Mictlan, Cross Breeding and Luck

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by moodgiesanta:
Bowlingballhead, yes, Burden of time is broken, in my opinion. It costs far too little for the extreme effects it has. It absolutely kills me, and not being an astral mage or interested in enchantment, I'm utterly screwed. So I have a couple choices:

If you ignore enchantment research, then quite frankly, you're almost asking to get bLasted by various enchantments. That's the point of the dispel spell.

1. Go out of my way at creation to take four astral and research dispel AND somehow get ahold through alchemy (at tremendous cost) enough astral pearls to dispel it. Which utterly sucks.

Dispel is enchantment 5, astral 3, not astral 4. Enchantment 4 can be reached in 10 turns from a start with no research points whatsoever. Enchantment 5 is only about 3 more turns after that. For a nation with enough research to get to Heliophagi enchantment 5 is about a three or four turn effort at the very most.

From the rest of your thread, I assume you were playing Mictlan. That means that you already have an astral 2 mage, who only needs a starshine skullcap to cast dispel whenever necessary.

A list of the nations that have at least an astral two mage, and thus have a fairly easy time to cast dispel.

Abysia, Atlantis, Pythium, Arcoscephale, Broken Empire Ermor, Marignon, R'Lyeh, Jotunheim (Utgard), Mictlan. That's 9 out of the 17 nations that can get rid of it fairly easily.