User:Eanki

''“Empathy is a measure of strength and mercy is a luxury of the strong. The weak would just cut you down as you kneel, terrified that you’ll hold a sword when you rise back up.”''

Eanki is the third guildmaster of Wander & Wonder, a relatively unknown but largely successful medium size hard core raid guild (average world guild ranking: #342; World Class Item total: 1) in an equally hardcore PvE raid server.

He is a magic-based crowd-control & DPS specialist and the guild's chief strategist.

Personality
There is no false modesty about Eanki. He's a former RTS legend topping the leaderboards of one long-running game before transitioning to a pubstar MOBA carry in the country's small-time national amateur tournaments and eventually had a deep run in an amateur Olympic-style international tournament where he's known for his stable plays, his micro, his ability to always squeeze farm to build the proper items, and his late-game decision-making. He's good. He knows it.

In fact, Eanki has truly played only a handful of games in his life. He has a penchant for going into optimal builds, often prolonging the time he spends in every game. He's the kind of guy that EV-trains and IV breeds Pokemon, not because he's competing in the Pokemon VGC, but because it's a game mechanic and he can do it.

In RTS games he has shown aptitude for both the proven slow and steady, overwhelm and push tactics that relies on a cool head and solid resource management, and the spontaneous blitzkrieg that relies on reading the flow of battle as it changes from moment to moment. It's a skill he carries into MOBA and into the MMORPGs he eventually settled into when life and academe caught up to him and he couldn't keep up with the meta of his other two go-to games. Here, at least, he is in a forgiving environ surrounded by friends (real life and online) who just want to explore whole new worlds.

As a biologist, he holds an academic interest in monster anatomy and physiology and often obsess over the feasibility of monster designs, often arguing loudly that simple and effective is better than pointy, over-designed crap. One of his favorite monsters is the amorphous slime, who he thinks is the ultimate minion in a medieval battlefield since it can act as pike infantry (who wants to charge into a wall of sentient mass of acid?), heavy cavalry (do you want an armored horseman and a separate finicky mount or one whole creature of acid goo to charge down enemy lines?), and siege units (just lob 'em over the walls).

In his spare time, he reads fantasy novels, draw designs for his own future fantasy novel, or read select books about historical warfare. Otherwise, he is known to engage in debates regarding Star Trek's Prime Directive, deeply intrigued by the idea that we shouldn't play god with the universe and how it's one of the grayest, and one of the most case-by-case basis reliant argument/debate one can participate in.

Classes

 * Alchemist Lvl 15 [Base] – the path of potions, elixirs, and transmutations.
 * Master Alchemist Lvl 10 [High] – the alchemist now moves beyond the many limits of basic transmutation; he alone has access to two divine class ingredients: [Empyrean Steel] and [True Mercury].
 * Quintessence Lvl 5 [Rare] – the alchemist completes his apotheosis from the mortal lead, the prima materia, to the divine gold, the immortal ultima materia; he doesn’t need a Philosopher Stone to perform transmutations anymore, and in fact his quest line reveals that the item is merely a crutch and not the real Stone; he is the real one, the Philosopher Stone made manifest.


 * Prodigy Lvl 15 [Base] – a generic/universal class available to humanoid races that aids and boosts all magic-based classes and counts towards their tier progression.
 * Battlemage Lvl 10 [Base] – magic caster who dabbles in martial arts and uses magic to aid his physique and his improved physique to aid in combating fatigue and in perfecting the somatic components of spell-casting.
 * Evoker Lvl 15 [Base] – casters who manipulate energy to produce a desired effect; masters of area-wide destruction magic.
 * Abjurer Lvl 15 [Base] – casters of protective magic; uses barriers defensively and offensively.
 * Archmage Lvl 10 [High] – a veteran enlightened mage who had dabbled in and become adept at the various schools of magic.
 * World Guardian Lvl 5 [Rare] – only the best of the archmagi have the opportunity to become a quasi-immortal guardian magus that watches over, protects, and champions the mortal races.


 * Runemaster Lvl Adept (New World only)
 * Runes are the binary code of the universe. It’s the language of creation. Every object and phenomena is defined by a rune or a combination of runes. By overlaying them in one’s body, one can activate a rune say for hardness and turn a part of his body as hard as diamond or activate the combination of runes that defines a desert to become the center of a raging, oppressive heat that will tire an opponent faster. He can rewrite the runes of an opponent's body and turn the bones brittle as dried leaves or make an ally's stronger than steel. Through careful use of runes, the body becomes a microcosm of the universe.

