Moon Mages 3.1

A repository of changes to the Moon Mage guild during the DragonRealms 3.1 updates.

Spells

Distant Gaze

• Casting will now fail if you are already watching another area through whatever means.

Shadewatch Mirror

• Can now be cast on invisible/hiding targets. This was always intended with Seer's Sense link but never worked. This now follows the same logic as Locate.
• Can now view targets that are inside/without windows as long as it is night time. (Honestly, this is to justify it as a Stellar spell instead of a pure Perception spell...)
• You can now tap the mirror to end the visions.
• You can no longer gaze into a mirror with another form of remote viewing active (Most likely Distant Gaze).
• General rewrite stuff (new messaging, possibly some slightly different results due to behind the scenes changes and whatnot).

Shadowling

• Can now be INVOKEd to hide the shadowling in the owner's shadow, which protects it during the day.

Moonblade

• Additional messaging when you receive a bonus to the weapon's tier based on your weaponsmithing techniques.
• A further tier bump when the moon's influence is particularly strong.
• Prereqs are now Dazzle or Dinazen Olkar.

Starlight Sphere

• No longer usable during the day
• Generally drains a very low amount of mana for a cyclic spell except when active in combat.
• Generally will act slower than before
• Redid the logic for how constellations influence it's behavior
• Secondary damage changed from fire to impact
• Changed preqs to DO or Burn
• General clean up (In messaging and whatnot)

Steps of Vuan

• Cycle time increased, resulting in a slower reforming but lower mana cost.
• Receiving no messaging at all when releasing this spell while not invisible will be fixed.

Refractive Field

• Receiving no messaging when releasing this spell while not invisible will be fixed.

Artificer's Eye

• New spell (release held until Enchanting release)
• Buff to Enchanting skill and Arcana skill
• Requires knowledge of either Piercing Gaze or Aura Sight

Shadow Servant

• Requires Moongate as a prereq.
• Note: If items are stored in this when the spell preview ends, they will be unavailable until the spell is relearned.

Burn

• Prereqs are now Focus Moonbeam and either Dazzle or Dinazen Olkar.

Sects

Most sects have an extended duration with one spell as shown below:

• Compact = Cage of Light
• Nomad = Clear Vision
• Pethian = Piercing Gaze
• Progeny = Shadows
• Fortune's Path = Seer's Sense (self cast only)

The oddballs:

• Monks = Moonblade (They unlock the tier bonus at a lower threshold of moon strength than others.)
• Heritage House = Unleash (Reduced chance to destroy scrolls.)

Other

• Light-based creatures have been updated.
• Backtrace no longer requires Locate, it is available to all.

Post 3.1

• Crystal Spike is slated to come back as a Stellar spell called Celestial Spike. This will not make 3.1 and may be delayed significantly afterward.
• Shadow Web is not slated to return until a useful purpose for it can be developed.

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