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Mysterio July 30th, 2010 09:55 AM

Casting Returning During Assassination
 
If my horror-marked astral mage is attacked by a horror and he's scripted to cast Returning, will he be returned to my capital fort? I ask, because I thought I'd read here that retreating during an assassination attempt equals death. If that's true, I wasn't sure if casting Returning equals retreating.

Thanks!

13lackGu4rd July 30th, 2010 10:07 AM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
returning works against assassinations, in fact, that's 1 of the primary uses of this spell. it's not considered as a retreat, it's a teleport spell, hence it works as you think(hope) it does.

Executor July 30th, 2010 03:45 PM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
Yup, it works fine, unless you get attacked by a shadow seer, than you're screwed...

thejeff July 30th, 2010 04:05 PM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
Why is he screwed then? If he's attacked casts returning, he's gone before the seer can act.

Do they have some weird power I don't know about?

Dimaz July 30th, 2010 04:43 PM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
Low-hp mages tend to not trigger gem usage. So, screwed.

Squirrelloid July 31st, 2010 07:52 AM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
afaik, returning is one of the spells that always goes off no matter what the opposition strength is.

ano July 31st, 2010 09:06 AM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
Quote:

afaik, returning is one of the spells that always goes off no matter what the opposition strength is.
You are mistaken. Shadow Seers are the golems' nightmare. As well as deep seers, btw.
But I'm still not sure this behavior is tied to hp. IIRC, Arch Theurgs have 8 hp normally, but golem can escape. Maybe it is some calculated value of "relative power" what matters when spending gems on returning.

chrispedersen July 31st, 2010 12:15 PM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
game calculates an "overkill" value, which you can see in the debug log. You could run tests to find out at which point gem use was no longer triggered.

aaminoff August 1st, 2010 08:12 PM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
Follow up question: what happens if you cast returning in an assassination battle in your own capital?

ano August 2nd, 2010 06:26 AM

Re: Casting Returning During Assassination
 
Returning works fine in any case unless your capital is conquered.


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