My take on Magic barriers

My take on Magic barriers
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A spell that can be unlocked through magic scrolls, when casted, the player will generate a magic spire covering the player or a wall in front of the player. The barrier will block any incoming range attacks, however, other players can walk right pass it unless the magic is metal, wood or other magics with a physical basis.
Every second the player casts a barrier, their energy decreases slowly and every hit the barrier takes, the more energy it will consume. The effectiveness on the barrier would heavily depended on the its magicā€™s clash rates. Lets say you casted a water barrier, that barrier would be strong against fire and magma etc but weak against lightning and earth etc.
The reason why I think this is a good idea is because currently the meta revolves around high speed combat and airstalling, and all the spells in game are ether offensive or movement based, so introducing a purely defensive spell would be a welcome addition and allows more creative plays.

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I donā€™t know if walking into a lightning barrier is a good idea.

I mean, good idea or not you still can. ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ

donā€™t know how i feel about other players being able to just walk through it, but iā€™ve always wanted a barrier spell, though i hope it has a place option so i can just make a wall or dome

Hmm interesting idea i just got.
What if this acted as a toggle for surge
ā€œBarrier modeā€
Lower spread=smaller barrier=lower energy cost
Larger spread=bigger barrier=higher wnergy cost
And could maintain some of aurges ability on non-solid magics to deal dammage to those touching it

Definitely think we need this kind of spell in the default options for magics, though i think it should be at a lower rate than Pulsar if it has to be in a spell scroll.
Would love the ability to customise the range/height of the wall, and maybe two variants can be chosen such as placed barriers, or barriers you can walk around with (Like the wall spells in AA)

Definitely needed to help defend with for classes like Mages that dont want to get too close.

mabey as a ā€œjokeā€ barbarians could have ā€œDeath Stareā€
where it is just staring at a point and anything in that area ā€œknows better then to be thereā€ and backs of (warhamer ork master reality manipulator with no idea it has that power)
and weapons could be flavored as slicing whatever comes to that area into a fine power, dissapating magic energy and projectiles

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How about when you walk into a non-solid barrier it applies the magicā€™s effect constantly? Yknow what im sayin, legit tho.

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