Draconians! (Fixed by Aura of the Dawn)

[Travesty]

Is there documentation anywhere on the different draconic types and what they do, or is it just a matter of reloading until I've seen them all?

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Boiled down to basics, all types get a resist and a power bonus in their chosen element, and a 'breath' weapon (not ALWAYS a breath, but always some sort of offensive tool), and a (weak) armor bonus and damage retaliation on scales. Then they also have type-dependent bonuses on the second talent as well, but those are separate.

I swear I'll try and put a chart together or something, at some point.

[Travesty]

Boiled down to basics, all types get a resist and a power bonus in their chosen element, and a 'breath' weapon (not ALWAYS a breath, but always some sort of offensive tool), and a (weak) armor bonus and damage retaliation on scales. Then they also have type-dependent bonuses on the second talent as well, but those are separate.

I swear I'll try and put a chart together or something, at some point.

Is there a list, at least? I'd love to know what my options are if I shoot for random on Enhanced with, say, a Necromancer (or whatever). I do like this on a conceptual level and am very much looking forward to updates.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Alright, here is a list of what each types rough abilities are. In addition to these, all draconians receive a scales talent providing some bonus armor, and damage retaliation. Furthermore, your 'draconic power' talent in your first racial, will gain new abilities for each additional racial you invest in. Further investment in those racials will improve these additional parts of the first talent.

Edit: Now lists which classes are capable of each type. Available means it can be chosen directly, randomed for means it is on the class, but at a low enough weight it can only show up on random. This information is current as of the CURRENT version (Draconians - Weight lifting, sunshine, and elements - Draconic-fork_5.teaa), where some talent weights have been juggled.
Keep in mind some of the weights are excessively off. (huge on one type, miniscule on others, so things that must be randomed for might not show up at all frequently.) I'm working on fixing this over the next few versions. If someone wants to make a prettier chart in some way, please do, to avoid the whole 'wall of text' thing I have going on. (though if so, make it easily accessible to everyone, ideally posted here in this topic, and be willing to update it when the addon changes. (especially in the coming 2-3 versions where weights are going to change.)

Fire
Gains fire resistance, Fire damage boost, a boost to melee damage, a boost to spellpower, and a boost to mindpower..
Attack talent is a conical flame breath, which also applies the burning status effect.
This form is available to unsupported classes, as well as sun paladins, wyrmics, bulwarks, archmage, enchanter, elementalist, rogue, arcane blade, spellsword, alchemist, druid, adventurer, moon paladin, starslinger, arcanist, anarchist, spiritmancer, elemental knight, paradox mage, temporal warden, heavy, ascetic, storm warden, hero, and blood knight.
It can be randomed for on oozemancer, anorithil, empyreal, shadowblade, necromancer, solipsist, mindslayer, and doomed.

Cold
Gains cold resistance, Cold Damage boost, and a resistance to bleeding/cuts.
Attack talent is a conical ice breath, and has a chance to freeze.
This form is available to unsupported classes, as well as wyrmic, bulwark, archmage, enchanter, elementalist, rogue, arcane blade, spellsword, necromancer, alchemist, druid, adventurer, moon paladin, starslinger, arcanist, anarchist, spiritmancer, elemental knight, paradox mage, temporal warden, heavy, ascetic, storm warden, hero, blood knight.
It can be randomed for on Sun paladin, oozemancer, anorithil, empyreal, shadowblade, solipsist, mindslayer, and doomed.

Lightning
Gains Lightning resistance, lightning damage boost, and a movement speed boost.
Attack talent is a conical lightning breath, and has a chance to daze.
This form is available to unsupported classes, as well as Wyrmic, Bulwark, archmage, enchanter, elemtalist, rogue, berzerker, arcane blade, spellsword, alchemist, druid, werebeast, marauder, brawler, cursed, adventurer, moon paladin, starslinger, arcanist, anarchist, spiritmancer, elemental knight, archer, paradox mage, temporal warden, heavy, ascetic, storm warden, hero, blood knight.
It can be randomed for on Sun paladin, oozemancer, anorithil, empyreal, shadowblade, necromancer, solipsist, mindslayer, and doomed.

