(Not)Alchemy into gameplay

Inspired by Scind's ideas of triple stuff although slightly altered
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Mechanics and Default Keybindings
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Keybindings
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Q - Water
W - Earth
E - Air
R - Fire
A - Life
S - Death
D - Disintegration
F - Creation
LMB - move around
RMB - "Force cast"
Space - "Area cast", or sometimes "Selfcast" depending on form

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Incompatibilities
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Q/E, W/R. A/S. D/F
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Temperature
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*The target can be either hot, cold or neutral.
*The player is given a gauge on the screen, visually showing temperature - with distinguished Cold, Neutral and Hot zones, along with Combustion and Freezing treshold.
*Based on temperature, the Player and his actions slow down or speed up (Burning people run around like chickens)
*The player receives small DoT based on his temperature's deviation from the centre of neutral zone
*The player can see other players' temperature visually, although is not given exact numbers
*"Hot" state is required for Ceration and Sublimation
*"Hot" state boosts Air and Fire
*"Cold" state is required for Congelation and Fixation
*"Cold" state boosts Water and Earth
*"Combusted (burning) state is required for Incineration
*Neutral temperature is required for Distillation
*When Combustion treshold is breached, the player will Combust, receiving additional DoT.
*Combusted player is open to Incineration.
*When Freezing treshold is breached, the player can Freeze when treated with Death
*When Frozen, the player receives triple damage from any variant of pure 3x elemental attack, but is ummune to everything else
*The player can cast heat on himself in order to get out of the state. Life greatly speeds it up, but beware of triggering processes!
*Player's temperature naturally returns to neutral state over time
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Moisture
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*The player can be either wet or dehydrated (or just dry).
*There is a "midle ground" where the moisture is mostly neutral at the "dry" state.
*The player is given moisture gauge, which monitors his...well...moisture.
*Has no real purpose except for connection with temperature and processes.
*Wet state is required for Congelation, Distillation, Ceration.
*Dehydrated state is required for Incineration, Fixation, Sublimation.
*Wet player loses temperature more easily
*Wet player has Water and Air boosted
*Wet player has Freezing treshold lowered, and Combustion treshold raised
*Dehydrated player heats up more easily
*Dehydration boosts Earth and Fire
*Dehydrated player has Combustion treshold lowered and Freezing treshold raised
*Player's moisture naturally returns to neutral state over time
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"Elements" breakdown
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The basics of Alchemy often mentions such a chart:
Celestial Salt / Fixed : Water (Cold and Wet) and Earth (Cold and Dry)
Celestial Niter / Volatile : Air (Hot and Wet) and Fire (Hot and Dry).

These things connect with each other into three main principles:
Sulfur (of Air and Fire) / soul / expansion - Very volatile, penetrating, dissolves very easily and violently.
Mercury (of Water and Air) / spirit /integration - The "life force", simply put. The balance between Sulfur and Salt.
Salt (of Water and Earth) / manifestation / contraction - crystallization of elements or something.


Also a couple of other things -
Life -  puts everything in movement - "creation of movement"
Death -  stops the movement altogether - "death of movement"
Creation -  Redundant, easier equivalent of various circles - or creation of energy
Disintegration (Terra) - Not quite symbol of destruction, rather disintegration.

Illustrative amounts of damage
A - None
B - Minimal
C - Medium
D - High
E - Extremely high
F - Fatal

