WIZARD WARS
Contents:
1.0- Brief 2.0- Storyline 2.1- Europe 2.2- Sub-Saharan Africa 2.3- Mediterranean 2.4- North America 2.5- Asia 2.6- South America 3.0- Regions 3.1- British Isles 3.1-1. Hogwarts 3.1-2. Hogsmede 3.1-3. Scottish Mountains 3.1-4. Sherwood Forest 3.1-5. Fens 3.1-6. Welsh Coast/Mountains 3.1-7. Godrics Hollow 3.1-8. Diagon Alley 3.2- North Europe 3.2-1. Durmstrang 3.2-2. Frozen Moutnains 3.2-3. IceForest 3.2-4. Fjords 3.2-5. Primeval Forest 3.3- Western Mediterranean 3.3-1. Barbary Coast 3.3-2. Beauxbatons 3.3-3. Fleet 3.4- Eastern Mediterranean 3.4-1. Valley of the Dead 3.4-2. Nile 3.4-3. Greek Islands 3.4-4. Minoan Islands 3.5- Eastern North America 3.6- Great Plains/Rockies 3.7- Northern North America 3.8- Sub-Sharan Africa 3.9- China 3.10- Japan 3.11- India 3.12- Peru 3.13- Brazil 4.0- Schools 4.1- Hogwarts (British Isles) 4.2- Baeubaton (West Med) 4.3- Durmstrang (North Europe)
4.4- Ilvermony (North America) 4.5- Egyptian School (East Med) 4.6- Chinese School (China) 4.7- Mahoutokuro (Japan) 4.8- Uagadou (Africa) 4.9- Castelobruxo (South America) 5.0- Light/Dark Faction 5.1- Light 5.2- Dark 6.0- PvP 6.1- Ranked 6.2- Unranked 6.3- Free for All 7.0- PvE 7.1- Dungeons 7.2- Raids 7.3- Questing 7.4- World Events 8.0- Skills 8.1- Defensive Magic 8.2- Offensive Magic 8.3- Control 8.4- Elemental 8.5- Healing 8.6- Summoning 8.7- Tranfiguration 8.8- Wandless Magic 8.9- Necromancy 8.10- Potions 8.11- Herbology 8.12- Magizoololgy 8.13- Wand Lore 8.14- Tailoring 8.15- Armour Crafting 8.16- Metal Work 8.17- Treasure Hunting 8.18- Gathering 8.19- Flying 8.20- Speechless Magic 8.21- Potential Others 9.0- Spells 10.0- Items 11.0- Item Quality 11.1- Common 11.2- Uncommon
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12.3- Resistance to XYZ 12.4- Improvement to XYZ 12.5- Critical Spell Chance 12.6- Critical Spell Reduction Factions 13.1- Hogwarts 13.2- Durmstrang 13.3- Ilvermony 13.4- Native American Tribe 13.5- Native Wizard Exterminators 13.6- Ministry of Magic 13.7- Goblin Tribe Titles Traits Player Housing Achievements Quidditch Screen Shots
1.0 – Brief An MMO based in J.K.Rowlings fantasy world has been in demand for a long time, however the storyline surrounding the books doesn’t play to the strengths of the game style, an MMO needs a big open world where you develop your own character, rather than a pre-scripted one. The overall world she has created however is perfect for it. An MMO needs a grand storyline you can follow as well as scope for hundreds of miniature ones. For this game I have set the timeline around 1700, shortly after the International Statute of Secrecy was enacted. Players interact and walk through the stories told in the different regions of the world. Travel between the regions is possible, but you can only visit your own school. Players can however make multiple characters to see all the content. Influence for this game comes from a variety of others; such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Star Wars: The Old Republic (SW:TOR), Runescape, and Skyrim. rd
The Campaign mode game has a World of Warcraft style where the player uses 3person mode to run around the world, but players can zoom into 1st person mode if t hey want. Non-Playable characters (NPC’s) are targetable andwhen casting spells they automatically hit the target, the only requirement being to face the target. NPC’s have health you get to zero to defeat them. Players function the same way. The campaign mode is a standard MMO style game. Complete quests and defeat NPC’s to gain experience and level up. Group together to complete encounters designed for 5 – 20 players to defeat, or play in the warfields, fighting other players in Player vs Player (PvP) combat. Skills can be learnt, spells can be perfected, players can learn professions such as tailoring, potion making, armour smithing, wand creating, etc. Players select a faction (Dark or Light), trait, level up, fight Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) and can take part in crafting and collecting skills. Most fighting is done through magic casting, however there are also options for using potions aggressively, plants, animals as well as swords for the squib or more hands on wizard. As well as this Dungeons andstyle Raids arebosses available groups ofwould players try and complete, for the base game standard MMO’s raid and for encounters be to used, however in first person mode encounters more similar to those found in Overwatch would be optimal. There will also be a quidditch mode, an in-game mini-game.
