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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Guides and Tutorials => Topic started by: Allive on February 28, 2007, 03:52:45 am
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Ok guys heres the magic guide i have placed in everything to best of my ability and things will change as ps progresses so bare with me.
Magic Guide Version 1.2
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This guide is created to try and give you an idea of what magic does what and how effective they are. But please remember the game changes and is still in development, so this information can change. I will endeavor to keep this guide as up-to-date as I can.
Rating of spells:
0 = Virtually useless.
1 - 2 = Only really useful as training spells.
3 - 5 = Useful spells but limited use or mainly for beginners.
6 - 8 = Useful for all but with higher experience can become redundant.
9 - 10 = Very useful and/or powerful spells.
How Spell Realms Work
Realm 1: Can be cast at level one and above
Realm 2: Can only be cast at level 20 or higher
Realm 3: Can only be cast at level 30 or higher
Realm 4: Can only be cast at level 40 or higher
Realm 5: Can only be cast at level 80
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SPELL PURIFICATION AND LEARNING
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Step one: Open the spell book and click on the combine button to open up another big screenwith all your glyphs on it
Step two: Click on the spell and the drag it down to the purification button click on it and wait for a few mineuts till it says the spell is purified.
Step three-a: When the glyph is purified, place it in one of the 4 boxes at the bottom and press the reserch button it will bring up a description and you have finished your research.
Step three-b: Some spells need 2 or more glyphs to make so you must place all glyphs needed in the 4 boxes at the bottom and in the correct order (such as 'energy arrow' would be energy glyph then arrow glyph. Arrow glyph first, energy glyph second, would not make the same spell) and like single glyph spells hit research.
Step four: Click on the save spell button and you have learned a new spell if there is any magic within that glyph/glyphs.
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Casting And Combat Casting
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Casting spells is easy. All you have to do is open up the spell book and select 'spell' then hit the cast button. Combat casting however is different and much more effective. Instead of stopping to cast by selecting the spell and clicking, you can setup a shortcut button with the /cast command in it. For example, create a shortcut with '/cast Energy Arrow' and then set it to a button in the shortcut menu. This will allow you to quickly and effortlessly activate it, and start to cast energy arrow. The /cast command can be used for other spells - just replace energy arrow with any other spell name.
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CRYSTAL WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Energy, Life and Light
Stat: Charisma
Gets the pure energy from the crystal, more directly than all other ways. Famous for the ability to heal and cure even
the most terrible wounds. Someone says that if you reach a great knowledge, you can even bring a person back from
the dead.
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CRYSTAL WAY: Single glyph spells
Summon Missile
Realm: 1
What Game Says: A wooden arrow is summoned and thrown at the target dealing 6*P damages.
What I Say: Useful spell for beginners can be combined to create a stronger version of this spell.
Rating : 4
Life Infusion
Realm: 1
What Game Says: By means of this spell the wizard can instill pure energy in a creature. The energy,
which has healing effects, is less powerful but similar to the energy the great crystal. It can be cast
on the wizard or another character in touch range. It allows to heal 2P+3 hit point.
What I Say: Useful can heal you after a long battle good for leveling in crystal way. is a very usefull spell.
Rating: 7
CRYSTAL WAY: Combination Spells
Energy Arrow
Realm: 2
What Game Says: This spell uses in offensive way the energy of th great crystal, creating a arrow of
energy. The arrow can inflict 8*P damage to a creature.
What I Say: Stronger version of summon arrow and can be deadly in the hands of an experienced player.
Rating: 9
Healing Flash
Realm: 5
What Game Says: The wizard surrounds a creature with a bright aura of light, healing in this way some of this wounds.
The target creature regains 30 + 2P hit point.
What I Say: The ultimate healing spell takes about twice as long as life infusion does and takes a fair bit of mana but delivers with huge healing and a much greater range. Well worth your time, tria, PP and effort to get.
Rating: 10
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RED WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Strength, Chaos and Fire
Stat: Intelligence
The spell-caster is able to invoke the power of chaos and bend to his will the devastating fury of fire, summoning it
for damage and purifying qualities. This way will deal mostly in the fire, most metal workers have knowledge in this way.
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RED WAY: Single Glyph Spells
Flame Burst
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The hands of the caster generate a flame that extends very fast till it reaches the victim.
The flame burst inflicts 10*p damage.
What I Say: It's a very good spell with the ability to inflict high damage, even at lower levels.
Rating: 6
Flame Spire
Realm: 1
What Game Says: This spell creates a spire of flames around the caster. Anyone attacking him/her in melee will suffer 1+P damages every 10 seconds.
What I Say: Limited use. Spell is slow to cast, but doesn't take up much mana and lasts for a substantial amount of time. However limited both in combat and training [ Stick with electro touch ]. Has a nice graphical effect though.
