Soul Drain

[Rytek]

Does Soul drain affect undead?
Also, can an astral5 death4 mage cast soul drain by using a death gem to booste the secondary requirement to 5 death?

[Folket]

I do not have my manual here. But if death is primary path you may boost but I do not think you can boost secondary paths.

If you have a S5D4 mage have him cast power odf the spheres to boost his death magic and cast soul drain the next turn.

[Baalz]

I haven't used this one, but I assume it'll rapidly reinvigorate the caster, thus being viable to cast even if it brings your SC to 200 fatigue?

[Agrajag]

I do not have my manual here.

Checking the manual shows me that the manual has no answer to that question.
Its on page 89 under "Using magic gems in combat", and that section says nothing about enhancing secondary paths.

[Rytek]

Not an SC, just a regular mage. With alot of undead in front. I was hoping the undead would be immune to this spell. let the undead chaff take the damage of the fight and let this spell do the killing.

[Valandil]

I am almost positive that secondaries cannot be gem enhanced- I've certainly never heard of a mage using two types of gem on a single spell.

[NTJedi]

Valandil said:
I am almost positive that secondaries cannot be gem enhanced- I've certainly never heard of a mage using two types of gem on a single spell.

gems matching secondaries on a magic path will do nothing for the caster, fatique or the spell being casted.

[Cor2]

Soul drain does a tiny amount of damage, so if your expecting it to stop an army it wont for at least 6-7 rounds. What it will do is reinvigerate the caster every round, so prepare some other nasty spells.

I have not seen the code but my guess is that its damage is the drian life effect, so it will hurt undead too but you won't get the life from them.

[Folket]

Life drain do not hurt lifeless. So if your undead are longdeads you should not have any problem. 1 AN damage will kill off a small percentage each turn and it will grow as more people get wounded.