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Arcane Armaments adds four new offhand weapons, each with their own set of RPG-style skills. Combat is balanced around vanilla, but can be tweaked to suit a range of difficulties.

New Offhand Weapons

Mage's Staff

Fireball: Throw an exploding ball of flame, igniting enemies caught in the blast.
Blink: Teleport yourself to a target location or entity.
Blizzard: Throw a bolt of ice that shatters into a slowing, damaging storm.
Thunder: Call down a lightning strike after a short delay. Can be attached to a target or engraved into the ground.

Rogue's Dagger

Envenom: Inject your foe with a deadly venom, slowly draining their life.
Smoke Bomb: Vanish in a puff of smoke. Become fully invisible to both players and mobs.
Rupture: Strike at the heels, causing enemies to take damage as they flee.
Execute: Finish off a wounded opponent with less than a third of their health.

Warrior's Axe

Berserk: Move quicker, take 25 percent more damage, and re-activate to swing your offhand axe.
Stomp: Create a tremor that stuns nearby enemies. Activate midair to transfer fall damage to enemies.
Grapple: Throw a hooked chain to pull your enemies within the range of your axe.
Molten Shell: "Burn and knock enemies back while regenerating health.

Cleric's Scepter

Blessed Blades: Grant yourself and nearby players the ability to steal life with every hit.
Holy Shield: Negate damage from the next three attacks.
Smiting Ray: Shoot a beam of light at a foe, turning their healing into damage for a short time.
Healing Aura: Release steady waves of healing to mend the wounds of all nearby players.

Getting Started

Players spawn with a Dusty Tome. This book includes information on how to craft each offhand weapon, unlock new skills, and the default key bindings.
Learn how to craft each offhand weapon, unlock new skills, and the default key bindings.

Lose your tome? Craft a new one with sand and a book.
Craft the Dusty Tome tutorial book with sand and a book

Enhance Your Abilities

Unlock new skills at the Armory by supplying your weapon and the requisite upgrade item.

Combat Balance

Want to turn your fireballs into 1-shot KOs? Think the smoke bomb cooldown is too short? Cooldowns, damage, healing and durations for all skills can be edited in the mod config file arcanearmaments-common.toml