ice magic question

[MorKazim]

hello,

in ice magic, if you do not count "Cryogenic Freeze " what other spell heals Body Heat?
the "Cold Protection " say that it protects you from cold but what does it really means (it works in combat only?)



shouldn't "Cold Protection " give some extra body heat & "Ice Veins " & "Ice Armor" replenish this body heat like fire magic "wall of fire" & ather spells heal BH?

shouldn't " a Ice mage eventually be immune to cold (or almost)

thank you.

[cr00cy]

Cold protection skill boost your direct and indirect cold mitigation - making you take less dmg from cold based attacks and lose body heat slower.

I dont think there are any other spells that restore body heat in IM (tough im not expert) - you can alwasy check wiki, there should be info about it there. As for your suggestions - well i dont think skill that coat you in ice would serve as good way to warm you up... Tough i agree that some passive cold mitigation, or lowered body heat loss would be nice.

[MorKazim]

well you are correct that ice is not a good way to heat someone :) but you are an Ice Mage... cold should mean nothing to you... you should be able to take a swim in the Kur Mountains ocean no problem

[ShieldBreaker]

Citan went into a detailed description of the workings of the Body Heat system at one point. I hope I have found the quote I was looking for, but there might be a even better one out there.
From an old Citan Blog.

... Here's the new system: when you're in Kur, an additional bar will be shown along the top of the screen labeled "Body Heat". While you've got some body heat left in the meter, you're fine. No ill effects from the cold at all. Your body heat drops over time, and when it reaches zero, you get frostbite. And if you stay at zero for too long, you get hypothermia, which is almost certainly fatal unless you get indoors fast.

Your Indirect Cold Mitigation will still play a key role -- it'll affect how quickly you lose body heat. Cold-weather gear like fur parkas will boost your indirect cold mitigation, and they may also boost your maximum body-heat, so you can travel for longer. And some items and abilities will have a chance to boost your body heat, too. Breathing fire seems like it should have a chance of giving you back a point or two... and Ice Magic would likely have some tools to survive in the cold...

I hope that this system will be more intuitive than the old system, because "don't let your bar get empty or you die" is easier to understand than "you take lots of cold damage all the time, but when you're out of combat your food recovers the energy, so it's only when you're in combat that it's dangerous, and if you go below 50% health during combat you might get hypothermia". There's still a random element: the rate of heat loss is not constant, it happens randomly based on your cold mitigation. In colder areas it drops faster than others. (For instance, being submerged in Kur's ocean is much colder than being on land.) But I think the extra GUI bar makes it all a lot more understandable.

I'm still refining it and trying new things, but I wanted to give you an idea of where it's headed. To reiterate, though, my goal is NOT for Kur to be a huge pain in the ass all the time. The goal is for Kur to be a predictably dangerous environment that you have to take precautions for. At low level it's very dangerous, but at high level you only need moderate precautions.