Paths

Path of balance

• NEUTRAL ALIGN ONLY
• Adhere at: Master of Neutrality in High Tower of Sorcery
• Spells:
  • Focus: fixes caster's mental state
  • Inner Balance: increases caster's hit roll and damage roll
  • Immobilize: prevents target from acting for a short time, like stun
  • Voice of Reason: gives resist holy/unholy
• Overview of Path: immobilize is a useful spell for those mobs that are vulnerable to it, similar to a mini version of the warrior's stun. Also interesting in PK if it hits.

Path of countermagick

• Adhere at: Spellcraft in Halls of Knowledge
• Spells:
  • Mute: makes target unable to cast spells for a short amount of time
  • Inviola Magicka: makes caster IMMUNE to magic for duration
  • Runebind: allows caster to bind two scribed scrolls to him/herself, one each for attack/defend, that will be cast upon the mage being attacked
• Overview of Path: makes PK interesting... Inviola Magicka has as many drawbacks as benefits, but can be useful against gas attacks, with flee killing.

Path of destruction

• Adhere at: Spellcraft in Halls of Knowledge
• Spells:
  • Abolition: powerful area attack spell
  • Acidmist: acid-based elemental shield
  • Paradox Flux: attack spell that is cheaper/more powerful than both acetum primus and quantum spike
• Overview of Path: Paradox flux is the mage's most powerful attack. Useful for a running mage.

Path of the elder school

• Adhere at: Ravenhill in High Tower of Sorcery
• Spells:
  • Beacon: sets a permanent beacon in the current room, used with traverse
  • Exsurgo: sets caster's strength cap at 20, must still be raised to max with other spells/equipment
  • Lightning Breath: exactly like the old mage spell that was removed
  • Traverse: will astral the caster to the room in which the beacon was placed, if it was in an astrallable room
• Overview of Path: basically gives certain things back to Mages that they had prior to the Shattering, plus beacon/traverse is a nice twist to astral walk

Path of defense

• All spells are castable on others
• Adhere at: Spellcraft in Halls of Knowledge
• Spells:
  • Confidence: gives 5% res blunt/pierce/slash
  • Elemental Mastery: gives 5% res cold/fire/elec
  • Prismatic Shield: casts iceshield/fireshield/shockshield
• Overview of Path: this path seems best suited for a bot that can cast the
• spells on others. Also useful as a support mage when running.

Path of prowess

• Adhere at: Spellcraft in Halls of Knowledge
• Spells:
  • Avoid: gives +95% to dodge skill
  • Deflect: gives +95% to parry skill
  • Skirmish: gives +50% to second attack and +30% to third attack
• Overview of Path: perfect if you want better melee skills on a mage

Path of the quill

• Adhere at: Master Scribe in High Tower of Sorcery
• Spells:
  • Flow of Ink: creates a quill
  • Spellbind: allows caster to bind up to three spells into a spellbook (20 weight, can be purchased at Xygian in DH), but can only be recited by a mage on the Quill path
  • Transfixion: trances twice as fast (time between trances is cut in half)
• Overview of Path: great if you brew/scribe a lot, but if that isn't the main activity on your mage, then you're likely better off with one of the other paths.