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Old October 30th, 2011, 12:36 PM
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Default Re: Fatigue 100- ?

Guys, guys. Dont fight. You are both wrong.

A mage can spend as many gems on a spell as he has power in the relevant path. However, only one gem can be used to boost the casters casting level and that extra casting level cant be used to burn further gems. The rest of the gems can only be used to boost the caster lever for the purpose of mitigating fatigue. It will not boost caster level for other purposes.
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Old October 30th, 2011, 02:36 PM

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Default Re: Fatigue 100- ?

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Guys, guys. Dont fight. You are both wrong.

A mage can spend as many gems on a spell as he has power in the relevant path. However, only one gem can be used to boost the casters casting level and that extra casting level cant be used to burn further gems. The rest of the gems can only be used to boost the caster lever for the purpose of mitigating fatigue. It will not boost caster level for other purposes.
So, to roll things back to something more common, an A5 caster with 5 air gems could cast Wind Guide with an effective level of A6 (net 1/5 fatigue), but could reduce fatigue by a factor of 1/8 by expending all five gems?

Have you ever actually gotten a caster to do something like that? I thought that as a practical matter the spell-casting AI would never use more than (gems required by spell) + 1 in casting a spell, and the other three gems in my example would then get used for later spells if at all.
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