Arcane Nexus -- Bugged?

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Breschau:
I may be wrong, but I thought arcane nexus returned a portion of the gems used (staying the same type of gem), and specifically won't absorb astral or blood gems. ie, if the enemy spends 40 nature gems you get 20 nature gems from the nexus.

Nope. The way it works is this:

Each round, it tallies all the non-astral, non-blood gems used in rituals and forging, and then add a small number, the ambient energy. I think it is an openended d6, but I may be wrong here.

This figure, X, is the figure that is displayed in the text: "The Arcane Nexus has absorbed magic power equal to X astral gems".

You are then awarded X/4 astral gems to your pool.

The division by four makes some sense. The Astral Nexus description says it absorbs half the energy of the gems used, and non-astral gems are converted to astral gems at a cost of two for one, which nicely yields the total factor of four non-astral gems used for each astral gem gained.

Okay, that sounded more authoritative than the number of experiments I have run warrant.

Even so, it seems to be pretty damn close to the truth.

[ March 21, 2004, 22:31: Message edited by: Peter Ebbesen ]