Rain?

[Lingchih]

I'm wondering why my Rain Priests won't cast Rain. I'm playing EA Mictlan and fighting Abysia in a little SP game. 3 times now, I have sent different Rain Priests with my army, specifically to cast Rain and cool off those Abysians. There were several dozen heat producing Abysia troops in each battle (over 100 of them in one battle), so the mages had to see the importance of casting it. But they never would. They usually summoned a lesser water elemental instead.

They are level 2 water mages. The spell is level two. And I always equip them with at least two water gems (spell only needs one). They are scripted only to cast Rain. What am I missing?

[Torin]

if they had it scripted i cant see why. i did cast it against them.

[Sombre]

I remember someone mentioning a bug with rain. It might have had something to do with scripting. Have a look in the bug thread just in case this is a known issue.

[K]

Did you script it on turn 1?

I find that the computer often casts a self-buff on turn 1, but on turn 2 will actually cast what you scripted.

[vfb]

Is it already raining?

The 'Rain' spell will not be cast if there is already natural rain in the battle. I tested this, it took 10 battles to finally get weather where it was already raining. The caster cast Rain every battle, except in the battle where there was natural rain to begin with.

[mathusalem]

and the natural rain extinguish fire arrows too ?

[Lingchih]

K said:
Did you script it on turn 1?

I find that the computer often casts a self-buff on turn 1, but on turn 2 will actually cast what you scripted.

Interesting. I did not know that. I will try scripting Rain on turn 2.

[Caduceus]

1.) If the Rain is cast on turn 2, that's a problem if you scripted it on turn 1.

2.) Do you have to watch for rain falling to check if it is raining on the battlefield or is there another way to find out?

[Ironhawk]

K said:
Did you script it on turn 1?

I find that the computer often casts a self-buff on turn 1, but on turn 2 will actually cast what you scripted.

No, I dont believe this is true. The AI will always attempt to follow its script if it can. The situation K was seeing was likely a case of no spell targets being in range or something to that effect

[zlefin]

i've found that the computer will often ignore my orders to cast astral shield. not for any other buffs; just astral shield. it seems to love casting it. possibly a likes to cast it value in the ai set too high so it overrides set choise too often.