Thank you Tom for sharing this story with us.Ĭheck back next Thursday for more Art in Focus. Tom also has all kinds of Original Art, Sketches, Prints, Artist Proofs, Books (Blood Rituals: The Art of Tom Baxa, Get Work as a Fantasy Artist) and Merchandise available at his website. You can get details and pre-order a playmat for $40 at his web store(prices will go up after this initial offering). Tom is currently taking pre-orders for an official MAELSTROM WANDERER PLAYMAT! This is a high quality playmat produced by UltraPro and only available through Tom. The original artwork for Maelstrom Wanderer was created traditionally and sold many years ago. And thanks to all the sites and communities that support fantasy art like OMA! I’m so grateful that players are enjoying Maelstrom Wanderer and the artwork I created for the card. My favorite parts of the painting are his fiery gut behind the rock-form ribcage, and his face with the star pattern and the floating rock shapes that stay suspended in the blue mana storm emanating from his neck and clavicle region. There’s a ton of energy swirling around him and in the background. I love the dramatic, almost cataclysmic nature of the Maelstrom Wanderer. When I do the actual painting, I mask off the figure first and fully paint the background, then I paint the figure. I like to design something cool and original, then give it some kind of drama, in both the way it’s moving and through color and light. I almost always focus on the main figure first. The sense of mass was important, and I wanted him to have a cool visage made up of layered rock plates and glowing from within. I also wanted to convey a vast amount of mana filling him up and surging forth from his body – showing the energy needed to move his massive rocky carcass. I wanted him to feel like a brooding, heavy juggernaut that just marched the barren plane forever. I didn’t end up using much reference for this particular painting, but rather relied on my imagination and familiarity with rock and muscular forms to convey a creature with powerful and weighty limbs. I chose to make him more of a solid exoskeletal creature with a core of energy instead of a energy based elemental. I was also struck by the idea of him being a creature, but composed of and exuding a lot of energy. One of the things that stood out and informed some of my creature design decisions was the fact that this was a steeply inclined rocky landscape, so I wanted the Wanderer to be sure-footed. Mood: A walking storm of quasi-living magic, purposeless and ceaseless It wanders the former Maelstrom's rim, into the wind, trailing blue plasma and licks of flame as it goes. The only effective answer to getting drowned in threats from double cascades every turn WAS to tuck Maelstrom Wanderer. Its body is composed of green veins and vascular structures, fire and rock, and ribbons of blue arcane energy. The problem with Maelstrom Wanderer is that killing him actually benefits the Maelstrom Wanderer player, because now they get to double cascade again next turn. Show The Wanderer, a towering elemental creature borne of the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom is mostly gone now, but it remains a site of bizarre, flaring magic and strange winds. Location: A steeply inclined landscape, swept by a very strong windĪction: The Maelstrom was the point at which the five shards of the plane of Alara merged - a huge, roiling, crackling whirlpool of mana, aether, and magic. This is the best gear you can wear for the Solo StamDK if you don’t have access to DLC gear or don’t want to farm it.Color: Red, blue, and green legendary creature - one of a kind Venomous Smite can be purchased at guild traders without DLC.Orders Wrath can be purchased at guild traders without DLC.Venomous Smite drops in Unhallowed Grave (dungeon).Pillar of Nirn Drops in Falkreath Hold (dungeon).Stormfistdrops in Veteran Tempest Island(dungeon).Stormfist ( Pillar of Nirn if wearing ROPO) This section shows you the best Stamina Dragonknight gear for players willing to do Dungeons Note If you don’t have access to or don’t want to run Trials or DLCs use the other loadouts below.Maelstrom Greatsworddrops in Maelstrom Arena (Wrothgar Arena).If your stamina reamins too high for Coral Riptide, use Relequen or Venmous Smite instead.Coral Riptidedrops in Dreadsail Reef (Trial).Pillar of Nirn drops in Falkreath Hold (dungeon).Slimecrawdrops in Veteran Wayrest Sewersdungeon).Feel free to mix and match any of the following loadouts SLOT This section will cover solo Stamina Dragonknight DPS gear setups for players willing to farm trial gear. That spell will resolve before you exile cards for the second cascade ability. The spell you cast due to the first cascade ability will go on the stack on top of the second cascade ability. Light Attack Weaving Animation Cancelling Each instance of cascade triggers and resolves separately.
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