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David Damerell wrote:
> Quoting Cyde Weys <cyde@umd.edu>:
>
> >I kind of have a dilemma right now though. My current setup is AoLS,
> >SDSM, CoMR, gauntlets of power. If I really want to be a spellcaster,
> >to do it right, I'd want to wear a robe (still haven't found one yet,
> >but I'm willing to kill as many puddings as it takes). So I'd change
> >my setup to AoR, GDSM, robe, and gauntlets of dexterity. Does this
> >sound like a good idea?
>
> For a Valkyrie? No. Short of pudding farming, a Valkyrie's mana reserve
> will usually be a bit dismal for combat spellcasting, and her chances are
> so low that you have to go to enormous effort with equipment, and even
> then you're not going to be using the high-level stuff like the Finger and
> cancellation.
Valks get a bonus for casting cone of cold, so it's the
one combat spell that might end up reliable enough to
cast in melee. When casting at range any attack spell
with a reasonably low failure rate will do fine. Throw
a few Expert highly enchanted nuclear tipped daggers,
cast an attack spell, lather rinse repeat until the
monster dies or comes face to face to deal with your
Frosty and whatever in twoweapon mode.
> I think combat wombats should reserve spells for utility use - mapping,
> identification, removing curses - and it's much more practical to keep a
> special spellcasting outfit and accept non-zero failure chances when you
> only use spells periodically.
If your special spell casting outfit works as your
regular combat outfit, so much the better. "oR for
reflection, GSDM for MR, robe for MC=3, shirt, speed
boots, dex gloves, [oB. Once all highly enchanted
it works fine for a lot of character classes.
With combat wombat classes the number of spell
schools that can be enhanced is short. For the
non-combat spells lower failure rate isn't too
much an issue.
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