Player vs Player combat is equal in importance for endgame content and works on a ranking system. This system means it is not required to reach ‘maximum’ level or unlock everything to play competitively. Instead your competitive rank is based on how well you compete against other players. Being high level gives advantages so you are more likely to be a high rank, but it’s not required. Players complete 10 games to place their rank, and climb or drop from then on, more in the PvP section. Rank rewards are based on how high you rank. PvP is not just restricted to Competitive mode, and players can also do a free play mode, which is the same maps but no rank is gained or lost. It’s just for stress free play. Experience is still gained. Unlike many MMO’s I have gone against having standard classes, and fix roles. Instead I envision this game to be more fluid and more about player choices. Everyone can level every spell, it just takes time. The limit to a players power is how effectively they can use the multitude of spells available. To encourage diversity combat with swords and other melee weapons is also possible. Players begin in one of 10 (this number heavily subject to change) starting locations/schools spread across the globe. This could be split and some used for expansion packs. Starting schools/zones teach the basics of the game, and cannot be returned to. However due to the account wide achievement system, missing some of the secrets in these zones does not mean they can never be uncovered. An alternative system could be to allow players to return to the school to learn new spells when they reach the requirements. Player Level is dependent on the level of a few skills. Notably the magic skills. Each magic skill teaches a different variety of spells and players can choose to level any branch they wish. Players can either level everything for a broad range of actions, or level only specific skills to be more powerful but have greater weaknesses. Skill levels are based on experience gained from casting spells of that skill type against a target. Each individual spell can also be levelled up and grants unique alterations. More detail in the spells and skills sections. Balance is done on an X beats Y, Y beats Z and Z beats X basis. The triangle of balance. Everything should have counters. Players have a health and magic pool and can wear different items to boost spells and stats. Squibs have health and stamina pool. Defeating players, and NPC’s grant loot and experience. Players can choose an alignment of either Dark or Light (Good?, I don’t want this to sound like Star Wars), which allows use of different spells, items or creatures based on that alignment. This works as a faction to split you and determine your storyline. Initially I wanted to make it so you become more or less light/dark based on options (similar to the system used in Star Wars: The Old Republic, however it would leave no real faction options. Alternatively instead of a good/bad faction players all start as part of the same faction (or split by school). Quests they do would offer a chance to do something good or something dark. Players could gain light and dark rating based on those choices and final faction could be chosen after a fixed amount of progress. Teams for PvP would try to group players of the same alignment together, however in group PvP players could group with anyone they like, allowing friends to play together regardless of their characters alignment. The objective is to create a game where the player controls an adventurer. Not too powerful, the player is not the centre of the game, merely one small piece helping major characters turn the tides of history. The game should be difficult and take a fairly long time to progress, yet at the same time not so hard as to be off-putting.
2.0 – Storyline The storyline you follow depends initially on which continent you start, or which region. Not all regions are available to start in. At games release a minimum of Hogwarts, Durmstrang, Ilvermony and one of the Asian schools should be available to play. The others can be released as regional expansion packs. 2.1 – Europe Post secrecy act Europe is divided. The dark witch known simply as Muirgein has begun a campaign to lift the act and bring the magical population back out of hiding. She is not without support; up and down Great Britain and Ireland witches and wizards are choosing sides. Conflict is brewing. Across the continent the school Durmstrang has openly declared support for Muirgein’s revolt, and factions are appearing continent wide on different sides of the conflict. This declaration has led to a collapse of the wizarding government in Northern Europe, paving the way for tribes of goblins and giants to declare themselves rulers of large areas. Thankfully in the British Isles the recently formed Ministry of Magic is keeping control of the magical creature populations, however more rural areas are not as controlled as they once were. Stories of vampires, giants and other magical creatures are becoming more common, rangers from creature reserves have mostly been called back to protect human settlements leaving little in the way of protection in the area. The huge primeval forests around Europe are being used as staging grounds for revolt, castles have been re-inhabited, and spells used for war are being relearnt. Studies in wand lore and armour crafting are being doubled, anything for an advantage in the war to come. Players choose a school in which to start and follow the evolution of the events unfolding. 2.2 – Sub-Saharan Africa (can’t think of a decent storyline here) 2.3 – Mediterranean Pirates. An unexpected foe has appeared in the form of a fleet of ships captained by wizards. They are sailing around the coast lines raiding the wizarding communities, and taking anything they want. Due to being water-borne and jumping from location to location stopping them has proven very difficult. There are even rumours they are kidnapping muggles to use as crew. Bizarrely the open attitude toward the muggles isn’t one of complete domination and they are considered almost equals. The combination of muggle weaponry and wizarding might makes defence a tricky thing. Blocking an incoming spell is one thing, blocking an incoming cannon ball another. Underestimating muggles is a national pass time for many, however these fleets use them to great effect in their raiding parties ashore. In Egypt and the Levant, the ancient practice of soul-merging is beginning to reappear. Long ago witches and wizards would merge their souls with the soul of an animal. This bizarre sounding ritual destabilises their soul and body, causing grotesque metamorphosis. By damaging their soul in such a way horrendous magics can be performed allowing the wizard to rip the life from another human and add it to their own, extending their life unnaturally. Not immortal, but unable to die of old age if enough lives are sacrificed. Stories of the deformed wizards are still found in Egyptian mythology to
this day. This incredibly dark magic was deemed inhuman and outlawed globally. The most famous group thousands of years ago declared themselves Gods/Pharaohs and rulers of the muggles and wizards alike.
