Overwhelmed by spellmodding. Any help, please?

[Burnsaber]

DrPraetorious said:
You have missed something crucial. The bitmasks for effect 10 go in the *damage* field, not the #spec field. Try setting the damage to 8200 and it should work.

Thanks, that was pretty crucial error from me. I thought that damage field set how much fire resistance/ chill aura/ etc.. you got. So now I've got another question, how do you set the amount of let's say Fire resistance you get from a fire resistance giving spell?

DrPraetorious said:
Does it miss because it deviates or does it miss because it lands in the square and is shield-parried? If you literally want the spell to always hit, raise the precision to 100. But I have only done very simple testing, and cannot say for sure that I'm right about this.

It lands on a square and gets shield parried, and it can hit on a square with troops and just miss, like a missile. I'd like it to always hit if lands on square with troops, like all of the lighting evocations.

In my testing, the Bandar undead kept on parrying the holy undead-scorching lighting with their bucklers..

DrPraetorious said:
You should be able to set the "hit" tag using the #spec field - I believe that the bitmask is 16384 but, again, my testing is very limited.

I'll try that out and report the results. Thanks for the help, now I hopefully won't have to swear at my computer as I did when I tried to get that spell working.

[DrPraetorious]

In answer to lch's question -
Become Prophet, Become Pretender, Twiceborn, Ritual of Returning, Inner Sun and Dragon Master are all persistent.

This is a property of the effect/damage combination and not of the spell, per se. So any spell, even a combat spell, which grants twiceborn to people, they'll still have twiceborn up after combat.

A spell cast out of combat that gives Flaming Arrows will go away after the turn - I believe that the timing is such that you actually have to cast it *that turn* to get any benefit.

So a "combat meditation" spell that gave you crazy bonuses would have some application in defending a lab, but wouldn't be very useful otherwise.

[Burnsaber]

I tested this, and can verify. 16384 gives indeed the hit flag.