Regular Items:

 * Wadjet (Class: World; Type: Amulet; Slot: Head) –
 * The Eye of Horus is a peerless protective amulet wielded by a god and an enduring symbol of the Ma’at. It offers nothing less than absolute defense to rival even those of the gods.
 * It raises the user’s physical and magical defenses as well as status resistances to maximum levels, removes all critical spots, grants several limited immunities, provides a strong automatic uninterruptable self-dispel every seven seconds, negates the effects of World Class Items intended to harm the user, grants the user an ability that converts all incoming damage into heal for a set amount of time once manually activated or triggered by the user passing a certain critical health threshold, and, when all else fails, automatically resurrects the user without penalties once before the reusable auto-resurrection goes into a 24h cooldown.


 * Rend Reality (Class: Guild; Type: Stylus; Slot: Weapon) –
 * Rend Reality is a stylus adorned with seven [Palpitant Cores of Time-space], some of the rarest, most difficult drops, only obtainable for two days every year: summer and winter solstice. Each jewel grants one game-changing spell to the user. Further enhancing the item is [Ichor], the blood of the gods, an item that requires battle and victory against a god. It provides the core power to the stylus which is made with [Empyrean Steel] consecrated in [True Mercury] and topped with a [Bennu Feather] flourish to complete the look.
 * What it creates is a stylus with power capable of rewriting reality itself. It provides seven reality-altering spells to the wielder.


 * Torc of Infinite Endeavors (Class: Artifact; Type: Necklace; Slot: Neck) –
 * The item is part of the World Guardian class quest chain. It is a simple solid difficult-to-remove iron torc (that eerily resembles an iron collar) inlaid and decorated only with garishly set words of power, a reminder to the guardian that his responsibilities grew as vast as his capabilities.
 * It increases the user’s Intelligence and Willpower and provides very heavy mana regeneration by restoring a small percentage of the user’s maximum mana points per second.


 * Wrath & Ruin (Class: Divine; Type: Magical Gloves; Slot: Weapon) –
 * The potent spell-casting gloves are made from the very rare high-tier divine class ingredient, the gem-like elemental cores, [Original Essence], hardened mana of deeply primal origins dating back to the splitting of the elements. They are mated with [Empyrean Steel] gauntlets consecrated in [True Mercury]. Normally, [Original Essence] only boosts and synergize with the spells in their particular element (i.e. [Original Essence – Fire] tremendously boosts only fire-based spells), but since the user is an alchemist, he can easily transmute the [Original Essence] elemental gem into the element he requires.


 * Illustrious Imagery (Class: Divine; Type: Cloth Armor; Slot: Body) –
 * Hard as dragon skin, soft as a lover's kiss, the cloth is a masterpiece woven from the high tier divine class ingredient [Cosmic Silk of the Eternity Weaver], the celestial beings said to maintain the fabric of creation. It is said to be capable of cushioning blows to the user's body like a pillow while retaining the thickness of a paper.
 * It raises the user's physical and magical defenses and improves his resistances to slashing, piercing, and blunt weapons. It also increases the user's Willpower, Charisma, and Dexterity.


 * Smaragdine Tablet (Class: Divine; Type: Book; Slot: Weapon) –
 * To obtain the item, the user has to prepare a [Blank Emerald Tablet] made from [Palpitant Emerald] gemstones, then he must undertake a long quest chain to find and access the [Original Smaragdine Tablet] to copy his own tablet from.
 * The item increases the potency of brewed potions and elixirs and provides bonuses to transmutations performed by the user and increases the effects of alchemical potions and elixirs consumed by the user.


 * Pulsating Ember Soul (Class: Artifact; Type: Ring; Slot: Ring) –
 * The Ember Soul is a simple looking enchanted ring made of garnet clasped by red gold, a boon given by the Lady Hestia to those who would take up her call. It reminds the user of better times and of home, hearth, and hope.
 * The ring raises the user’s Willpower tremendously and guards the user against mental enchantments.


