Helheim advice

[thejeff]

Or take the Astral bless and use a Ring of Wizardry to boost one to forge the first Air booster.

[MaxWilson]

Possible, but Helheim doesn't have an easy time scraping up 40 pearls (30 w/ hammer). An A4 item will cost 25 air gems (17 w/ hammer). Since the whole point is to forge multiple air boosters and/or Staff of Storms, an initial 60 gem investment to get the ball rolling seems affordable to me. With a starting Air income and lots of mages who can search manually, and/or cast Auspex, you shouldn't have trouble scraping up 100+ air gems over the first couple of years anyway.

Of course, if you've *got* the pearls, Ring of Wizardry is always a good investment...

-Max