Mage

Alpha-2 Mage Chain Lightning arcing around an environmental obstacle.

You saw there that I ice bolted to apply stacks of chill. I Then followed up with my Elemental Empowerment attacks that added additional chill stacks, which created the frozen condition on the target they couldn't move; and then before that frozen conditions subsided I used my Arc Lightning in order to cause the Shattered effect. – Steven Sharif

Alpha-2 Melee Mage using a Greatsword weapon combo with class abilities.

Different weapons have different synergies with class abilities, which just introduces that extra level of depth. It's like, how can I maximize the effect of this... I'm trading in this case my ranged potential for the ability to apply these status effects in a more AoE regard, which makes Greatsword a lot better for dealing with packs than the wand; and sometimes you'll even be able to use either one based on the situation. We allow players to swap their weapons based on what they are coming up against and it creates a lot of answers to different situations if you have the tools for it. – Tradd Thompson

Mage is an archetype in Ashes of Creation.

• Mages are able to combine skills from different elements, along with non-elemental spells and weapon attacks to produce powerful synergies and combos.
  • Players can focus exclusively on a single element, but this will reduce their ability to benefit from synergies and combos between different elements.

Passive essence is converted into useful forms and patterns under their direction, which can then take the shape of nearly anything imaginable! Mages can bend space, summon light, or set the very air ablaze – applying force in all its rawness, or in any shade of their elemental fury.

• Mages tend to have the most direct relationship with Эссенция compared to others.

Mages tend to have the most direct relationship with essence compared to others, and they manage that bond with a singular will... As a Mage’s connection to essence develops further, their power will continue to grow, unfold, and take shape.

Mage classes

Class	Primary	Secondary
Acolyte	Mage	Cleric
Archwizard	Mage	Mage
Battle Mage	Mage	Fighter
Shadow Caster	Mage	Rogue
Sorcerer	Mage	Bard
Spellhunter	Mage	Ranger
Spellstone	Mage	Tank
Warlock	Mage	Summoner

Skills/abilities

Skill	Icon	Description
Arcane Beam		Deal (20%🢆) arcane damage to target enemy or a nearby enemy every 0.5 seconds for 8 seconds. Each hit also restores 3 mana.
Arcane Circle		Place a powerful rune of magic upon the ground beneath you, grants Arcane Empowerment while standing within. Lasts 10 seconds.
Arcane Empowerment		Temporarily dramatically increased cast time while active. Consume all spell charges for increased duration per charge consumed. Spell charges are generated whenever you cast an offensive mage spell while not under the effects of Arcane Empowerment. Each cast generates 1 charge, up to a maximum of 10 charges.
Arcane Eye		Conjure a magical eye that reveals any camouflaged enemies within a 20 meter radius around you to you and all party members over the next 8 seconds.
Arcane Volley		Fires a volley of 7 arcane missiles at your target, dealing (35%🢆) arcane damage each.
Ball Lightning		Create a large ball of charged electricity that travels slowly forward, rapidly dealing (50%🢆) lightning damage and applying Volatile to enemies it overlaps with.
Blink		Instantly teleport a set distance in the direction you are moving.
Blizzard		Channel a massive blizzard around you, raining a barrage of hail shards upon your enemies while channeling. Periodically pulses Chilled to targets within the area. Each shard impact deals (50%🢆) ice damage in a small area around it and applies Frozen to targets with Chilled.
Chain Lightning		Release a powerful streak of lightning that hits your primary target and then chains outward to up to 5 nearby enemies from that target, dealing (175%🢆) lightning damage to each. Applies 20 stacks of Shocked to targets with Volatile.
Combust		Instantly combust your target, dealing (125%🢆) fire damage and applying Conflagrating if they are Burning.
Cone of Cold		Blasts a cone of cold in front of the caster, dealing (125%🢆) ice damage. Applies Chilled to targets hit.
Elemental Empowerment		Whenever you cast an elemental spell, your weapon combo finishers apply a stack of Burning, Chilled, or Volatile to targets hit, based on the current empowered element. Casting a spell of another element changes your current Elemental Empowerment to that element.
Fireball		Hurl a ball of fire toward your target, dealing (100%🢆) fire damage and applying Burning for (75%🢆) fire damage. 3 charges.
Fissure		Call forth a line of jagged earthen spikes in a line in front of you, dealing (175%🢆) pierce damage, applying Staggered, and launching each enemy hit.
Frostbolt		Launch a bolt of frost towards your target, dealing ice damage and applying 2 Chilled stacks to the target on impact. Chilled reduces movement speed of the target for each stack applied. When the target reaches 5 stacks, they become Frozen, rooting them in place for the duration. Hitting a frozen enemy with a lightning spell causes them to Shatter, dealing significant damage and removing the Frozen effect.
Lightning Strike		Held ability: Charge up a bolt of lightning to unleash upon your target, dealing lightning damage and applying 2 stacks of Electrified to the target. This deals additional damage based on how long it was charged. Electrified reduces the target's magical mitigation for each stack applied. When the target reaches 10 stacks, all Electrified stacks are consumed and they become temporarily Shocked. Whenever a Shocked enemy takes damage, they take additional damage and 1 stack of Shocked is consumed. Shocked is initially applied with 20 stacks.
Magma Field		Erupts the earth at target location, forming a boiling pool of lava that deals fire damage to enemies per tick while periodically applying a stack of Burning to enemies within the area.
Meteor		Conjures a massive flaming rock before sending it hurling toward target location. Upon impact, it deals major fire damage while knocking foes flying, and then continues to roll forward for its remaining distance, dealing additional fire damage while applying stacks of Burning to enemies along its path.
Quake		Held ability: Cast a powerful earthquake that deals more damage the longer it was charged and applies 10 stacks of Staggered to all enemies around the caster. If the spell was fully charged, this applies Tripped instead of Staggered.
Shell		Create a protective magical shell around yourself that absorbs a large amount of damage before breaking.
Slumber		Applies the sleeping condition to targets affected within a small area around the primary target, rendering them unable to move or take any action. Any damage dealt to a sleeping target will break the effect. Duration is reduced by 20% for each additional target hit, to a minimum of 40% of base duration.

