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April 25th, 2007, 07:34 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
EA Abysia is, IMO, one of the weakest nations for searching. Generally speaking, you want to site search with mages with lots of paths, which the Abysians don't have. Blood magic sites are pretty rare, and in my experience, fire sites aren't easy to find either.
Your Warlocks can cast arcane probing... but you'll need to find astral gems first. You could transmute fire gems, but it's a very wasteful process.
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April 25th, 2007, 07:51 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
Another way of getting alot of gems is the luck-3/turmoil-3 combo, this gives you lots of gem random events.
You could always save up your fire gems as Abysia and reserch upto and cast eternal pyre.
Other than that search like mad and cast as many remote site searching spells as possible. Keep a eye out for any indie mages who have magic unavailable to you as well. It can be worthwhile sometimes to for example recruit indie druids and empower to lvl 2 so you can cast Haruspex.
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April 25th, 2007, 09:27 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
Two words Acashic Record, this is a 5th level conjuration spell, you need 3 astral magic to cast it and it cast 25 astral gems, this spell reveals all magical sites in a province, holy, blood, everything, it cost alot of gems but once you get a few provinces done, your getting alot of different gems that you can convert to astral gems, however early age abysia might not be the best nation for this strategy.
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April 25th, 2007, 10:32 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
The core of almost any search strategy is the 2-3 gem search spells. Manual searching and acashic record can supplement this, especially to get the initial gems flowing, but single search spells should always be the first choice if avialable.
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April 25th, 2007, 10:39 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
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quantum_mechani said:
The core of almost any search strategy is the 2-3 gem search spells. Manual searching and acashic record can supplement this, especially to get the initial gems flowing, but single search spells should always be the first choice if avialable.
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This is 100% correct but if you have a powerful recruitable mage with 2 or more lvl 4 paths (with path boosting items) then it can be worth having him wonder around site searching.
Nations like EA Atlantis, Marverni etc...can do this. You effectively save 4/gems+ per province then, as opposed to site search spells. More if a path is death.
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April 25th, 2007, 10:45 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
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Meglobob said:
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quantum_mechani said:
The core of almost any search strategy is the 2-3 gem search spells. Manual searching and acashic record can supplement this, especially to get the initial gems flowing, but single search spells should always be the first choice if avialable.
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This is 100% correct but if you have a powerful recruitable mage with 2 or more lvl 4 paths (with path boosting items) then it can be worth having him wonder around site searching.
Nations like EA Atlantis, Marverni etc...can do this. You effectively save 4/gems+ per province then, as opposed to site search spells. More if a path is death.
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Some mages certianly do make great manual searchers, but I don't think I'd ever use boosters for the purpose of manual searching. It completely eats up any profit margin by not doing remote spells. I mean, you do get the booster back when you are done, but if it was a booster you needed you probably had to forge an extra one, and if it wasn't one you otherwise needed it was an extra expense as well.
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April 25th, 2007, 10:59 AM
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Re: Best method of hunting magical sites?
EA Ulm's Antlered Shaman are excellent for site searching nearby provinces to your starting castle. They are both stealthy, have wilderness and mountain survival, N2, E2 - and sometimes even more.
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