Focus (item)
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In Magic 3.0 a focus [1] is a magical item that will help the magician to prepare three types of spells.
Ritual Focus
Ritual foci come in several flavors. There are limited used foci that work only for a specific spellbook, there are unlimited use ritual foci that work for any spell within a mana type, and there are true universal foci that work with any ritual spell.
Universal and realm-attuned ritual foci require knowledge of the Improvised Rituals Magical Feat.
A few commonly-available examples from Herilo's Artifacts in Crossing are listed below:
- lapis lazuli tree statuette: life magic (realm-attuned)
- blue-grey steel staff acid-etched with geometric runes: elemental magic (realm-attuned)
- crystal-inset oaken staff surmounted with a witch ball: lunar magic (realm-attuned)
- slender alabaster staff with a silver cobra coiled along it: holy magic (realm-attuned)
- pale blue-lacquered inkwell: metamagic
- soft blue silken reticule: divine intervention
- dark crimson pouch: fire manipulation
- silvery-white metal jar: earth manipulation
- tiny cream-colored sack: stellar
- deep purple glass phial: mental preparation
- cylindirical packet: enlightened geometry
- small iron box: analogous patterns
- corked glass bottle: elemental invokations (Bard)
- jade apple: Antinomic Sorcery spellbook
You must INVOKE the focus during the preparation of your ritual spell. Doing this considerably eases the ability to cast the ritual spell your focus is attuned to. You can STUDY a foci item for additional description of its use. Using FOCUS on a focus allows you to determine what type of focus (spellbook, mana, or universal) they are.
There is an Arcana requirement to invoke a ritual focus. The Arcana requirement is dependent on the spell.
Sorcery Focus
Targeted Magic Focus
A Targeted Magic focus enchantment will modify your Targeted Magic spells (to provide a damage boost, for example) from the time you INVOKE it. The focus must remain in your right hand after being invoked to use its effect.
The Arcana requirement to use a Targeted Magic focus is tied to the strength of the enchantment.
TM Foci do not boost summoned pets[2] due to the unique way these spells function.[3]
List of Foci
| Worn | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Agonite pin set with a delicate cluster of rikar crystals | generic | Return to the Keep 431/Supply Wagon |
| Amber beehive surrounded by golden honey bees | neck | Ritual Addiction (2) Ritual Addiction (1) |
| Anloral star of thirteen points | generic | Ritual Addiction (2) Ritual Addiction (1) |
| Banded fluorite pendulum suspended on a silver chain | - | Focus on the Past (2) Focus on the Past (1) |
| Beaten copper figure holding a telescope aloft | - | Focus on the Past (2) Focus on the Past (1) |
| Bent gold snake charm etched with a knotwork of vine-like sigils | generic | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (3) |
| Black gold circlet set with a clear Xibar topaz | hair (placed) | Droughtman's Challenge 426/Incidental loot |
| Bone medallion resembling a running antelope | neck | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) |
| Bouquet of silk daisies bound with twine | - | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (5) |
| Braided cord rosary strung with several wooden beads | neck | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) |
| Broken compass in a sigil-seared wooden case | - | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (5) |
| Brushed gold signet ring cradling an aurora tourmaline | finger | Droughtman's Challenge 444/Incidental loot Droughtman's Challenge 441/Incidental loot Droughtman's Challenge 437/Incidental loot Droughtman's Challenge 433/Incidental loot Droughtman's Challenge 430/Incidental loot |
| Carved ivory lily with a delicate green glass stem | generic | Hollow Eve Festival 421/Raffles |
| Carved pick of ivory marked with several runes | finger | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) Vatari's Ritual Addiction (1) |
| Ceremonial scourge with a diamond-hide grip | belt | Drathrok's Duskruin 430/Drathrok's Assemblage |
| Clear glass charm etched with a floral motif | generic | Su Helmas 444: Make Haste!/End loot Su Helmas 440: Entrapped/End loot Su Helmas 438: The Forbidden Temple/End loot Su Helmas 434: The Forbidden Temple/End loot |
