the initial summon doesn't require anything other than to be a warmage, I had it when i logged in. the metaspells, even if not signature, require the ability and are therefor useless to anyone else.

I've not heard of spells playing off guild perks before, so.. who knows what these are. I always saw signature as "you could, but you can't"

"Game balance is sobbing over in the corner as it considers the ramifications of AoE Blufmor Garaen. Your spell slots send their condolences." - GM Raesh

>if they are signature or not, and if they can be learned from a guildleader or are scroll only.

They are signature (since what would anybody else do with them), and can be learned from a guildleader once the preview is over.

Javac
That one guy

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How do you learn these metaspells?

Can more than one metaspell apply to a weapon, or do you have to pick and choose? Like can I take the earth one and hold an awesome ingot and make something good, and then make it be on fire?

- Starlear, Warrior Mage and Lieutenant of Ilithi's Crystal Vanguard -

Is the ingot consumed when using the earth one?

Mazrian

>How do you learn these metaspells?

You currently can't because they are on preview. Once the preview has ended, you will be able to learn them from any Guildleader.

>Any chance reinforce stone could make them last a bit longer while sheathed/out of hand?

There is a chance. I have to fix another bug when I get home from work, but will ask about making this cantrip work again.

>Is the ingot consumed when using the earth one?

No. However, there is a chance for quality loss, and under a certain skill level relative to the volume of the ingot you will always see a quality loss.

>Can more than one metaspell apply to a weapon, or do you have to pick and choose?
>I think they're just passive effects, so holding an ingot and using SUMMON WEAPON FIRE or SHAPE <weapon> TO FIRE will apply both effects.

The only metaspell effects that can't be simultaneously used are the Elemental damage ones. The weapon will only do one Elemental damage type, unless you also cast Ignite on it. For example, you should be able to SUMMON WEAPON {skill/element} {skill/element} or SHAPE {weapon} to {skill/element} {skill/element} to do it all in one step. If your weapon is elemental when you shape it to a different template or turn it, the new weapon will be that element as well, unless you specify a different one with SHAPE. TURN does not consider options.

>summon weapon ht fire
Closing your eyes, you grunt briefly in effort as you sense a small fiery ethereal fissure open in front of you. Thrusting your hand through, you draw out a fiery javelin. As you open your eyes, the fissure closes.
Roundtime: 1 sec.
>glance
You glance down to see a fiery javelin in your right hand and a damite ingot in your left hand.
>shape javelin to lt ice
You reach out with your will and reshape your javelin into a bola.
Roundtime: 1 sec.
>glance
You glance down to see an icy bola in your right hand and a damite ingot in your left hand.
>turn bola to electric
That doesn't seem to do much.
>turn bola
You reach out with your will and reshape your bola into an icy boomerang.
Roundtime: 1 sec.
>break boomer
Focusing your will, you rip the icy boomerang asunder, returning it to the Elemental planes.

Javac
That one guy

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Do we have/can we have what techniques give us what in regards to the ability?

As a weaponsmith, can't wait for this to go off preview. I'm already trying to figure out what spells I can drop to maximize the options.

Game balance is sobbing over in the corner as it considers the ramifications of AoE Blufmor Garaen. Your spell slots send their condolences." - GM Raesh

I will try this out with Tyrium after work.

- Starlear, Warrior Mage and Lieutenant of Ilithi's Crystal Vanguard -

> I will try this out with Tyrium after work.

There's no need. Javac said that it treats all very rare or better metals the same.

>There's no need. Javac said that it treats all very rare or better metals the same.

I know he said all the same and excludes platinum and gold, but any confirmation on exact ones? And if Elanthipedia page marked correctly for the Very Rare (Audrualm is Unique and Very Rare on the list, but isn't mineable). Figure be a good time to make sure our info is completely up to date.

Per https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Crafting_Materials#Rare_Metals_2
>Very Rare
Animite
Audrualm
Damite
Glaes
Haralun
Kertig



[20:11] Chatter[Arathael] Usually only get skill when it's successful.
[20:13] Chatter[Morpion] Thats why Arathael has 0.00 ranks in Getting Girls
[20:14] Chatter[Arathael] =(

> When I originally pushed it out, it included Rare and better. Now it is Very Rare and better, that's why platinum and gold no longer work, they're rare.