"Classic" elements and principles that come from them
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Water (Cold and Wet) - Utility pushover
1-Single spurt of water(A) 2-Continuous spray of water(M) 3-Chargeable burst of pressurized water in a thin cone, can push people around(C)
*Cools down the target
*Wettens the target
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Earth (Cold and Dry) - Heavy hitter, the least utility, the most damage
1-Throwing a bunch of soil, slightly slows down targets in range(B) 2-Continuous spray of sand (C)3-Chargeable rock with great amounts of power(E)
*All of Earth's attacks dissolve into sand, that stays around for a while and can be used to enhance any Processes.
*Instantly cools down the target upon hit for great amount.
*Dries the target
*AoE can knockdown unprepared subjects
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Air (Hot and Wet) - Electricity
1-Pushes the target away in a cone(A) 2- Continuous lightning arc.(C) 3- Chargeable lightning bolt(E)
*Wettens the target
*Heats up the target
*Lightnings mini-stun the target
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Fire (Hot and Dry) - Slow, kiteable heavy hitter
1-Burst of heat in a small long cone (second of delay) (D) 2- Continuous heat generation, affects everything very slightly in very big range(B) 3-Chargeable ball of heated plasma, travels very slowly and can be easily kiteable (E)
*Dries the target
*Heats up the target
*The 3x form can cause Incineration. The idea of Fire is the very powerful, kitable hitter that rewards with heat every time you manage to hit the target.
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Principles (combinations of elements)
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Salt -
*Makes crystalline projectiles, equivalent of ice machinegun. (C)
*Sticks to the target and provides with extra solid matter to work with.
*Powerful for transferring statuses when you want to deal physical damage at the same time.
*Only cools down the target.
*AoE blocks targets for a second in place, but doesn't stun them
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Mercury - Healer (?)
*Heals entities in a beam (or through ramping up self-heal)
*Required for triggering Fixation.
*Slowly returns Wet/Dry and Cold/Hot statuses to neutral, however much slower than any other element or principle.
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Sulfur - Chargeable instant burst of fire in narrrow, short cone, very quickly heats targets up. (D)
*Has certain cooldown (via animation)
*Main damaging thingy.
*Only heats up
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Additional main stuff (It is important to note, that processes can not be triggered without use of secondary queue.)
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Life - Constant channeling of processes. (A)
1-Wide, short cone 2-Medium cone 3-Point beam
*Purely utilitary
*Required for Incineration, Distillation, Sublimation to trigger
*Prevents Congelation, Fixation and Ceration from triggering so long as the target is buffed with Life
*Anything in range of (hit by) Life's cones/novas will speed up, along with projectiles that move 5x faster
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Death - (A)
1-Wide, short cone 2-Medium cone 3-Point beam
*Freezes targets below Freezing treshold
*Purely utilitary
*Required for Congelation, Fixation and Ceration to trigger
*Prevents Incineration, Distillation, and Sublimation from triggering so long as the target is (de)buffed with Death
*Anything in range of (hit by) Life's cones/novas will slow down, along with projectiles that move 5x slower
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Creation - Creates mines that sit around gathering energy. Will detonate when stepped on, or when they reach full potential.
*The Mines deal from Minimal to High damage based on time
*More Creation lets the mines reach their full potential faster
*Salt will shoot spikes upwards
*Earth will make a pylon that knocks people airborne (in alternative to Air) and quickly dissolve into a puddle of sand.
*Casting the thing on yourself will result in an etheral barrier that repels or fully blocks certain elements with various perks.
Water - protects against getting wet and losing temperature
Earth - protects against drying out and losing temperature
Air - protects against getting wet and gaining temperature
Fire - protects against drying out and gaining temperature
And for creating principles:
Salt - Protects against losing temperature
Sulfur - Protects against gaining temperature
Mercury - Protects against all status changes in exchange for little damage mitigation
*The self-shield has a duration similiar to that of a mine
*Additionally absorbs damage from selected elements and explodes when the shield goes off, does not hurt the player
*Can be broken with Disintegration (very quickly lowers the duration)
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Disintegration - (C)
1-Wide, short cone 2-Medium cone 3-Point beam
*Pure, non-elemental damage
*Ramps up so long as it stays on target
*Disintegration infused processes / casts will penetrate through Death's defences, except for the null ray. Disintegration based "spells" are very effective against frozen targets.
*Anything hit will become "phased" for a second, allowing them to ignore physical attacks and walk through walls (except for level walls).
*The cone/beam itself is impossible to stop and phases through everything except for the Null Shield
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Combinations of these
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Life/Creation -
*Creates lively storm of an element and triggers processes on everything around them.
*More Life will make the storm more volatile (From Medium to High)
*More of Creation will make it stay around longer
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Life/Disintegration - A/F
*Generates chargeable instant blast of energy from literally 0 to 70% of target's life (with around 0.5 second delay after lettign the button), quickly triggers any process.
*Charges up very, very slowly (5-6 seconds, 3-4 with more Life)
*Can be defended via kiting or Null Shield
*More of Life will make it ramp up faster
*More of Disintegration increases it's destructive capabilities up to literal instakill
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Death/Creation - (A)
*Creates solid barrier that stops physical projectiles and direct elemental attacks.
*Depending on the shield, it can block either physical attacks or ones that correspond to their respective element.
*Caster can use it on himself, rendering himself immune to chosen elements, but it opens him for instant use of Sublimation (and Ceration in rare occasions).
*The barrier can be removed by Sublimation
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Death/Disintegration - High Risk / High reward ultimate defence, that might result in trapping yourself!
*Creates Null Shield in cone front of / around the caster.
*Chargeable - every second of windup equals 0.5 seconds of actual effect
*Anything inside, including the caster, is frozen in time.
*Caster is slowed during charging and immobile while casting
*Adding more Death will increase the range of effect
*Adding more Disintegration will stop literally any attack
*Additional elements ensure /reflection/ of an attack with said element in mind
*Gets cancelled out with Life beam/attack
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Processes that can happen
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Congelation - coagulates a liquid into a viscous gel
*Removes Wet State
*Adds Congelated State
*Congelated targets are slowed down
*Congelated targets' Freezing treshold is lowered
*Activated by Death.
*Triggers when the target is wet and cold.
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Disitllation - Evaporates liquids.
*Removes Wet State
*Deals Medium damage
*Activated by Life.
*Triggers when the target is wet.
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Ceration- Turns a wet, heated object into the waxy substance
*Removes Wet State
*Adds Cerated State
*Cerated targets receive double damage from heat DoT
*Cerated targets' Combustion treshold is lowered
*Can be consumed by Incineration for extra damage
*Activated by Death.
*Triggers when the target is wet and hot.
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Incineration - Using open flame to destroy or turn the target to ash. (F)
*Removes Burning State, dealing high amounts of damage in return
*Removes Cerated state, amplifying dealt damage in return
*Triggers when the target is dehydrated and burning
*Activated by Life.
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Fixation - transmuting a volatile subject until it becomes "fixed, nonvolatile, unaffected by fire".
*Removes all volatile modifiers.
*Returns to Dry state
*Causes the target to be immune to combustion
*Activated by Death
*Triggers when the target is dehydrated and cold
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Sublimation - Turns solid objects into gas.
*Removes barriers
*Counters Congelation.
*Activated by Life.
*Triggers when the target is dehydrated and hot
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Priorities
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AD / AF / SD / SF
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D
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W / QW (inspite of non-projectile-ness of Earth alone, it makes all other stuff into projectiles)
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E / ER
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A / S / F / WE
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Q / R