It’s Saturday, and that of course means it’s time again for Arcane Brilliance, weekly mage column, hero to the downtrodden, vanquisher of evil, dispenser of justice. That’s right. By day, Arcane Brilliance is a mild-mannered mage-related wall of text. But by night … Arcane Brilliance is Deathspank.
Another beta build hit a couple nights ago — as they tend to do — and it brought a number of class changes. A quick glance at the new talent trees revealed the expected (some talent position swaps, a few talents vanishing, some tooltip alterations, the occasional loss of a rank here and there) and the … unexpected. Three changes in the fire tree, particularly, caught my eye:
- Critical Mass
- Molten Shields
- Oh, and Impact.
Yes, the tooltip for Molten Shields really is “Redesign!” With an exclamation point. For emphasis.
So clearly the fire tree is in a certain amount of flux? I became instantly excited. The fire tree, perhaps more than either of the other two trees, really has been due for some focused attention. Then I saw this, from none other than Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton:
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