Wizard

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While many Wizards are driven mad through study of the arcane, those who emerge stable under the weight of this power wield a force barely imaginable in awe and effect.

There are none that exist who have so obsessively studied the enigmatic and destructive nature of the arcane. Wizards often destroy themselves through lack of control, but those who emerge stable under the weight of such power wield a force barely imaginable in awe and effect.

Mastery Path 1: Elementalist (Spell DPS)
Mastery Path 2: Spellblade (Magic & Melee DPS)
Available Races: Archai, Dark Myr, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Human
Weapons: Sword, Dagger, Staff, Greatsword (Spellblade Only), Spell Gauntlet (Spellblade Only)
Armor: Cloth, Martial Cloth (Spellblade Only)
Shields: Bucklers
Spell Skills: Augmentation, Conjuration, Evocation, Expulsion, Fortification, Manifestation
Combat Skills: Parry (Spellblade), Spellparry (Spellblade), Dodge, Defense, Magic Defense, Shields

Focus: Wizards maintain separate Focus reserves for Fire, Cold, and Shock, with up to 5 charges in each element. Some spells generate Focus while others consume it, and Focus also regenerates slowly over time. For each element with full Focus charges, you will gain additional Mana regeneration per tick.

When a spell requires Focus from an element with 0 Focus charges, it draws from another element at a 2-to-1 rate. If no Focus remains, each missing charge costs 10% of your Health.

Casting a spell that consumes Focus also grants 1 stack of Elemental Weaving, increasing your outgoing damage by 1% per stack, up to 10%.

FEATURED ABILITIES
Elemental Mastery For each focus pool at 5/5, gain mana regeneration.	Arcane Cords Conjure arcane bindings to root your target in place.
Razor Ice Limited charges. The first application on the target will slow its movement. The second application on the same target will deal damage and freeze it in place.	Radiate Heat Imbue yourself with an aura of magicked flames, dispelling Chilled and Frozen states. While the aura persists, Physical attacks against the target will be retaliated with Fire damage.
Phoenix Fire Surround yourself in a cloak of Phoenix Fire, greatly increasing your health regeneration.	Crystalline Spear Periodically generate one crystalline shard that hovers nearby. Activating this spell will unleash one shard at the target.
Fire Channel Channel a blaze of flaming energy that bombards your target with Fire over time and adds mana regeneration.	Kaleidoscopic Crystals Create a shimmering cloud of mirror-like ice shards that drift about you, distracting your target and reducing your current threat, and threat generated.
Mana Current Connect yourself to the current of flowing mana. Grants 50% spell haste and threat generation for a brief time.	Gateway Teleport yourself and group members within 10m to various destinations around Terminus.
Elemental Ward Protect yourself with a ward that absorbs elemental damage. Shares cooldown with other Wards.	Glacial Upheaval Send a manifested slab of glacial ice bursting up from beneath the target, knocking them down.
Phoenixfall Imbue yourself with ethereal, fiery wings that slow your fall.	Unstable Vortex Manifest a vortex of crackling electricity near the target. For every X seconds that the target remains within range of it, they will take shock damage. The further from the center of the vortex the target is, the greater the damage.
Flamestrike Call down a pillar of fire that sears the target for damage over several seconds, and ignites them. Damage scales with focus consumed.	Surespell Increase the Hit Rating for a brief time.

Note: This is not a full list of Wizard abilities available within the game and is intended only to provide an overview of the class. Many of these abilities have upgrades and variations that become available as the character levels up.

Elementalist Mastery Examples

The Elementalist is a master of elemental spellweaving and building to a crescendo of devastating damage. They specialize in high-power, long-range spells and weaving multiple elements in sequences to achieve a combat rhythm and explosive synergistic effects, while maintaining an arsenal of terrifying wide-area elemental attacks that can easily sweep away lesser opponents.