2.4 – North America In North America conflict between the local wizards and the colonist population has reached breaking point. Wizards from both sides are trying to reach a peaceful compromise. However they are being hindered by forces doing their best to destabilise the truce and cause all-out war. Key figures in the colonial region have a deep distrust and distaste for what they consider ‘primitive’ locals. They will need uprooting and defeating. There are multiple factions of European and First Nation wizards on both the light and dark side, choose one and take up arms. As well as the wizards wars, players need to deal with magical creatures. On both the colonist and Native population sides groups have popped up wanting to eradicate the other, each considering the other ‘lesser’ wizards. 2.5 – Asia Based in China one main (huge) school teaches the witches and wizards of the region. China is mostly in a peaceful state, prime ground for hunting new magics and discovering lost secrets. Still, all is not entirely well. Large tribes of hobgoblins, ogres and other humanoid creatures unhappy with Wizard rule rebel in the more far flung areas. They must be either destroyed or reasoned with. Muggles think the Great Wall ends near the Jade Gate; but it doesn’t, the wizarding community extended the wall a long time ago to keep out… other threats. The barren lands around the wall are hostile and unforgiving, deserts, mountains and deep unexplored lakes offer a lot. Japan (expansion pack), One Japanese school (Mahoutokoro) teaches the entire archipelago, it remains neutral, despite the divided kingdoms of the island. 2.6 – South America Huge swathes of uncharted and unexplored land is open for discovery, what magical creatures, forces or people lie in the depths? Players hunt down the legendary city of Dorado, it is entirely made of gold and a mighty fountain graces the centre. In it runs the Elixir of Life generated by 100 philosophers stones. The recipe of which was perfected thousands of years ago by the wizarding tribe of the area. Fearful others would try to steal their work the entire city was cut off from both wizard and muggles. Every wizard and witch born in the city is allowed to use the fountain, the magic here is immensely powerful, such long lived wizards have become very, very strong. The roads are literally paved with the gold generated by the stones. Squibs are thrown from the city, it’s them who brought the tales of the city of gold to the Spanish invaders. 3.0 – Regions The world would be split into regions, each region would have distinct zones where possible connected for ease of play. Below are some examples of what sort of zones we could see. All images are taken from World of Warcraft, and are just supposed to be the sort of thing the game could look like. 3.1 – British Isles 3.1.1 – Hogwarts The only school in the region, a popular starting zone. A huge castle with extensive grounds to explore. The lake can be used as can the forest, it’s not
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yet forbidden but not entirely safe. Walls work as the boundy, as do the large mountains to the north. Inside the castle new players complete lots of introductionary quests to get them used to how the game is played. Secret tunnels and rooms abound and have many items to find and secrets to unlock. – Hogsmeade Local town, connected to Hogwarts, players can walk between the two. Here players can sell and buy things, as well as explore the area.
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- Scottish Mountains Connected to Hogsmeade this is a large mountainous zone with various level creatures, different areas of it might best be left until players are a higher level. Trolls, and other mountain faring creatures live here (are giants wiped out here yet? Go have a look if you dare).
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– Nottingham Forest Large forest to explore, wizarding encampments, magical creatures, and normal creatures.
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– Fens Marshland, many magical creatures. Encampments.
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– Heathland Rolling fields or heathland, scattered woods and large gorse bushes.
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– Welsh mountains/coast Here be dragons, caves, etc.
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– Godrics Hollow Small village to get quests, buy/sell items. Surrounding area is woodland and fields. A few large manors are found nearby.
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– Diagon Alley Main shopping area, only bank, auction house. Central zone for travel through Floo.
3.2 – Northern Europe 3.2.1 – Durmstrang School entirely populated by followers of Dark magic. A large castle, with even larger grounds. There are no walls to mark the boundary, the terrain just flows into other zones. You cannot enter without previously being a student.
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– Frozen Mountains Unlike the Mountains around Hogwarts these are far colder, different magic creatures are found here. Glaciers make getting around dangerous, not for the new wizard
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– Ice Forest Dark, forests, rugged terrain. A perfect breeding ground for sturdymountainous albeit scattered magical near-humans.
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– Fjords Huge cliffs, inland rivers and lakes. Popular zones for dark wizards hiding out, maybe you can learn some magics here, or help root out the trouble makers.
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– Primeval Forest Thick forests, ancient magics. Wand Lore specialists dream. Home to many dangers, not all of them known about.
3.3 – Western Mediterranean 3.3.1 –Barbary Coast Home of the pirates, very dangerous area to visit. But very big rewards.
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– Beauxbatons School teaching only light pupils.
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–Fleet Zone set mostly at sea, around a small archipelago in the Baleares. Several ships, some abandoned, looks like the Mermaids had enough of pirate activity.
3.4 – Eastern Mediterranean 3.4.1 – Valley of the Dead Egypt holds a huge wealth of magical history. Pyramids, tombs, crypts hold secrets that need discovering. Beware what lies in the sand, and the dark catacombs below.
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– Nile Many miles upstream of the Nile can be found many wizarding encampments. The isolation means minimal muggle interference. Wildlife can easily cause harm in the water and the surrounding area has become infested with followers of the ancient ways.
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– Greek Islands Magical creatures abound here, a Magizoologists dream. For those who can tame them comes great reward. Beware however, the pirate menace operates in this area. Don’t let your guard down for too long.
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– Minoan Islands Home of the Minoan Wizards. These wizards cut themselves off long ago. Their island homes don’t exist on any map, but they live somewhere near Crete. Worshipers of the Bull, their magics tend to be bullish in nature, finesse isn’t a common concept here.
