specialist mages

[kreso]

Is it possible to make them really "special"? In BG2, there's hardly anything special about them. For example, Echanters are no better at enchanting magicks than Necromancers (and viceversa). It's just stupid. I was thinking about adding save penalties for high level casters, only for spells of their school. It would make sense that Finger of Death is more powerful when cast by a Necromancer, rather than an Invoker, for example.

[Demivrgvs]

That's planned, and we started to discuss it ages ago here. Since then I made some progress, and between a couple of new ideas of mine and new ToBEx features we'll be able to do even more than I expected (such as making Evocations deal more damage when cast by Evokers).

[kreso]

Cool.

[Istfemer]

A question to Demi. What are you planning to do with Edwin?

 

Edwin is a conjurer, therefore his restricted school should be Invocation/Evocation.

Yet Edwin has several lines in his dialogue where he clearly states his ability to cast Fireball, an Invocation/Evocation spell. (that encounter with Sylvanas in SoA comes to mind)

His soundset has references to fireballs as well. ("Foom... Fireball.")

 

I think Edwin should retain his ability to cast fireballs for global consistency. Perhaps via innate with X uses per day. Or better yet, through the item ability of his now-nerfed amulet. What do you think about that?

[Alexander-UckateJIb]

But...but Edwin's amulet is not nerfed so yet