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and when you have researched accashic can cast 2-3 at one time with all your astral gems
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If you are rushing your research to conj 5 and you aren't searching territories, you aren't likely to have 75+ gems to acashic 3 territories. Eventually you will, of course, but by that time, you could already have a good gem ecnomy going.
Now, if you had could figure out a viable, specific conjuration rush strategy with Pythium, I could see this being more useful.
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so if you are lucky with searching through mystics you find some nice sites early on but if you aren't and they are elemental 2
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Eh ? Not sure what you mean, mystics are commonly elemental 2 in one element. And, in any case, I wasn't necessarily saying they should go out and physically site search, site searching spells all find up to lvl 9.
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or nonelemental like the quite frequent death sites
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You search those sites with astrologers who get a random pick in death. Death is slower to develop but then again, so is acashic.
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and hopefully you got lucky and have meanwhile 1 arch theurg too who is able to clamforge
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It will take a lot of clam forging to not only pay for the cost of the clams but the 75 astral you have spent on acashic. Also note that mystics can both clamforge *and* fetish forge.
I don't think I could wait until I could afford acashic to start gem searching, even if I knew I had no enemies, didn't need to forge anything, etc. Getting gems early just leads to more gems (from site searching spells) and that leads to more gems. Plus, you can search for the gems you need faster and you can search the sites that are more likely to have them.
However, I will say that I am intrigued enough to go play some test games and see for sure. I have played with varying how long I wait until I start searching but never really developed a conjuration rush strategy, incorporating acashic.
In any case, even if you consider rushing to acashic(which is, admittedly, in a great research branch) more efficient than individual site-searching, in the early game, the difference in starting gems is pretty insignificant, which was my point.
- Kel
[ July 02, 2004, 18:38: Message edited by: Kel ]