Argh... communion problems

[Kel]

Were the slaves set to not cast spells after communing ?

Just a thought. They might have been burning their own fatigue up.

- Kel

[Blitz]

I had actually given each of them a nice bow to fire earlier, but that didn't work so I scrapped that plan.

The Shamen were set to cast communion slave, hold, hold, hold, hold

[Pocus]

it is you that can respond the more easily to your question: watch&survey the fatigue level of your shamen each rounds, and see what went wrong. Remember also that com slaves always take their enc in addition to the fatigue cost of the spell.

Slaves cant cast spells btw, except when they have no masters active.

[tinkthank]

I can only judge from Pythium, but 5 to 1 is too small for a long battle.

8 to 1 is minimum if you go past 20 turns or so. I only feel safe with 12+ slaves per master, usually without reinvig items (no time to forge all those), so 16 or more is usually the ratio I like to have.

This is with Quickness cast. Pythium gets this easily, and I always use it.

Note that Pythium's casters have 8 encumbrance, I think.

[Endoperez]

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to either have one shaman casting Relief, or an Earth mage with Crystal Matrix cast Earthpower.