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Hello,

I have three characters I've been working on and I've noticed for all three of them there's a sharp increase in difficulty to be able to effectively train magic through pure prep/charge/invoke/cast - yielding neither sufficient experience nor sustainable even in a good mana room.

This has been the case for one of my characters whom was my first experiment into research and has gone full research mode (have not started with symbiosis) and hit 300's smoothly

I started noticing this issue on my second MU in the past few days after hitting 205~210 range and picked up GAF and was dramatically more efficient and faster at training all magic skills (despite the 15 minutes to lock per skill) - tanking my attunement would only bring me up to 4/34 otherwise, whether I try to do bigger casts (charging 6 at a time) or moderate sized casts.


I'm also starting to notice this on another character who just barely hit 200 and having difficulty locking.


Is RESEARCH pretty much required and expected of everyone post 200? I'm struggling to believe that considering the slot cost.

I heard good things about symbiosis, but it all comes down to learning GAF and devoting the spell slots/feats to it.

> I heard good things about symbiosis, but it all comes down to learning GAF and devoting the spell slots/feats to it.

You don't need GAF and slots to use a symbiosis. Everyone knows the Chaos symbiosis automatically if they haven't learned any others.

>>Don't I still at least need GAF to complete a Chaos symbiosis for use?

Nope, you can jangle the mana streams just fine without it.

-Armifer
"Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations were wrong ... or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters." - Italo Calvino

Prep symbiosis is life, and humorously enough 200 ranks is right about when you can start to cast it for most spells.