A bless spell is a fantasy Cleric stable, so of course Shattered Pixel Dungeon’s upcoming Cleric hero needs one.

This tier 2 talent/spell grants bonus accuracy, evasion, and shielding when the Cleric casts it on themselves. It’s much more potent on allies though, granting a longer bless buff and healing instead of shielding! You can even use it to overheal frail allies like mirror images!

Look out for more posts soon, fingers crossed I’ll be ready to release a beta on Wednesday or Thursday this coming week!

(Image Description: A short GIF demonstrating the bless spell. Two characters are fighting each other and it’s unclear which will win. The Cleric uses the bless spell to turn the odds so that one of them wins easily.)

  • 00-Evan@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    You always get shielding if you cast it on yourself, in general I’ve been shying away from self-heal effects.

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      2 months ago

      Ye but I meant for allies too (Also, it is true that you barely put self healing effects, hard to balance?)

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        2 months ago

        Excess healing is converted into shielding. And yeah self-healing is really, really powerful but doesn’t feel that way, so I’ve largely avoided it.

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          2 months ago

          Does it? It could be worked around that. It could heal less, be a naturally expensive effect or just disabling the healing altogether in Pharmacophobia.

          • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            That’s a bit hard to justify in terms of game text though. Pharmacophobia is an allergy to healing potions and their derivatives. It doesn’t stop other methods of self healing, such as Monk’s meditate.