Elemancy Questions

[Rannveig]

Forgive me if this information was somewhere else already, or possibly in that VC I missed, but some stuff I saw in-game at the University of Elemancy post-revival made me wonder...

Are there going to be any kinds of lore changes to elemancy and how it works, as far as students at the University would understand it?

Namely, will wands/staves be functional again, or are they now something that should be considered keepsakes and glyphstones will be implemented here instead? Will we have to start drawing diagrams to open channels as well eventually, or will glyphstones only function as wands/staves did for ZAPping? etc.

Is arcana going to be implemented in a bit, and what will that look like, or should we ignore the study room for it for now?

Are most of the former elemancy abilities listed on the wiki going to be re-implemented and maybe re-worked, like the cool little addition to mage candle?

Any major retcons planned for elemancy-related stuff in general?

And maybe others I didn't remember. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

[Rias]

Are there going to be any kinds of lore changes to elemancy and how it works, as far as students at the University would understand it?

Maybe some minor quibbling details, but nothing major. The idea of the "patterns" that has been used to describe what Elemancers user are essentially memorized occult glyphs, and that's just semantics.

will wands/staves be functional again

Yep.

[will] glyphstones will be implemented here?

I think we could find a use for glyphstones somewhere, but for the basic channeling, probably not. People could channel without them in CLOK before, and I don't think we need to change that. Maybe.

Will we have to start drawing diagrams to open channels as well eventually

Naw.

Is arcana going to be implemented in a bit?

Maybe in some form for some special spells or something, but I don't have any solid plans for the arcane circle system at this moment.

should we ignore the study room for it for now?

Oops. Yes, you should.

Are most of the former elemancy abilities listed on the wiki going to be re-implemented and maybe re-worked, like the cool little addition to mage candle?

If by "re-worked" you mean "given little extra fun features if I can think of them like the mage candle coloration thing", then yep! And yeah, I think we'll have the full list of Elemancer abilities pretty soon here. Except maybe Detection/Severance? That never had much of any practical use.

Any major retcons planned for elemancy-related stuff in general?

Nope! As you can see, they've finally fixed the Aero Lift, but that doesn't mean the stuff that led to its temporary out-of-service state didn't happen.

[Rannveig]

Thanks for the answers! I understand there are tons and tons and tons of questions from tons and tons of players, and it is a very early state with lots of uncertainties and lots of things to do, so I really appreciate the clarifications.

[Rias]

P.S. I also need to go over the rooms in the University and switch a few things up, like the heat-emitting diagrams to be replaced by pyrospheres, and luminous crystal light sources being replaced with mage candles.