Magic Specialization

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Magic specialization is advanced training devoted to one magic school. A specialization skill can add school attunement and mastery, change individual spells, summons, or passive effects, and impose a resistance tradeoff. The exact benefits differ by school and have changed over time.

Existing school pages describe a character as able to maintain two specialization skills while actively training no more than one at a time. They also describe enabling another specialization as potentially setting an existing one to unlearn. Those rules were last broadly recorded on the wiki for Release 109 and remain part of the current-client verification request rather than an unqualified promise.

Magic specializations

School	Specialization skill	Associated resistance tradeoff
Air	Air Magic Specialization	Earth
Earth	Earth Magic Specialization	Air
Fire	Fire Magic Specialization	Water
Water	Water Magic Specialization	Fire
Life	Life Magic Specialization	Death
Death	Death Magic Specialization	Life
Sun	Sun Magic Specialization	Moon
Moon	Lunar Magic Specialization	Sun
Chaos	Chaos Magic Specialization	General magic resistance rather than one opposing school

The established skill title remains Lunar Magic Specialization even though the school is now presented as Moon Magic.

Mastery and skill effects

Specialization is not merely a flat school bonus. Individual skills can read the school's mastery value to alter duration, range, cooldown, control chance, summons, secondary effects, or other behavior. A skill that does not read specialization receives no school-specific rider simply because the character has trained the specialization.

Catnip's 2026 change record documents several corrections to specialization behavior: summoned elementals were changed to use their own schools' specialization and attunement, and specialization riders on roughly fifty skills were corrected to work against other players. These fixes confirm that specialization remains active and skill-specific; they do not validate every coefficient or effect listed on older wiki pages.

Version and proposal status

Official school Deep Dive pages can contain current diagnoses, completed fixes, built work awaiting deployment, proposals, and owner decisions on the same page. A feature marked Built should not be described as live unless a current-change or release entry confirms it. School pages should identify the supporting release or live version when a specialization feature changes.

See also

• Attunement
• Magic Resistance
• Magic
• Skills system