3.5 – Eastern North America
3.6 – Great Plains/Rockies
3.7 – Northern North America
3.8 – Sub-Saharan Africa
3.9 – China
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– Ogre Camp
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- Centaur Camp
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– Japan
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– India
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– Peru
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– Brazil
4.0 – Schools 4.1 – Hogwarts Based in Scotland, this castle is one of the largest and oldest in the world. Many secret passages, dungeons and sources of magic can be found and abused. Any race (apart from Native American) can begin here. Players are sorted into one of 4 houses. 4.2 – Beauxbatons (expansion) Available as one of the two schools in the Mediterranean area. Beauxbatons covers France and the Western Med. 4.3 – Durmstrang Based inside the Arctic Circle, Durmstrang has a strong connection to Dark Magic, and outright objects to the International Secrets Act. Based in the mountains the surrounding area is both beautiful and dangerous. 4.4 – Ilivermony The largest school in North America, students from all over the continent are welcome. The politics of day to day life are ignored here. Sorting like Hogwarts is in 4 houses 4.5 – Egyptian School (expansion) Available as one of the two schools in the Mediterranean area. This school has students from Greece, Egypt and all around the Levant and Anatolia. The historical magics here run deep and the school has a strong Classics feel to it. 4.6 – Chinese School 4.7 – Mahoutokoro (Japan) 4.8 – Uagadou (Africa) 4.9 – Castelobruxo (Brazil) 5.0 – Light/Dark Factions Initially I wanted a light/dark system similar to that found in Star Wars: The Old Republic, however I don’t think it would work very well without also having other core factions you are always fixed in. The other option would be everyone starts off light and some become dark through options. However I feel for simplicity sake it would be far easier to just split all the players either light/dark at character selection. 5.1 – Light Light side are to be portrayed as the good guys (mostly), choosing the faction determines which story line you follow. Choosing light will alter your quest and missions to interrupt and destroy the works of Dark Wizards. Choosing the light faction also grants you access to the light magic skill, this typically works to protect others and is best paired with Defence and healing magic. Light players are always grouped together in rated and non rated PvP. 5.2 – Dark Dark side are to be portrayed as the bad guys (mostly), choosing the faction determines which story line you follow. Choosing dark will alter your quest and missions to interrupt and destroy the works of Light Wizards. Choosing the dark faction also grants you access to the dark magic skill, this typically works to corrupt and cause pain, it is best paired with Offence and Control magic. Dark players are always grouped together in rated and non rated PvP. 6.0 – PvP 6.1 – Ranked Ranked PvP works by giving you a competitive rating based on your win rate. You play other teams of similar rating to yourself, by winning you gain rank, and losing you drop
it. Players are not sorted by their character level but simply by competitive rating. Rating is split into ranks for players to earn their way up. Those ranks are (heavily subject to change): 1. Muggle 2. First Year 3. OWL 4. NEWT 5. Wizard/Dark Wizard 6. Auror/Death Eater 7. Master/Dark Lord 6.2 – Unranked Unranked PvP works the same as ranked PvP, however your rating is unknown. Winning or losing doesn’t count toward anything, there are no rewards. It’s just for enjoyment and gaining experience with different spells. 6.3 – Free World No restrictions PvP, just fight one another with what you have at your disposal. 7.0 – PvE 7.1 – Dungeons Small group content, the number of players required to complete will vary but 5 is the typical group size. Expect strong opponents you cannot defeat alone. Rewards here are typically better than those from solo questing. 7.2 – Raids Large group PvE, 20 players group together to tackle powerful opponents. The story line will lead to these raids, expect to find exceptionally powerful wizards, and creatures. As well as large events that require multiple fighters to defeat. Rewards here are typically better than those in Dungeons. 7.3 – Questing The main bulk of leveling up involves completing quests and fighting NPC’s. These are standard MMO style missions given by NPC’s so you complete tasks, unlock secrets and learn new powers. Testing your magic against things ranging from goblins, to local dark/light wizards 7.4 – World Events Scaling encounters found in the world, rather than in instanced dungeons or raids. World Events are designed to be fought by as few as 10 players but with no upper limit. Their difficulty (for each individual player) should ideally not change when more players fight them. World Events can be a single enemy (for example a lone rogue dragon) or a group of enemies (wolf pack, or attack by pirates). Defeating the world event awards everyone who takes part with loot. Mob health would increase as more players join the fight. 8.0 – Skills This is a list of all the different skills a player can learn, they can learn all of them and are not limited. Many/most spells require a mix of skills to learn so focusing entirely on just one isn’t always beneficial. Each time you level up a skill any spells tied to that skill are improved in power, or have their cooldowns reduced. Below is the skills panel from Runescape, it lists the skills, your level and the ‘spells’ you would unlock for gaining high enough skill.
The skills pane could be quite similar, all the skills listed and when clicked on offer a full list of spells, abilities and unlocks as well as which level or requirements are needed. EXAMPLE: - Player levels up defensive magic to level 25 and also levels up elemental magic to level 50. They now unlock the spell Rock Wall (place holder name). The player can now begin to use this and begin to level up said spell (which in turn also levels up the skills of defence and elemental magic). The player will likely only keep a select few spells on their toolbar, otherwise they will end up with hundreds of spells. This means there are huge numbers of combinations of spells to use to create individual wizards and witches. In 1st Person Mode you are limited to 5 spells from your campaign account. Below are also some examples of spells. 8.1 – Defence Magic Contains spells of a defensive nature such as protego. Combines well with elemental, summoning or control magic for interesting shields, walls and other defensive spells. Leveling up defence magic gives you reduced damage taken from offensive spells. Level 1
Spell Protego
Effect Blocks an incoming spell
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Expeliarmus
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Disarms enemy player for 2 seconds Reduces damage taken by 20% for
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Protego Maxima
5s Encases the player in stone, preventing any damage being taken, but no spells can be cast. Blocks all spells in an area.
