So why do I try?

[Truper]

Originally posted by Soapyfrog:
In the same vein of "why do I try"

Why would my arch devil cast firestorm with less gems than I gave him for the purpose (he used 7 of the 10, after casting phoenix power... oh and he is wearing a flame helmet so the net result is F6).

Basically he cast it and knocked himself out, dumb blighter, when he could have used the rest fo the gems and come out of it with less than 100 fatigue. Grrr. Well obviously there is something I do not understand!

I can't quite make this add up, unless I assume that one of the gems was used to reduce the fatigue of casting Phoenix Power. But the key point is that a mage cannot use more gems than his effective level in the path concerned. So your AD had fire 6, but Firestorm itsef costs 5 gems. So he uses 6 gems to cast it, but only one gem gets used to raise his effective level to 7 - 2 levels above that needed to cast firestorm. That means that he's going to take 1/3 the listed fatigue, but Firestorm has a fatigue of 500, so thats 166 fatigue, not including the minor amounts from casting Phoenix Power, whatever the encumbrance of an AD is (I'm too lazy to look it up), whatever armor he might have been wearing, and two rounds of wearing a flame helmet, which has reinvigoration of -3. All things considered, you're lucky he didn't kill himself outright

If we get lucky, maybe one of the real formula mavens will have a look at this and explain where that other gem went (and point out any other errors I might have made).