Magestorm Update: Druid Trial and Major Gameplay Fixes

Magestorm update - Tue, Nov 3, 2026

• The Druid (trial). A new class to try: the Druid roots enemies in place, mends allies who stand in its groves and fights beside spirit beasts - wolves, a bear, a stag and great treants - with 30 spells to level 30, and fire is its weakness. It's a trial: tell us what you think with Feedback - keep it, change it or nuke it - and improvements and new sounds are coming.

• Lifegiving ranks. Clerics can now research Lifegiving II, III and IV (levels 7, 13 and 19), which bring a fallen teammate back with 50%, 70% or 90% of their health plus some spell points and fatigue - and at level 30, with one more pick, Grand Lifegiving: a full revive with 2 seconds nobody can hurt them, for all of the Cleric's spell points and fatigue.

• Fly III and casting fixed. With Fly III you can now cast while strafing or flying backwards - only flying straight forward at full speed stops a cast, and a cast that can't happen no longer looks like it fired. New in Config: Show cast-blocked messages (on by default) - turn it off and a blocked cast while running, flying forward, crouching or too tired simply doesn't happen, without a message.

• Gamepad dead zones you can set. Config -> Controls -> Gamepad now has sliders for the left stick, the right stick and the triggers (0-50%), with a live picture of each stick so you can see what the game picks up. The defaults are unchanged (20% sticks, 35% triggers), and your settings are kept in your browser.

• Smoother busy arenas. Crowded arenas with lots of bots, like the Battlegrounds on Thunder Keep, now draw more frames on slower computers - about a fifth more where it was hardest going.

• The faster renderer on more computers. Older graphics cards that your browser is cautious about now get the GPU renderer too, and if hardware acceleration is turned off in your browser the game tells you once, with a shortcut to the Renderer setting.
  Full notes: magestorm.fathomthat.org/whats-new