 * Andvaranaut (Class: Artifact; Type: Ring; Slot: Ring) –
 * Andvaranaut is a high level artifact that was said to be capable of producing gold. When worn, the item provides bonus gold in mercantile transactions and bonus gold bounty whenever the user kills monsters.
 * (Former Owner: Minorin Meihem)


 * Rumination & Remembrance(Class: Legendary; Type: Ring; Slot: Ring) –
 * Rumination & Remembrance is a beautiful ring made from [Empyrean Steel] securely clasping a [Teardrop of Remembrance]. It’s an item available to all guild members, made in celebration of the completion of the guild weapon.
 * When equipped, the item reduces the penalties and costs of death and resurrection.


 * Magisterial Raven Cloak (Class: Divine; Type: Cloak; Slot: Back) –
 * The cloak increases the user’s Intelligence and Willpower and boosts the user’s shapeshifting abilities. It also grants a spell that transforms the user into a raven.
 * (Former Owner: Jade Tarant)
 * Golden Orchid Spidersilk Slippers (Class: Divine; Type: Slippers; Slot: Foot) –
 * The item is made from [Golden Orchid Spidersilk], a divine class ingredient dropped by the [Golden Orchid Spider], the rarest and the most dangerous of the [Great Orchid Spider] class of monsters.
 * The item greatly enables unhindered movement and it slightly lowers the duration of and provides resistance from movement slows and restriction spells.
 * (Former Owner: Billion Dollar Belle)

Active:

 * Transmutation – allows alchemists to transmute lower level ingredients into more valuable, higher level ones, as well as change the elemental properties of one ingredient into another.
 * Access Reagent – allows the alchemist to immediately access a desired alchemical reagent from his inventory by allowing him to put the items in a shortcut pop-up that the skill opens.
 * Flash – the user teleports a short distance away.
 * Arcane Bolt – the user casts a basic single target nuke with low cooldown, cast-point, and mana-cost; deals a small percentage of the user’s Intellect as damage multiplier.
 * Delayed Activation Magic – the caster delays the activation of a spell by a couple of seconds.


