mage and druid
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- Tanistian_Kanea
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mage and druid
ok, so here is an idea i don't think has come up yet but just popped into my head reading the top 5 thread. is it currently possible, to be both a mage and a druid?
- Estralis Seborian
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I think it should be clarified...
Though you can technically brew herbs together into a broth (alchemy) without being a druid, it is not possible to complete the final step to make it into a potion. (Or at least that's the way it was, I don't think it's changed.) Furthermore, without the first few "runes" druids get, it is incredibly difficult to make the potion/broth you want, because unless you have notes from a druid telling you exactly what each herb does, you're mixing blindly. Secondly, without those same runes, you have no personal quality control. You have to trust that your herb supplier is selling you only quality herbs if you want good potions/broths.
It's incredibly difficult to play an alchemist that has not become a druid. The engine does not allow a character to have magic -and- druid runes at the same time.
Though you can technically brew herbs together into a broth (alchemy) without being a druid, it is not possible to complete the final step to make it into a potion. (Or at least that's the way it was, I don't think it's changed.) Furthermore, without the first few "runes" druids get, it is incredibly difficult to make the potion/broth you want, because unless you have notes from a druid telling you exactly what each herb does, you're mixing blindly. Secondly, without those same runes, you have no personal quality control. You have to trust that your herb supplier is selling you only quality herbs if you want good potions/broths.
It's incredibly difficult to play an alchemist that has not become a druid. The engine does not allow a character to have magic -and- druid runes at the same time.
I was trying to play my character as more of an intellectual book reading alchemist who stays in doors brewing potions rather a druid who is at one with nature. Therefore the free druids seem unsuitable for such a character. He would have to learn without being an 'actual' druid in the tree hugging sense.
That's fine, really. The whole nature thing is 100% roleplay. You can become a druid and call yourself whatever you want of course: shaman, alchemist, druid, kitchen wife.Dorton wrote:I was trying to play my character as more of an intellectual book reading alchemist who stays in doors brewing potions rather a druid who is at one with nature. Therefore the free druids seem unsuitable for such a character. He would have to learn without being an 'actual' druid in the tree hugging sense.
You are capable of learning the alchemy system without the guidance of a druid guild. There's individual druids, I'm sure, who like you, are only "alchemists".
However, you more than likely want to be a druid in engine terms, and if you do that, you cannot learn magic as well (who would want to anyway? )
- Alexander Knight
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Well they can do EVERYTHING. Use runes to see your stats/skills, see every item you wear including the quality, make potions which change your appearance, kill you with a potion in 7 seconds (Counted when i gave squee one ) Make a boom potion which is like a gynk but 100000000 times more powerful, they also have a few secrets , they can make you as small as possible or make you grow the size of a lich.
they can tell if you have a cold/poisoned/diseased and can cure them all
they can tell if you have a cold/poisoned/diseased and can cure them all
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- Estralis Seborian
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It is always interesting what people 'know' about the update. The information above is not entirely correct. The old potions - (strong) healing potion, mana potion, poison, wind potion - are a relict of the old druid magic system. They remained ingame even though druid magic was taken out.Alexander Knight wrote:The poison will be taken out after the VBU because it is way too strong
Now we have the 'new' druid magic. Hence, the old potions will be no longer. But there are still potions with poison effect in the 'new' druid magic! Nasty once, I have to add.
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