Mage Elemental AoE

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Bred Mage with 7 INT and 6 CHA for back-to-back elemental AoE casts. The starter meta pick for clearing clumped enemies in a single round.

How to Breed

  1. Pair the right parents

    Father
    high CHA cat with a mana-regen passive or a second damage element
    Mother
    high INT cat with Blizzard, an Ice Paws-line spell, or another core elemental ability in the pool
  2. Set up the room

    Comfort4
    Stimulation50+

    Higher Stimulation now reduces the chance the kitten inherits a parent birth defect, which matters on a low-CON collar that cannot afford a frailty stack. Keep the line away from inbreeding: the more inbred the kitten, the smaller the Stimulation benefit and the higher the defect inheritance. Chasing Exposed Brain or another effect mutation means breeding past 10 Mutation first, since only simple stat mutations roll below that.

  3. Breed and select

    Keep kittens with
    any INT boostany CHA boostany LCK boost to steer the Forbidden Spells pool
    Cull kittens with
    any INT reductionany CHA reductionany CON reductionCataracts

Breeding Plan

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Notes

1.1 is the patch that makes this the strongest AoE collar in the cast. The basic attack and six core spells (Bolt, Fire Blast, Firebolt, Jolt, Long Cast, Tri-Attack) each gained range, so the fragile -1 CON Mage now opens fights from a safer distance and finishes them faster. Blizzard was reworked into a high-damage spell that freezes everything it hits, and the Ice Paws line now damages frozen units instead of bouncing off them, so a freeze-then-shatter chain comes together on one cat. Inferno, Thunderburst, and Overload all gained damage. The Forbidden Spells pool split into a basic pool and a small crippling pool, with Luck steering which one rolls, so a few points of LCK turn the old Psychosis gamble into a controllable one. A bred Mage with 7 INT and 6 CHA runs at 9 effective INT and 8 effective CHA, double a stray's mana pool, enough to chain its biggest spells across two fights. Lean on a Tank or Butcher frontline to cover the CON floor while the Mage works from the back.

Target Stats

CHA6
CON5
DEX4
INT7
LCK6
SPD5
STR3

Class & Entities

Mage

base

Elemental AoE caster. CHA bonus also helps with breeding compatibility.

Class Type
Base
Net Stat Shift
2
ClassBaseCasterAoe