Two more relic previews to show off tonight: The Crown of Glory, and the Vodun Mask.

The Crown of Glory is intended to provide melee/support hybrid starting options. This is apparent from the primary elements it offers: though none of them are traditionally melee elements, it fills them in by using Slash and Impact melee abilities that have “side effects” of the chosen type. In this way, characters can be up front dealing melee damage while also providing various flavors of support effects from the six “support” themed elements provided.

The secondary elements for the Crown veer off in a variety of directions: you can season your primary choice by adding area effect melee attacks, a distance-closing charge, an area-effect Stun attack, a collection of passives and reactives that aid offense and defense in various ways, as well as a couple of other options for melee + “extra” attacks.

Next up, we have the Vodun Mask, a relic focused on providing starting options that focus on laying various negative effects on enemies so that your allies can overpower them with ease. Both physical and magical elements have access to these sorts of powers, which is reflected in the primary options offered by the Mask. It is worth noting that the Mask’s starting stats vary wildly based on the elements you choose: some builds will have high Strength and Agility, others will focus on Magic, but all will tend to have excellent Cunning.

The mask’s secondaries focus on giving you options to round out or expand upon the package you chose initially. Whether you want to add more damage (direct, smite, or by damage-dealing debuff), life-stealing, stalling and distracting tactics, or even a little healing, you’ll find what you’re looking for in these elements.

Progress on the relics and their abilities is coming along nicely, as you can see. I should have more previews ready to show you soon.

Oh, I almost forgot. I added Mind as an option for Titan’s Fist on secondary, giving it an ability called Mind Reader. Mind Reader is a passive that raises your accuracy and evasion against non Mind-immune enemies. (Enemies actually weak to Mind give you a bigger bonus! … though of course, Mind resistance cuts a large chunk out of it.)

Well, back to work on the remaining relics. Cheers!