Mage Spotlight

Well, two weeks have passed with no updates. We promised consistent updates and failed to deliver, for that we apologize for the silence, but hope to give better and more regular posts in the future.


Anyways, today we are looking at the mage and her powers. From a purely game play perspective, the mage is a true glass cannon. Her attacks and abilities are powerful, but her health is low making her fragile compared to the other heroes.

Attacking and Blocking

The mage's primary attack is a ranged flame bolt that can travel any distance. Once colliding with it's target you will hear a sizzle as it singes their armor, clothing, fur or skin. This attack works great for her position as the lowest health character, as it allows you to play at a distance from most enemies.

The mage's block is not a typical protective move. Rather than raising a shield, weapon or fists to stop incoming attacks, the mage uses a small field of flames to protect herself. Just like all other blocks, this prevents half of all incoming damage. 

Finally, the mage's power attack is a spiral of flame rising from her hooves. This attack damages all foes around her, allowing you to escape tight situations by

stunning all surrounding enemies while also dealing massive damage.

The mage's attacks are all also magical attacks. While this may seem obvious, it does have a major impact on many enemies. Most foes you will encounter are not resistant at all to magical attacks, but may be resistant to melee or ranged attacks. This means that the mage will almost always be effective in combat, even if the enemies are well armored.

Abilities

Ability 1 - Fire Ball

The first ability the mage obtains is the fire ball spell. This is a high damage blast of explosive flame, hurdling through the air only to explode on contact with an enemy or after a short distance. The ball of fire itself deals damage on top of the explosion afterwards, meaning a direct hit will deal incredible damage to a single enemy.

Ability 2 - Lightning Bolt

The mage's second ability is to fire a bolt of lightning from her hands. This strike travels straight through enemies, meaning any line of attackers will all take the full damage of the bolt at once. The lightning bolt provides the easiest way to stun a group of enemies. Each target hit by the shock will be stunned and damaged, possibly saving yourself and all of your friends in the process.

Ability 3 - Molten Rain

The final ability the mage gets is rain made of pure fire. When activated this ability rains destruction from above, though the rain may seem familiar. The death from above is actually the same as the flame bolt of the mage's normal attack, even the damage is the same. This may seem like a determent, though knowing the damage of the bolt can be improved on top of the fact that this is like attacking dozens of times makes this a truly powerful ability to behold.

Crowd Control

The mages purpose is crowd control. Her abilities all perform wonderfully at taking down multiple enemies at once. Even with her low health she is capable of clearing hordes of foes on her own. Combine her with more allies and your party will become an unstoppable team!

Thank you for reading our newest article! We still hope to put out a demo by December 2019, but we understand the importance of quality over quantity. The Studio will take all of the time we need in order to complete Farseek.