Mod: Price of Power

[Endoperez]

Heh, Hidden in Snow coupled together with Wish and Arcane Nexus. That's probably a bit overdone. It isn't a cheap spell at 55 gems... besides, aren't Spectral Mages much more common when summoning for random paths?


You have disabled Arcane Nexus from everything but spesifically made pretenders. Death 8 might be reachable with a national Death 4 mage, if he got the +3 Death artifact, but that's about it. There aren't enough boosters for even D5 mage to reach D8 IIRC. I'd say the D7 requirement is enough, together with both the apparent and the hidden increase in cost your mod creates. Boosters cost more gems, and the spell itself costs 20 gems/Tartarian...

[Edi]

Actually, Ring of Sorcery, Ring of Wizardry, Skull Staff, Skull Face will boost a D4 mage to D8.

As far as Hidden in Snow vs Spectral Mage, an Unfrozen Mage has the potential to hit W3E3D3. It has D1 and 3x 50% E random, 3x 50% W random and 2x 50% D random. A spectral mage really doesn't hold a candle to that in potential. I've routinely had Unfrozen Mages that had 2 lv 3 paths and one lv 2 path, and you can get up to three mages per casting. Given that water gems are not that useful for a lot of other things besides certain items, 55 for Hidden in Snow is not bad at all.