Rating:0
Meteor
Realm: 3
What Game Says: This spell conjures a meteor or a lava rock, that appers in the sky and targets the victim.
On impact the rock inflicts 10P damage.
What I Say: This spell takes a long time to cast my advice would be to rather use flame burst unless out of range to do so.
Rating: 5
Electrotouch
Realm: 1
What Game Says: this spell empowers the hands of the caster with electricity. Anyone attacked by him/her with
hands or a weapon suffers 3+P damage.
What i say: This spell, although a little difficult to get, is very good for training with because of its low mana cost.
And also has the ability of giving you an edge in combat against npcs.
Rating: 6
Strength
Realm: 2
What Game Says: This spell enhances the strength of the target by 4P points of STR. This spell has no affect on
creatures with more than 200 STR.
What I Say: It takes a long time to cast and doesnt last for long better with potions.
Rating: 3
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BROWN WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Nature, protective magic and the element of earth
Stat: Will
The glyphs of this way give the wizard the ability to cast different protective spells, to summon natural creatures and some monsters and to influence their will.
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BROWN WAY: Single Glyph Spells
Rock Armour
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The casters body is coverd with plates of rock, That magical wiegh nothing and give no problem to movement.
the plates can absorb damage and protect the caster upto the spell duration. The caster gains a +15% to its defensive value.
What I Say: Spell takes a little above the average time to cast, lasts for a fair amount of time but is ultimately only really any good for training in the brown way.
Rating: 3
BROWN WAY: Combinations
Flying Stones
Realm: 2
What Game Says: This spell conjures a number of stones that are hurled at the chosen victim. These stones cause 8+2P damage.
What I Say: The spell is realm 2, but is under powered when compared to the likes of energy arrow, yet has a longer range.
Rating: 6
Stone Fist
Realm: 3
What Game Says: From the casters closed fist sprouts a magical stone fist, 50cm in diameter. The fist travel at very high speed
toward the victim giving him little chance to escape. On impact delivers 20+P points of damage.
What I Say: at the moment uncastable by any means.
Rating: unknown
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AZURE WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Mind, illusion and air magic
Stat: Intelligence
Its basically a sneaky and insidious energy, that can control the will and intentions of any intelligent being.
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AZURE WAY: single spells
Defensive Wind
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The sorcerer some draws powerful gusts of wind around him/herself, so its harder to attack him/her with melee or missile weapons. This spell gives a 15% bonus on defensive value to the caster to any melee or long range attack against the mage.
What I Say: A defensive spell that is stackable. Very helpful against NPCs that use melee as an attack. Extremely useful in war and easy to cast while lasting a long time.
Rating: 9
AZURE WAY: Combinations
Nature Intuition
Realm: 2
What game says: With this spell the wizard is able to determine the physical status of a creature (hp total and remaining hp) and its stats.
What I say: Does what it says on the tin. Can be used on NPCs, monsters, and other players. I see no use for it in combat as of yet but perhaps good for clearing up arguments and giving people some intel on a person before a challenge is issued. Casting also takes a bit of time for this spell.
Rating: 4
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BLUE WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Divination
BLUE WAY: Single Spells, Purification, Water element
Stat: Will
Many diseases and poisons will be incurable without the help of the spells of this way. The offensive and defensive potential of this art, resides mainly on the control of the water element, but also cold and ice that are strictly related to it.
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Freeze
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The air around the victim starts to freeze to up to - 40 degrees Celsius, causing him 1 hp of damage each second and giving him a minus to his attack value of 10%.
What I Say: Can deal a lot of damage and can be used at a little range but is only really useful as a training spell.
Rating: 5
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DARK WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Entropy, Death and Darkness
Stat: Charisma
This way is one that conjures more myth than any of the others, Practitioners have a history of being the most inovitive of any practitioners of the ways of magic but with all innovation there is good and bad.
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DARK WAY: Single Spells
Darkness
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The Caster can a globe of darkness and impairs vision. All creaters caught in the darkness area suffer a -30% to there attack value till they move away from it.
What I Say: Although used correctly is a powerful spell the time taken to cast it is long and you must be within touch range of target so it limits spells usefulness.
Rating: 6
Weakness
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The necromantic spell tries to destroy the inner energy of the chosen creature. A dark purple haze appears around the body of the victim which suffers P damages each 5 seconds. In addition the victim loses 10 points of strength for the duration of the spell.
What I Say: again a useful spell and works over a time period but again has to be used within touch range so has limited uses.
Rating: 5
Taste Of Death
Realm: 1
What game says: This dark and evil spell has the power to link for a few seconds the soul of a creature with the Death Realm. The experience is scary enough to cause a shock that delivers 5p damage.
What I say: This spell, although weak, is the first long ranged spell for the Dark Way, yet its casting speed - like most others - cowers in comparison to energy arrow. Could be expensive to cast over and over and is overpowered by a lot of other spells however good if you're RPing a dark lord or something else like such.
