Arcane Magic Power
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:30 pm
I would be interested to learn the relationship between a spell's power, your intelligence level and Arcane Magic level.
Other factors influence it of course such as Heraldry, Class and having the Diabolic Spellfire, but is there a gradually decreasing increase as Arcane levels go up or a proportional one. In other words is there a point at which there is no real advantage in taking it that level further?
I do know that increasing it does have an effect early on, for example, I used the Zap spell a lot and noticed that the number of times it struck increased as my Arcane skill increased. I used it a lot on the Fire Drakes (before I found Cataclysm). Early on it dealt an initial blow of 3 then followed up with a couple of 15's and 16's while near the end it was doing 15 to begin with on the Succubus's then following with four or five hits in the 50-60 range. (They were toast!)
Similarly Cataclysm - it was doing 376 hit points with one blast (is that a record??)
I hope it didn't affect the ecology of the world as if it is like a nuclear bomb, the nether world is now a total disaster area!
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Great special effects though! - the sky looked like Guy Fawkes night and the 4th July rolled into one!
Other factors influence it of course such as Heraldry, Class and having the Diabolic Spellfire, but is there a gradually decreasing increase as Arcane levels go up or a proportional one. In other words is there a point at which there is no real advantage in taking it that level further?
I do know that increasing it does have an effect early on, for example, I used the Zap spell a lot and noticed that the number of times it struck increased as my Arcane skill increased. I used it a lot on the Fire Drakes (before I found Cataclysm). Early on it dealt an initial blow of 3 then followed up with a couple of 15's and 16's while near the end it was doing 15 to begin with on the Succubus's then following with four or five hits in the 50-60 range. (They were toast!)
Similarly Cataclysm - it was doing 376 hit points with one blast (is that a record??)
I hope it didn't affect the ecology of the world as if it is like a nuclear bomb, the nether world is now a total disaster area!
:speech: Great special effects though! - the sky looked like Guy Fawkes night and the 4th July rolled into one!