Notes 5 second cooldown. Higher levels block more powerful spells. Requires level 5 control magic. 10s cooldown 30s CD
2min CD. Higher levels mean spells are reflected
8.2 – Offensive Magic Spells of power for dealing damage, starts with spells such as flipendo and stinging hexes before building up to more potent spells like Sectumspemtra or even Avada Kedavra. Increasing offensive magic level improves the damage of offensive spells. Level 1
Spell Stinging Hex
50
Dumbledores Arrow
Effect Deals damage and a minor damage over time effect Deals high damage
Notes High levels, do more damage.
This spell actually
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Sectumseptra
to the target, as well as anyone behind them Does severe damage to the target and leaves a bleed effect
does more damage the higher your skill in silent casting Bleed effect will persist as long as the player is below full health.
8.3 – Control Magic Magic to prevent your opponent doing things. Spells like Expeliarmus, Stupefy, and eventually Imperio. Increasing the power of control magic increases the time your control spells last for. Level Spell Effect Notes 1 Locomotor Mortis Binds the targets Target can still fight legs, preventing back and even them from moving dispel your curse for 5s 50 Levicorpus Drags the target into Very obvious target the air, and lowers once in the air. chance to hit with spells for 5s 90 Petrify Stuns the target for Damage done does 5s not break the curse
8.4 – Elemental Magic Unusual magics relying on the elements. Best combined with other types of magic, elementalists can work the weather creating localised blizzards, freezing people, burning enemies, creating stone walls or strong winds to move opponents away. Leveling up Increases the power of elemental spells (very strong combined with offence). Level 1
Spell Snow(?)
Effect Causes it to snow, very slightly lowering hit chance of anyone standing in it.
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Rock Wall
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FiendFyre
Causes a wall of rock to erupt from the ground, blocks incoming spells Summons cursed flames which seek out and destroy living things.
Notes At high levels this spell causes a blizzard, dealing damage and drastically lowering chance to hit Requires level 25 defence
At low level this can hit your allies as well. Use carefully.
8.5 – Healing Magic All magic to heal, and cure, recovering health, stamina, curing disease and hexes. Increase potency of healing magics. Level 1
Spell Basic healing spell
Effect Heals x amount of
Notes
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Area of Effect curse removal
90
Stop Death
damage Removes curses from the targeted player and others around them Brings the player back from the brink
At higher levels also heals slightly
of death, them withleaving some health after a critical blow. 8.6 – Summoning Magic Magic to summon things, such as physical objects or creatures and even other players. Decreases summoning times when leveled. These are often easy to transfigure. Level 1
Spell Summon Bear Trap
50
Summon shield
90
Summon Pheonix
Effect Conjures a trap to put on the floor and trap animals. Conjures a powerful shield to block incoming damage
Summons a phoenix to protect you for a short while
Notes
At higher levels begins to reflect damage rather than just block it Requires level 50 magizoology.
8.7 – Transfiguration Magic Magic to turn things into other things! Particularly effective against summoned items, but can mix well with control magic to turn other players into animals. High levels allow the player to turn into things. Increases times things are transfigured for. Higher transfiguration skill is required to transfigure higher level creatures. Level 1
Spell Rock
Effect Turns the object into a rock.
50
Dog
Turns the object into a dog
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Dragon
Turns the object into a dragon
Notes Higher levels lets you turn larger more powerful things into rocks Higher levels lets you turn larger more powerful things into rocks Higher levels lets you turn larger more powerful things into Dragons
8.8 – Wandless Magic (expansion only) Only achievable by very high level wizards/witches, wand-less magic is exactly what it sounds like. Magic users channel their magic through their very body. Magic involving accurate spellcasting is not very effective without a wand, however grand scale magic can be very effective. Increases power of wandless magics.
Level 1
Spell Protego
50
Earthquake
90
Ice Master
Effect Deflects all incoming spells whilst channelled Causes the ground to split, throwing
Notes Requires high defence magic skill
Requires high elemental magic
everyone on it to the floor Increases the power of all cold and ice based elemental magics
8.9 – Necromancy (expansion only) A very dark magic, only practiced by those deep in the Dark Arts. Resurrection of the dead, soul-less creatures at the wizards command. Level 1
Spell Resurrect magical creature
Effect Brings back a dead creature for 30s
50
Resurrect wizard
Brings back a dead player/human NPC for 30s
90
Resurrect dragon
Brings a dead dragon back to life for 30s.
