Battle magic/reverse communions

[Kobal2]

Originally Posted by Olm

Are you sure Fire Fend and Elemental Fortitude don't stack?
As Elemental Fortitude is about all Elements, and Fire Fend only about one.

Yup. Was reasonably certain before, but now you went and made me test it and yup. Fire Fend+Gaia's Blessing = 50% fire res.

ETA: each of them does stack with innate and equipment-granted resistances though.

[Squirrelloid]

I routinely use reverse communions in MP games. My communions *never* go off script, with the sole exception of battles where the opponent isn't strong enough to trigger gem use (then the boosts don't get cast and so they can't follow their script).

The key thing to keep in mind here is that the second round of casting is wasted - assuming your masters have to cast communion master manually. The slaves haven't gotten their buffs yet, and so are still operating at native levels.

So i often script:
Comm Slave, hold, x3, Spells

The alternative is to give each master a master matrix, that way they can cast the buff spell on the first round of casting (after all teh slaves have cast comm slave), and the slaves can be productive immediately.

[Flop]

Originally Posted by Squirrelloid

I routinely use reverse communions in MP games. My communions *never* go off script, with the sole exception of battles where the opponent isn't strong enough to trigger gem use (then the boosts don't get cast and so they can't follow their script).

The key thing to keep in mind here is that the second round of casting is wasted - assuming your masters have to cast communion master manually. The slaves haven't gotten their buffs yet, and so are still operating at native levels.

So i often script:
Comm Slave, hold, x3, Spells

The alternative is to give each master a master matrix, that way they can cast the buff spell on the first round of casting (after all teh slaves have cast comm slave), and the slaves can be productive immediately.

Thanks, man, that's good advice. You're right that the second round is where the slaves start screwing around with personal buffs, but I hadn't though of just scripting hold. I will be experimenting a bit more with this.