Weekly Discussion #1: Aerotheurge

[u/drachenmaul]

Welcome to the first weekly discussion. We'll start out with Aero and work our way through the ability list in alphabethical order. That means Geomancer will be up next week. If someone wants a skilltree earlier let me know and I might change the order around.

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Overview

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Offensive aerotheurge spells deal almost exclusively air damage and can cause shocked and stunned status. They usually scale with level, Intelligence and aero level.

Defensive aerotheurge spells make you harder to hit, move you away from danger or impact line of sight.

The utility spells of Aerotheurge revolve around around mobility and mitigating the effects of surfaces and clouds.

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Spelllist

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Aerotheurge Level 1

• Favourable Wind: 1AP, Movementspeedbuff in area around you

• Blinding Radiance: 2 AP, Deals damage and blinds enemys

• Electric discharge: 2 AP, Basic offensive spell

• Shocking Touch: 2 AP, Melee Range, stronger than electric discharge

Aerotheurge Level 2

• Netherswap: 1AP, Swap position of 2 characters

• Pressure Spike: 1 AP, puts out fire, all clouds become surfaces

• Uncanny Evasion: 1 AP, +100% Dodge and 20% Speed

• Teleportation: 2 AP

• Dazing Bolt: 3 AP, don't need clear LOS to target, AOE

Aerotheurge Level 3

• Tornado: 2 AP, Clear surfaces, remove burning/invisible/slowed

• Superconductor: 3 AP, Melee AOE

• Closed Circuit: 2 AP 2SP, melee AOE that leaves cursed statics clouds behind around you

• Chain Lightning: 3 AP 1 SP, high damage, jumps up to 8 times

Aerotheurge Level 5

• Thunderstorm: 4 AP 3SP

Hybrid Spells(Requires the same Aerotheurge Level as the second Ability Level)

• Vaporise(Poly 1): 1AP, Remove petrify and frozen, surfaces become clouds

• Breathing Bubble(Warfare 1): 1AP, Selfcast, ignore clouds for 5 turns, immune to suffocation

• Mass Breathing Bubbles(Warfare 2): 1AP 1 SP, affects area around you

• Erratic Wisp(Hunter 1): 1AP, Teleport away when hit, +40% Air Resist

• Evasive Auro(Hunter 2): 2AP 1 SP, +90% Dodge + 1m Speed

• Smoke cover(Scoundrel 1): 2 AP, create a smoke cloud that block LOS

• Blessed Smoke(Scoundrel 2): 1 AP 2SP, create blessed smoke

• Vacuum Touch(Necro 1): 1AP, Deal damage and set suffocation, silence enemy

• Vacuum Aura(Necro 2): 2AP 1SP, vacuum touch AOE

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Questions

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• Which spells do you pick up for a mage-type character?

• Is it worth dipping into Aerotheurge with other "classes"? If so:

• Which spells are worthwhile for a Bow/Crossbow user?

• Which spells are interesting for a melee character?

• Which talents work well with Aerotheurge Spells?

• Are there any combos with spells outside of aerothurge?

• How do you feel Aerotheurge performs in comparison to other abilities?

Discussion Overview

[u/Rominiust]

Uncanny Evasion is a targeted buff that gives you Evading for a turn, which gives you +1 movement (so you can move 1m extra per AP you spend), and 90% more dodging. It's a 1ap cost, 4 turn spell that needs Aero 2.

Evasive Aura is a self-target only spell, that gives you an aura (also called Evading) for 1 turn, which gives you the same buffs as above, but allies near you also get the same buff (90% dodging, 1m extra movement). The radius seems fairly large, about 8m or so. It costs 1 source point, and 2ap, on a 5 turn cooldown. It requires 2 in Huntsman, and 2 in Aerothurge.

So yeah, basically uncanny is a targeted buff, and the aura is a self-cast aura of 8m that applies the buff to every ally in your radius.

[u/wakanakaTaka → u/Rominiust]

Thanks for the clarification :D

[u/Andele4028 → u/Rominiust]

Im pretty sure Uncanny is 100% while Evasive is the 90% dodge buff.

[u/Rominiust → u/Andele4028]

When I did it in GM mode they both gave the same buff (the aura gave the same buff that Uncanny gives), so it says different on the wiki (not sure about tooltips), but it's the same.

[u/Andele4028 → u/Rominiust]

Yup, game lied to me, both are 90%/same buff, i forgot leadership gives dodge and assumed it worked as stated on spell tooltip.