 * Greater Area Magic – applies a self-buff on the caster that last for a few seconds; any AoE spell the user casts during the duration of the buff has increased AoE.
 * Mana Shield – toggle on/off; creates an undispellable shield that absorbs a large percentage of the incoming damage in exchange for a near-equivalent value of the user mana; a tricky spell that can either protect the user or drain all of his mana for casting spells.
 * Siphon Mana – the user drains a small set amount of mana from an enemy unit and transfers it to himself; its underwhelming power is offset by its low cooldown.
 * Banish – the caster banishes the target in limbo for a few seconds; allows him to set up spells in advance and wreck the target when he is released from limbo; the user can also cast the spell to save an ally from dying, though he leaves the ally open to being combo’d as soon as the spell ends; due to griefing problems, the ally can choose not to accept the save or to get out freely and end the spell prematurely.
 * Fly – the user takes flight.
 * Hex – a single target disable that turns an enemy into a harmless sheep; the weaker the enemy in comparison to the wielder, the longer the duration unless the caster undo it or a dispel of comparable power removes it; practically permanent on units level 10 or less; duration is greatly lessened to just a couple of seconds against raid bosses and then some extra seconds for players; the limit is necessary to prevent high level players griefing low level newbies; raid instance is refreshed once the raid party leaves a zone, preventing the user from turning dungeon mobs into harmless critters and leaving them around to troll the next raid party.
 * Null Bolt – the user combusts a set amount of the target’s mana (calculated by x% of the users Intellect as multiplier), removing that amount and dealing it as damage to the target; does not damage the target more than the amount of mana that was removed from him so when the target has lower mana than the bolt’s max value, the target losses less life than usual; low cooldown, spammable nuke.
 * Telekinesis – the user lifts a target, disabling him in air for a few seconds before being automatically dropped once the spell ends; stuns target upon contact with the ground.
 * Arcane Barrage – the user deals the values of the current level of [Arcane Bolt] to multiple randomly-chosen enemy units; does not put [Arcane Bolt] into cooldown.
 * Greater Invisibility – replaces [Invisibility Spell]; the target (user or ally) becomes invisible and its threat meter is lowered; invisibility is broken by benefactor spell-casting and attacking; the duration of the buff is not broken however and the invisibility is reapplied when the benefactor does not attack or cast spells for 3 seconds; 1.3 seconds fade time.
 * Empowered Protection Circle – replaces [Protection Circle]; the caster wards a small area, creating a protected space that also lowers threat generation of the caster or an ally when they cast spells within the small protective AoE; the circle offers seven layers of shielding, with each layer capable of intercepting a set amount of damage before fading away and exposing the next layer.
 * Mass Invisibility – the user turns himself and nearby allies invisible; uses the values of the current level of [Greater Invisibility].
 * Mass Siphon Mana – the user drains a small set amount of mana from multiple enemy units caught in the AoE and transfers it to himself; uses the current values of [Siphon Mana]; does not put [Siphon Mana] into cooldown.
 * Mass Telekinesis – the user lifts a group of enemies, disabling them, and then dropping them, causing them to get stunned; applies the damage values, lift disable, and stun duration of current level of [Telekinesis].
 * Arcane Storm – deals the values of the current level of [Arcane Bolt] to all enemy units caught in the AoE centered on the caster; does not put [Arcane Bolt] into cooldown.
 * Counterspell – the user’s understanding of magic grows such that he understands the somatic nature of the enemy’s spell and counter him before he finishes casting his spell; allows the user to interrupt enemy spell-casting; useful against spells with long and distinct cast animation, like Super Tier spells; a rather instant cast, low cooldown interrupt spell.
 * Forceful Gust – the user unleashes a burst of magical energy, pushing back enemies caught in the spell’s target cone.
 * Funeral Pyre – the user calls forth a magical flaming conflagration that deals continuous damage-over-time to units standing within its AoE.
 * Mass Hex – temporarily turns enemies in an AoE into harmless sheep for a short period of time; applies the current values of [Hex].
 * Mind Blast – the user casts a cheap, low cooldown, spammable nuke that deals a small percentage of the user’s Intellect as damage multiplier.
 * Rend – the user blasts a target with powerful magic that deals a significant initial damage followed by small extended damage-over-time; DoTs stack, up to three stacks.
 * Cataclysmic Fury – the user deals tremendous amount of burst damage in an AoE.
 * Mine Trap: Mana Bomb – the caster sets up a mine trap that activates on contact with enemy units, dealing explosive magical damage in a wide area; combos well with AoE setup spells.
 * Null Storm – the user sets a delayed-activation AoE spell that destroys a portion of mana of all enemy units caught within the AoE by applying the current level of [Null Bolt]’s mana burn.
 * Mass Banishment – the caster imprisons all enemies in the AoE in limbo, disabling them for the duration of the current level of [Banish], or until the user stops the spell; a powerful combo setup that allows the user and his allies to combine multiple AoE damage spells and devastate entire raid parties as soon as they are released from limbo.
 * Nullifying Gust – a magical gust of wind lifts up all enemies caught in a line for a couple of seconds and dispels their positive dispellable buffs; applies a 1 second stun on enemy units upon landing; removes all negative dispellable debuffs from allies the gust passed through too but does not lift them up; a powerful combo setup that allows the user and his allies to combine multiple AoE damage spells and devastate the caught enemy units as soon as they drop.
 * Sanctuary of the World Guardian – the most powerful protective circle in the abjuration school of magic; the caster surrounds himself in a one-man protective circle that offers twelve layers of shielding, with each layer capable of intercepting a set amount of damage before fading away and exposing the next layer; the layers recharge, although it’s too slow for high level combat pacing.
 * Superheated Winds – the caster unleashes a powerful AoE spell centered on him that rapidly expands outwards; can immediately cull a significant portion of weaker mobs by rapidly superheating the air around them and even those in their body.
 * Time Heals All Wounds – the caster undo all the damage he received in the past couple of seconds; ze long cooldown panic button.

