Secondary Focus / 9th sphere Advancement
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:53 pm
Dreamers,
We are excited to announce a new avenue for high level character advancement. Once you have maxed orbit 89, you may approach a GM elder teacher and choose a secondary focus. You should plateau/learn any of your primary focus’s arts you wish to before beginning this process as you will be unable to until you reach 9th sphere. This process will also serve as the 9th sphere task.
“To learn a secondary focus, you must first forget all that you think you know!” After choosing your secondary focus, you will be reset to orbit 1 and given a codex from the elder excusing you from any sphere tasks. You will still be required to gain sphere supports for spheres 4+ that require them. You will then be able to start regaining your spheres and tasking for the arts/plateaus of your secondary focus. You will still have your primary focus arts, but they will temporarily go down in level to your current orbit and will automatically increase as you gain orbits/spheres. Blade/Flame/Focus do not follow this rule so lower spheres should be significantly easier to regain with 89 Blade, Flame, and Focus.
You will be temporarily unable to use arts that are learned at a higher sphere than what you are currently at. So a Soulmaster who picks Dreamseer for their secondary focus will be unable to evoke abjure until they are 5th sphere. As soon as they get 5th, their abjure will automaticly be orbit 50. Their abjure and all their other primary focus arts they had plateaued, will automatically increase to 60 once they gain 6th sphere and so forth.
Secondary focuses are not as powerful as a primary focus. You will not be able to learn the Blade, Flame, or Focus art for your secondary focus as well as some of their excluded signature arts. This does mean that picking Gatekeeper for your secondary focus will not give you any kind of damage bonus and you will still only be able to use chakrams of your primary focus.
The excluded arts of each secondary focus are as follows:
Dreamseer- Blast and Combine
Fatesender- Paralyze, Razorwind, Enfeeblement
Soulmaster- Abjure and Healing Aura
Gatekeeper- Reflect and Bulwark
If you attempt to learn any of these, they will be stripped and you will immediately be switched back to your primary focus. If you are not happy with your secondary focus choice, you may have reset where you lose all orbits/arts/stats you gained as your secondary focus and start back over from orbit 0 as another choice.
You will be able to learn every other major art of the secondary focus and plateau their minor arts to your orbit. This combination of excluded arts keeps some of the most unique aspects of each focus and helps to ensure game balance so that there are not SoulSenders instantly Abjuring and Paralyzing people, or DreamKeepers running around as unstoppable Blasting, Reflecting, Damage bonusing juggernauts. Excluding these arts should make it so that any of the 3 secondary focuses available to your character are viable options and makes it so there are now 12 distinct character class combinations at high levels.
Upon reaching orbit 89 again, you should finish plateauing any of your secondary focus arts that you wish then once you are ready, provide an elder with the support sphere tokens required and you will be granted 9th sphere and switched back to your Primary Focus so you may return to plateauing your primary focus arts to 90. Arts of your secondary focus will not be able to be plateaued over 89 because of this.
Players have long requested the ability to learn a secondary focus as well as having more high level advancement opportunities. This solution aids in both of these while still keeping the game balanced and each focus unique.
Dream On.
Koi-Shadow
We are excited to announce a new avenue for high level character advancement. Once you have maxed orbit 89, you may approach a GM elder teacher and choose a secondary focus. You should plateau/learn any of your primary focus’s arts you wish to before beginning this process as you will be unable to until you reach 9th sphere. This process will also serve as the 9th sphere task.
“To learn a secondary focus, you must first forget all that you think you know!” After choosing your secondary focus, you will be reset to orbit 1 and given a codex from the elder excusing you from any sphere tasks. You will still be required to gain sphere supports for spheres 4+ that require them. You will then be able to start regaining your spheres and tasking for the arts/plateaus of your secondary focus. You will still have your primary focus arts, but they will temporarily go down in level to your current orbit and will automatically increase as you gain orbits/spheres. Blade/Flame/Focus do not follow this rule so lower spheres should be significantly easier to regain with 89 Blade, Flame, and Focus.
You will be temporarily unable to use arts that are learned at a higher sphere than what you are currently at. So a Soulmaster who picks Dreamseer for their secondary focus will be unable to evoke abjure until they are 5th sphere. As soon as they get 5th, their abjure will automaticly be orbit 50. Their abjure and all their other primary focus arts they had plateaued, will automatically increase to 60 once they gain 6th sphere and so forth.
Secondary focuses are not as powerful as a primary focus. You will not be able to learn the Blade, Flame, or Focus art for your secondary focus as well as some of their excluded signature arts. This does mean that picking Gatekeeper for your secondary focus will not give you any kind of damage bonus and you will still only be able to use chakrams of your primary focus.
The excluded arts of each secondary focus are as follows:
Dreamseer- Blast and Combine
Fatesender- Paralyze, Razorwind, Enfeeblement
Soulmaster- Abjure and Healing Aura
Gatekeeper- Reflect and Bulwark
If you attempt to learn any of these, they will be stripped and you will immediately be switched back to your primary focus. If you are not happy with your secondary focus choice, you may have reset where you lose all orbits/arts/stats you gained as your secondary focus and start back over from orbit 0 as another choice.
You will be able to learn every other major art of the secondary focus and plateau their minor arts to your orbit. This combination of excluded arts keeps some of the most unique aspects of each focus and helps to ensure game balance so that there are not SoulSenders instantly Abjuring and Paralyzing people, or DreamKeepers running around as unstoppable Blasting, Reflecting, Damage bonusing juggernauts. Excluding these arts should make it so that any of the 3 secondary focuses available to your character are viable options and makes it so there are now 12 distinct character class combinations at high levels.
Upon reaching orbit 89 again, you should finish plateauing any of your secondary focus arts that you wish then once you are ready, provide an elder with the support sphere tokens required and you will be granted 9th sphere and switched back to your Primary Focus so you may return to plateauing your primary focus arts to 90. Arts of your secondary focus will not be able to be plateaued over 89 because of this.
Players have long requested the ability to learn a secondary focus as well as having more high level advancement opportunities. This solution aids in both of these while still keeping the game balanced and each focus unique.
Dream On.
Koi-Shadow