Notes Lasts longer and has more health the higher your spell level Lasts longer and has more health the higher your spell level Lasts longer and has more health the higher your spell level
8.10 – Potions Brewing skill, potions can be used for a broad variety of things. Doesn’t require other skills, but the ingredients may. Potions can be used aggressively (throw them at people), defensively (drink them yourself, or throw them at allies), or sold to make money. Improvement beings less resources per potion, and more effective potions. Most potions also come with a permanent version only usable by the crafter. This allows offensive potions to be used without fear of them running out all the time. Permeant potions are very expensive to make. Squibs can make most potions, permanent versions allow them to do much the same things wizards can. Level 1
Potion Potion of Healing
Effect Recovers x health
15
Antidote to Paralysis
Removes paralysing spells from yourself
50
Drowsiness Draught
and other players. Sends the target to sleep
Notes Can be used by anyone
8.11 – Herbology The gathering of magical plants and fungi. Not only is this skill essential for potion brewing, at higher levels magical plants can be used in combat. Try throwing a Venomous Tentacular or Mimblus Mimbletonia at someone and see what happens. Level 1
Plant Knotweed
Effect Magical plant used
5
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in potions Magical plant used in potions
25
Venomous Tantacula
Magical plant used in potions
50
Gillyweed
Magical seed used in potions
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Mandrake
Magical plant used in potions
Notes
Can be used to cure a damage over time effect Can be thrown at the enemy to root them in place as well as minor damage Allows the user to breath underwater for 20mins Causes severe damage and a crowd control effect to the target
8.12 – Magizoology The study of magical creatures. Not just study but control as well, high levels of this skill combined with others allow players to keep creatures as pets and even use them in combat. The most desired being the rare phoenix which blocks the leathal Avada Kedavra spell.
Level 1 70
Creature Flobber Worm Cerberus
Effect Used in potions Powerful creature to control.
90
Phoenix
Defends you in combat
Notes
Easy to send to sleep, but powerful if your opponents don’t have a method of doing that Prevents you dying once per 2 mins. By either eating the spell that would kill you. When out of combat for 10s the Phoenix heals you to full health.
8.13 – Wand Lore The study and creation of Wands and staves. Wand lore lets you harvest different wand woods, and when combined with Gathering lets you collect and assemble wands of varying power and use. Different cores do different things, and the higher level you are the more powerful the wands you create become. Most wands in game come from
crafters. Examples of wand cores - Unicorn Hair, Dragon Heart String, Pheonix Feather, Thestral Hair, Giant Heart String, Horned Serpent Horn, Veela Hair, Wampus hair, Snallygaster heartstring and Jackalope antlers, Basilisk horn Level 1
Crafted Item Harvest
Effect Harvests the wood from certain trees
50
Dragonheart String Wand
90
Basilisk horn wand
Combines dragon heart string with wand wood to make a wand Combines basilik horn with wand wood to make a wand
Notes Higher levels gets you better woods
8.14 – Tailoring The creation of robes and other clothes. Higher levels allow the mixing of magic into the clothing giving unique properties. Defensive spells are very potent here deflecting some spells entirely. Or else use your clothing to boost your other spells. Robes offer very little protection from swords and physical damage. Level 1
Crafted Item Wizard hat
Effect Creates a hat
50
Imbued robes
90
Invisibility cloak
Creates magical robes or rare quality Creates a cloak capable of hiding from all creatures and players lower level than you
Notes Has no special effects
8.15 – Armour crafting When cloth robes are not doing the job anymore, the brave adventurer wears armour. Restricts magic but greatly protects from physical damage. Can be enchanted at higher levels to deflect magics as well. Level 1 50
Crafted Item Leather belt Dragon hide tunic
Effect
90
Imbued dragon hide cloak
Deflects a lot of spells
Notes
Powerful armour to make spells weaker Requires rare and hard to get powerful reagents. Soak the cloak in giants blood to reap the benefits.
8.16 – Melee Fighting Wizards have a history of also fighting with swords and other non-magic weapons. By using sword and wand, or shield and wand, or just sword and shield you can defeat opponents in different ways. Increasing this skill increase your damage and attack speed. Level 1
Skill Slash
Effect Attacks the target
Notes Requires a melee
weapon
15
Block spell
with a slashing attack Blocks and incoming spell
50
Flintlock
Shoots the target with a flintlock pistol (this is war they probably deserve it)
Requires a shield, can block more spells at higher level Requires a pistol in your pocket. High levels reload faster.
8.17 – Metalwork For the humble adventurer or squib who prefers to minimise wand usage and instead hit people with a sword. Metalwork is as important to squibs as Wand Lore is to magic users. Level 1
Crafted Item Basic sword
25
Imbued sword
35
Imbued shield
Effect Creates a crude sword Creates a sword with specialist properties
Notes
You can imbue all sorts of different things into a sword. Higher skills let you imbue better more powerful things.
Creates a shield with specialist properties
8.18 – Treasure Hunting Historical magic items are hidden all around the world just waiting to be found. What powerful items are buried, tucked away or hidden behind powerful enchantments? This skill work well with almost every other skill to unlock every secret. High level items combined with Dark magic can even be used to create Horcruxes. Level
1
Crafted/Disovered Item Old Rune
50
Crack Enchantment
90
Create Horcrux
Effect
Notes
Combine 25 runes to create a spell you can use without the requirements Can break down mid level spells protecting treasure. When killed you respawn where you placed your Horcrux.
Requires maximum level Dark.
8.19 – Gathering The essential all round skill for getting things. Boomslang skins, Unicorn horn, Bezors, everything a witch or wizard might need to keep around. Useful for Wand Lore, Potions, Tailoring and even if you manage to procure some very hard to get Basilisk Venom, metal working. Example - Find shed unicorn horns, and find hairs in the forest. Level 1 50
90
Gathered Item Low level plant 1 Venomous tantacula pods Acromantula venom
Effect
Notes
Requires level 25 herbology Requires a freshly dead acromantula. Good luck with that.
