Channeling Locked Features

[Etherdrifter 2,518]

We all know the deal; grind 100 faith and all magic is at your fingertips.  By 50 channeling, most spells are pretty effective and enchant shatters are minimal.

 

But what if higher levels of channeling opened up new uses for existing spells, some examples being:

 

• Casting morning fog as a helmet enchant at 70 channeling to make the wearer immune to beestings
• Casting strongwall at 60 channeling on statues to reduce their decay rate offdeed.
• Casting pillar of ice at on larders at 70 channeling to spawn snowballs in their iceboxes.
• Casting cleanse on a player at 80 channeling to remove disease
  etc

Little uses for existing spells that unlock with higher levels of channeling (reflecting much more fine tuned control on the priest's part).  Nothing aimed at PvP, just little extra uses for spells one may not cast too much.

[Wargasm 1,927]

Or creating water tiles via frost pillar.

Having a chance to create a lava tile with a fire pillar.

Creation of mushrooms of random colors appearing on tiles around you from fungus trap.

Improved description text on mole senses with higher channeling.

Wild growth turns affected trees harvestable.  Has a chance to advance the growth stage of farm fields.

Wild Growth could also have a chance to advance the age of a foal.  Only works on foals.

[Shmeric 581]

I like that idea.

 

Similar to "You now feel confident enough to steal things"

 

 

[Schiann 994]

Good idea. Adds a bit of complexity to spellcasting without adding difficulty, and could increase the usefulness of some more rarely used spells.

[Jaz 2,665]

I like the idea too, would encourage channeling grind on some priests too.

[kochinac 1,395]

+1

[shamflam 41]

On 1/27/2019 at 1:07 AM, Wargasm said:

 

Having a chance to create a lava tile with a fire pillar.

 

 

+1 we need more lava

[Etherdrifter 2,518]

Going to bump this one, in case the devs are inclined to round out magic a bit more with nice QoL effects.

[CreZ 284]

1 hour ago, Etherdrifter said:

Going to bump this one, in case the devs are inclined to round out magic a bit more with nice QoL effects.

Hahahhaha good one.

This is far too useful to established players and adds actual functionality. You need to make it benefit and attract steam newbs and have more/fancier pixels if you want to get any dev traction.

[Sn00 1,005]

It's a great idea! I like it.

[leander 127]

+1 grate idea maybe give vynora priests a lvl 10 cast snowballs spell like casting dirts

Edited March 28, 2020 by leander

[Etherdrifter 2,518]

Going to give this a nice bump, since it might be a good feature to add if the devs want to make skilling channeling less link reliant (higher channeling features give higher difficulty ticks).

[Etherdrifter 2,518]

Time for a bump here I think...

 

Magic on wurm really does need a bit of a boost for those of us who actually play priests vs those who have a genesis bot!

[Etherdrifter 2,518]

Hrm, spell gems.  Wouldn't it be nice if there were some extra effects we could tag onto our spells...