As Frey, you are thrust into the fantastical world of Athia with powerful magic at your disposal. Mastering these arcane arts is essential to overcoming the monstrous dangers that lie in wait. This comprehensive guide equips you with unmatched knowledge to dominate through magical mastery.
Movement Abilities – Mobility is Key
Sharp reflexes will only get you so far. Unlock these movement enhancements early on to explore freely and evade threats with grace.
Shimmy – Zipping Across Athia
- Effect: Enables blazing fast air dashes for rapid traversal.
- Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Founts of Blessing in The Citadel
With Shimmy‘s breakneck mobility, crossing Athia‘s expansive terrain becomes effortless. Its stamina cost seems limiting at first. But upon completing Shimmy‘s simple Spellcraft challenge, it refunds stamina while active – converting Shimmy into an indefatigable endurance boon.
This ability is invaluable both in exploration and combat for its unmatched mobility. Dodge and flank attacks with impunity or rapidly escape overwhelming odds. With mana regeneration preventing exhaustion, Shimmy ensures you dictate the flow of battle.
Zip – Spider-Frey on Demand
- Effect: Grapples onto any surface to freely climb/swing.
- Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Refusing Tanta Sila‘s aid in The Water Garden
Zip provides spidery vertical mobility, allowing you to scale sheer surfaces rapidly. While stamina limits its use, Zip‘s Spellcraft trial permanently negates its cost – permitting endless climbing antics.
This flexibility permits accessing hard-to-reach locations easily. Survey the high ground for advantages or discover hidden loot caches. During fights, no axis is off limits. Attack from any vector or evade ground-based threats entirely through superior positioning.
Soar – Upwards Ever Faster
- Effect: Augments climbing speed for near-vertical ascents.
- Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Founts of Blessing in The Water Garden
Soar supplements Zip‘s utility by quickening your climbing speed exponentially. Where Zip facilitates lateral movement, Soar enables swiftly scaling precipitous pits/cliffs otherwise beyond your normal reach.
By magnifying traction, no mountainside or tower is too extreme. In addition, Soar‘s Spellcraft challenge boosts stamina recovery while active – permitting rapid vertical traversal without exhaustion. The high ground is always within reach with Soar.
Offensive Spells – Overwhelming Fury
Enemies in Athia are ruthless and numerous. But magic tilts the odds in your favor. Unlock amplified spellcraft to unleash overwhelming power.
Cluster Bolt – Wide-Ranging Barrages
- Type: Blue Magic (explosive/elemental damage)
- Effect: Call down blasts within a targeted area.
- Base Cost: 14 mana
- Acquisition: Defeating Glide in Callum‘s Scar
This area-effect blast spell pressures groups by bombarding a large zone with numerous explosions simultaneously. While weaker enemies perish under the intense barrage, quicker foes may still evade Cluster Bolt‘s bombardment.
Upgrading it via Spellcraft challenges enlarges the blast radius substantially while augmenting projectile count and velocity – creating practically unavoidable death zones:
| Level | Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Defeat 5 Tantas | +1 Blue Magic |
| 2 | Defeat 10 flying enemies | +28% area, +20 projectiles |
| 3 | Eliminate 7 Nightmares | +47% area, +30 projectiles |
Against packs, Cluster Bolt devastates. But even solitary quick enemies fall victim to its massive coverage post-upgrades. No magic punishes clumped enemies more severely.
Blast Slice – Charged Spear Shots
- Type: Red Magic (physical/elemental melee damage)
- Effect: Imbue spear with timed explosive charge before firing.
- Base Cost: 5 mana
- Acquisition: Learning Slice in The Water Garden
This skill synergizes perfectly with your upgradable melee spear. By infusing spearthrows with timed detonations, you pressure evasive threats while conserving mana. Blast Slice‘s projectile enables leading targets reliably.
Upon impact, the spear explosion damages all nearby hostiles – facilitating multi-kills. Blast Slice also features a leaping aerial smash attack for crushing grounded foes.
Upgrading expands the explosive radius while intensifying detonation force:
| Level | Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strike 10 vulnerable enemies | +1 Red Magic |
| 2 | Hit 5 distant enemies | +18% area |
| 3 | Eliminate 3+ enemies in one use, 15 times | +47% area |
Blast Slice‘s versatility cements it as a top-tier ability for tackling challenging adversaries.
Burst Shot – Rapid-Fire Explosions
- Type: Purple Magic (physical/ranged damage)
- Effect: Discharge explosive projectiles.
- Base Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Learning Shot in The Encroaching Forest
For sniping evasive or distant threats instantly, Burst Shot is ideal. By rapidly conjuring and firing explosive stone projectiles, you pressure groups from range while controlling the battlefield.
Moreover, Burst Shot unlocks additional abilities upon Spellcraft completion – evolving your ranged options:
| Level | Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Defeat 10 vulnerable enemies | +1 Purple Magic |
| 2 | Strike 10 enemies with one use | +1 Flow |
| 3 | Backstab 45 enemies | +1 Scatter Shot |
With no charge time limiting you, Burst Shot provides unmatched reactive ranged power to counter threats effortlessly.
