Oldoak
03-24-2004, 04:03 PM
This week the Horizons developers put the first of the "epic" spells live in the game.
In Horizons, most spells are clear progressions neatly numbered for your convenience. You get 6 versions of most spells, so you start with say Stone Fist I, and eventually as you level you will someday be able to get up to Stone Fist 6.
There are a few unique spells that you have to work harder to get and which have a much bigger wow factor, and players are calling these "epic" spells. The effort involved isn't really the level of an EQ epic, but it is a substantial amount of work to get there.
The first spell the put live was a druid spell called Dark Cyclone that is AOE. Here is a pretty impressive screenshot (a little grainy because of the range) showing the spell effect. Pretty darn nice...
First Shot (http://oldietree.com/horizons/images/darkcyclone.jpg)
Second Shot (http://oldietree.com/horizons/images/darkcyclone2.jpg)
...and while we are at it, here is a shot of a mob casting the hmm believe it is a wizard / mage "epic" spell...the spell is the demon thing floating over the ghost's head...the method to obtain that spell as a player is probably not in yet but may just be undiscovered (bet on the former though ; ) ).
Wizzie spell (http://oldietree.com/horizons/images/demon2.jpg)
In Horizons, most spells are clear progressions neatly numbered for your convenience. You get 6 versions of most spells, so you start with say Stone Fist I, and eventually as you level you will someday be able to get up to Stone Fist 6.
There are a few unique spells that you have to work harder to get and which have a much bigger wow factor, and players are calling these "epic" spells. The effort involved isn't really the level of an EQ epic, but it is a substantial amount of work to get there.
The first spell the put live was a druid spell called Dark Cyclone that is AOE. Here is a pretty impressive screenshot (a little grainy because of the range) showing the spell effect. Pretty darn nice...
First Shot (http://oldietree.com/horizons/images/darkcyclone.jpg)
Second Shot (http://oldietree.com/horizons/images/darkcyclone2.jpg)
...and while we are at it, here is a shot of a mob casting the hmm believe it is a wizard / mage "epic" spell...the spell is the demon thing floating over the ghost's head...the method to obtain that spell as a player is probably not in yet but may just be undiscovered (bet on the former though ; ) ).
Wizzie spell (http://oldietree.com/horizons/images/demon2.jpg)