Final Bastion’s Spellmaker Guide

The original idea of a Card Maker comes from another official fansite-  Legends of the Spiral, and you can check out their tool here.

The Basics: Title, Accuracy, and Pip Cost

The first thing that we’re gonna do is give our spell a name. Click on the Spell Title box and type in your spell’s name or title. For Accuracy choose a number from 10 to 100. Rank can be any whole number from 0 to 14 or X.

If your spell is shadow-enhanced, you’ll also want to enable shadow pip cost in the bottom left corner. After that, you will be able to type your spell’s Shadow Pip cost into the Shad box. If you’re making an activity spells, you’ll need to click the target icon in the bottom left corner and then you can type into the Energy box.

School, Card, and Spell Type

Next, let’s choose our spell’s school! First, choose ICONS from the left menu. You can now choose a school by clicking on one of these 15 buttons:

The same goes for the spell type:

In case you want to change your spell’s card color (if it’s enchanted by Sun Enchantment spell for example), you can use these color buttons:

The first 11 buttons represent each school of magic (7 schools, shadow, and astral) while the other 5 stand for item card, treasure card, gardening, fishing and castle magic spells respectively.

Spell Description and Icons

Now it’s time to decide on what your spell will do. Choose ADD TEXT from the left menu, click on th Description box and type in your spell’s description. You can add any of the icons into the description by clicking on them. Each icon gets added at the end of your description, so use keyboard shortcuts (PC: Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V / MAC: Command + X and Command + V) to put everything in place, or simply add them as you type your spell.

Artwork Selection

When selecting artwork, you can choose from the list of artworks, a random piece of artwork from the list, or custom artwork of your own choice in the ARTWORK menu tab. Artwork size can be adjusted with a slider located at the bottom of the Artwork panel. You can also change the artwork position using the arrow keys.

If you want to add your own artwork:

• First Upload it to imgur.com
• Next right click on the image and click Open image in new tab
• Make sure the link starts like this: i.imgur.com/…
• Copy the whole link and paste it in the Image Link box
• Now click the upload button above the box

Additional Features

If you want to restrict your spell’s use you can use one of the top buttons to make the spell either NO PVP – not allow the spell in Player VS Player duels, NO PVE – not allow the spell in Player VS Enemy duels or to make it NO RESHUFFLE  if you don’t want your spell to be Reshuffle-able. The shadow pip button enables and disables shadow pip on the card and the target button switches between displaying accuracy and energy on the spell.

Spell Balancing

Another part of the SpellMaker is a Spell Balancer tool. This tool can help you make your spells more balanced according to already existing standards. You can read about spell balancing in this article and dev diary by Kingsisle. Please note that this tool isn’t 100% accurate – it’s only based off of current information!

First is a dropdrown box where you can choose the school of the spell. You can also select Heal and Drain which represent Life Heals and Death Drains. Next is pip cost (Pips) – anything between 0 and 14 and Shadow Pip Cost (Shad).

Additionaly there are four toggles which affect the final value:

In case you enable the Secondary Effect button, two more boxes will appear:

• Effect cost is the actual cost of the pip cost of the secondary effect that you spell will do
  • For example if your spell casts -25% negative damage charm, the effect cost will be 0 – since it’s the same value as the spell Weakness, if you choose Spirit Trap instead, the Effect cost will be 1 (note that you must input an integer, decimals will not be read properly)

• Tempo cost is usually 1, but spells like Rusalka’s Wrath where the effect may or may not occur has a lower Tempo cost. Rusalka has 0.3 (input non-whole numbers in as decimals rather than fractions)

The SpellMaker uses following DPP values shown in these two tables. First is the official DPP chart released in a dev diary by Kingsisle, the second one was researched and calculated for the SpellMaker using various sources (mostly the article mentioned above).

The calculated values will appear in the boxes below, first is the still value and second is the ranged value.

Range calculation example:0

Base dmg is 470, so 470- 40 = 430 and 470 + 40 = 510

These ranges apply only to most original non-shadow spells. The newly balanced spells (like Sirens) have different range.

More Features?

This concludes the guide for our SpellMaker tool. If you have any questions or found some inconsistencies make sure to let us know in the comments. We’re also working on adding some new features in the future! Here are two custom spell examples: Moon Strike, Dyvim’s Revenge and Star Blessing.

KNOWN ISSUES (REFRESH PAGE TO FIX)

23 Dec 2021 - Version 1.4

16 Nov 2021 - Version 1.3.5

25 Sep 2021 - Version 1.3

23 Aug 2021 - Version 1.2

22 Aug 2021 - Version 1.1

14 Aug 2021 - Version 1.0

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