Idea: Lilaya Side-Quest to receive "Arcane Training" perk

[GalacticApple]

Being an Arcane researcher, I think it would make sense for Lilaya to be able to train the player in how to use it more effectively. I was thinking of something like this:

• For each school of magic you'd have 4 tasks: listen to her give a lecture, learn enough spells to master the school, take a quiz (based on the lecture, hope you took notes!), and then a final "test" where you use only that school's spells (and just spells, no other moves) on a practice elemental
• After you've done this for every school, she'd walk you through a practice fight to demonstrate strategies for combining different spells (like stunning an enemy on the first round using a flash and two ice shards, or how to fight a duel of attrition against more powerful opponents with strategic use of "soothing waters" and your elemental)
• The final test would be a wave defense similar to the imp fortress challenge. You'd have to survive a certain number of rounds before Lilaya is suitably impressed, thus earning you the perk

I do think that the perk you would get from this should be the same as what you can find on different npcs. Some of the other stat perks we can earn (like Pix's Training) are almost pointless on higher difficulties. Alternatively, maybe finishing Lilyay's training on Lilin or Lilith difficulty should get you a better perk? At the highest difficulty you'd get the normal "Arcane Training" perk, but on the easier difficulties you'd get an "Arcane Basics" perk since you didn't challenge yourself.

[GalacticApple]

Some things I've noted for Arcane combat:

• The aforementioned "ice shard" + "flash" stunner is basically a guaranteed win for one-on-one combat, regardless of difficulty
• Arcane elemental + Arcane cloud = fantastic crowd control against non-Arcane enemies
• Against stronger opponents: use "flash" to stun as many as you can on round one. On round two, use "soothing waters" on yourself to revive your elemental since they'll normally take all the agro on the first go. Rinse and repeat, taking every opportunity you can to cast "telekinetic shower" or the like to whittle down your opponents. Whenever you feel like you've gotten the upper hand, buff yourself and finish them off.
• Take note of which enemies are Arcane users and which aren't based on their Mana. More than 5 usually means it's more efficient to attack their health instead of their lust (since they won't be KO'd at 100 lust)
• If you're an unarmed God with high critical chance, the Earth elemental is a good compliment.