8.20 – Flying Learn to fly, this is a requirement for magic users wanting to get around. High levels allow the use of faster brooms, and more exotic flying implements. Fancy a go on a flying carpet? How about a Griffon? Maybe you are even good enough at Magizoology to convince a dragon to give you a ride… For game play purposes flying might not be available until after certain criteria are met. 8.21 – Non-verbal Magic Allows you to cast spells without saying the words, very powerful against players who want to interrupt your spell casting. Countered by legilimens
8.22 – Potential others Legilmency, would allow you to see spells being cast by players and creatures who would otherwise be casting silently. Occlumency, would allow you to prevent other players seeing which spells you are casting. 9.0 – Spells Each spell can level from 1 to 100. Casting the spell grants experience, enough experience gains you an increase in spell level. The experience also goes toward levelling the skills tied to the spell. Higher level spells grant not only more powerful spells but also new effects. This is an example of the skills pane from World of Warcraft, each spell would be levelled up in the same way the skills below would be. You can track them on a pane.
Examples below: Level Stinging Hex 1 Damage + a DoT
Incacerous Incapacitites target with a rope for 5s
25
Higher Damage + stronger DoT
Incapacitates target with a chain (harder to break)
50
Damage, DoT + periodic incapacitation
100
Damage + DoT + periodic
Incapacitates target with a steel chain (harder to break) Incapacitates target with a
incapacitation
chain + effect
Reducto High damage against solid targets, very strong against summoned items. Smashes walls + high damage
Ignores weak Protego spells
Aguamenti Pushes target backward ever so slightly. Pools on the floor
Pushes target backward and large pool of water on the floor (can be flash frozen) Blasts target backwards
Blasts multiple targets backwards
EXAMPLE: Player has recently unlocked the spell Rock Wall. At level 1 it simply puts up a wall of rock blocking sight, and gets destroyed after 100 damage. After using the spell in combat many times, the spell has levelled up to level 2, this gives it more damage to absorb. By level 25 the spell has gained an effect. Rock Wall now has thorns attached, anyone getting too close is lashed out at and takes damage. After continuing to level up the player reaches 50 and gets another effect. The wall now entangles nearby players and mobs, they take damage from the wall and cannot run away for x seconds. At level 75 the wall deflects many spells, making it harder to destroy. At level 100 the wall now reflects spells back at the caster. All by the most powerful spells are reflected and the spell has reached maximum power.
10.0 – Items This is the item type, everyone is restricted to how many they can use at once. You can’t wear 6 sets of robes for example. Many items will have requirements to wear them. For example a powerful shield may require high defence skill to use. Each item also has an item level which determines how many stats it has on it.
Slots:
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Head – Hats, diadems, crowns, caps, coifs, helmets, etc. Neck – Necklaces, scarves, gorget, etc. Chest – Robes, armour, tops, etc. Trousers – skirts, trousers (pants), kilts, etc. Belt – Belts Gloves - Gloves Wrist – Bracelets, wrist armour Feet – shoes, sandals, boots, etc. Main Hand – wand, sword, staves, etc. Off Hand – shields, swords, etc. Ear-rings – ear rings Glasses – goggles, monacles, etc. Pocket 1 – special items Pocket 2
– Item Quality 11.1 – Common Base quality for all items, come with no stats, used primarily for aesthetics. 11.2 – Uncommon Named in green to stand out, contain stat boosts. These can be either up or down, usually both. This is to encourage niches rather than players being brilliant at everything at once. 11.3 – Rare Named in blue to stand out. Difficult to find, gives a larger stat boost than uncommon items. Players hoping to get higher ranks might find that getting lots of rare items is a requirement. 11.4 – Epic Named in purple to stand out. Very hard to find, or earn. These items are exceptionally powerful and offer special effects as well as stats on par with rare items. 11.5 – Unique Exceptionally rare items. Limited to 1 per server. Defeat in combat relives the player of this item and gives it to the player/mob that defeated them. For example a very powerful wand might give large bonus stats to certain spells. Being defeated would instantly grant that wand to the defeating player. Once they are defeated it jumps to another. These change hands frequently and that is the idea. After changing hands x number of times the item disappears and takes time to reappear on the server. Defeat by a mob means the mob now has the item and will drop it as loot. Not always the exact same mob, but that type will drop it eventually. Not available in competitive PvP. Failure to use the Unique item within a couple of days, will have it reset.
12.0 – Stats Found on items through the world, the vast variety of stats and potential item combinations mean getting a perfect setup is very hard. Ideally stats work on as minimal random chance as possible. 12.1 – Health Total health your character has. 12.2 – Magic Pool Casting spells is tiring, this determines how long you can cast spells for before needing a break. Different spells use up more of your magic pool that others.
