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Post by gloryhound on Apr 12, 2016 9:54:58 GMT -5
Sorry I didn't know your OOC tricks for shitting out new spells, bitch. So... the takeaway from me agreeing with you, liking your post, and speaking about what was an effective tactic for playing a mage was... the quote above aimed at me? No, unless you were you the player of "the pale, fine-boned young woman". Corra. You were able to fully branch in 5 days of play time that way? |
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Post by punished ppurg on Apr 12, 2016 10:57:53 GMT -5
Reading comprehension, anaiah. He's calling the senior NPC of the temple player who ratted him out for spamcasting a bitch.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 11:02:04 GMT -5
Five days of time played (10 days total, but only half of that actually using the magic at hand)? Yes. But I was at 10 days played by that time. No, I didn't play Sicorra, that was a staff avatar, but it was not mine, her player and I are actually still on pretty decent terms on FB, but nah, I tended to play gemmed most of the time that I was playing in a city proper, just because the workarounds to make a city bound rogue mage felt ridiculous and hokey as hell (I don't know how you can justify staying in the city on account of lol outside so scurry, when you not reporting your gickery or being magick to begin with, depending on city state, is just as much license to get you dead as running up on a pack of kryl). I'm just relieved you and I seem to be on the same page and I didn't somehow piss you off unintentionally apparently it happens somtimes.  I assume you mean the same Corra that was an AOD clerk? |
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Post by jjhardy on Apr 12, 2016 23:13:02 GMT -5
To branch, you have to keep failing, there are MANY ways to fail Do you mind telling? Get shitfaced, anything that is mind altering will do. It's easy if you go the bar and rp getting wasted, cast a spell while so drunk you can hardly walk, almost guaranteed a failure. When I was doing it, I would spend time in Red's retreat getting wasted, then making it over to my shitty room on Miner's and cast one of each spell at mid level and branching will come to you. |
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Post by gloryhound on Apr 15, 2016 15:03:05 GMT -5
I assume you mean the same Corra that was an AOD clerk? I don't know. By the time my character met her, she was more or less the head of the gemmed Whirans. A Vivaduan, Moraz, was her mate for a while. My own Whiran didn't last very long (dead in the bazaar). |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 12:03:39 GMT -5
OH. HER. Ugh. Yeah, I knew her. She was a whiran when I had my last one too, if I recall right. Oil and water, she was why I avoided the temple. Then again, that same whiran of mine was the one who invis'd Firalis so he could go hunt down Hasan's camp, then stole his body from the corpse pile after he was executed in the Arena to go bury him.
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Post by BitterFlashback on Apr 18, 2016 22:13:24 GMT -5
When last I had first-hand information, casting more than one level over your max does not get you a skillgain. That was over a decade ago, so...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 1:04:46 GMT -5
Ah, no, I'm talking about casting 1 above specifically. Like if you have kral, then casting at een. AFAIK you're right about going any higher than that.
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Post by jjhardy on Apr 19, 2016 10:10:17 GMT -5
When last I had first-hand information, casting more than one level over your max does not get you a skillgain. That was over a decade ago, so... What I normally used to do, mind you this is about two years ago or so, is to cast at three above my skill level. Once I failed a couple of times this way, I'd cast at 1 above my skill level and then I'd usually get the skill gain. This worked quite a few times on chars with extremely good or Exceptional wisdom. |
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 21, 2016 11:26:20 GMT -5
When last I had first-hand information, casting more than one level over your max does not get you a skillgain. That was over a decade ago, so... I was under the impression that casting anywhere over your skill level would give no skill gains, but I've never had "first hand knowledge." So are you saying that if I have KRAL fireball and I cast at EEN and fail I can gain skill, but if I cast at PAV I can't? (Or at least that that was the case at some point?) As far as failing, I've found that using barrier to drop my stun to like 30-40 helps me get fails. Not sure if that's the case, but it seems to help. |
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 21, 2016 11:33:43 GMT -5
I'm almost positive you don't gain by casting over your current level. It seems to help you raise the power level, but you will not learn from it. I used to do it all the time and it would take me forever to get my skills up. I turned to only casting AT level, and I started branching much more quickly. Fastest branching magicker I've ever had, hands down, was a half-giant. He only had 50 mana, so could only cast at level, and was stupid so failed often. He was fully branched in like 5 days played without even twinking... it was ridiculous. My experience of casting "at level" is going thirty times in a row, successful (and thus useless) each time, between fails. It takes forever. To clarify this, I meant casting at level through the low levels. So for like wek-pav I only cast at my current level. My skill is still low enough at that point that I don't have to cast 30 times to fail. If it's a skill I want to Mon asap I'll keep it up through Mon. If it's a skill, like identify or detect, which doesn't really need to be mon I'll call it good at Pav. Once I've reached my "good with that" power level, I switch over to spam casting at wek. (Or 1 below my power level, in the case of spells that take at least 33 mana to cast.) The difference between casting a Pav spell at Wek and casting a Mon spell at Wek is like... 3-5 mana maybe, which isn't worth the extra work to me. For me, I find that casting at my power level until I've gotten it as high as I want it works better than constantly casting one or two over to get to the same point. But that's just how I feel about it. I've never ran the numbers. |
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Post by BitterFlashback on Apr 23, 2016 19:39:46 GMT -5
When last I had first-hand information, casting more than one level over your max does not get you a skillgain. That was over a decade ago, so... I was under the impression that casting anywhere over your skill level would give no skill gains, but I've never had "first hand knowledge." So are you saying that if I have KRAL fireball and I cast at EEN and fail I can gain skill, but if I cast at PAV I can't? (Or at least that that was the case at some point?) I'm saying it used to be true. There's no "fuzzy memory" issues there. I cannot say it is still true. |
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Post by tektolnes on Apr 23, 2016 19:41:38 GMT -5
Gotcha. I doubt they changed anything regarding their skill grind code.
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I assume you mean the same Corra that was an AOD clerk?
