Dispel..

[Baalz]

@Micah Many dispels are group efforts though. Also its significantly easier to alchemize for a dispel than it is any non-astral global. 30 pearls is a pretty low bar for a semi-one time event that there's a good chance you can get others to kick in a few for. In practice other than AN you seldom see a global bounce back up right after it's dispelled.

[GrudgeBringer]

OK, now you have opened up a new question...what is the 'Bonus Gems for Paths'?

[Micah]

Still better to overwrite a global by coalition and split the income.

[thejeff]

It also depends on the global. Some you don't want to overwrite. You just want them down.

My Atlantis is being greatly irritated by a Sea of Ice at the moment. The last thing I want to do is replace it with my own Sea of Ice.
Utterdark, Burden of Time, and Astral Corruption would be more common things that you just want down.

Overwriting by coalition only works with when you can split the income. Gem gens only. Maybe forge. And only if you trust the caster.


Grudge: Bonus gems for paths- every level above the minimum needed to cast the global counts as 5 gems for Dispel attempts. So an S9 mage gets an extra 30 gems on Dispel (S3), but only 5 when casting Arcane Nexus (S8).

[GrudgeBringer]

When you dispel a Global, does it say who dispelled it?

[Frozen Lama]

no.