Various Newbie Gameplay Questions

Windreaper · #1 November 14th, 2006, 11:25 PM

Exactly, and I can't see an astral nation going conj9 when they could just speed research alt9/Wish and press the 'I win' button.

dirtywick · #2 November 14th, 2006, 11:47 PM

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Windreaper said:
Exactly, and I can't see an astral nation going conj9 when they could just speed research alt9/Wish and press the 'I win' button.

Abominations are pretty sweet though.

KissBlade · #3 November 15th, 2006, 12:26 AM

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Windreaper said:
Exactly, and I can't see an astral nation going conj9 when they could just speed research alt9/Wish and press the 'I win' button.

Heh ... oh? Because I've been playing a variety of games where I had wish and I haven't gotten this "I win" button yet ...

hoo · #4 November 15th, 2006, 01:08 PM

If you have a powerful astral mage, you could cast the spell that gives every mage a 1 level boost in astral..then go whop enemy mages by casting the magic dual...

Think that would work to kill enemy mages who have 0 astral at the beginning of the fight. Something I'm considering.

Graeme Dice · #5 November 15th, 2006, 01:27 PM

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hoo said:
If you have a powerful astral mage, you could cast the spell that gives every mage a 1 level boost in astral..then go whop enemy mages by casting the magic dual...

This wouldn't make any difference as magic duel only uses the base astral skills of the mages without any boosting equipment or spells.

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Think that would work to kill enemy mages who have 0 astral at the beginning of the fight. Something I'm considering.

You only gain an additional skill level in a path if you already have at least one level in that path, so it wouldn't give them any astral skill unless they already had it.

thejeff · #6 November 15th, 2006, 01:44 PM

It also gives that astral bonus to all mages, including enemy mages, doesn't it?

Graeme Dice · #7 November 15th, 2006, 03:29 PM

Yes, I believe that light of the northern star and the banner of the northern star boosts the astral magic skill of all astral mages on the battlefield, including that of your enemies.

hoo · #8 November 16th, 2006, 04:04 PM

Ahh..I thought that light of the northern star gives everyone a 1 path boost in astral, even if enemy mages didn't have any of it. Thought it could be a neat trick.

Oh well.