Magestorm Update: Druid Spells and Chat Improvements

Magestorm update - Thu, Nov 5, 2026

• Druid: one companion. A Druid now has one spirit companion instead of a crowd of beasts: Spirit Companion (level 8) calls a wolf that grows into a bear at level 16, the Ancient Guardian at 22 and the Heartwood Colossus at 30, and casting it again (once every 10 seconds) calls a fresh one in its place. Each form lasts longer but has much less health, companions take extra damage from blasts and splash, and every companion - the wolf now a little taller - can be hit exactly where you see it, even at your feet (Summon Bear, Wolf Pack, Stag Spirit and the old Guardian and Colossus spells are gone, and if you had one readied or in a loadout it becomes Spirit Companion).

• Druid: Thornskin. A new Druid spell at level 10 puts thorns on you or an ally for 12 seconds, so anyone whose spell hurts them is stung back a little. Fire burns the thorns off.

• Druid: Briar Dart I and II. Druids get a real ranged attack early: Briar Dart at level 5, one thorny dart that flies true, and Briar Dart II at level 12, a bigger, harder-hitting dart.

• Druid healing experience. Every point a Druid's groves, Regrowth, Living Wall or Colossus heal on an ally now pays the same experience as a Cleric's heal, with nothing lost to rounding on the small pulses.

• Smaller experience boosts. Experience events can now be smaller boosts like +15%, not just 2x to 5x - shown as +15% in the event banner, on the arena list, in the tavern's next-event line and in your effects.

• Chat no longer clears after a brief reconnect. When your connection blips, the tavern chat now keeps every line (your direct and guild messages too) with none shown twice, keeps what you were typing, and sends a line you sent during the blip once it's back. A line that never reached anyone is marked "not sent - press Enter to resend": press Enter on an empty chat line to send it.
  Full notes: magestorm.fathomthat.org/whats-new