arcane nexus

[The_Tauren13]

What's up with arcane nexus? It keeps giving me a message "The Arcane Nexus has absorbed magic power equal to 323 astral gems." But I'm not getting any extra gems of any type.

[archaeolept]

you should be getting 1/4 that number in astral gems, IIRC. Keep track of the precise number of astrals you have at the end of the turn, and see.

[Cainehill]

It works - having spent all my 999 astral gems on the spell, I wound up with about 230 back from the nexus the next turn.

[Jurri]

I don't think astral pearls are absorbed at all (in fact it says so in the description, even )

[The_Tauren13]

Well, I certainly got nowhere near 323, but with all my clams I might have missed 81 pearls... but why would it only give one fourth of what it says? That seems kind of silly to not simply tell you what you get.

[Cainehill]

Yeah, it says something like "the equivalent of XXX astral gems was absorbed" - when I first was casting the spell, from the description I expected to get fire gems from fire spells, etc, but it all comes back in astral, and not nearly as much as is indicated.

[The_Tauren13]

Yeah, I expected to start geting gems of all kinds other than astral and blood, as the description leads you to believe. But then when it said it absorbed over 300 and i didnt get it, I was just like WTF?

[alexti]

The_Tauren13 said:
Yeah, I expected to start geting gems of all kinds other than astral and blood, as the description leads you to believe.

You must have forgotten to wish for gems

[archaeolept]

heh.

as i recall, all non astral gems used in the previous turn are summed up, then converted to astral (at a two to one ratio), then you get half of them. I think that's it.

if you are unhappy w/ the huge astral income boost this gives, please just don't cast it

[The_Tauren13]

archaeolept said:
if you are unhappy w/ the huge astral income boost this gives, please just don't cast it

Heh, I'm about to die to dominion anyway. Too bad you can't alchemize astral pearls into... er... dominon