Storm Form (spell)

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Storm Form
Level	7
School1	Transmutation
School2	Air
Source(s)	Book of the Sky Inescapable Atlas
Casting noise	0
Spell noise	0

Lets the caster walk through the air as a raging, lightning-filled tempest. The caster's melee attacks are strengthened, electrified, and strike all adjacent foes. The caster also flies, is more evasive, and resists electricity. They can launch themselves as a lightning bolt, blasting through everything in their way. The damage and evasion granted by storm form are highly dependent on the power with which it was cast.

Storm Form is a level 7 Transmutations / Air spell.

Pros

• Unarmed Combat receives cleaving, is electricity-branded, and has a base damage of 2 + spell power / 2.5.
• Gain innate AC and EV based on spell power: power / 10 + 10 AC and a bonus power/10 EV.
• Blinkbolt: Bolt-targeted ability that deals electric damage to everything in its path, then blinks you to the end. Has a cooldown.
• Electricity resistance
• Nonliving (grants immunity to poison)
• Insubstantial (grants immunity to petrification, constriction, and being set on fire)
• Flight

Cons

• All equipment slots except for rings and amulets meld into the new form.
• Unable to throw items.
• Requires high spell power to be effective.

Strategy

Storm Form is intended to be a high damage spell that scales well with spell power. At low spell power, Dragon Form deals more damage. Even when Storm Form deals more damage, its low defenses discourage general use; instead use it in situations where damage or cleaving is desired.

Like Dragon Form, Storm Form benefits greatly from support magic such as Ozocubu's Armour.

Storm Form

History

Storm Form was added in 0.27, replacing Hydra Form.

References

Commit adding Storm Form.