Defensive Spells – Impenetrable Fortress
Endless enemies vie for your demise. But with robust defensive magic, their efforts prove fruitless. These potent protections enable you to withstand otherwise fatal punishment.
Screen – Stone Bulwark
- Type: Purple Magic (barrier/shields)
- Effect: Manifest damaging absorbing rock dome around self.
- Cost: 28 mana
- Acquisition: Learning Leach
When surrounded or facing intense incoming damage, Screen shines. By projecting protective stones outward, you form a potent bubble shield that blocks threats while damaging anyone breaking through.
Activating Screen just 10 times via Spellcraft completes automatic upgrades:
| Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Use during 10 battles | +20% duration, +1 Purple Magic |
With enhancements ensuring longevity, Screen provides reliable anchoring for your entire team during heated encounters.
Leach – Poison Panacea
- Type: Purple Magic (healing/support)
- Effect: Cleanse and immunize against poison.
- Cost: 12 mana
- Acquisition: Unlocking Disperse
In a realm rife with venomous threats, Leach grants critical survivability. Upon being afflicted, instantly activate Leach – washing away all poison damage/effects and granting immunity against future poison for the next 120 seconds.
Additionally, repeated applications unlock regeneration:
| Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Cure poison 3 times | Auto-heal after use, +1 Purple Magic |
With poison ever-present, Leach‘s lifesaving and sustain capabilities prove invaluable.
Crucible – Ring of Fire
- Type: Red Magic (buff/debuff)
- Effect: Manifest ring of protective fire that enhances ally damage.
- Cost: 24 mana
- Acquisition: Defeating Tanta Sila
Crucible projects a blazing circle around you – damaging hostiles entering while fortifying allies within. All of your attacks gain a substantial 50% damage increase while inside.
By completing Crucible‘s simple Spellcraft challenge, you extend its protective window:
| Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Damage 3+ enemies with one activation, 5 times | +20% duration, +1 Red Magic |
Crucible‘s unmatched team offensive buff cement its first-rate status for overwhelming enemies.
Support Spells – Elemental Ally
Beyond directly confronting threats, magic also summons elemental forces as powerful allies. These support spells pressure groups remotely while controlling space.
Disperse – Floral Grenade
- Type: Purple Magic (trap/area denial)
- Effect: Manifest adhesive explosive seed damaging victims in area.
- Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Learning Bind
Disperse launches a seed eventually sprouting viney tendrils that ensnare enemies – immobilizing them while constant thorns afflict victims. Foes cannot remove Disperse‘s vines either, ensuring prolonged effects.
This "set and forget" tool facilitates remote damage, distraction, and control. Disperse Spellcraft quickens the arming time while improving damage:
| Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Eliminate 3 flying enemies | +20% damage, +1 Purple Magic |
Disperse‘s unique properties cement its role for locking down groups and projecting steady damage remotely.
Arc Slice – Scorching Steel
- Type: Red Magic (melee/elemental)
- Effect: Wreathe weapon in flames, unleashing arcing wave.
- Base Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Learning Slice
This close-quarters skill empowers your blade with blistering fire before launching a crescent flame wave – lacerating surrounding groups for extreme damage. Faster casting (via Spellcraft power accumulation) and greater density damage (more enemies struck) both enhance Arc Slice‘s devastation:
| Level | Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accumulate 10,000 power then attack | +1 Red Magic |
| 2 | Eliminate 10 enemies with one use | +20% damage |
| 3 | Finish the last foe in battle, 5 times | +35% damage |
Arc Slice dominates tight spaces, enabling overwhelming critical strikes against multiple superior foes at once.
Genesis – Thorned Pit
- Type: Purple Magic (trap/area denial)
- Effect: Manifest spiked vines from below damaging victims.
- Base Cost: 0 mana
- Acquisition: Learning Shot
By harnessing Athia‘s indigenous flora against foes, Genesis callously impales groups. Upon activation, spiked vines erupt – showering all nearby enemies with piercing thorns.
Much like Disperse, victims cannot remove these animated plants once spawned either. Foes attempting to flee trigger even more debilitating spike bursts, making escape improbable.
Upgrading expands the vines‘ attack radius and damage per hit:
| Level | Challenge | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliminate 10 vulnerable enemies | +1 Purple Magic |
| 2 | Finish the last foe in battle, 5 times | +13% area, +10% damage |
| 3 | Accumulate 30,000 power then attack | +30% area, +25% damage |
Against dense adversary mobs, Genesis mows down superior numbers rapidly.
Conclusion – Reality Overturned
Harnessing such phenomenal arcane might redefines the concept of power itself. United with your magical prowess, no force in Athia can threaten your rise. Master these abilities, challenge perilous threats, and unlock reality bending prowess. The fate of this realm balances upon your actions. Steel your mind and let magic issue forth as an unstoppable tempest!
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