{"id":421,"date":"2012-12-10T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2012-12-10T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:22:23","slug":"gc2cs-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/gc2cs-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"GC2:CS &#8211; Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new chapter will have 25 skills laid out in a 5&#215;5 grid. Some skills were dropped or merged, and the new strike spells and gem enhancements brought along their skills. Don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;ll miss your favorite skill, the talisman system will add lots of additional bonuses (and it will be easily extendable post-release).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gc2-20121210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-422\" title=\"gc2-20121210\" src=\"http:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gc2-20121210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gc2-20121210.jpg 900w, https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gc2-20121210-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/gc2-20121210.jpg\"><\/a><!--more-->The skills&#8217; art is not finalized yet, lots of refinements and an overall color harmonization is still ahead.<\/p>\n<p>There are no wizard level requirements for skills, instead you&#8217;ll have to find the skills&#8217; tomes as dropped loot (some will be easy to find or given at start, some will be hidden deep). If you find a gem component skill, the corresponding gem type will be available on every field (in GCL you had to spend mana on unlocking gem types).<\/p>\n<p>There is a general skill level cap; currently it starts at 5 and increases by 1 for each 10 wizard levels reached (these are non-playtest-proven experimental values, might change wildly, just as everything).<\/p>\n<p>Talismans can give skill level bonuses to a skill or a group of skills (hence the bronzish 3&#215;3 division, gem bomb skills are at the mid bottom for example), which is shown at the bottom right corner of the skill icon (see the critical hit (yellow) gem skill&#8217;s &#8220;+2&#8221; marker).<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll have a happy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Winter_holidays\">winter holiday<\/a>, see you next year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>2013 starts with these posts:<\/p>\n<p>7th of January:<br \/>\nMonsters update<\/p>\n<p>21st of January:<br \/>\nAchievements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new chapter will have 25 skills laid out in a 5&#215;5 grid. Some skills were dropped or merged, and the new strike spells and gem enhancements brought along their skills. Don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;ll miss your favorite skill, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/gc2cs-skills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,5,15,7],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chasing-shadows","tag-development","tag-gemcraft","tag-holiday-season","tag-screenshots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}