Physical (Earth)
Gains physical resistance, a physical damage boost, and stun reistance.
Attack talent is a conical breath of sand, and has a chance to blind.
This form is available to Sun paladin, bulwark, archmage, elementalist, rogue, berzerker, arcane blade, spellsword, necromancer, mindslayer, doomed, druid, werebeast, marauder, brawler, cursed, adventurer, archer, paradox mage, heavy, ascetic, storm warden, hero, blood knight.
It can be randomed for on unsupported classes, as well as wyrmic, oozemancer, anorithil, empyreal, enchanter, shadowblade, solipsist, alchemist, moon paladin, starslinger, arcanist, anarchist, spiritmancer, elemental knight, temporal warden.

Light
Gains resistance to light, a light damage boost, a boost to physical saves, and a boost to spell saves.
Attack talent is a beam of light, and has a chance to blind.
This form is available to Sun paladin, Anorithil, empyreal, shadowblade, adventurer, moon paladin, arcanist, spiritmancer, hero.
It can be randomed for on nothing currently.

Arcane
Gains resistance to arcane, a arcane damage boost, a boost to spellpower, a boost to spellcrit, a boost to mindpower, and a boost to mindcrit.
Attack talent is a beam of arcane damage, and dispels magical/physical buffs on the target.
This form is available to archmage, enchanter, arcane blade, adventurer, arcanist, and hero.
It can be randomed for on wyrmic, oozemancer, solipsist, mindslayer, and doomed.

Dark
Gains resistance to dark, a dark damage boost, a boost to your ability to see stealthed creatures, a boost to your ability to see invisible creatures, and a boost to your infravision range.
Attack talent is a ball of darkness, with a chance to stun.
This form is available to anorithil, empyreal, shadowblade, necromancer, cursed, adventurer, moon paladin, starslinger, arcanist, and hero.
It can be randomed for on nothing currently.

Multi-hued
Gains resistance to fire, cold, acid, lightning, and physical (Lower then specialized types), a boost to damage to fire, cold, acid, lightning, and physical (Lower then the specialized types), and an increase to the cunning stat.
Attack talent is a ball of an element, randomly chosen from fire, ice, acid, lightning, or physical.
This form is available to wyrmic, archmage, enchanter, elementalist, arcane blade, spellsword, druid, adventurer, arcanist, elemental knight, ascetic, and hero.
It can be randomed for on unsupported classes, as well as sun paladin, bulwark, oozemancer, anorithil, empyreal, rogue, berserker, shadowblade, necromancer, solipsist, mindslayer, doomed, alchemist, werebeast, marauder, brawler, cursed, moon paladin, starslinger, anarchist, spiritmancer, archer, paradox mage, temporal warden, heavy, storm warden, and blood knight.

Nature
Gains resistance to acid, resistance to nature, an increase to nature, an increase in acid damage, an increase in nature damage, an increase in life regen, and an increase to healmod.
Attack talent is a conical breath of acid, and has a chance to disarm.
This form is available to oozemancer, druid, adventurer, archer, and hero.
It can be randomed for on wyrmic.

Mind (Dream)
Gains resistance to mind, a mind damage boost, a boost to your mindsave, a boost to your mindpower, and a boost to your mindcrit.
Attack talent is a ball of mind damage.
This form is available to solipsist, mindslayer, doomed, cursed, adventurer, and hero.
It can be randomed for on nothing currently.

Lapis (Magical cold)
Gains resistance penetration for cold damage, and a cold damage boost (higher then ice body), gains an armor bonus (low), a boost to spellpower, and a boost to spellcrit.
Attack talent is a conical blast of ice, which does cold and physical damage, as well as attempting to leave the target bleeding.
This form is available to archmage, elementalist, alchemist, druid, adventurer, and hero.
It can be randomed for on Necromancer.

Ruby (Magical fire)
Gains resistance penetration for fire damage, and a fire damage boost (higher then flame body), gains an armor bonus (low), a boost to spellpower, and a boost to spellcrit.
Attack talent is a conical blast of flaming rocks, which deal fire and physical damage, as well as attempting to leave the target bleeding.
This form is available to archmage, enchanter, elementalist, alchemist, druid, adventurer, and hero.
It can be randomed for on nothing currently.

