Description
Wizards in Dark and Darker are powerful spellcasters, who use their knowledge of arcane magic to bend reality to their will. They can cast a wide variety of spells, ranging from destructive blasts of fire to complex arcane and frost spells. Wizards can also create magical barriers protecting themselves from harm. However, their powers come at a cost - wizards need to meditate and prepare their spells in advance, making them vulnerable to surprise attacks and ambushes.
Class Info
Weapon of choice: Wizard Staff or Spellbook.
- Pros
- Access to powerful spells that allow for a versatile play style.
- High single and multi target magic damage output.
- Temporarily high movement speed from Invisibility and Haste.
- Able to replenish spell casts through the Meditation skill.
- Can become invisible to re-position and setup ambushes.
- Cons
- Very low physical damage.
- Lowest health in the game.
- Vulnerable during a long time when meditating.
- Limited by the amount of available spell casts, which requires to meditate frequently to replenish them.
You can equip an additional perk every 5 levels.
Currently maxed out at Level 15, so a total of 4 perks can be equipped.
Arcane Feedback |
Each time you do damage with an arcane spell your spell casting speed and base magic damage increases by 1% per stack. Arcane Feedback can stack up to 5 times at once. The bonus duration lasts for 7 seconds and resets with each successful stack. |
Arcane Mastery |
Increases the magic damage of arcane spells by 5% and reduces the casting time of arcane spells by 1 second. |
Fire Mastery |
Increases the magic damage of the fire spells damage by 5% and increases the duration of burn status by 2 seconds. |
Ice Shield |
Increases Armor Rating by 20 and inflicts Frostbite on melee attack targets for 0.5 seconds. Frostbite slows down the enemy's movement and action speed by 15%. |
Mana Surge |
Increases your magic damage bonus by 10%. |
Melt |
If you deal magical fire damage to a target, the target's physical reduction bonus is reduced by -10% for 5 seconds. |
Quick Chant |
Increases your spell casting speed by 10%. |
Reactive Shield |
Activates an arcane reactive shield that lasts for 3 seconds when you take damage. The arcane shield can absorb 10 total damage. The shield will only reactivate after a cooldown period(12s). |
Sage |
Increases knowledge by 10%. |
You can equip a total of 2 skills.
Intense Focus |
Reduce the casting time of the next spell you cast to 0.1 seconds. |
18s |
Meditation |
Enter a meditative state and revive spells at a rate of 40 spell costs over 30 seconds.
(Revive 80 spell costs at Knowledge 20, reviving amount increases when Knowledge increases, and meditative state duration is affected by Spell Casting Speed.) |
45s |
Spell Memory |
Allows you to memorize spells to use in the dungeon. |
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Spell Memory 2 |
Allows you to memorize spells to use in the dungeon. |
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Arcane Shield |
Places a shield around you that absorbs 35 damage from all types for 15 seconds. Upon absorbing all the damage this shield can absorb, it unleashes an Arcane Explosion dealing 5 damage to hostile targets in an area around it. |
24s |
The order in which you select spells will determine their Spell Memory Priority. You can right click spells to "forget" them, and you must drag and drop a spell to memorize it. Spell tiers determine their spell memory cost.
Spell Types:
Tier 1
Zap |
If hit, deals 20 magic damage and burns the target for 1 second deals 1 magic damage. |
1.5s |
5 Casts |
Light Orb |
Blows up spheres of floating light to brightly illuminate the surroundings.
Reveals Rogues hidden with "Hide" skill |
1.5s |
6 Casts |
Tier 2
Slow |
Slows the target's movement speed by -40% for 2.5 seconds. |
1.5s |
5 Casts |
Ice Bolt |
On hit, it deals 20 magic damage and reduces the target's movement speed by -15% for 1 seconds. |
1.5s |
5 Casts |
Ignite |
Set the target's weapon on fire, dealing 5 additional magic damage and burning enemies 1 second to deal 1 magic damage when they hit.
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1s |
5 Casts |
Tier 3
Magic Missile |
Fires up to 10 homing missile that each deal 12 damage. Stops firing when you move.
The speed that the missiles fire at is determined by your Spell Casting Speed |
1.5s |
5 Casts |
Haste |
Target gains a 12% Action and Move Speed bonus for 10 seconds. Casts to self if no target is found. |
1s |
4 Casts |
Tier 4
Lightning Strike |
After 4 seconds, a bolt of lightning falls in the targeted area, dealing 35 magic damage. |
2s |
5 Casts |
Invisibility |
Target becomes invisible for 5 seconds. Casts to self if no target is found. |
1s |
4 Casts |
Fireball |
Shoots a fireball that causes 30 direct damage to a target and 10 splash damage and a knock back effect to nearby targets.
Also applies a burn to damaged targets, deals 3 magic damage over 3 seconds |
2s |
5 Casts |
Tier 6
Chain Lightning |
Electrocutes the target, inflicts 35 magic damage, and fires lightning that is transferred to a being within 8 meters and shocks up to 3 times. It does not transfer to the target it was transferred to once, and it transfers to yourself if you are nearby.
