Time for another spell teaser for Shattered Pixel Dungeon’s upcoming Cleric hero! This time it’s the Cleric’s version of a ‘scroll use’ talent: Recall Glyph.

This tier 2 talent/spell lets the Cleric expend some holy tome charges to recreate the effect of their most recently used scroll or runestone. This is a really flexible spell, with almost 40 different items you can duplicate. You can deal extra damage with some items (like in the GIF), or get multiple uses out of adventuring tools like scrolls of magic mapping or identify. Naturally, some items are more expensive to recall than others, and scrolls of upgrade in particular can’t be used with this spell.

(Image Description: A short GIF demonstrating the recall glyph spell. The cleric first throws am explosive runestone of blast at two enemies, then as they approach they cast the spell and can throw a reproduced version of the stone again.)

    • 00-Evan@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      The game also uses ‘inscribe’ for rogue and mage talents, which is the same term it uses for applying stylii glyphs to armor. Your point is fair but I don’t think mixing terms for ability names like this is a big issue.

  • SeemSurprised@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    This looks great! As the other commenter said though, the term ‘glyph’ already refers to other things, and ‘rune’ might make more sense. Any idea when we might expect a beta for this update?

  • Pickyfan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    Woah, this is awesome :O

    Does this always remembers the last spell used? Or do we need to constantly use scrolls or runestones?

    Like for example could I cast a single stone of blast and cast the spell twice to use three stone of blasts

      • Pickyfan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        Yeah, honestly, that’s fair

        What do you mean real item? Like, I’m assuming a consumable, but I don’t know what else is there besides consumables

        • miaomix@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          I’m assuming it means that you can’t copy casts from Unstable Spellbook, which aren’t “real” scrolls. Makes sense, since “Inscribed” talents work the same way (right now).

  • Lance@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    with metamorphed scroll-use talents, can you double trigger them using this? very excited to try this out when it launches!

    • 00-Evan@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Unfortunately no, those talents only trigger when a scroll or spell is actually used, not when something else triggers a scroll effect.