Newbie question on communion

Taqwus · #1 January 20th, 2004, 06:27 PM

Try a spell that visibly scales with caster power, like Orb Lightning, if you want to confirm it's working.

Saxon · #2 January 21st, 2004, 06:08 AM

Hmm, I think I have figured out part of the problem. The particular game was going well and I was beating the AI like a drum. I had never found a library, so my research was weak. As such, when I cast communion, it probably worked, but I had no higher level spells to cast! Nagot, it was your comment on the greyed out spells that made me realize this, thanks. I think this is also why he was casting spells over and over, he just did not have a big menu to choose from.

As for knowing if the power level has gone up, I guess it is just an oversight, something that might be able to be fixed in another patch.

PvK · #3 January 21st, 2004, 06:42 AM

What's the deal with the fatigue cost 100- for the communion slave spell? If the point is to give your fatigue to the communion master, but you use all your fatigue doing it, isn't that rather counter-productive? Or is the idea the level-1 slaves pass out and then get fatigued up to 200? (Or is the idea to empower the slaves somehow above level 1 before they cast the communion spells?).

PvK

#4 January 21st, 2004, 06:49 AM

It's so they don't have so much fatigue to rip through I believe. Communions above 4 Slaves really start adding up and since the fatigue is evenly spread you regenerate 20 fatigue a round (with 4) no matter what type of spell you cast. Plus remember that each slave gets the spell of their master. So if the Master casts Summon Earthpower, all the slaves under him have 4 Reinvigoration as well as the 5 normal fatigue healing from being over 100+ fatigue.

Graeme Dice · #5 January 21st, 2004, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zen:
So if the Master casts Summon Earthpower, all the slaves under him have 4 Reinvigoration as well as the 5 normal fatigue healing from being over 100+ fatigue.

Plus any reinvigoration from an earth blessing on your pretender.

#6 January 21st, 2004, 06:53 AM

Only if the communion master or the communion slaves are sacred and either the Slaves must be blessed, or the blessing cast on the Master *after* he casts Communion Master.

[ January 21, 2004, 05:19: Message edited by: Zen ]

Saxon · #7 January 21st, 2004, 11:31 AM

Power of the Spheres is not that far up the research tree, particularly if you are using a lot of astral magic. My plan was one unit would cast that on the first round while everyone else cast Body Ethereal. This would then reduce the cost of casting Communion Slave for fatigue (I think), making it even more effective and give almost everyone great defense.