Stealth Astral and reverse-communion

[chrispedersen]

1. I've used stealthy astral many times in team games. My team never gets mind hunted, I assume its successful.

2. Contrary to popular opinion, the masters items (copper plate, etc) do NOT propagate to communion slaves.

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

2. Contrary to popular opinion, the masters items (copper plate, etc) do NOT propagate to communion slaves.

That's just plain wrong actually.


Items such as Copper Plate and Crystal Shield work absolutely fine in communions as slave buffs as long as you know how communions actually work. (and not just guess at how they work)

In the case with items, the slaves and masters (who are carrying the buff items) need to enter battle already formed in a communion. This is because slaves only receive buffs from a master if they are a slave before the master casts the buff spell. So with item buffs, this means using Slave and Master Matrixes in most cases.

Communion slaves, with a Slave Matrix each. And a communion master, with a Master Matrix, and for example a Copper Plate. Set-up in a reverse communion. Will result in the communion slaves having shock resistance from the Copper Plate.


This probably marks the last time I will be correcting or answering anything on these forums. As all the shiit spreading has just gotten too much for me now, especially without the help of the various banned/no longer posting members who regularly used to assist with the job. (thinking here mainly of Sombre and vfb)

But lch might be pleased to hear this, as I'll be using the Wiki from now on to post the correct answer to questions such as these in the future. Let us all hail the Wiki

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

2. Contrary to popular opinion, the masters items (copper plate, etc) do NOT propagate to communion slaves.

It does work with a few items. Ok, the only one I can positively confirm is crystal shield.

The item must have a #onebattlespell, and that spell must have a range: personal.

I'm pretty sure copper plate fails because its not #onebattlespell, its always active - indeed, any effect that creates or has an effect pre-combat is guaranteed not to work.