New empowerment strategy?

[HJ]

Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
If 4 is required for a lot of sites though...maybe my rainbow should include a lot more 4's considering the positive bless effects.

It's not, only for the most powerful ones. Lots of sites are level 1-2. Magic level 2 will enable you to cast site-searching spells (auspex, haruspex, voice of apsu, augury, bowl of blood) or even level 1 is enough (dark knowledge and arcane probing), so once you find first couple of sites to get some gem income rolling, you can start casting them to increase it further in a faster and easier way than hopping from province to province. Arcane probing is especially nice, since it gives you access to astral pearls, which you can more easily convert to other gem types in order to cast that school site-searching as well. However, you can find holy/unholy sites only through Acashic record, unless you search with priests. So if you want to see those, this is the way to go.

[ November 20, 2003, 21:41: Message edited by: HJ ]

[PvK]

On the other hand, casting a single-discipline spell isn't always faster than searching with a mage who has more than one discipline, since searching in-person searches with all of the mage's disciplines at once.

PvK

[HJ]

Originally posted by PvK:
On the other hand, casting a single-discipline spell isn't always faster than searching with a mage who has more than one discipline, since searching in-person searches with all of the mage's disciplines at once.

PvK

That's also true. And that's why Acashic record is the fastest way to find all the sites if you have enough gems to do it every turn.

Also, if you're interested in only single variety of gems, then divination spells are probably faster way to achieve that.

[ November 21, 2003, 02:56: Message edited by: HJ ]