Re: What to do with astral gems?
 

Just to clarify, if you want to alchemize astral for gold, you should alchemize to fire gems instead of earth gems. Fire gems worth more than Earth gems when converted to gold.

-Gateway103

Re: What to do with astral gems?
 

Silly CaineHill...

If you don't like the idea of selling wine (made many a person rich over the years)

Of course you could offer to sell the Astral pearls for 10 gold each, which would be more than the 7.5 you would make from a fire gem conVersion.

I know I would happily buy them!

Re: What to do with astral gems?
 

In solo I would just wait until turn 25 or so and open up the ( much maligned ) ether gates a couple of times.

However that is a long time to wait in a multiplayer game. Death and Blood both get instant gratification in terms of a multitude of summons.

Maybe the "problem" ( such that it is ) is not with astral, but rather with the power of death and blood summons compared to the power of the other paths? I don't know if I want to go down that path, honestly!

Re: What to do with astral gems?
 

herald lances, luck pendants/shields, AMA, and ether cloaks never go out of style.

saving up for dispels is also good.

Acashic records are simple and to the point -no futzing around w/ dozens of mages casting 8 different spells all over the damn place.

Re: What to do with astral gems?
 

Well, having astrals for Dispelling is pretty useful http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Re: What to do with astral gems?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeap, Archae said it nicely.


Also luck swords can be quite usefull for some specilized designs.

If you are having a lot of astral gems you may also be interested in forging a ring of sorcery and/or ring of wizardy. It's quite expensive even with dwarwen hammers/site bonuses, but sometimes it can be much better than empowering your mages to reach some specific summons/Global enchantements/forging that you really need.

[ May 30, 2004, 03:38: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]