Acashic records vs. separate spells

[Baalz]

Originally Posted by DonCorazon

I'm the same - manual and early. The only consideration is if graphs are on, i take into account what my neighbors might be thinking and whether i can defend what i find.

Hehe, aint nothing sweeter than a weak neighbor with gem income climbing from an obvious rainbow pretender searching.

[Dragar]

It's a tough choice when you see a rainbow pretender walking around early in the game.. do you go for the kill or let him search for a bit longer first?

For the main topic, I hadn't notice the cost drop in CBM 1.5, very interesting. It is still a pretty niche use though, worthwhile occasionally but generally not. Excluding conjuration bonus sites, I'd say the main driver to use it would have to be good astral income combined with other strong reasons to charge up the conjuration path before getting level 2 in thaum and evoc.

Certainly I'd say the main reason to use AR would be diversification, in particular if your nation is very limited in path selection and you aren't using your pretender to diversify.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Dragar

It's a tough choice when you see a rainbow pretender walking around early in the game.. do you go for the kill or let him search for a bit longer first?

I prefer to snipe them with some well-aimed Seeking Arrows while they are in a low-dom province, alone, site searching.

Since seeking arrow is nameless, it can cause quite a uproar on the diplomacy front .