| Coiled onyx adder set with ruby eyes | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) | |
| Copper dodecahedron with raised edges terminating in tiny globes | - | Focus on the Past (2) Focus on the Past (1) |
| Coursing Hound of Rutilor forged from windsteel | Ritual Addiction (2) Ritual Addiction (1) | |
| Cracked geode with chunks of amethyst | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (1) | |
| Cracked sigil-laced skull darkened with soot | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (4) | |
| Crystal ball with wisps of darkness swirling inside it | - | |
| Crystal-bone globe caught in a web of interlocking finivire twigs | - | Guildfest 423/Auction |
| Cylindrical seal stamp | - | Focus on the Past (2) Focus on the Past (1) |
| Dark ka'hurst pin set with a moon-shaped aurora opal | generic | Return to the Keep 431/Supply Wagon |
| Delicate sungold pin | generic | Droughtman's Challenge 426/End loot |
| Dented bronze censer attached to a sigilated amulet chain | - | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (5) |
| Devotional amulet carved from Idon's sapphire | neck | Drathrok's Duskruin 442/Drathrok's Assemblage Drathrok's Duskruin 438/Drathrok's Assemblage Drathrok's Duskruin 435/Drathrok's Assemblage Drathrok's Duskruin 430/Drathrok's Assemblage Drathrok's Duskruin 426/Drathrok's Assemblage Drathrok's Duskruin 448/End Loot Drathrok's Duskruin 446/Drathrok's Assemblage |
| Dried khor'vela leaf strung on a braided leather cord | Limited Treasures (4) Item:Formal charcoal-grey steelsilk robe pinned with a windsteel seven-pointed star | |
| Dull covellite lump etched with esoteric and complex sigils | generic | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (3) |
| Etched adderwood bow | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) Vatari's Ritual Addiction (1) | |
| Ethereal Phelim shell sliced lengthwise | Ritual Addiction (2) Ritual Addiction (1) | |
| Flawlessly cut crystal fist inset with Imperial gemstones | - | Hollow Eve Festival 428/Auction |
| Glued-shut unguent jar carved with a sigil on its side | - | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (5) |
| Gnarled azurelle branch dangling myriad stone amulets | Drathrok's Duskruin 430/Drathrok's Assemblage Drathrok's Duskruin 426/Drathrok's Assemblage | |
| Gnarled branch with a small leather-bound grip | - | Finest Box of Gems (3) Finest Box of Gems (1) |
| Green gold armband inset with a trail of tiny blood rubies | upper arm | Droughtman's Challenge 426/Incidental loot |
| Heavy steel armband dangling crow feather amulets | upper arm | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) |
| Icesteel anklet accented with tiny howlite snowflakes | ankle | Droughtman's Challenge 426/Incidental loot |
| Jade apple | - | Crypt fiend |
| Jade beads worked to resemble interlocking leaves | belt | Droughtman's Challenge 426/Incidental loot |
| Katamba-black volume titled "A Merelew's Guide to Lunar Magic" | - | Finest Box of Gems (4) |
| Kelpzyte death adder coiled in ambush | Ritual Addiction (2) Ritual Addiction (1) | |
| Lapis lazuli anklet with three golden charms | ankle | Vatari's Ritual Addiction (2) |
| Lirisan pin set with a piece of purple zoetia | generic | Return to the Keep 431/Supply Wagon |
| Livery badge displaying the scales of justice | generic | Ritual Addiction (2) Ritual Addiction (1) |
| Luminous moonsilver clasp pierced by a field of stars | generic | Su Helmas 444: Make Haste!/End loot Su Helmas 440: Entrapped/End loot Su Helmas 438: The Forbidden Temple/End loot Su Helmas 434: The Forbidden Temple/End loot Aesthene's Close 449/End Loot |
| Lustrous pearl cow seated in the crook of a tri-color crescent moon | - | Shard Theater Faire 419 raffles |
| Malevolent Harawep's Spider with a bloodgem hourglass | generic | Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 432/End loot Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 428/End loot |
| Massive vengeance ruby fireball | - | Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 432/End loot Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 428/End loot |
| ... further results | ||
References
- ↑ Terminology Note: The singular form is focus. The plural form is foci.
- ↑ e.g. Guardian Spirit, Blessing of the Naga, Awaken Forest, etc.
- ↑ Post:TM Foci information - 11/22/2017 - 03:44