The Chosen Ones

Blackdoom, Doomlord and me discussed the idea of having a spell that fuses a lightening, a fire and an ice elemental, so here's a thread about it where you can post your oppinion and suggest some improvements, forms of appearance or even the size of one of the factors for the calculation.

Phodom has the ability to summon a fire elemental.
Galeoth has the ability to summon an ice elemental.
Fradz will have the ability to summon a lightning elemental (One thing Aero's working on at the moment )

This spell fuses a fire -, an ice - and a lightning elemental to create a powerful elemental of magic/power/suggest a name.
This powerful spell resides in your spellbook, since it's too powerful to be a normal ability. The power of the magical elemental depends on the abilvl of the single elementals. Every elemental improves one single part of the stats of the new elemental (I'll call it now "magic elemental" until a name is decided). The summoned magical elemental will fight side by side with the Dragon Slayers to defeat their enemys.
The summoning spell itself works similar to "Force of Nature" with the exception that there are elements required instead of trees and that the result won't be treants but the "magic elemental".

- requires a lightning- , a fire and an ice elemental
- The higher the abillvl of the lightning elemental, the higher the intelligence of the magic elemental
- The higher the abillvl of the fire elemental, the higher the attackpower of the magic elemental
- The higher the abilvl of the ice elemental, the higher the hp and armor of the magic elemental
- The abilitys of the magic elemental are mixed together out of different abilitys from the lightning, fire and ice elemental (I think which abilitys exactly should be used needs still to be discussed)
- This spellbook spell needs to be heavily limited. I'd suggest to handle this like the espers: You can use this spell once and afterwards need to reactivate it via an item. Another possibility would be to allow the spell to be used once per chapter or (if it's made to be not that strong) to just give it a cooldown around X minutes (I'd prefer X > 3 minutes)
- The magic elemental vanishs after 30 seconds

Atk-power with X as a factor that can vary by size:
abillvl-fire*X =Atk-power

Hp and armor with Y and Z as factors that can vary by size:
abillvl-ice*Y = Hitpoints
abillvl-ice*Z = Armor

Intelligence (which indirectly means manapool and spelldamage) with W as a factor that can vary by size:
abillvl-lightning*W= Int

The appearance of the magic elemental and the spell which creats it are things I did not think about yet. In fact, I'm rather bad when it comes to something like this, so I'd like other people to suggest something.

Edit: Due to some research I've found something how the elemental could possibly look like:
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/ancientofstome-91268/

I want everyone to post their own way how this spell should be learned. However I'd say you have to learn it via an orb that you can buy, obtain via quest or that's hidden somewhere you need to get the elementals to get through.

My suggestion about how to obtain this orb would be the third one:
In ch. 2 (or 5), 3 and 6 needs to be areas that only the elementals can reach.
In ch. 2 (or 5) this should be an area which is so full of static energy, that Fradz himself would be immediately killed in case he sets one foot in there. Only the lightning elemental, which is immune to this kind of damage can go there and activate "Orb of lightning". After activating it some kind of message appears (maybe even an optional cinematic since Aero loves to make them so much) that tells you that there are two other Orbs that need to be activated if you want to get a powerful spell.

For Galeoth the "Orb of ice" would be behind a wall of ice that only the ice elemental can walk through (could be done via cinematic).

For Phodom there should be a pool of lava in ch.6 which immediately kills every character that trys to walk through it. However, in the middle of the pool is the "Orb of fire" which can be activated via the fire elemental walking to it (via cinematic?).

When all of these three Orbs are activated something big happens (ground starts to shake, maybe shown via cinematic?) and inside one of the unused rooms in ch.6 appears the "orb of elements", which teaches you the spell "Elemental fusion" and disappears after usage.

Isofruit , Once , when I was still a baby on TCO I was told:

Don't spoil the story bro ^^.

So , now I will tell another baby on TCO to STOP SPOILING THE STORY

Hello,

There is something... Sinisterous about this as it is presented. It could partly be due to the fact that I'm pretty disappointed in the current development of the campaign, but...

Okay, so... Calculations. Why are there calculations? Why can't we just create a custom spell of a spell created by Blizzard? It's called the "Force of Nature", the skill that converts trees into treants.

Now, how to modify it to match this description? Firstly, targets required. Set the elementals as elemental (geez...) category units and edit the "targets required" by removing the "tree" by replacing it with the "elemental".

Next, units summoned. Change it to this "ultimate elemental" unit as you call it.

Attribute growth? Increase the amount of skill levels and change the "units summoned" always to a enhanced version of the ultimate elemental.

Of course this way everything is valued raw, but it can be balanced nevertheless.

Basing this spell on Force of Nature is not fine. The ability itself can be activated with only one tree in the target area then a Treant will be spawned. What does that mean? It means if you base this Fusion ability on Force of Nature, a player can target only one Elemental and still gets a Magic Elemental.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to do this without custom triggers but still, we all want a balanced TCO so I have to say that basing the Fusion ability on Force of Nature is not okay. We need to use something else.

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Eh, well more like "resistant" to lightning. If the "area full of static energy" does 100% damage equal to one's health that is not resistant to lightning, then it can't kill Fradz "immediately" (aka 100% of the damage) as Fradz handles lightning itself, so even a slight resistance, if not better, is provided.

Hmm, have you reconsidered that the power of this static energy is so big, that even with some kind of resistance it would still kill Fradz?
Fradz still dies when someone attacks him with 10.000 dmg lightnings every second, even when he has about 80% dmg-absorption. So this does not change the idea that much.

Your example: Let's imagine outer space wouldn't be a vacuum and you wouldn't explode if you fly up there. You'd still be frozen solid after two seconds in case you're at a cold place. The temperature just would be that extreme that your "resistence" would be useless.

Why don't we resolve this matter as simple as possible? Let's imagine that lightning place of Iso's is made for pure lightning beings only. Fradz controls the Element but will die when enter this because his human parts will be obliterated as soon as he sets foot into that area. Is is okay for your guys ?

I'd support the idea of having 3 passive abilitys from the elementals + one ultimo ability that sacrifices the elemental.
And about the automatic-fusion thing:
Is there a possibility to give it an internal cooldown?