Weird glowing emblems on the ground?

[Premier Kisov]

What are they? they show up from time to time on maps.

Are they just props or do they do something?

[Wintermist]

Ley lines. Your mages gets a bonus if they stand on them.

[YagumoMatsuri]

If you speak of the circular symbols, they're leylines : they improve accuracy and damage of mage-type spells. The largest ones also reduce by one the cooldown of your spells, to a minimum of 0 (effectively allowing to spam flamethrower). You can have more details in the help menu in the mage mechanics page.

[Jin]

I so need to give that a try
I've yet to play a mage.... or an adept..

[Jormundgand]

Mage = death to all. AOE is a bit weak but AOE attacks are weak regardless of how you make them (nades suck).

[ΛƘ 420]

I've played both campaigns (Dead man's switch and Dragonfall) with a mage, and let me tell you, I don't regret it one bit. Having all those nukes is really satisfying.

[Premier Kisov]

Originally posted by Clearer:

Mage = death to all. AOE is a bit weak but AOE attacks are weak regardless of how you make them (nades suck).

actually i find flashbangs very usefull consedering you can stun whole groups with them,plus you can cause a summoner spirit to go crazy if you nail them with it.

[Jormundgand]

Flashbangs are awesome. All AP reducing attacks are verging on OP in this game.

[Sol]

Some AOE spells reduce AP significantly.

Shaman/Mage is a good build, and a Datajack for minimal decking doesn't hurt a thing.

Haste + Jazz + AP Attacks...

[Procrastinating Gamer]

Originally posted by Thadian:

Shaman/Mage is a good build, and a Datajack for minimal decking doesn't hurt a thing.

Shame you need a datajack for even minimal decking - there was a mage with some decking skill in a series of Shadowrun novels and she was able to get by with a trode net. She still needed a better decker along for any serious stuff, of course, since the trode net doesn't let her work as quickly or efficiently as a datajack would. They should've made it an optional thing for decking, having it give a bonus to decking somehow.

Dragonfall even aknowledges trode nets existing in the fiction; the ork guy running the charity wanted donations at one point so they could buy trode nets as part of a work training program.

[sHR00m]

since a datajack doesnt cost much at all, i think there were more important issues for the devs to focus on.

[Jormundgand]

Originally posted by Thadian:

Some AOE spells reduce AP significantly.

Shaman/Mage is a good build, and a Datajack for minimal decking doesn't hurt a thing.

Haste + Jazz + AP Attacks...

They do. I could have been clearer on my point; I was exclusively refering to damage output.

Any reduction in essence hurts a lot. -1 magic means you can't fire your flamethrower each turn (normally).