Right, but the question was what precisely constitutes a very rare. My impression:

Rare: Darkstone, Electrum, Lumium, Muracite, Niniam, Platinum, Gold.
Very Rare: Animite, Damite, Glaes, Haralun, Kertig.
Unique: Audrualm, Icesteel, Kadepa(?), Orichalcum, Silversteel, Tyrium, Vardite.
No idea: Niello.

> Niello I expect would fall into the unique category. It's not mineable that I've seen at all and has only been given as prizes from festival tasks/games.

I thought the plan was to make it a crucible recipe, though. Copper + silver + lead.

Javac, I have a couple of questions about rare metals and also summoning skill. Here's what you said:

>>*The ingot must be of a certain quality, and if it is below a certain volume, the quality will be lowered. The volume required to avoid this quality penalty scales with Summoning skill, ending at over 1500 ranks. Regardless of skill, there is always a small random chance of quality loss. The quality loss is very small.

>>No. However, there is a chance for quality loss, and under a certain skill level relative to the volume of the ingot you will always see a quality loss.

Let's see if I'm understanding this correctly:
-If the ingot is below a certain quality, you won't get any bonus from holding it. (Will the quality still be reduced?)
-If it is below a certain volume, the quality will always be lowered.
-This minimum volume reduces with higher summoning skill, capping at beyond 1500 ranks.
-There is no way to work off the random chance of quality reduction.

Ok, one more question. What other role does Summoning skill play in this ability? It seems that it does not increase the stats of the weapon, that is all handled through metaspells, crafting techniques, and rare metal ingots.

>Oh, it hasn't happened, so all the sources are unique. But it might be behind-the-scenes flagged as common in anticipation of being mixable.

See I doubt that too, since it's on most if not all of the "must provide" lists for alterations.

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>whisper card geva
Geva is unlikely to appreciate your gift.

Is it too close to Guildfest for me to say "Please sell scrolls that let us modify the weapons similar to the Shield of Light scrolls"? Maybe ones that add cool fluff wave verbs, or change the appearance in some way.

>a fiery broadsword
>a flaming broadsword with a lava-veined stone hilt

etc...

Also this is me suggesting that a pretty sweet merchant would be one that let you take an existing weapon and consume it, adding a third turn option for its weapon type that gives you an identically appraising one. Not sure how technically feasible that is.

- Starlear, Warrior Mage and Lieutenant of Ilithi's Crystal Vanguard -

>I've listed the requirements for each tier in a new handy table on the elemental weapons page on the wiki (and incidentally the moonblade page too if you want to compare.)

Good call on this. One thing to possibly add is the durability is the same for all weapons at each level from toying with it today. I'm no good at making the wiki pages look nice with formatting.


[20:11] Chatter[Arathael] Usually only get skill when it's successful.
[20:13] Chatter[Morpion] Thats why Arathael has 0.00 ranks in Getting Girls
[20:14] Chatter[Arathael] =(

I am going to experiment and see if metal density matters.

- Starlear, Warrior Mage and Lieutenant of Ilithi's Crystal Vanguard -

>>Coupled with the fact that the majority of armors have poor elemental resistance

Makes me regret not making more lumium armor during the days when lumium had the electrical/thermal stats of icesteel.

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Uzmam! The Chairman will NOT be pleased to know you're trying to build outside of approved zones. I'd hate for you to be charged the taxes needed to have this place re-zoned. Head for the manor if you're feeling creative.

You can appraise monster armor and anything they're wearing when still alive.

The greatsword kept a little slice, I'll post it later and a tiered up version.

Depending on the target it can be good or bad, but seems to do a similar amount of damage against the average critter using a real weapon (when I played in test)

Cabalists always had fire swords. They hurt even with decent elemental protection.

- will loading a spear in my atlatl break things?

- grounding field is useless against the elemental versions of these I'd assume?

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Ignite increases the damage proportionally based on the highest damage type, so it would still do the same just based off the elemental stat instead of a physical stat, assuming its the highest of course.

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