Astral on an Immortal Pretender

[Foodstamp]

Normally it is considered a bad idea to go low astral on a Pretender because of Magic Duel. I was curious if there were any other pitfalls to going low astral on a pretender beyond losing Magic Duels to recruitable mages?

And I just wanted to make sure...

An immortal pretender who loses such a duel would respawn in his own dominion just like if he was killed through other means, correct?

[quantum_mechani]

No other real pitfalls, and even the magic duel danger is somewhat over-hyped I believe.

And yes, a dueled immortal pops back up just like with any other death, assuming you were in dominion.

[Ironhawk]

I cant think of any pitfalls off the top of my head. Tho.. isnt there some global that effects astral mages inside the casters dominion? Cant recall

On the bonus side of things you will never be Mind Hunted

[quantum_mechani]

Ironhawk said:
Tho.. isnt there some global that effects astral mages inside the casters dominion?

No one ever casts that, and the danger is technically a mind duel anyway.

[Foodstamp]

Not being Mind Hunted sounds like a great trade off to me.

[MaxWilson]

Strands of Arcane Power (Evoc-9) initiates Mind Duels with all enemy astral mages in friendly dominion, and Mind Burns all non-astral mages.

-Max

[Jazzepi]

That's kind of cool.

Jazzepi

[Ironhawk]

quantum_mechani said:
No other real pitfalls, and even the magic duel danger is somewhat over-hyped I believe.

Not so, Q! I just had a 6S mage lose a magic duel to a 1S mage. It was a tragedy!! My people wept.

[Velusion]

Ironhawk said:

Not so, Q! I just had a 6S mage lose a magic duel to a 1S mage. It was a tragedy!! My people wept.

Was it a one-off lucky shot or did he throw lots of em at you?

[Micah]

You shouldn't have been able to lose, just tie, unless this is yet another change from what's documented. Or were you just considering the mutual deaths of your opponent's crappy mage and your good one a loss?