Offense

Offense is a skill tree in Ars Magica 2, found in the Occulus, along with Utility and Defense, the other active skill trees, and Talents, which is a passive skill tree. It is used for, as the name implies, more offensive spells, including things like Projectiles, Area of Effects, Beams, or even Waves of all sorts of different damage types.

The tree includes the following, from top (easier to get) to bottom (harder to get).

Shapes: Projectile, Contingency: Fire, Area of Effect, Beam, and Wave.

Components: Physical Damage, Forge, Ignition, Fire Damage, Lightning Damage, Frost Damage, Magic Damage, Drown, Blind, Freeze, Knockback, Astral Distortion, Storm, Silence, Fling, Watery Grave, and Fury.

Modifiers: Gravity, Bounce, Piercing, Solar, Velocity Added, and Damage.

Silver Spells: Blizzard, Starstrike, Firestorm, and Dismembering.

Some of the more useful items in here are the Shapes of Projectile and Area of Effect, the components of Damage Types, along with Forge and Ignition, maybe even blind, and the Modifiers of Damage and Bounce, although all of these shapes, components, and modifiers can be used to great effectiveness if they are used correctly.

Name	Description	Color	Type
Projectile	Causes a Projectile to be launched	Blue	Shape
Area of Effect	Changes the spell to target an area	Green	Shape
Beam	Causes a Beam to be fired while right click is held	Red	Shape
Wave	Causes a Wave	Red	Shape
Contingency: Fire	Sets a spell to activate when the target is incinerated	Green	Shape
Force Damage	Makes spells deal force (normal) damage	Blue	Component
Forge	If target block can be melted, it will be replaced by it's molten equivalent (a Sand block becomes Glass (block), Wood becomes a Charcoal (item)	Green	Component
Ignition	Sets things on fire	Green	Component
Fire Damage	Deals Fire damage to Target	Blue	Component
Lightning Damage	Deals Lightning damage to Target	Blue	Component
Frost Damage	Deals frost damage to Target	Blue	Component
Magic Damage	Deals magic damage to Target	Blue	Component
Drown	Deals drowning damage to Target	Blue	Component
Blind	Grants the debuff Blindness	Green	Component
Freeze	Grants a debuff that acts like slowness	Green	Component
Knockback	Knocks back target	Green	Component
Astral Distortion	Disables teleportation through vanilla and ars magica means	Green	Component
Storm	Causes a thunderstorm	Red	Component
Silence	Grants debuff that stops target from using magic	Red	Component
Fling	Flings targets into the air	Green	Component
Watery Grave	Grants debuff that makes swimming harder	Green	Component
Fury	Grants a buff to target that acts like a combination of Swiftness, Haste and Strength that causes debuffs when it wears off	Red	Component
Gravity	Changes spell to be effected by gravity	Blue	Modifier
Bounce	Makes spells bounce before being destroyed	Blue	Modifier
Piercing	Adds piercing to spells (allows spells to pass their initial target and hit another)	Red	Modifier
Solar	Increases or decreases the strength of the spell according to the current time (peak power at Zenith, minimum during midnight)	Red	Modifier
Velocity Added	Increases Velocity caused by Shapes such as Fling	Red	Modifier
Damage	Increases damage of Components that deal damage (for example, Fire Damage. Lightning Damage, Starstrike)	Red	Modifier