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What does the G stand for?


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probly garbage. since that's what he's made out of. Though I honestly think the character was made up and named long before the introduction sceen was writen. GIR proby refers to him being disguised as a dog. GRRR.

-Serc

I did have this lofty and misguided idea that I was going to do the quest from A-Z with no help. I'm not much of a board reader, and where I play (in Plat) is not bursting at the seams with Moon Mages who've done it already. Not being much of a board reader, all I had to go on was whatever Kssarh tells me.

Turns out that what he gives is marginally better than worthless; it covers a whole province! So I broke down and got the location from someone after about six hours of wandering streets and other less savory places.

Approximately 18 hours after getting the quest I'm still here, I can't get past the prophet, so I've pretty much given up on doing stage two without help as well, with grim prospects for the third stage, if this is the easy part.

So for the whole world to see, here it is, I'm too dumb to figure it out. I can't possibly do any more verbs (that I can remember) to either the door, the prophet, or anything in any adjoining area. Could someone take a few moments to AIM Essandriel with a big fat step-by-step Blind Prophet for Dummies?

Few questions about the spell.

1. Do those of you who have it like it?

2. Those of you who have it use it often?

3. I heard that it requires burn and tkt?

4. It's near my sect leader, but not learned by him?! (I haven't found who teaches, besides near theren)

5. Too difficult a spell for a Moonmage with 300 pp/pm?

I think it is a 40th circle minimum requirement.

Lots of people put down the spell, but honestly I think it is a very nice spell for what it does.

What other spell lets you kill 5 to 10 critters on a single 13-mana cast? That is great at 40th circle because if you don't quite have enough PP to hunt only with magic.

SLS is also nice when you are approaching wall ranks on PM and Harness. You can just let SLS to do the killing while you let your PM and Harness drain.

If I'm hunting critters that swarm a little too much for me I use SLS to pick off the extra critter. It's slow, but deadly.

Would you recommend learning SLS if the player already knows CRS?

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<<4. It's near my sect leader, but not learned by him?! (I haven't found who teaches, besides near theren)

<<Keep looking around. It's not all that obvious.

Its a puzzle to get to the quest giver in other words. I like to think of it as the quest before the quest. Just look for things that scream 'moon mage.' If it looks like it should be something a moon mage would have a hand in, it must be right up a moon mage's alley, yes? If you're stuck on whereabouts to look, pay close attention to what your guildleaders say. I can say from my quote from your post that you don't quite have it right. Very close, but not quite.

-Evran

<<It is important to remember that the one single and solitary common thing that is shared by the myraid of things that annoy you and tick you off and make you upset...is you. --Solomon

I feel obligated to add that it's inside the Therenborough city limits. Meaning it's not in TC and it's not in Neer's Hummock. I wouldn't have known myself if I hadn't joined someone going to do the quest who ended up being led there by yet another person.

It's a difficult series of puzzles (there are like... 5 or 6 levels of "intellectual obstacles" that need surmounting), but the quest itself is one of my favorites, second to the Infusion quest.

Confirming: prereqs are Burn, TKT, 40th circle, and quest. I didn't have TKT and couldn't get it.

As a combat spell, it is extremely effective for magical sniping (point, hide/RF, wait, decloak, retarget, recloak). It means that I can weave MBs and CRSes together much more smoothly and thus I have three forms of attack rising in a crescendo all at once.

It's beautiful.

Essential trick for overhunting is this:

1) point the sphere at target.
2) fire off CRSs to start unbalancing and leading the attack.
3) fire off an MB when the sphere reaches melee.
4) alternate CRS and MB as necessary.

If you happen to be competent with mundanes, too, then you've got yourself a PvE deadliness that surpasses at-level warrior mages. (Though it can't match Barrage.)

IIRC, I was casting it fine at 200 PM/PP.


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The spell description on Eldrad's says that SLS gets weaker with cloud cover. Is this a noticeable difference? Can PG mitigate it?

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. No

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>>I tried this once. The critter just upped and left the room. grumble

So, try it again?

Hit it with MB. Or stay uncloaked while the sphere closes in.


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Calm it while the sphere closes, then MB right before the sphere starts hitting. Sphere isn't super accurate, but it's accurate enough, especially if the target is stunned, off balance, or both.


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>>Coincidntally, does SLS do the "best" amount of damage per single hit of our tier 4 spells?

I have no data, but I'd think not. CrS and PD are both highly effective and worth choosing in their own right.

SLS definitely, however, does the largest amount of damage per mana point invested. Again, you can kill five or six critters with one cast at level. This increases as you gain the skill to keep it up longer, and recasting it is really, really easy.

If you've ever played Marvel versus Capcom, check out Strider Hiryu's Ouroborus super attack.

And while I'm on the subject of Strider Hiryu, "Who can see the future? Those who make it."


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>>By the way, what do you mean by "keep it longer?" I thought it stayed around at night until you were tired of it.

It doesn't. It has a duration dependent on the amount you cast it at. As far as mana effeciency, my mana is full long before I have to cast another one. Plus, I can cast other spells if I want while it floats around.

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Haha... well I also don't have PD. I guess I'm just trying to figure out whether to get PD, SLS or TKS. I have TKT, burn and CRS. Though this is enough, I'd like another offensive spell just for kicks.

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<<Same boat here, leaning towards getting PD. It seems more generally usable than other spells, like CRS or burn. Plus impact damage is sexy.

I have both PD and CRS. I sort of regret it, especially with what looks like a new raft of spells coming. They do different types of damage, and they are most effective against different types of critters.

Of the two it seems to me that CRS is better in raw killing power, and it seems to teach TM a bit longer in critters at the low end of my TM learning range.

The thing I like about PD is the precise control. I can control both the timing and the body part. That makes PD a very nice coup de grace spell.

I finally broke down and learned PD as well (having already known CRS since like circle 18). I got it because I really wanted a targettable spell that worked anywhere and had no requirements. Underwater, inside, day or night, PD is there for you. It doesn't seem to have the same kind of oomph that CRS does, or even burn (yet.. maybe need more skill still), but it is always an option. As OUDER says, it's also a good finishing spell.


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In my experience, snapped PD < CRS < targeted PD.