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Old October 30th, 2011, 10:36 AM
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Default Re: Fatigue 100- ?

Yes.

A lvl 4 D mage casting darkness would normally get 200 points of fatigue. But the spell is 400 points and it requires lvl4 you say? Yea but fatigue from a self-cast spell maxes out at 200. Even it it say that it will give 400 it will never give more than 200.

Thus a lvl 5 mage is equally bad as a lvl 4 mage for casting this particular spell, because they both end up with 200 fat at the end of it.

This is necessary if you think of it. Consider the spell master enslave that is lvl 8 and requires 8 pearls to cast. It also gives 800 points of fatigue. If the above was not so, the only way that anyone could cast this spell and live would be to have astral 10 and 10 pearls and that would be a little excessive dont you think?
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Old October 30th, 2011, 10:40 AM

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This is necessary if you think of it. Consider the spell master enslave that is lvl 8 and requires 8 pearls to cast. It also gives 800 points of fatigue. If the above was not so, the only way that anyone could cast this spell and live would be to have astral 10 and 10 pearls and that would be a little excessive dont you think?
The most pearls you can use on an 8-pearl spell is 9, so the 10th pearl would be pointless. At most one gem can be used to boost caster level.

You could still use a communion. A really big one, with Power of the Spheres and Light of the North Star, to avoid instapopping all of the communion slaves.
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Old October 30th, 2011, 12:16 PM

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This is necessary if you think of it. Consider the spell master enslave that is lvl 8 and requires 8 pearls to cast. It also gives 800 points of fatigue. If the above was not so, the only way that anyone could cast this spell and live would be to have astral 10 and 10 pearls and that would be a little excessive dont you think?
The most pearls you can use on an 8-pearl spell is 9, so the 10th pearl would be pointless. At most one gem can be used to boost caster level.
But the manual does not say that!
It says, you can spend 1 more than your skill level. (In this case, 10->11, which could be used to reduce fatigue.)
Where does it say you can only spend 1 more than the spell cost?
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Thus a lvl 5 mage is equally bad as a lvl 4 mage for casting this particular spell, because they both end up with 200 fat at the end of it.
Umm, not quite (or it depends just what you mean). In my example, I'm claiming that a lvl 5 mage who boosts by 1 by having 5 gems comes out with 133 fatigue. (If anyone disagrees, please explain.) Whether that's "worth it" for the reduction seems to me debatable...
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