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sum1lost said:
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MaxWilson said:
Have you tried this? Because I don't think it will be as cheap as you think. Say you've got two D4 casters. I project that getting each of them to cast Shadow Blast four times in a battle will take somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 gems. I had an E9 Cyclops yesterday blow 6 gems casting Earthquake. The spellcasting AI, for some reason, likes to use huge numbers of gems, which makes Shadow Blast a fun niche spell for defending the laboratory and surprisingly good on D2 mages, but not as good as Cloud of Death for powerful mages. (D9 Cloud of Death covers almost 20 squares and does 19 AN damage! Best scalability in the game.)
-Max
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The AI uses ALOT more gems if you have your mage well stocked. If you only give him a few, he will be far more careful about using htem.
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Yeah, but if you want multiple Shadow Blasts you will have to make sure he's well stocked. That E9 Cyclops had 7 Earth gems in the hopes that he would use 3 on the first Earthquake and 3 on the second, with 1 extra in case he went a little overboard on the first. If you give a D4 mage 6 Death gems I bet he'll only get off two Shadow Blasts.
-Max