Very short question on Communion Master and the slave matrix

[olaf73]

Originally posted by HJ:

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Originally posted by olaf73:
How exactly does the Pythium Theurg Communicant work?

Thanks
olaf

Just like any other communion slave (the numbers required are the same etc.). Think of him as having a slave matrix - he automatically becomes communion slave at the beginning of the battle.

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So I just need to have a guy cast the communion master spell, or whatever its called?

What kind of benefits does the communion leader draw from one slave? Does it scale linearly with more slaves?

olaf

The benefits of Communion/Sabbath for Masters are:

2 Slaves +1 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy
4 Slaves +2 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy
8 Slaves +3 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy
16 Slaves +4 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy

And so on and so on. Then of course fatigue is distributed among the slaves by the masters of the sabbath/communion.

You can only have a Crystal item work on someone who has at least 1 path in magic.

There is no benefit of having odd numbers of slaves except for Fatigue distribution.

[onomastikon]

Originally posted by Zen:
The benefits of Communion/Sabbath for Masters are:

2 Slaves +1 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy
4 Slaves +2 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy
8 Slaves +3 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy
16 Slaves +4 to all Magic Paths, Including Holy/Unholy

And so on and so on. Then of course fatigue is distributed among the slaves by the masters of the sabbath/communion.

You can only have a Crystal item work on someone who has at least 1 path in magic.

There is no benefit of having odd numbers of slaves except for Fatigue distribution.

I didnt know it also booosted Holy. Great.

Question: How can I tell if it is working? Normally when you get power-boosting items on a mage, the little numbers with the icons next to them increase -- I have NOT seen this on the various configs with Masters and Slaves. How do I know when my mages get more power? Or the Priests?

[mivayan]

The game does not indicate in any way at all how much power your mage get from the communion. The only way to tell is that he might cast spells he could not cast before.

Remember that you can script spells that are greyed out because you dont have enough skill. For example you can script communion master,smite,smite,smite,smite on a pythium arch-theurg (who only has holy4), and if you bring at least two communicants he will cast the smite.

[Taqwus]

An additional Communion Fun Fact -- spells which normally would just affect the Communion Master will also affect the slaves.
Summon Earthpower will make ALL the communicants -- all masters share all communicants -- get reinvigoration 4, for instance. Invulnerability will make them all prot-30. Phoenix Pyre will make them battlefield-immortal unless unconscious. And so forth.
Just be careful about overdoing the master/slave ratio -- masters may continue casting spells even when communicants go 200+ fatigue, take damage, and quite possibly die. It's helpful to bring along a nature caster for Relief.

[Xavier]

...and if you bring in 2 masters and 4 slaves, do both masters get +2 all spheres or just +1?

All masters get the bonus of the # of slaves. Depending on what exactly you are doing I commonly go 3 or 4 masters per 4 slaves.