Wind Master Skills Tutorial

Next is the Wind Master Tree. This is a cool support skillset because the skills available here usually assist the shaman in maneuvering about the map without needing to build stuff prematurely.

Skill W1.1: Endurance

This skill allows your mouse to run faster to complete builds, avoid things, and sometimes just to outrace the mice on maps where shamans aren't needed. Sometimes though, just that half-step is all you need to secure a build from rushers. We recommend this skill for all shamans.

Skill W1.2: Clean mouse

Leading the votes by an overwhelming margin as the "worst skill" is Clean mouse. This converts a fallen mouse into a bubble that slowly floats up. Mice can get on this bubble to rush and other things. The reason people dislike this is that it ruins solutions and encourages rushing. It also gets in the way of tunnels and other things sometimes.

We recommend this skill for people who want to be seen as noobs, whether such presumption is correct or not.

Skill W2.1: Cleats

This classic map has a strong wind as shown by the balloons, but the shaman doesn't seem bothered about it. This is because she has cleats which increase her friction. Thus, strong winds no longer push her about. The downside of this skill is that it sometimes sticks shamans and negates whatever speed boost Endurance gives when they get cheese.

We recommend this skill for shamans who have trouble climbing walls or prefer to build without worrying about falling off things.

Skill W2.2: Diet

According to His Templeness, a mouse has a mass of 20 [70 with cheese]. Accordingly, this skill decreases the shaman's mass to 18, 16, 14, 12, and 10, respectively. By having a minimized mass, your shaman mouse can have less worry about triggering traps or otherwise disrupting the map. On the other hand, this makes it more difficult to activate mechs and push stuff aside.

We recommend this skill for people who want to get wings and maintain mobility when they have cheese and don't want bubbles to ruin their builds; A.K.A. sensible shamans who don't really have a choice.

Skill W2.3: Opportunist

Why is this shaman running to the hole without her cheese? Oh, she has Opportunist! This skill instantaneously gives the shaman map completion. It is activated when there are two mice left on the map, and the other mouse, with cheese, goes into the hole. If the other mouse falls off the screen, the skill will not activate and the shaman has to get cheese a different means.

This skill will give the shaman an extra save, but will not count towards cheese gathered as the shaman, due to balance issues. We recommend this skill for players who want to complete maps fast.

Skill W3.1: Chocokiss

Calling all foreveralones on Transformice, now is your chance to have kisses blown at you!... on an online game... by pixellated mice... by force...

Still, it's better than nothing, right? To activate this skill, sit next to the target mouse/mice. We recommend this for players who are, uh, foreveralone.

Skill W3.2: Rocket scientist

Rocket scientist is basically a solo version of spring. It can propel the shaman higher than a single spring at the highest level, but the mice don't directly benefit from it. However, it doesn't eat additional space on your shaman items list, so no additional scrolling to look for stuff.

To activate this skill, simply hold the down or S button to gather power. You'll know that it's fully charged when your shaman mouse shakes furiously. Simply release the key you're holding without pressing any other button. You can control your jump once your shaman mouse is in the air.

The maximum charge time of this skill is seven seconds. We recommend this skill for sensible shamans who want wings.

Skill W3.3: Companion crate

Enter Lé Troalbox.

This item is useful, but in trollish ways. For example, trapping mice.

Blocking the hole.

Breaking balanced bridges

To use this skill, click the icon shown above that appears on your shaman items list. Then hold click to deploy. Please note that similar to cloud, only one of these items can be spawned at a time. This means that if you spawn a second troalbox, the first one will disappear.

Some may argue that this can be useful as weights or foundations for bridges and ramps, but we already have anvils and clouds for that. As such, we only recommend this for trolls who want to have a laugh at the expense of others.

Skill W4.1: Tight budget

"Finally!", exclaim all the OCD shamans. No longer will they face the dilemma of either forcing the mice to jump on a bridge with a gap or be forced to have a bridge that extends over the grounds. The tiny plank offers the shaman the ability to bridge tiny gaps...

To give cloud carts a steering bar...

Or, y'know, show sarcasm.

Although this item looks and feels like another plank, shamans cannot add a B anchor to it. Aside from OCD shamans, we can't really recommend this for anyone who doesn't have extra skill points to spare.

Skill W4.2: Personal teleporter

Possibly the first useful skill of the Wind Master tree that isn't a double-edged sword, Personal Teleporter makes up for the deficiencies of the other skills in a big way. Shown above is a little trick I learned from my S.T.F.U. farmmates. Depending on how much ping you have, there's a little delay between the time you deploy the personal teleporter and the time you actually warp to your desired location.

As a result, laggers like myself can get cheese for ourselves on map 48 by spawning the personal teleporter at our hole when it gets in range from our descent, then land on the cheese to get it before we're teleported back. Aside from that, it's also useful for fight maps, cage maps, and maps where mice and shaman spawns are the same. Most maps, really.

To use this skill, click the icon shown above that appears on your shaman items list, then hold click on your desired location to spawn.

When combined with apples, this can render you virtually omnipresent and perhaps even unkillable on shaman fight maps.

We recommend this skill for all shamans.

Skill W4.3: Projection

This is another potentially good skill for Wind Master, but quite a double-edged sword because of the way it is activated. This skill warps the shaman 100 pixels to the left or right, depending on how it is triggered. It also has a cooldown of approximately four seconds.

The most popular use of this skill is shown above where the shaman projects herself out of the Map 10 cage. This may also be used to give the shaman a kickstart when she spawns in the same place as the mice.

To use this skill, simply double tap the left or right button. This is where the danger comes in. If this skill were implemented better, such as by having it triggered by Ctrl Left/Right, there would be less of a danger that shamans project themselves to death while trying to balance ramps, as shown below.

We recommend this skill for shamans who always have the presence of mind to not tap too much when balancing. Or who have cleats.

Skill W5.1: Transformice

This is the Wind Master tree's equivalent of the Ancestral Spirit skill. This is only useful in rare cases. It's more of for showing off your powers, instead of actually helping. This sometimes even gets in the way, and sometimes allows trolls an opportunity to kill off your saves. To use this skill, click the icon as shown above, then hold click on the target mouse to summon.

We recommend this for people who'd have interest in using the Companion crate.

Skill W5.2: Stern mouse

Pest problem? With this skill, you can now eliminate as many as seven mice instantaneously. Stern mouse gives the shaman an extra ice cube for each skill point. To deploy this skill, select the ice cube from the shaman items list then click on a mouse to use it.

We recommend this skill for shamans who dislike stallers.

Skill W5.3: Acrobat

The Wind Master tree's equivalent of the Spring skill is just as useful, and even easier to use. Basically, this allows you to move around while spawning items. No longer will you be stuck at a pause when fighting another shaman. No longer do you have to fear for your life when spawning while standing on a ramp. No tutorial needed here as all you really need to know is already written on the description. We recommend this skill for everyone.

Skill W6: Angel

The ultimate skill on the Wind Master tree. The ultimate defiance of Transformice gravity. The ultimate form of building while in the air. The ultimate form of showing off how you can cross vast chasms and leaving the other mice in jealousy. This skill gives it all.

Hold the up button to activate wings and glide through the map. Please note that while this does keep you from falling at normal speed, you will still slowly descend. Also, this will not render you invulnerable to fan gods, flying anvils, bombs and the pink shaman's cannonball. So still exercise caution.

However, this most certainly helps keep you alive, so we recommend this skill for everyone.