Light Manipulation Spellbook, and new relic effect "BONUS_DODGE"

[John-Candlebury]

Summary

SUMMARY: Mods "Adds new spell and light manipulation themed spellbook"

Purpose of change

Noticed that Magiclysm already had a lot of light manipulation spells, but had no themed spellbook for them.

Describe the solution

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This also adds a new spell that increases dodge attemptsthrough light manipulation, and two enchanted rings that share this effect

[KorGgenT]

Notes:

• add a spell scroll for that new spell
• BONUS_DODGE does not currently have an implementation, see Enchantment Values (Organization) #33837. it should be somewhat easy if you find the places that dodge gets calculated and call the enchantment function there.

[John-Candlebury]

Thanks KorGgenT!
I'll mark this as a WIP until I implement BONUS_DODGE.

[John-Candlebury]

Implemented BONUS_DODGE modifier. This should be ready for review once again.

[KorGgenT]

so with a brand new character, this is my dodge:

then i cast the spell and get this:

i change my dodge skill to 9:

and then i get this:

what do you think? should this be the standard behavior for this artifact effect? that's pretty dang strong for +100%... and it doesn't appear to exactly be +100% anyway. (which is the more weird thing)

[KorGgenT]

I originally wanted to increase or decrease the number of dodges available, like martial arts do, but maybe the name of that value is a little misleading. it's still in the early stages so i can call that something else if you think increasing your dodging ability is more intuitive for this value

[John-Candlebury]

Yeah it was certainly too strong. Just changed the bonus to a flat +2 levels. Which is still rather strong.

I honestly think both effects do different things worth having. Increasing dodge attempts is mostly useful and more valuable for characters who fight in melee range, while increasing actual dodge skill is also usefull for characters that would rather nor get hit at all but that might occasionally find themselves in melee range (pure mages mostly).

A direct increase of dodge skill also better simulates Dnd Mage Armor spell too.