Dear Tibians!

This thread is here for you to leave feedback on the Magical Archive feature comming with this year's winter update.

Vision:
The Cyclopedia now features the Magical Archive tab to provide players with quick and easy access to essential spell and rune information.

More Information:
You can learn more about the Magical Archive feature in the Teaser
and its corresponding Forum Thread.

Feedback:
If you have any suggestions or concerns, please help us understand them by explaining your point of view. We'll do our best to consider your feedback!

Updates and Fixes:
We will collect and update changes to the Magical Archive feature in Fixes and Changes.

Official replies:

• 2024-11-06
  
• 2024-11-07
  
• 2024-11-08
  
• 2024-11-11
  
• Clarification: Formula
  
• Base power of ethereal spell variants
  
• 2024-11-13
  
• 2024-11-14
  
• 2024-11-15
  

Frequently Asked Questions:

• Can we get more detailed values about the effects or power of a spell like min/max damage?
  Please note that we will not disclose specific formulas for individual spells or skills, as this is not part of this feature and currently not planned for the future
  

Thank you for your feedback so far.

Regarding base power and more detailed information about the effects of a spell:
Please note that we will not disclose specific formulas for individual spells or skills, as this is not part of this feature and currently not planned for the future. The shown values are just a rough hint about the power of a spell and should not be considered as something to calculate exact values from.
Also its not planned to change spells or their values in this feature.

Thank you also for the bugs you already found (Nature's Embrace, Heal Party etc). This will be fixed in one of the next releases.

The spells that don't have a preview right now were chosen purposely since most of them are either very special or won't show much at all. If you see good reasons why one of them should have a preview just state them and we will consider your feedback. The main reason for the preview was to show for combat spells which areas or targets are affected.

There's no animation for Divine Grenade for RPs.

I could not reproduce that problem. Could you describe it in more detail? The preview for Divine Grenade should be visible regardless of your vocation

Other than that the interface seems nice but it feels a bit awkward that some sections (e.g. area spell demonstration) to have a "Back" button that just goes to the first tab of the Cyclopedia interface while other spells (e.g. Light Healing) don't have said button.

The back button in the cyclopedia is just to go back to the tab you were before, like the cyclopedia map. It is visible always regardless of the spell you have selected.

Thank you again for your feedback

Spells from the wheel of destiny like the death beam are missing.

Do you mean the spell "Great Death Beam"? It should show up normally as long as you don't have a filter active that hides it

When "using" a spellbook we get that exceedingly stone-age antique of a txt list of spells. Can we get redirected to the Magical Archive instead, pretty please?

There should be a button "Magical Archive" in the dialog of the spellbook that opens it

There is no padding in the layout in spells info. Its weird as it feels like there would be more content to show, so it feels like truncated.
This missing padding also happens for me in the 'Items' tab, where 'Track drops of this item' and 'Skip when Quick Looting' shows weirdly truncated.

Could you provide a screenshot how this looks on your Linux system?

Sure, here it is: https://imgur.com/a/YFgtke2

This looks more like a problem with your font rendering. Depending on your Linux distribution this can happen and should be fixable by installing a compatible font.

I wish you all a fun and nice weekend on the test servers. See you on Monday

Just remembered that "Cancel Invisibility" seems very misleading at the new Magical Archive. Nowhere it says the range of it. Where is the area of effect animation of it?

Thank you for the hint. This is fixed and should go live with one of the next patches.

Heal party animation is showing Heal Friend animation. This doesn't match how Heal Party spell works as its AOE heal and not single target.

This should also get fixed soon

Also healing spells and runes that scale with magic level will get a magic type of "Healing". So that excludes e.g. cure spells and runes.

I cant see other vocation spells. I was hoping to see Sorcerer spells and compare them to Druid spells via base power (cause I am trying to understand it).

Normally you should be able to see all spells if you uncheck "learnt spells"

I am just gonna drop in real quick:

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The right side of the UI displays detailed spell information such as the icon, name, formula, vocation, and level requirements.
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It was never our intention to misdirect you, the players. The formula of a spell are the actual words used to cast it (e.g. exori min flam, exevo gran mas frigo ..) and it has been used this way for a long time on the website in the spell section.

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Please, can you take a look at Paladin's Ethereal Spear (exori con) and Strong Ethereal Spear (exori gran con) base power?

Both of them have base power = 25. Gran Con should have a stronger base power.

Thanks.

We are aware of the issue and I am still looking into a way of making these specifics spells clearer.

A few of your mentioned bugs should now be fixed (see Fixes and Changes.)

We are still looking on a solution for the Ethereal Spear spells. Please be patient.

Is Base Power equal Base Damage?

Yes. Base Power is just a generic name since there are also healing spells where "damage" wouldn't sound correct

In a wheel with divine empowerment enabled, I do see its animation but the animation for divine grenade is not visible. On the other hand, if I choose a whell with divine grenade enabled, its animation is shown but not an animation for divine empowerment.

I am still not sure if I understand you correctly since you speak of spell animation. Do you mean the spell is selectable and you see everything like base power but the preview animation is not shown? Or do you mean that the spell isn't in the selection list on the left? If later is the case do you have the filters correctly set e.g. uncheck learnt to show all spells and not only the ones you can use at the moment?

BTW, the Ethereal Spear variants now have a different Base Power to better represent their power. See Fixes and Changes.

it would make more sense to me to have filters, by default, showing you all the spells of your vocation only.

Thanks for pointing that out. We changed the default filters to show the spells of the own vocations only but with unchecked "Learnt Spells" filter so that basically all spells of your vocation are visible

Dear Tibians,

Thank you all for testing the Magical Archive and your feedback and bugreports on it.

Since the test is almost at its end I will close this topic and wish you a nice and fun weekend on the test servers.

With best regards,
Dadeagus Tyrixa