Zinn
Class specific websites and forums:
Blood Mage
Races:
Ten Ton Hammer Race/Class Chart
Class Guides:
Ten Ton Hammer Blood Mage Class guide
Class News, Information and Links:
Vanguard official website Blood Mage Information
October 2006 -Gamepot Preview
October, 2006 - Short post with some Blood Mage Information
November, 2005 - Brief mention of Blood mages
Healer Archetype Overview:
Know Your Role: Healers
Class specific websites and forums:
Vanguard Healers Forum
The Healer's Prayer
Hexonyx
See the Sig! Great Healers site for VG!Blood Mage Info: Spells and Abilities Thread:
Edit: by Zinn, removed questionable link.
Zinn
Heyoynx.I have not seen that information available anywhere. I suspect and can only assume its a NDA breach. I noticed one of the posters in the thread said he would send a pm to Glip asking if is indeed a NDA breach. Until it can be confirmed I will edit your post and remove the link.
BTW, I am not saying you did anything wrong here and do appreciate your attempts to provide information.
We just can't print NDA breaches.
Hexonyx
Totally understood! I sent the links to the questionable site to McQuaid, and he wrote back saying he is looking into it, and will hopefully get back to us soon.remiel050
Whoa, the NDA is really strict then I guess. Is it becuase they don't want a whole bunch of bad info getting out, or because the high probability of changes made? I know I would like to hear about this class though, I'm teetering between this and a ClericHexonyx
Little bit of both really, there is some info out there for Blood Mage, but Myself or Zinn have not heard back on if its a NDA violation... You can always check the site in my sig, to see what we have up in the forums there...VengaNovagel
Hello Fellow Blood Mages!Just a quick shoutout to you all.
Nice Vanguard Healer Website, I will definitely add that to my favorites as well!
~Venga Novagel
Level 50 Templar, EQ1
Level 60 Necromancer, EQ1
Level 65 Shaman, EQ2
Hexonyx
More Blood Mage info to put into the Blood Mage Section:Blood Mage
As you might tell from this class's name, the blood mage specializes in blood magic, a powerful form of magic that can dish out extremely powerful damage spells as well as potent healing spells.
Heals and Buffs: Blood mages can heal individual characters, as well as whole groups, which makes the blood mage a natural party healer. An example of the blood mage's healing abilities is scarring pact, where the blood mage can help a teammate stay alive by magically linking with that character and absorbing some of the damage the teammate incurs. This means that the teammate only receives 70 percent of the original damage, while the blood mage incurs 150 percent of the remaining damage. Another example is blood gift, where you can use your blood to heal a teammate instantly. However, this comes at the price of your own health.
Blood Union and Rituals: Blood mages only have so much of their own blood that they can draw upon, but they can also form a blood union with an enemy to siphon the enemy's blood. Not only that, blood from a blood union can be combined with mana to create blood rituals. For instance, the ritual of shielding lets you shield your party from incoming attacks. Each attack drains hit points from the shield, and once the hit points are depleted, the shield drops. The ritual will use up all of your blood-union points, and the shield has 200 hit points for each level of blood union you've achieved. Or, the scarlet ritual lets you summon negative energy from a blood union and use it to inflict large amounts of damage. Doing this removes four blood-union points.
Life Transferring: The blood mage can transfer various energies using the blood union. An example of this ability is entwining vein, which lets the blood mage steal health from an enemy and transfer it to an ally. The ally heals for 50 percent of the damage done to the enemy, and this increases by 10 percent for every level of blood union that you have. Another example is physical transmutation, where the blood mage transforms his or her endurance to health. The downside is that you lose 50 percent of your current endurance, though you are healed 200 percent of the drained endurance.
Symbioses: The blood mage can create symbiotic creatures that attach themselves to the blood mage and his or her allies. To create a symbiont, though, you need a fresh organ and a vial of your own blood. The nature of the symbiont depends on the organ used. With the steal mortality ability, you can steal the dying breath of an opponent by ripping an organ out of its body. This only works when the opponent has less than 5 percent of its health remaining. Meanwhile, the attach conducive symbiont ability lets you attach a conducive symbiont on yourself and grants you the ability to use the conducive blood ability, which lets you heal allies more effectively.
Spell Casting Focuses: Blood mages can also have spell-casting focuses that focus on different areas of combat. For instance, the focus of Gelenia lets the blood mage trade health for power. As the blood mage loses health, he or she gains increased damage, immunity to poison and disease, and more.
All from the GameStop.com article Link Here
ThallidZek
Wow thanks for the info! The blood mage sounds so cool! I especially like the Symboisis :P Needing a fresh organ and a vial of blood just takes the cake for coolness lol. They have some sick minds over their at Sigil, didn't know they hired Stephen King, too.Thallid