Barrier

Barrier
A thin, horizontal barrier that harms passing creatures, including you
Type	Static projectile
Mana Drain	70
Cast Delay	+0.08
Lifetime ⓘ	3
Additional Information
ID	WALL_HORIZONTAL
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	01/11110.90 11/21010.48 21/22910.44 300 41/28510.35 51/62610.16 600 700 800 900 1000
A thin, vertical barrier that harms passing creatures, including you
Type	Static projectile
Mana Drain	70
Cast Delay	+0.08
Lifetime ⓘ	3
Additional Information
ID	WALL_VERTICAL
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	01/11110.90 11/21010.48 21/22910.44 300 41/28510.35 51/62610.16 600 700 800 900 1000
A thin, square-shaped barrier that harms passing creatures, including you
Type	Static projectile
Uses	20
Mana Drain	70
Cast Delay	+0.33
Lifetime ⓘ	3
Additional Information
ID	WALL_SQUARE
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	01/14810.67 11/42010.24 21/22910.44 300 41/28510.35 51/31310.32 61/20510.49 700 800 900 1000

The Horizontal, Vertical and Square Barrier spells are functionally identical aside from the shape of the glowing barrier they create, although the Square Barrier also has a limited use amount whereas the first two are infinite. They are static projectile spells, which means the barriers they create appear right at the point of casting.

Any creature (including you) walking into them take heavy damage and deplete spell particles from the barrier as they move.

Tips

• You are highly recommended to use a trigger spell, such as Spark Bolt, to make sure the barrier is created far away from you to avoid any untimely deaths.
  • Adding a Personal Gravity Field to the trigger spell will cause the barrier particles to be attracted to a hit enemy, doing extreme damage.
• The square barrier is the only one that could be safely used at melee range, though you lock yourself in a very small area so avoiding attacks will be greatly hindered.
• The Barrier spells are very useful to fight melee-oriented enemies as they'll fly headlong into them without thinking. Shields will not protect them, either.
• Barrier spells have extremely good synergy with Spells To Power, as it concentrates the high damage potential of the barrier on to a single projectile spell.
• Modifiers do not affect the barrier particles.

Trivia

• The particles themselves are not affected by homing (except homing perk) or gravity. Conversely, effects such as projectile repulsion field will push away the particles, allowing you to use the spell much more safely and even offensively.
• Despite appearing to be composed of many small particles, this is actually just a cosmetic effect. There are actually only 19 evenly spaced projectiles created by the Horizontal and Vertical Barrier spells (76 by the Square Barrier spell), each of which does 32.25 damage. These projectiles have a lifetime of 400 frames.

Gallery

Horizontal Barrier, placed with a Spark Bolt With Trigger

Vertical Barrier, particles being used up to do damage

Square barrier, placed without any modifiers

History

• Apr 8 2024:
  • Removed Horizontal and Vertical Barrier from tier 6 spawns.
  • Changed the spawn probabilities for Horizontal and Vertical Barriers on tiers 2, 4, and 5 from 0.4 to 0.6, 0.5, and 0.2 respectively.
  • Changed the spawn probabilities for Square Barrier on tiers 0, 1, 2, and 4 from 0.4 to 0.3, 0.2, 0.6, and 0.5 respectively.

• Dec 19 2019:
  • Added Square Barrier to the game.
  • Changed the spell type from Projectile to Static Projectile.

• Nov 28 2019: Added Horizontal Barrier and Vertical Barrier to the game.