Stealth Astral and reverse-communion

[thejeff]

No, the charge body effect is not always active. Shock Resistance is, but the Charge Body appears at the start of battle.

Both Charge Body from the Copper Plate and the magic boost from the Crystal Shield are propagated to the communion slaves. I just tested it.
As Calahan said, both Master and slaves need to be using matrices. I don't know if there are any other items that do this. None come to mind.

The copper plate is mostly a gimmick and the shield is only really useful if you need the boost round 1. Could be good with Sabbaths too, since you might not have a PotS caster available there.