Rating:3
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NEW UNCONFIRMED MAGIC SYSTEM
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Its seams as though there is a new system that only allows you to research spells when you have the correct realm for them i.e if you're not at level 80 you will not be able to research the healing wave spell. For example energy arrow is a realm 2 spell so you will not be able to research the combination until Crystal Way level 20 or above, or meteor realm 3 until you are level 30 or above. This exists with all Ways and all glyphs - to research the spell you must have the realm requirement in that way.
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Wow, you go Alliva! You make my little guide look quite pathetic... good job! Thasa, if this still doesn't satisfy you, I don't know what will.
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opps some mistakes there seams as though i need to do a little more work on it and get it posted correctly ill do this within the next few weeks.
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Wow, you go Alliva!
I'll second that, this is a very good guide.
Thanks!
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Just posting to say that I do not consider this guide a spoiler, for anyone who is reporting this thread :] "Learn things in-game" has its limits, and guides like these do more good than damage.
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what i got reported for spoilers ? thats not right i have given combination glyphs yes but havent given were to get glyphs or how. i have given discriptions and my thouights ? ok those are in game discriptions and my thoughts are mines others may and probably will disagree. but thnx karyuu {heh about first good thing she has said to one of me posts].
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Very nice guide, although no offence but your spelling is kinda... bad. :P
But don't worry, I've gone through and fixed all the errors I could find. (There was quite a lot mind you, took be about 20 minutes :P). You should find it in your inbox. (I felt inspired...)
Anyway, great job overall! I would've loved this when I was starting out... :'(
Edit: Yay, I helped :D
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Combination of glyphs to make spells are considered a spoiler, the rest is ok.
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Very nice, Alliva! PM me if you ever want anything proofed and corrected before posting (just being friendly, it's not a sin to have some misspelled words).
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rofl yes emeraldfold the spell cheacker has made it so that you may actualy be able to read this now lmao :P hats of to him.
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This is the kind of guide I was talking about! This game badly needed one.
I would've also liked to see you cover jobs/crafting for a magic user or a work-around of any kind, aside from quests, so jobs like "Mining" can be avoided.
Thanks. :)
Thasa, if this still doesn't satisfy you, I don't know what will.
Seeing you do a back-flip in a pink dress. :P
*edited for tighter wording*
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there is no jobs/crafting for mages atm or that use magic when there is i will be makeing a guide or adding to here.
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I don't understand the magic damage formula. What is P?
Why does my 6*P Summon Missile do more damage than my 8*P Energy Arrow? I understand EA shoots faster and thus more damage over time, but based on 6*P and 8*P it seems that the 8*P would do more damage per shot than the 6*P..
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i have asked many times the formula and got told no every single time so i cant help you there sorry and your energy arrow atm chould do more dmgg than your summon missle
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I wonder whether there are any more spells availablbe.
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perhaps this guide hasnt been updated in a while due to certian things some of it myself i havent been in game much the past week due to problems sleeping ect ect. but i havent heard of any new glyphs recently.
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Ah, thanks. I was just surprised that there are so many glyphs, therefore so many combinations of them and so little spells.
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most glyphs annot be combined as far as i know this still covers all spells although the info of how good they work needs updated i havent heard of any new spells although you should note that meteor is now castable though.
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I've heard that Nature Intuition is Realm 3. And that you need level 40 on Realm 3. Is that true?
Plus, do you need to be level 20 to combine Glyphs into Realm 2? Or level 30 or 40 to combine Realm 3 spells?
Since this is a magic guide, I thought it would be the best place to make these questions. Sorry if it's not.
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yes nature intuition is now realm 3 so lvl 40 in azure is needed and i have coverd your realm to lvl question in my guide and yes ;v; 20 for realm 2 spells lvl 40 for realm 3 lvl 60 for realm 4 and lvl 80 for realm 5 as it stands atm.
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Great guide, I have a similar one for my guild, though, with the reworking of the mage system, you should probably remove the amount of damage you list, eg. 3*P damage, as this is no longer accurate. Now you have the power bar to take into consideration, as well as your stat levels, and your magic level, the amount of damage that is dealt depends on all of these things.
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to tell truth the magic system is still and most likely be a mess for a while i dont think many ppl can really say what is going on with it or how acurately it works. for now though this is about the most in depth one atm. i would update this fully but i have been discorouged from doing so so im not even gonna bother if all my work ect ect get pritty much stomped on so for now this will unfotunately have to do for you all perhaps when the magic system gets a little more clean cut i will redo it but i really dont see the point in doing so much work for ppl to turn around and basicly stomp all over it.alos the time that was involved in createing the guide initialy was hugh and a complete overhual of the guide is most likely needed.
