Beating down the Undead

[Velusion]

Snacktime said:
I don't really understand how anyone is ever able to cast Undead Mastery. It is a D7, 700 fatigue spell. Can someone explain this to me? In general I am frustrated by my inability to successfully script even 100 fatigue spells, the AI seems to stop my mages from getting even that much fatigue. Am I missing something? I mean how would you get your death magic up to like D12 or whatever it would have to be to cast Undead mastery?

Without hitting 200 fatigue? Communion. Use a communion mastery collar if you need to.

[Snacktime]

Nikolai - I know he needs the 7 gems, but I thought he still takes 700 fatigue, which means no dice. And also it often seems to me that the AI won't let you cast a spell if it will put you over 100 fatigue. I can't really understand how that works, but at least it seems like some spells you script aren't cast for fatigue reasons even though they wouldn't kill you. I wish I knew how that worked because it really annoys me when I script someone to cast a spell that I realize will get him over 100 and he won't cast it.

I can see how communion would make this possible yes, but that would be seriously hard too. and if i'm doing the math right, you'd need to get to D10 to get the fatigue from Undead Mastery under 200, and D14 to get the fatigue down to 100. As I said, I don't understand when the game lets you cast spells over 100 fatigue, but it doesn't seem to let you do it all the time.