Survivability around that time felt good, if not a bit bouncy. Single target damage was pretty bad for a long time, which was partly due to the bad gear and probably partly due to me picking the "tanky build".
Second death was in SWL. I spammed wait because I felt strong and save with an Air Recycler.
Survivability of the Puppets felt on point. It is fun to actively cleanse and heal the Puppets. With an active Bastion me and my Puppets were unkillable.
Single target damage felt bad up until end of Dreadfell but very consistent! Now matter how tanky the enemy, I would slowly wittle down anyone in my way.
I even finished Godfeaster without any problem.
All in all the class is very fun to play and build. A cozy amount of offensive skills and a big amount of support and heal. I especially enjoyed having to wager if I can blow up my Holdfast to immediatly respawn it or if I have to keep the respawn CD because the battle ahead is tough.
The class is quite active despite having 3 permanent pets. I do consider this a good thing but it also means I can't just rush trough the very long second part of the game. Not the classes fault though.
I only really encountered one bug, which happens with Puppeteer+Fearscape classes. The Puppets are not teleported into the Fearscape. It's no problem for the player because we have a skill to recall them. But after killing the enemy in the Fearscape, it's minions are left behind as friendly npcs. I couldn't do anything with them but they interupted auto explore.
Also, enemy Puppets show the low life "!" just as the player ones do. It's a bit distracting. Nothing big but probably not intended.
I had one LUA error. I couldn't find anything special that happended at that moment. Maybe it's a conflict with another addon? Anyway, I'll post in just in case:
Lua Error: /engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:351: /engine/interface/Actor.lua:324:/engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:190: /mod/class/NPC.lua:166: bad argument
Thanks for your work, cheers!