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I really like this guide quite useful :D
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What does P mean in the 10*p?
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Wow, really good guide (as far as I can judge), it helped me a lot.
However, I hope you can help me for an asking.
I have a purified crystal glyph, I have 5 in crystal way and about 72 in charisma. But I can't find any spell (And I tried like hundred times by now)...
I don't understand what I'm making bad, I don't forgot to place the glyph in the case, and I don't put any other glyph with it.
Hope you can tell me what's wrong with my glyph, or with me.
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not all glyphs make spells at all levels, you need to be atleast the level required to cast the spell to research it. Some glyphs also need to be combined with others before you can find a spell.
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Yeah, but if I read the guide :
CRYSTAL WAY: Single glyph spells
Summon Missile
Realm: 1
What Game Says: A wooden arrow is summoned and thrown at the target dealing 6*P damages.
What I Say: Useful spell for beginners can be combined to create a stronger version of this spell.
Rating : 4
Life Infusion
Realm: 1
What Game Says: By means of this spell the wizard can instill pure energy in a creature. The energy,
which has healing effects, is less powerful but similar to the energy the great crystal. It can be cast
on the wizard or another character in touch range. It allows to heal 2P+3 hit point.
What I Say: Useful can heal you after a long battle good for leveling in crystal way. is a very usefull spell.
Rating: 7
There's spells with only a crystal. Why can't I find them ?
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There actually is one you can buy...but I guess I can't tell you here who sells it...just look and ask ingame ;)
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Buy ? What.... I don't understand.... But maybe I mistold something.
I have a crystal glyph (it's called crystal).
If there is spells which only need a glyph, why my researchs always fails ? I have the crystal glyph and the necessary skills.
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Buy ? What.... I don't understand.... But maybe I mistold something.
I have a crystal glyph (it's called crystal).
If there is spells which only need a glyph, why my researchs always fails ? I have the crystal glyph and the necessary skills.
no then you dont have the CORRECT skill lvl
not all glyphs make spells at all levels, you need to be atleast the level required to cast the spell to research it. Some glyphs also need to be combined with others before you can find a spell.
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Sorry for annoyance. I just have been told that there was several glyphs in crystal way... Now I understand.
Sorry again.
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This guide is in need of some updating methinks, magic has been tampered with since the creation and I spotted a couple inconsistencies on a quick glance.
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yep, i know of 32 spells so far, so its missing a few too
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i know about all this but i got not one word of thanks or anything from the devs for this so im not even gonna go through all the hastle to totaly re reserch magic again to get all this bang up to date as it originaly was.
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i know about all this but i got not one word of thanks or anything from the devs for this so im not even gonna go through all the hastle to totaly re reserch magic again to get all this bang up to date as it originaly was.
As far as i know this section of the forum was made for the PLAYERS not for the devs, i would never expect a dev to thank someone for posting something here as they have taken their time to post it for other players not for the devs, and most devs have access to this information already.
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Aye, and you got many words of thanks from players.
The Devs and such already know these things; why would they thank someone for 'remaking the wheel' as it were?
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BLUE WAY
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Description Of Way
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Focus: Divination
BLUE WAY: Single Spells, Purification, Water element
Stat: Will
Many diseases and poisons will be incurable without the help of the spells of this way. The offensive and defensive potential of this art, resides mainly on the control of the water element, but also cold and ice that are strictly related to it.
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Freeze
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The air around the victim starts to freeze to up to - 40 degrees Celsius, causing him 1 hp of damage each second and giving him a minus to his attack value of 10%.
What I Say: Can deal a lot of damage and can be used at a little range but is only really useful as a training spell.
Rating: 5
So you mean there is only the Freeze spell on blue way? :o :o :o
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there was when the guide was writen yes.
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Flame Burst
Realm: 1
What Game Says: The hands of the caster generate a flame that extends very fast till it reaches the victim.
The flame burst inflicts 10*p damage.
What I Say: It's a very good spell with the ability to inflict high damage, even at lower levels.
Rating: 6
Are you joking? about 20-30 casts required to kill a sewer rat.
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Are you joking? about 20-30 casts required to kill a sewer rat.
A lot has changed in magic in the year or so this thread has been here, making some comments not valid anymore.
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Hey Allive have you found out the ressurect spell? that would be awesome if you did! i'm a n00b so, yeah, i don't know tons about planeshift yet and i'm training to be a healer. (i hate that the monster servers are down in the sewers!!) thanks 4 making this it rocks!! \\o//
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lol you have to all remmember when this guide was writen i playing a lot and i was a mage/swordsman i was a redway crystal way mage. and when i was playing a lot the best spell we had was energy arrow and flame burst at a high lvl could kill a sewer rat in 1 hit.
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damn i didnt think this post would get as man hits wish i still played but pc has been dieing on feet for a very long time.