Necromancer Spells, Divine Outrage, and Training PM on 12/21/2009 01:57 PM CST
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Having played a magic prime for a long while now, my Necromancer is tending to become a big magic-heavy. As I'm looking down the road a bit at magic training, a question/problem comes to mind. We all know that to continue to move PM well, we need to be casting higher tier spells...and usually a great number of them. And here we come to the (at least my percieved) problem.

In looking at Necromancer 3/4 tier spells, the only non-outrage-causing spells are combat - Vivisection, Viscous Solution, and Blood Burst.

The highest-tier buffs (what I would generally use for a PM/Harn/MD script) are Transcendental Necromancy, and cause divine outrage. While I understand there's a 5 minute grace period...I think most magic scripts run for longer than 5 minutes to ML.

All that leads to my observation/question/suggestion... are there any plans for a 3/4 tier self-buff that does NOT cause divine outrage and is suitable for a magic script? Or is this just one of the things we have to put up with as a Necromancer (the chance of getting smited by the gods just for training magics somewhere quiet)

I hope this doesn't come across as a whine or rant or anything, this just seems to me like something that could have been easily overlooked when designing spell books. If it wasn't overlooked and is intended, it will just be another ball necromancers will have to roll with.
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Re: Necromancer Spells, Divine Outrage, and Training PM on 12/21/2009 02:01 PM CST
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>Viscous Solution<

You can totally cast this without targets as much as you want. The fact that it's extremely unfriendly to other people is a double bonus from our GMly perspective. Necromancers are very much supposed to be a 'learn by go out and doing' and not a 'learn by sitting around socializing' class, so we sort of maximized how much you're forced to be in combat despite minimal 'combat' reqs.

There will be future spells in non-outrage books, but I can say we don't really place spells with PM/HA training in mind.

-Z
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