Arches

Arches is a Mystic ability.

In-Game Description

(Active) Hero bonds with the earth, and summons from seedling and silt a wondrous tree that pins surrounding enemies.

Upgrade

Arches is changed from a turn-ending action to a  single action

Specifics

The mystic creates a tree on the battle map and interfuses with it if they have an interfusion slot available.

• single action, ends turn, range 4.6
• The location must be clear space -- no orthogonally adjacent walls/scenery.
• Enemies are pinned within 1.6 + Potency/3 tiles. This does not count as an attack for flanking, and does not break grayplane.
  • As of patch 1.0 hotfix 7, this is rolled as a melee attack, but this is likely a bug.
• The created tree gives Good cover and is Wood and a Tree for use with other interfusions.

Tips

• Creates an object to interfuse with even on an empty battlefield, so the Mystic cannot be shut out for lack of targets to work with.

• Combines well with Naturalist for Treecall support builds and with Elementalist for Splintersalvo builds.

• Valuable for shredding armor at high difficulty levels (using Splinterblast) in situations where Wood is not otherwise available.