Higher
| Higher | |
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| Metarace | Human |
| Locked | No |
| Life Rating | 11 |
| Exp Penalty | +15% |
| Stat Modifiers | |
| Strength | +1 |
| Dexterity | +1 |
| Constitution | 0 |
| Magic | +1 |
| Willpower | +1 |
| Cunning | 0 |
| Luck | 0 |
Contents
Description
Highers are a special branch of Humans that have been imbued with latent magic since the Age of Allure. They usually do not breed with other Humans, trying to keep their blood 'pure'. They possess the Gift of the Highborn which allows them to regenerate their wounds once in a while.
Starting Equipment
- Brass Lantern
- Wild Infusion
- Regeneration Infusion
Starting Location
Trollmire (except for Celestial, Chronomancer and Archmage characters)
Racial Talents
| Wrath of the Highborn | ||
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| Game Version | 1.7.6 | |
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| Category Type | Race | |
| Category | Higher | |
| Requirements | Level (0,1,2,3,4) | |
| Use Mode | Activated | |
| Cost | none | |
| Range | Melee/Personal | |
| Cooldown | 45–25cTL:5 | |
| Travel Speed | Instantaneous | |
| Use Speed | Instant | |
| Description | Call upon the power of the Highborn, increasing all damage by 11–25%cSS:mag and reducing all damage taken by 11–25%cSS:mag for 5 turns.
The bonus will increase with your Magic. | |
| Overseer of Nations | ||
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| Game Version | 1.7.6 | |
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| Category Type | Race | |
| Category | Higher | |
| Requirements | Level (8,9,10,11,12) | |
| Use Mode | Passive | |
| Cost | - | |
| Range | - | |
| Cooldown | - | |
| Travel Speed | - | |
| Use Speed | - | |
| Description | While Highers are not meant to rule other humans - and show no particular will to do so - they are frequently called to higher duties.
Their nature grants them better senses than other humans. Increase blindness immunity by 15–50%cTL:100%, maximum sight range by 1–5cTS:log, and increases existing infravision, and heightened senses range by 0,3–2,3cTS:log,0,2. At talent level 5, each time you hit a target you gain telepathy to all similar creatures in radius 15 for 5 turns. | |
| Born Into Magic | ||
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| Game Version | 1.7.6 | |
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| Category Type | Race | |
| Category | Higher | |
| Requirements | Level (16,17,18,19,20) | |
| Use Mode | Passive | |
| Cost | - | |
| Range | - | |
| Cooldown | 15–5cTL:0 | |
| Travel Speed | - | |
| Use Speed | - | |
| Description | Highers were originally created during the Age of Allure by the human Conclave. They are imbued with magic at the very core of their being.
Increase spell save by 5–35cTS:0.75P and arcane resistance by 7–25%cTS. Also, when you cast a spell dealing damage, you gain a 20% bonus to the damage type for 5 turns. (This effect has a cooldown.) | |
| Highborn's Bloom | ||
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| Game Version | 1.7.6 | |
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| Category Type | Race | |
| Category | Higher | |
| Requirements | Level (24,25,26,27,28) | |
| Use Mode | Activated | |
| Cost | - | |
| Range | Melee/Personal | |
| Cooldown | 45–30cTL:20 | |
| Travel Speed | Instantaneous | |
| Use Speed | Instant | |
| Description | Activate some of your inner magic, using it to power your abilities. For the next 3–7.1cTL:10 turns all active talents will be used without resource cost.
Your resources must still be high enough to initially power the talent and failure rates (etc.) still apply. | |
Strategy
Gift of the Highborn (the first racial talent) scales with Willpower and is instantaneous. This can act as an additional or replacement Regeneration infusion and gives a boost to characters who may need some extra healing to survive. Overseer of Nations can let you hit enemies from outside their sight range (if you use it with an area of effect spell with range 10).
Highers are a solid choice for spellcasters (thanks to the damage boost of Born into Magic) and anything that boosts Willpower (to better benefit from the first racial talent), but are generally unimpressive melee characters. A few classes deserve special mention:
- Necromancers can use Gift of the Highborn while undead and can mitigate their resource issues with Highborn's Bloom.
- Arcane archmages can easily get the Aether Permeation Prodigies, which synergizes well with Born into Magic.
- Paradox Mages has a variety of ultra-long-range AoEs. They have many instant-cast spells with huge paradox costs, all of which can used at once during Highborn's Bloom. They can either be built around physical damage or temporal damage, or use the Telugoroth Form prodigy to apply their temporal bonus to everything.
- Arcane Blades using stone missiles can trigger +% physical damage, which will apply to their weapon attacks as well.
- Shadowblades use both mana and stamina, getting double value from Bloom, and a minor darkness-damage theme.
Killing out-of-LOS
Thanks to Eyes of the Overseer Highers can often attack enemies from afar before being noticed. Talents with achievable range greater than 10 include:
- Sun flare
- Devouring flame
- Aura of silence
- Gravity well and Gravity spike
- Maelstrom, charged Distortion bolt and Distortion wave (at talent level 1.7)
- Alchemist bombs with range-extending gems
- Chill of the tomb (reaches effective range of 11 at level 3; do not upgrade it further before getting lots of cold resistance!)
- Shadowstep (reaches range of 11 after investing 5 points and 12 with additional category point in tree)
- Lure (becomes more useful after investing category point, which raises Trap Launcher range to 10)
- Pulverizing auger (have to raise category mastery to 1.7, e.g. with Wrap of Stone and category point)
- Wave of power (reaches range of 11 at 113 strength)
| Races | ||||||||
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| Human | Elf | Halfling | Dwarf | Yeek | Giant | Undead | Orc | Yeti |
| Higher | Shalore | Halfling | Dwarf | Yeek | Ogre | Ghoul | Orc | Kruk Yeti |
| Cornac | Thalore | Drem | Krog | Skeleton | ||||
| Doomelf | Whitehoof | |||||||