Lightning transfer effect also applies to corpses |
2.5s |
3 Casts |
Weapons
Armors
| Head |
Leather Cap, Wizard Hat |
| Chest |
Frock, Mystic Vestments, Oracle Robe, Padded Tunic, Regal Gambeson |
| Legs |
Cloth Pants, Heavy Leather Leggings, Leather Leggings, Loose Trousers, Padded Leggings |
| Hands |
Leather Gloves, Rawhide Gloves, Reinforced Gloves, Riveted Gloves |
| Feet |
Adventurer Boots, Heavy Boots, Laced Turnshoe, Lightfoot Boots, Old Shoes, Rugged Boots, Wizard Shoes |
| Back |
Adventurers Cloak, Radiant Cloak, Splendid Cloak, Tattered Cloak |
These stats do not include the starting armor
| Stat Name |
Base Stats
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| Strength |
5
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| Agility |
15
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| Will |
20
|
| Knowledge |
20
|
| Resourcefulness |
15
|
| Health |
75
|
| Weight Limit |
0
|
| Spell Memory |
* / 20
|
| Utility Effectiveness |
0
|
| Move Speed |
300 (100%)
|
| Action Speed |
0%
|
| Spell Casting Speed |
0%
|
| Equip Speed |
25%
|
| Regular Interaction Speed |
0%
|
| Magical Interaction Speed |
-15%
|
| Buff Duration |
10%
|
| Debuff Duration |
-9.1%
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| Armor Penetration |
0%
|
| Magic Penetration |
0%
|
| Headshot Reduction |
0%
|
| Projectile Damage Reduction |
0%
|
| Physical Damage Reduction |
-10%
|
| From Armor Rating |
0 (-10%)
|
| From Bonuses |
0%
|
| Magic Resist |
18.4%
|
| From Resist Rating |
95 (18.4%)
|
| From Bonuses |
0%
|
| Physical Power Bonus |
-30%
|
| From Physical Power |
5 (-30%)
|
| From Bonuses |
0%
|
| Magic Power Bonus |
15%
|
| From Magic Power |
20 (15%)
|
| From Bonuses |
0%
|
| Primary Weapon |
0
|
| Attack 1 |
(0) + 0(Blunt)
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| Attack 2 |
(0) + 0(Blunt)
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| Secondary Weapon |
0
|
| Impact Power |
0
|
| Primary Weapon Impact Power |
1
|
| Secondary Weapon Impact Power |
0
|
- Try to meditate after every 2 uses of Arcane missiles, Invisibility, and Fireball, because all your spells regenerate at the same time.
- When enemies are interacting with doors, shoot a fire spell at them.
- Use door windows to shoot at unsuspecting enemies on the other side of the door.
- Use invisibility to get out of sticky situations and re-position. You can use the Haste ability beforehand to further boost your movement speed.
- While meditating, your camera is locked and you character looks down at the ground, to increase your visibility, meditate on an elevated position to increase your field of view and spot incoming enemies.
- Alternatively, you can also rest at campfire to replenish spell casts.
2023/04/14 Alpha Playtest #5
- Stats changed. -5 AGI, -5 WILL, +10 RES
- Haste: Effect decreased from 14% to 12% Movespeed and Action Speed. Duration increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Invisibility: Move speed bonus decreased from 10% to 5%. Duration increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
- Mana Surge: Magical Power Bonus increased from 5% to 10%.
13/02/2023 Alpha Playtest #4 Hotfix #5
- Haste duration changed from 11 to 8 seconds.
2023/02/09 Alpha #4 Playtest Hotfix - #3
- Wizard Light’s Spell Count 8 -> 6
- Wizard Ignite’s Spell Count 6 -> 5
- Wizard Zap’s Spell Count 6 -> 5
- Wizard Ice Bolt’s Spell Count 6 -> 5
- Wizard Haste’s Spell Count 5 -> 4
- Wizard Invisibility’s Spell Count 5 -> 4
- Wizard Chain Lightning’s Spell Count 4 -> 3
- Wizard Fireball Splash Damage 20 -> 10
2022/12/22 Alpha Playtest #3 Hotfix #5
- Fixed an issue where the Savage Roar's fear effect would not disappear.
2022/12/20 Alpha Playtest #3 Hotfix #4
- Fixed an issue where Ignite could malfunction.
2022/12/16 Alpha Playtest #3 Hotfix #1
- Wizard's Fireball cast time changed from 1.5 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
- Wizard's Lightning Strike cast time changed from 1.5 seconds to 1.25 seconds.
- Wizard's Chain Lightning cast time changed from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
- Wizard's Magic Missile damage per projectile changed from 10 to 12.
2022/12/16 Alpha Playtest #3 Changelog
New Magic System -
- All spells have a specific memory cost associated with them.
- Magic users can customize which spells they wish to memorize through the spell capacity system.
- Your ‘Knowledge’ determines which spells are at your disposal during the game. The order of the spell memorization is important because if your ‘Knowledge’ or ‘Spell Capacity’ stat dynamically changes during the game, the last memorized spells may become available/unavailable.
- Lots of new spells added to the game including – Ice bolt, Zap, Lightning Strike, Bind, Cleanse, and more.
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