Hey there, everyone! We have community members constantly pitching ideas for passive nodes scattered around our social channels and as we dive into some updates to the passive trees we’d like to invite you to place your ideas in one centralized location - here! You may just see your idea or an iteration of it show up in-game.
Let us know if your node idea is for the base class or a mastery class.
Not sure where this would work, just some ideas:
Chance to double cast spells.
Chance for a free cast.
Chance for cooldown reset.
X% of Fire damage gets converted to ice damage, same with other options.
Epic Affix - % chance to cast elemental nova opposite of your highest resistance.
Spell Cascade - casts a random spell while you cast Spell X. So casting Fire Nova for example shoots out a firball… without all the skilled passive powerups for sure :D. You can go through a whole spectrum of all the stuff.
all kinds of X into Y dmg transformation. I was sad to see that flamereave can’t be all lightning for example.
Hello,
First I want to say, the job on mage passive is already great.
I meanly play melee pure thunder spellblade (full melee manastrike other active are for protection) with passive that augment attck speed. i used the ligthnening spell manastorm and shock from manastrike with passive that augment spell damage with melee attack. Other passive are the one that augment max mana and ward creation/retention.
I love passive that cast spell like ligtening rain.
For spellblade, passives that play on chaining melee and spell are good mecanisn.
There is a lot to do with ailment. We can do something with applying the three elemental ailment (chill, shock and ignite) on same monster for multi element build.
Or just with two element like chance of special effect on chilled monster when attacking with thunder.
I don’t really like on kill effect, but I understand that it is aninteresting mecanism.
Perhaps some passive that give bonus with ward value (like the unique bee sword).
I really like the idea of double cast. Free cast is great too but I will not use it personnaly.
For runemaster, the same as ailment but for the caster. A little like rune word.
That it if rune are like buff on the ground given by others passives or tree on skill… That could be great 
Sorry for my english.
Hoping that help.
New player here, I’m not sure I’ve even had a look at all the existing passives, but excited to contribute!
A few ideas-
This might be a cool idea and it might not.
An idea I had was what if there was a spell/ability you could use that negated terrain effects?
For example a wings ability that made it that you would fly in the air for a few seconds and wouldn’t take terrain damage or melee attack damage? Ranged enemies could still harm you and you could still attack via range abilities/spells, but terrain damage as in fire that is on the floor or anything like that wouldn’t harm you? Also it could be a “oh crap” button when you are in tough situations.
I think a cool passive would involve timing a spell to give it bonus effects or damage.
The passive would have a tight window in which you could exploit its effects, so you need to manage your cooldown well.
For example: On every 10th second, your spells will double cast. (So you have one second every 10 seconds where you spell goes boom!)
My idea falls into Passive and Item category. A thought I had was that if a passive allowed a skill to have certain amount of stages, like for example, if you had Fireball skill and at stage 1 it fired one projectile, but if you held down the skill longer it would fire two projectiles and at stage 3 it would fire three. So having a channeling sort of speak on certain skills. As far as items it be interesting to have a unique item that forced this said type of Fireball skill to cast at stage 2 or 3 instead of channeling. Just an idea.
Not really sure what the next mage class is going to be, i assume a support class of some sort. but it would be nice to have a way to either convert some spells to a defensive node or maybe a offensive shell type skill. seems every other top down ARPG always has a skill you keep running that chews up some of your mana pool and provides a buff for you and your allies. which would be something that mages should have access to… we have fireshield but i think its very underwhelming in its current build.
Maybe one in spellsword that gives you cdr based on how much ward you have currently? For example 1% cdr for every 20 ward you currently have (im not sure how numbers scale lategame so this could be super imba).
I think this would enable a lot of cool ward builds.
Maybe something about you having an aura that lowers element protections in an area around you that is 50% of your own elemental protections.
It seems Spellblade currently doesn’t have any nodes for crit-builds.
How about something like this:
“Keen Enchantment”:
On Melee Hit, gain [1 per point] Keen Charge[s].
On Melee Critical Hit, expend all Keen Charges. This hit gains 1% Increased critical multiplier per Keen Charge spent.
“Vorpal Enchantment”: On Melee Hit, gain [1 per point] Vorpal Charge[s]. On Melee Critical Hit, lose all Vorpal Charges. Each Vorpal Charge grants 5% increased critical chance.
Concerning base mage classe for passive node : Arcane current, Arcane flame and Arcane wind. I guess their proc rate every 10 secondes not useful , too long.
Let the proc time scale with investment , something like -1.5 seconde per point so they will end proc every 2.5 secondes at maxed 5/5 .
Thank for this game .
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I feel like there should be ways of gaining more generic buffs; such as Haste and Frenzy, instead of so many unique ones on so many different skills and passive trees. There should be multiple ways of gaining the buffs and they should also be easily recognizable at a glance. I also like the idea of having buffs scale with level as to make them more viable late game. The numbers are kept low, since these buffs shouldn’t make your character too powerful early game.
These ideas are just to get discussions rolling, so please add your own generic buff ideas that can be obtained in different ways and augmented further.
I will start these discussions for each base class with 3 buff suggestions. Don’t hold yourself back with crazy ideas!
Effect
1% increased Mana efficiency per character level for 4 seconds. Cannot stack.
How to obtain
Augments
Effect
1% increased Elemental damage per character level for 4 seconds. Cannot stack.
How to obtain
Augments
Effect
1% Ward retention per character level for 4 seconds. Cannot stack.
How to obtain
Augments
I would like to have Minion passive nodes so every class has some pet options. Teleport has a pet skill.
+Mirror image damage, duration
When you get hit, a Mirror Image would come out. Something along the line.
Runemaster idea
Spells/Skill that reserves mana until casted or activated.
Rune of Frost - Mana reserve 10 (Mana is reserved until skill is activated)
Ennemies are slowed - Upon getting hit they are frozen for 2 seconds
(Cooldown after activation)
Rune of Magic - Reserve 1 mana each second
Casting the spell again deal damage in front of you based of the amount of mana reserved
Rune of thunder - Reserve 5 mana per rune
Set a rune on the floor, periodically call down a bolt of lightning on the location for 5 seconds
I am only putting this with no idea if similar stuff already exsist as I didn’t play a Mage yet. I just like the idea of having lower maximum mana without it being buffs or aura. Could make for some intresting playstyle.