12.3 – Stamina Used in place of Magic Pool for squibs, determines how long you can fight for before needing a break. Different attacks use up more of your stamina pool that others. – Resistance to XYZ 12.4 Each skill or spell that causes damage or incapacitates has a stat that reduces that damage or incapacitation time, for example -50 damage from all offence spells (meaning if your spell only does 40 damage and a player has -50 damage reduction then you do 0 damage), or –75% damage from Sectumsemptra. Stats are additive. 12.5 – Improvement to XYZ Increases a skill or spell in a similar way to how resistance works. +50 damage to Dumbledore’s Arrow, or +25% damage to Stinging Hex 12.6 – Critical spell chance Chance to cause bonus damage from that spell (or all spells) 12.7 – Critical spell reduction Decreases chance to be critically hit. EXAMPLE: A player may want to specialise in very high power spells. To do this they should wear robes which boost magical power, (rather than things like dragon hide which are strong against magic or metal armour which is strong against melee damage). Then try to find items which boost the spells they use most frequently, or more generalist stat boosts. If a player is wanting to specialist in non wand combat, they might go for lots of crafted armour that absorbs spells hitting them, and reduces the time they are crowd controlled. They may go for a shield, and take skills in herbology to attack people with plants, or take potions and blow up targets with those. 13.0 – Factions These are groups of wizards (or other creatures) and how much they like you. You gain reputation with the groups by doing quests of other things for them. Getting reputation to a high enough level with grant you special rewards. In World of Warcraft the reputation levels are split up thusly: Hated (attack you on sight), Unfriendly (won’t kill you, but won’t talk to you either), Neutral (can now talk to them), Friendly (small rewards), Honoured (good rewards), Revered (excellent rewards), Exalted (exceptional rewards). A similar system could work well here. Below are examples of factions (obviously better names are required): 13.1 – Hogwarts School (both) 13.2 – Durmstrang School (dark) 13.3 – Ilvermony School (both) 13.4 - Native American Tribe 1 (both) 13.5 – Native Wizard Exterminators (dark) 13.6 - Ministry of Magic (light) 13.7 – Goblin tribe 1 14.0 – Titles For some achievements, or competing certain tasks you may get a title as a reward to display by your name. The idea of these is that they are rare and difficult to obtain. Competitive PvP contains some titles, and major PvE achievements also award them. Examples: Title Warlock
Mugwump
How to get Achieve level 75 in 3 types of offensive magic and reach rank 5 in competitive PvP Gain 2nd highest reputation with the Ministry of
Supreme Mugwump
st Order of Merlin 1Class
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Magic and Hogwarts and get to rank 5 or higher in competitive PvP Gain the highest reputation with the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts and get to rank 7 in Competitive PvP Assist in the defeat and arrest of Muirgein
– Traits When you create a character you get a trait. The majority of these are just natural affinities to certain skills. For example every skill has a natural affinity trait that gives +5% experience when using spells/skills that go with it. At the character creation screen you get a selection of traits to choose from. Rare and Ultra-rare traits are not chosen but have a small chance of giving a bonus trait, rare traits are tied to the trait you pick, ultra rare ones are not. You cannot get both a rare and ultra rare trait. The idea in traits is they cannot effect your actual combat in anyway, so no +5% damage traits. There are also rare and ultra rare traits, examples below: Squib – cannot cast magic at all. However gets a 10% exp boost to certain skills such as armour and metal smithing. Squibs excel in hand to hand combat and tend to use
thick magic proof armours. Squibs can level any skill that doesn’t involve wand use, such as potions and herbology. Squibs skip past school and have a separate starting area. (Might be better to make this a choice earlier, rather than a trait) Transfiguration expert - +5% exp. to transfiguration magic Transfiguration master (rare) - +10% exp. to transfiguration magic Anamorphamagus (Ultra rare) – Can change appearance at will, a button appears on the character pane which brings them back to the character creation screen and allows changes to be made. Albino (rare) – Characters skin changes to white, apperation takes half as long to complete and a boost to healing magic 10% exp. (chance to trigger when player has a +healing bonus trait) Werewolf(?) – Turns into a wolf during the fullmoon. If the player has certain items they can still control themselves. If not, they lose control at random intervals for 10s. Can be very effective in PvP in wolf form. Parselmouth (ultra rare)– snakes will (mostly) not attack you, when using a wand containing basilisk horn disarm abilities cannot work, as the wand works without being in contact.
16.0 – Player Housing A popular demand in almost all MMO’s, player housing would allow every character to setup a base. These would be limited in location however would allow extensive customisation. Adventures around the game would grant unique things to place around your dwelling. Different locations would offer very different style bases. Players are not limited to a single home. 17.0
– Achievements
The achievement system is influenced by that found in SW:TOR and WoW. Each zone would have achievements for defeating x number of each creature, as well as completing a large number of tasks. Such as quests completed, treasure found, as well as any other hidden secrets. All achievements would be bound to an account, not a character. This means if you successfully defeat 249/250 dark wizards on one character, you only have to defeat 1 on another to get the achievement bound to your account, this means to complete all achievements you will need
multiple characters. If a player wants to have a character not bound to their achievement list it is possible through an option on the character selection screen. Characters are by default bound to the achievements. Completion of some achievements, or large groups of achievements would offer rewards. 18.0
– Quidditch
Players sign up as either a team or in solo queue. Roles are selected on a first click, first get basis. Abilities in quidditch are limited but use standard controls. Beaters right click to swing the location you hit is based on the crosshair (don’t hit other players or you will get the enemy team penalties!), chasers get throw and catch abilities based on the cross hair location again, goal keepers get a catch or punch/kick (cross hair). Seekers role may have to adjust slightly to make gameplay possible. Games should be done in about 15-20mins, to do this the snitch gets slower as the game progresses. To catch the snitch the seeker flies around until he sees it, then has to get close and click on it to catch. The amount of points gained for goals/snitch will likely be adjusted from the series as games cannot go on for hours. The snitch would slow down as the game progresses. A ranked Quidditch league will release after a few months to allow teams to form.
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