dispel chance

[WraithLord]

Turin said:
this is wrong, I just tested it in sp. First I cast a well of misery(80 total gems) , then I dispelled it with a 20gem powered dispel.

Yes! I was somewhat disappointed with dispel in light of FrankTrollman's explanation.
Thank You Turin for testing this.

[alexti]

I remember testing it. The global enhancement strength is equal to a number of extra gems put in the spell + number of extra level (above required) of the caster. I haven't identified any random element, but that's a random element - one is not guaranteed to detect it by a serie of experiments I'm sure that if there's a random element, it is not large, so dispel with 969 extra gems by a decent astral mage dispels pretty much anything worth dispelling

[WraithLord]

how about an idea for a detection spell that tells the caster the strength of a global enchantment.

It can be used with dispel to optimize the dispelling chance vs astral gems spent ratio.
It can be a level 9 spell with high astral requirements (say astral 6) and low gem requirement (say 10 astral).