Super Tier:

 * Quintessential Equivalence – “as above, so below”; the user creates a small replica of an area and any thrashing the user does to the replica happens to the actual area and affects the units caught within the area; deals no actual damage to dungeons and guild bases.
 * Twilight of Heroes –

Passive:

 * Alchemical Affinity – the user’s constant exposure to potent alchemical reagents gives him considerable resistance to chemical-based attacks.
 * Arcane Alacrity – slightly lowers the cast points of the user’s spells; grants the user high mental resistances.
 * Arcane Overload –toggle on/off; grants a small chance to deal a set amount of explosive magical damage in a small AoE radius centered on the user every spell-cast; toggles don’t count as spell cast.
 * Empyrean Luminary – grants the user greater resistances to mental attribute spells.
 * Equivalent Exchange – spell lifesteal; heals the user for a small set percentage of the damage they dealt using spells; spell lifesteal is calculated by a percentage of the actual damage done to units; if a spell's damage exceeded the target's current health and killed it, the heal is based on the target's remaining health.
 * Enhanced Focus – increases low light vision and allows the user to detect lower level stealth units.
 * Knowledge is Security – the user has a greater understanding of magic spells that he can take measures to guard himself against one; grants considerable magic resistance.
 * Magical Overcharge – the user’s first auto-attack after every spell-cast is overcharged and deal bonus damage to the primary target as well as additional splash damage with X percent of the user’s damage dealt to targets within a small AoE of the primary target.
 * Magical Resonance – grants the user occasional short surges of magical energy for a couple of seconds wherein if the user manages to time a spell-cast during the extremely short time period of the surge, his spell deals critical magic damage.
 * Mind Reader – increases the user’s accuracy.
 * Overpower – the user’s magical spells slowly erode the target’s magic resistance by 1% every spell attack for up to 10 stacks; every 2 seconds that the enemy doesn’t take damage from the user’s spells decreases the stack by 1%.
 * Prismatic Barrier – the unit mitigates all damage received by a small set percentage of his Willpower.
 * Prismatic Cloak – lowers the user’s threat generation and increases his evasion.
 * Timewarp Traveler – a.k.a. the most bullshit RNG mechanic; the skill allows the unit to traverse time, giving him a small freedom of movement when facing chronomancy; it’s a balance-breaking skill that is only exacerbated by its ability to evade not only auto-attacks but also single-target magic spells; while it has the lowest evasion value of comparable evasion skills and item-granted evasions (and most of the time completely irrelevant), no evasion can boast the ability to evade a Tier 10 single target spell and make the enemy caster rage quit in frustration.
 * Words of Power – boosts the potency of the user’s magical spells.

Aura

 * Brilliance Aura – slightly increases the magical damage of allied spell-casters around the user.
 * Quintessence Aura – toggle on/off, ally only; decreases manacost and cooldown of spells and skills 10th tier and below; provides boosts to physical and magical spells 10th tier and below; grants a small chance to restore a set amount of mana with every spell-cast; toggles don’t count as spell cast.
 * Time Dilation – the user lightly slows down the movement of all enemy units caught within the small aura centered on the user.
 * Vitality Aura – toggle on/off, ally only; increases movement speed, attack speed, health regeneration and mana regeneration.

Item Granted Abilities

 * Imperfect Copy [Absolute Edict] – allows the wielder to create a less potent duplicate of items (excluding Legendary, Divine, Guild, and World Class items and ingredients); item copies (and buffs/debuffs or summoned creatures they may grant) carry the epithet "Imperfect Copy" and suffer slightly nerfed stats; channeling spell with channel time directly proportional to item level.
 * Great Bind [Absolute Edict]

Quotes
"Justice serves to protect society by correcting or removing aberrant behaviors that are detrimental to a well-functioning society. That it satisfies or fails to satisfy what you think you, as the victim, felt you deserved is not part of the equation. Nor should it ever be.”

''“Mercy is the luxury of the strong. The weak would just cut you down as you kneel, terrified that you’ll hold a sword when you rise back up.”''

''"To be a good person, to lead a good life, and to do what’s right always, every damn day, is the single greatest testament of strength. To be that person is to have strength and fortitude beyond measure. Any person can work and fight for a better tomorrow when the work is just for a day, when there’s an end, when there’s a goal. Fighting a massive opponent in a day is okay. It’s only for a day. But it doesn’t work like that. Tomorrow keeps coming. The fight keeps coming and it grinds you down day in and day out. Your opponent is legion. Your opponent is abstract. Your opponent is insurmountable and even unknowable at times. The real challenge is to be the person who continually labors for every moment of every day knowing that there is no end to the work. When you die, a new generation takes over and it’s their turn to work every damn day. And you just have to believe it’s worth it. Because it is. Trust me"''

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