Mastery	Description
Unwavering Mind	Gain casting pushback resistance on your spell casts.
Stable Mana	The mana from which you weave spells is expertly cast and can reach further than usual.
Arcane Binder	Reduces the chance that your Arcane Cords spell is broken by damage. The effect also gains resistance to dispel.
Ability Unlock: Ashes to Ashes:	Align the flow of mana within you to the element of Fire. Your critical strike chance and damage with Fire spells is increased.
Ability Unlock: Rolling Thunder	Align the flow of mana within you to the element of Shock. Your critical strike chance and damage with Shock spells is increased.
Ability Unlock: Frozen Mana	Align the flow of mana within you to the element of Cold. Your critical strike chance and damage with Cold spells is increased.
Studied Defenses	Receive 100% of your INT as bonus Armor Class while wearing Cloth armor.
Lingering Bindings	When your Arcane Chords spell breaks, the target has reduced movement speed that decays over time.
Ability Unlock: Breath of the Storm Beast	Blast the area before you with crackling lightning and mist, dealing Shock damage and electrocuting enemies, rendering them unable to act.
Rise from the Ashes	If you are slain, and Phoenix Fire was available, you may activate it while dead. You return to life at 10% health and gain the regeneration of Phoenix Fire.
Ability Unlock: Unrelenting Lightning	Manifest a condensed ball of lightning near your target. The ball will pursue the target and deal increasing damage over time to them as long as they are near it. When the spell reaches its pinnacle, it will detonate. The spell can be activated a second time to detonate it early.
Ability Unlock: Slumbering Fury	Manifest a high amount of fiery energy and concentrate it into the ground. The next hostile target that steps on that location will be razed by an explosion and a gout of flame that knocks them down and deals high fire damage over time.
Phase Shift	Your Portal spell now frees you from movement impairing effects, and you are harder to hit with attacks for a short time.
Siegecaster	You are able to cast your projectile based spells over incredible distances and maintain their potency.
Grandmaster Spellweaver	When a spell critical strike follows a spell of a different element, its critical strike damage is increased.
Ability Unlock: Bend the Elements	Bend Elements may be used on creatures of the Elemental family or type to take direct control of them for a short period of time. In addition, you take reduced damage from Elementals, and your chance to hit and critically strike them is increased.
Elemental Cycle	When your next spell is of a different element than the last, gain 5% spell haste. This effect can stack up to three times.

Spellblade Mastery Examples

The Spellblade Wizard is a high-mobility combatant that specializes in blending martial prowess and elemental magic to deal damage and control the battlefield. Their attacks come at a rapid pace and rely on synergy, timing and combinations to deliver devastating damage to their foes. While many users of arcane magic prefer staves, scepters, daggers and objects designed to focus the mind, the Spellblade has gone through immense training to ensure that their potent magic can be delivered through the edge of blade and fist.

Mastery	Description
Elemental Reaper	Grants proficiency with greatswords.
Ability Unlock: Focus Strike	Slash your target with a magically honed edge, dealing 50% weapon damage and returning 100% of the damage dealt to you as mana.
Ability Unlock: Storm Blast	Deals Shock damage to the target, putting them an electrified state.
Ability Unlock Pyroclastic Blast	Deals Fire damage to the target, causing them to burn for damage over time.
Ability Unlock: Frigid Blast	Deals Cold damage to the target. Has a chance to Freeze the target in place.
Battlemage	Gain proficiency with Martial Cloth armor. Additionally, you now gain Spell Critical Strike chance from Dexterity, rather than Wisdom.
Smoldering Wounds	Critical strikes from your abilities and spells that deal fire damage will cause the target to burn for an additional 40% of the damage dealt damage over time.
Arcane Deflection	You gain the ability to parry spells while wielding bladed weapons.
Spellblade’s Flourish	After a successful melee or spell parry, gain haste for a short time.
Ability Unlock: Infuse Blade (Fire)	Your melee strikes will deal additional fire damage per hit, and your spell damage is increased.
Ability Unlock: Infuse Blade (Frost)	Your melee strikes have a chance to deal frost damage and snare the target.
Ability Unlock: Infuse Blade (Lightning)	Your melee strikes have a chance to trigger an extra attack that deals weapon damage.
Ability Unlock: Snowclone	Create a fragile copy of yourself that taunts your enemies for a short time, but is easily destroyed.
Ability Unlock: Electrostep	Imbue yourself with lightning speed, granting increased movement speed.
Ability Unlock: Stormhaze	Slam the ground and call down a localized storm of lightning and mist that causes enemies to lose sight of you and removes you from combat / threat lists.
Ability Unlock: Cryostasis	Suppress your life signs with extreme cold, reducing the distance which some NPCs will detect you, as well as increasing your resistance to Cold damage and Frigid environments, but reducing your movement speed and avoidance, while draining focus and mana.
Omnimental Whirlwind	With a greatblade wreathed in fire, lightning and ice, you strike the area around you every .5s for 3s, dealing elemental and weapon damage. During this time, you are immune to normal crowd control effects, and take reduced spell damage and have a greater parry chance.
Master Spellblade’s Counter	When parrying an attack or spell, you automatically execute a counterattack and deal weapon damage of the attack type that was directed at you back to the target.
Rise from the Ashes	If you were reduced to 0 or less health by an attack and Phoenix Fire was available to be used, you may activate it despite your current state.