Turquoise (Magical Acid)
Gains resistance penetration for acid damage, and a acid damage boost (higher then nature body), gains an armor bonus (low), a boost to spellpower, and a boost to spellcrit.
Attack talent is a conical blast of acid, which deals acid and physical damage, as well as corrdoing the target (lowered accuracy and armor and defense), and a chance to leave the target bleeding.
This form is available to alchemist, adventurer, and hero.
It can be randomed for on nothing currently.

Razor (Physical Bleed)
Gains physical resistance (low), a physical damage boost, the ability to make things bleed when you are hit, and the ability to make things bleed when you hit them.
Attack talent is a Rush with all weapons + bleed attached. It also attempts to bleed each target you pass adjacent to while rushing. In Ultimate form, the rush applies additonal burst of shrapnel on impact, bleeding for more damage on all targets within radius of the impact.
This form is available to berzerker, werebeast, marauder, cursed, adventurer, hero, and blood knight.
It can be randomed for on rogue, and heavy.

Golden (Positive Light)
Gains resistance to light, a boost to light damage, increases maximum positive energy, increases positive energy regen.
Attack talent is a radial blast of light damage, which generates a damage barrier. If in Ultimate form, you are also healed for a portion of the damage.
This form is available to sun paladin, adventurer, moon paladin, and hero.
It can be randomed for on anorithil.

Zen (Physical + Unarmed combat)
Gains an increase to defence, a boost to mind-save, an increase to the talent tree 'technique/pugilism', an increase in physical resistance (negligable), and an increase in physical damage.
Attack talent is a flurry of multiple attacks with your 'weapons', with combo points increasing the maximum number of hits. The combo stops if you miss. If all blows hit, the final blow strikes in a radius around you.
This form is available to brawler, adventurer, and hero.
It can be randomed for on nothing currently.

Silver (Physical + Light)
Gains resistance to physical (lower then earth), and resistance to light (lower then golden or light), increases physical damage (less then other types), increases light damage (less then other types), and gains an armor bonus (middling), and finally, also gains an 'antimagic shield' effect, blocking a given value of magical damage.
Attack talent is a roar (radial) that deals 'silver' damage. This is physical, to all things except undead or horrors, who instead take light.
This form is available to bulwark, adventurer, moon paladin, and hero.
It can be randomed for on sun paladin.

Steel (Physical + Armor)
Gains physical resistance (lower then earth), gains armor (middling), and an increase in physical damage. Also applies a chance to deflect projectiles, and a chance to nullify incoming spell damage. (Both pretty low)
Attack talent is a radial that strikes adjacent targets for weapon and shield damage. (This talent requires a shield.) If the shield strike hits, foes are also dazed.
This form is available to bulwark, adventurer, anarchist, elemental knight, hero, and blood knight.
It can be randomed for on heavy, and ascetic.

Temporal
Gains an increase to temporal resistance, a boost to temporal damage, and reduces the chance of paradox failures (equivalent to willpower). (same effect as is found on items)
Attack talent is a conical breath of temporal damage that slows targets it hits.
This form is available to adventurer, anarchist, paradox mage, temporal warden, heavy, ascetic, and hero.
It can be randomed for on arcanist.

Sky (Defence)
Gains an increase to physical resistance (low), a boost to physical damage (negligable), and a boost to defence, and a boost to movement speed.
Attack talent is a conical blast that knocks targets back.
This form is available to adventurer, starslinger, archer, temporal warden, storm warden, and hero.
It can be randomed for on brawler.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Updated.

Should be safe to update on any existing file, unless you are running a golden draconian. Those had a talent change, and might bug. Finish existing golden Draconians before updating. Also, see above post for up to date information on what the assorted types do, and what classes have access to each.

Changelist -

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Updates talent weights on numerous types. Things should be less extreme when randomed for now, but only partially. This is an ongoing update for the next few versions.
Fixed a bug with golden form messing up positive generation rates on classes with both positive and negative energy. They were fine before on sunpally, but can now be safely used on anorithil/adventurer with both positive and negative.
Fixed a bug with elementist class support from arcanum. They should now receive their proper form choices.
Added razor and steel to heavy, added temporal to a few things, added cold and lapis to necro, and a few other changes.
Forum post now has a list of draconian types, their effects, and what classes they are available to.

