Beseech Elanthia to Petrify
20 Charisma
Perfect Gargs (reinf), Perfect Leuc gloves, Shard Fest Mask (like old cowl)

Will rerun tests when I have more charisma, please feel free to add data of your own, contact me if you want to just give me the data and let me post it.

As a note, my final trial was disrupted, but I tried to report as accurately as I could, and I have high confidence in its accuracy. And, yes, some of the numbers are off by about 30 seconds

Also, as a very strange note, sometimes I'd see my spirit go down by 1 point, inexplicably o_O


FINALLY: Experimentally I aligned 80, to see if I could bump up the absorp or protect any more. No, I could not.


A brief and inconclusive analysis leads me to the following feeling.

First, the only way to get something out of it is to pump in a lot of Alignment. Even then, ironically, the more you get out of it, the -less- you get out of it, in different qualities. Essentially, even though it lasts -longer- if you pump in more soul, you get -dramatic- (though linear) increases to recovery time / point. On the other hand, duration increases at -half- that rate! That's ridiculous <g>

Second, the beseech appears to only increase absorption, or minimally increase protection. Since absorption becomes increasingly useless the higher circle you become, and you need to be higher circle to have the charisma to use this effectively (sorta), the result is another essentially useless beseech.

It would be nice if, by about 60th circle, a Ranger could have this up, continuously, to a small degree if they should so wish (Much like having SoTT up continuously, if they wish). I don't think such should be possible right away, but.

It would also be nice if, at about 60 alignment, this starts to increase protection as well as absorption, -especially- since it increases hinderance.

Suffice to say, need more data for anything conclusive.

Someone with 40 charisma out there? ;)

Mrrar (regajk2 - AIM)

Align	Start	End	Duration	Regenerate	Recovery
30	12:47:10	12:52:40	5:30	1:01:20	14:10
40	1:03:50	1:09:50	6:00	1:25:10	21:20
50	1:26:50	1:32:50	6:00	1:53:10	26:20
60	1:53:50	2:00:30	6:30	2:28:30*	34:30

Align	Duration	Downtime^	Ratio (dr)	Ratio (dt)
30	5:30	8:40	11 s/pt	17.32 s/pt
40	6:00	15:20	9 s/pt	22 s/pt
50	6:00?	20:20	7.2 s/pt	24 s/pt
60	6:30	28:00	6.5 s/pt	28 s/pt

Align	Soul
--	100%
30	66%
40	77%
50	57%
60	47%

Align	Armor	Protection	Absorption	Hinderance
--	Leathers	hhhlfm	mmmmmm	h
30	Leathers	hhhlfm	mmmmmm	gr
40	Leathers	hhhlfm	hhhhhh	gr
50	Leathers	hhhlfm	hhhhhh	gr
60	Leathers	hhhlfm	hhhhhh	gr
--	Mask	ffflfm	mmmfff	ins
30	Mask	ffflfm	hhhmmm	ins
40	Mask	ffflfm	hhhmmm	ins
50	Mask	ffflfm	hhhmmm	ins
60	Mask	ffflfm	hhhmmm	ins
--	Gloves	fffpfl	ffffff	l
30	Gloves	fffpfl	ffffff	l
40	Gloves	fffpfl	mmmmmm	l
50	Gloves	fffpfl	mmmmmm	l
60	Gloves	fffpfl	mmmmmm	l

*this result is actually 38, but I signed off for 10 minutes.
^Downtime = recovery - duration

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