Elements

There are elements (such as Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Electrical) in Ashes of Creation each with their own resistances.

• Other elemental influences may include Darkness, Light and Planar. The Air Strike ability has a nature based root.

• The Mage archetype offers four elemental schools as augments to a character's primary skills.

• Elements may have more influence in certain seasons and weather conditions. For example, frost abilities may be stronger in winter and lightning might be stronger in the rain. This affects both PvE and PvP.

• There may be ley lines and strong magical places in the world that change or alter the way spells work.

We've discussed a little bit about how the seasons and biomes will react with different types of skills. Like if you have a fireball and it's summer it might be a little bit different. If it's winter and you have a frost ability it might be different. – Steven Sharif

Mage augments

Mages will offer four magical schools of augmentation, such as teleportation, fire, frost, and lightning (electrical).

Say for instance, I am a Ranger that has a Charge bolt ability as my primary active skill and I've chosen Mage as my secondary and applied the elemental to it. I now have a Frost charge bolt, and if I fire that frostbolt and hit a target, they may be freezing for a period of time as a debuff and that might slow their speed. If a wizard applies a nuke on a target and that nuke is a frost-based nuke, those two stacking elements might then either further snare (slow the target) or paralyze and freeze the target. So, there are combination out effects that build up: A primary, secondary and some ancillary effect occurs when those are combined. – Steven Sharif

There's going to be four schools of augmentation for each archetype. One of the schools for the mage is the teleport school. You can take that teleport augment, apply it to your charge skill: now instead of charging x distance over time you're going to immediately teleport to the target dealing x damage and a condition modifier. If you were to apply the elemental school to your class ability you would then instead you would charge x distance; upon reaching target you would set the target ablaze if it's fire or you would electrocute them and deal with damage over time. – Steven Sharif

Spellbooks

Alpha-2 spellbook 3D-рендеры.

Spellbooks are a type of ranged weapon in Ashes of Creation.

When we were creating the book we have for Alpha-0, one the ideas floating around was to have a large tome with a chain that held the tome; and you could swing the tome to hit your targets as a melee book. Whether or not that comes to fruition we will see, but it was an idea on the sketchboard. – Steven Sharif

Orbs

Alpha-2 orb 3D render.

Orbs are a type of weapon in Ashes of Creation.

Mage timeline

The Mage archetype is expected to be present at the start of Alpha-2.

• Mage was released in Alpha-1.
• The Alpha-2 mage archetype will be showcased before the Rogue.

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Archetype list

Этот перевод может быть устаревшим

Иконка	Архетип	Тип.	Роль.
	Бард	Мистический	Поддержка
	Клерик	Мистический	Поддержка
	Боец	Боевой	Урон
	Маг	Мистический	Урон
	Рейнджер	Боевой	Урон
	Разбойник	Боевой	Урон
	Призыватель	Мистический	Поддержка
	Танк	Боевой	Танк

Смотрите также

• Архетипы
• Классы