October 2020 Megaupdate (part 2)

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  • Air templar no longer receives: spear, parry, controlled flight.
  • Air templar now receives: focused precision, mist form, distract.
  • Archery’s in-round quickshot has had its activation lag increased to 1.5 rounds.
  • Lightning brand has a new implementation. Its duration is extended on metal weapons, and reduced on wooden ones.

  • Fire templar now receives: immolate.
  • Firebrand has a new implementation, and its duration is extended on evil-flagged weapons.
  • Rune of embers has a new implementation, which expands its targeting ability.
  • Baptism of fire and ignite enchantment have had their respective dispel lists expanded in light of earth sphere additions.
  • Disruption is now an extension skill for immolate, which causes it to dispel earth spell buffs. See HELP DISRUPTION for details.

  • Water templar no longer receives: parry, life shield, icy shield.
  • Water templar now receives: iceshard, dodge, frozen shield, Rotheld’s bulwark.
  • Frostbrand has a new implementation, and its duration is extended on bless-flagged weapons.
  • Rune of life has a new implementation, which expands its targeting ability.

  • Spirit templar no longer receives: spear, undying radiance, parry, rescue, remove hex, rite of Nathli, weavesense, vengeance, resonance.
  • Spirit templar now receives: axe, flail, intercession, unshackle, spiritwrack, light of deliverance.
  • Many spirit spells are now aurabound, preventing them from being cast without an appropriate amount of gold aura.
  • Several spirit templar abilities have alternate echoing when used by a follower of Rystaia, Alajial, or Calaera.
  • Bless has a new implementation, which should make the functionality of it and curse more appropriately mirror one another.
  • Blade of light now produces a masterwork weapon, to give the spell enhanced utility.
  • Consecrate weapon’s duration is now increased on glowing or blessed weapons, similar to its inverse, desecrate weapon.
  • Soul flare has a new implementation, and is now a proper AoE blindness effect.
  • Wrath of Kyana has a new implementation, allowing the spell to increase in power with additional castings. See HELP WRATH OF KYANA for more.
  • Spiritwrack can now injure characters with neutral karma (no aura)\; only characters with gold aura are protected.
  • Spiritwrack can now synergize with light-based weapons, allowing a partial conversion to that damage type.
  • Invocation of Converu is now an extension skill for unshackle. See HELP INVOCATION OF CONVERU for details.
  • Exorcism has a new implementation, and has adjusted functionality. See HELP EXORCISM for details.
  • Void templar no longer receives: blindfighting, parry, dual wield, shadow strike, dim, desecrate weapon, pass door, leech rune, poison, siphon mana, individual demon binding spells.

  • Void templar now receives: gloomward, dodge, distract, spectre, shadowcloak, serpent’s fang, flesh of my flesh, energy leech, bind demon, bound fury, Gamalean emissary.
  • Void templar has received a number of new abilities. Please see their respective help entries for more information.
  • Enervating ray now has templar-specific casting echoes while the caster is armed.
  • Harm has a new implementation, making it function as an evil inverse to the spiritwrack spell, and can synergize with defilement of Logor.
  • Demonbound items, when cleansed of their binding, no longer spawn demons to hunt the original caster.
  • Expel demon no longer requires a circle of protection to function.
  • Phase door has had its cost reduced significantly, and allows those in demonic possession to pass unharmed.
  • Flay has a new implementation, is now weapon independent, and inflicts hitroll/damroll penalties instead of strength loss.
  • Embrace of Isetaton no longer considers the victim’s dexterity score when determining if they save against the effect.
  • Demonic possession now grants different bonuses depending on what demonbound items you are using at the time of casting.
  • Summon can now conjure the target character even if they are currently in combat.

  • All templars have had their levels of acquisition for wands and scrolls altered in light of the general scholar skill progression.
  • Magic devices, such as wands, scrolls, and staves will no longer fail completely\; instead the resultant spell’s CL will scale.