As always, report any bugs.

[Travesty]

Thanks for the info!

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

(I always wanted to say that...)

Draconian has received an update. Not much of one, just adding support for the freshly updated monk class by Grayswandir. As always, bug reports are appreciated.

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Adds support for the Monk class (By Grayswandir). They receive Fire, Cold, Lightning, and Earth and multi-hued as direct choices, and have a chance at Silver, Steel, and Razor through random.

Front page post has been updated with an up to date type chart. Check there for any future changes.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

New update, more significant!

A brand new very special Draconian type has been added. Every class may random for this new type, and it is directly selectable by adventurers and heroes.

The dark draconian has been slightly modified. Now, in addition to infravision, it also gains 'heightened senses' at the same rate, so if you invest in the heightened senses talent, it does not become worthless. It has also gained some small 'stealth power' increases, though this does no good if you are not/can not stealth. Finally, rogues may now be dark draconians.

New graphics were added for the zen draconian type, as were they for the Dracolich type, along with Wind and Temporal finally receiving proper graphics, instead of placeholders.

Enjoy, and may the luck be with you!

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

BunnyWyrms have Arrived!

Update this addon, and any character of draconian race that receives the bunnification event will experience a different sort of transformation into bunny sized dragons. (Or dragon-shaped bunnies.)

Step 1 - Make draconian.
Step 2 - Receive server push for bunnification.
Step 3 - SQUEEEE at how cute they are.
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - Profit!

Unfortunately, previous versions of draconian will not experience this, and characters that already have the bunnification effect will also not benefit, the server push must come after updating. Update soon, that the bunnies may spread everywhere as Easter Approaches!

The new graphics were provided thanks to Waladil, and Edited for insertion by Rexorcorum. Many thanks to our bunny loving artists! Be sure to thank them for the adorable bunnywyrms!

[Dead-not-Sleeping]

BunnyWyrms have Arrived!

Update this addon, and any character of draconian race that receives the bunnification event will experience a different sort of transformation into bunny sized dragons. (Or dragon-shaped bunnies.)

Step 1 - Make draconian.
Step 2 - Receive server push for bunnification.
Step 3 - SQUEEEE at how cute they are.
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - Profit!

That's adorable, though I now have a horrible urge to start quoting Monty Python.

[Stoltverd]

Very VERY interested in this race.
But i think i am doing something wrong...
Is it supposed to have no custom sprites? My character looks like a Higher. Also all my draconian characters start in the higher starting zone...
Did i - up?
Also what is the process to get all those types listed?
Regards

[rexorcorum]

Very VERY interested in this race.
But i think i am doing something wrong...
Is it supposed to have no custom sprites? My character looks like a Higher. Also all my draconian characters start in the higher starting zone...
Did i - up?

Play awhile and your inner dragon will be awoken and your pathetic human life will inadvertently change .

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Yeah, your dragon powers are currently lying dormant. Beat your first zone-boss and it should drop an item that kicks up some... memories... when used.

In game, it'll list available types (I recommend setting the option under gameplay options to 'enhanced', it starts on standard) and choosing that way. As for a list of what types are available, check the first post of this section, as it lists each type, what classes have it, and a brief description of it's powers. It's accurate for 'enhanced', and mostly accurate for 'standard'. (A few types would have to be randomed for instead of chosen directly, is the only difference.)

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Update: A Strong Wind Blows.

Wind Draconians have an altered breath weapon now. In addition to knockback, a proper damage modifier is now applied when enemies are successfully slammed into a wall, increasing damage. Additionally, while in ultimate form, your breath of wind instead becomes a massive down-draft from your wings, making it a radial effect centered on you. Range was nerfed to compensate for the increased damage, but may need further tweaking. Feedback will be appreciated.

Special thanks go to Nagyhal (among others) for helping me to get this fancy damage type up and running, and DoctorNull for some debugging help.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Minor Update. This addon is now available via steam.