Howcome new AC can't do what old AC did? Why not protect us from magical scrying? Keep us from being located? Keep other mages from percieving familiars? Keep people from joining our group via STALK?



Was held mana that much more powerful over cyclic that the new version has to be so.....less?

Anonymity is such a bizarre and niche use compared to actual spell reflection. What are you doing that you need it?

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i believe they mentioned at one point anti-scrything might be a feat or spell.

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I miss the functionality as well, especially for CvC conflicts and spars vs MM's (prevented locates and riftal summons).

A meta spell might be neat to add it to AC, or rewrite static discharge as a anti-scry/teleport/locate/hide familiars utility spell?

>>Except, you can't cast spells on someone you can't find.

Some of us don't want to run and hide. New AC > old IMO; I've reflected a lot more TM spells since 3.0 came out than I've upset moon mages.

>> All of the "instead" stuff you listed can also be stacked on top of AC.

I said two things.

1) You have to give up your cyclic TM slot
2) There is other ways to combat TM spells, e.g., veil of ice, sorcery spells, etc.

#1 cannot stack with AC.

And yes, clearly #2 can stack on top of AC, but that is silly. If you have AC, why would you stack a TM spell blocker?

>> As for cyclic TM, I usually find it unnecessary (and honestly I find WM cyclic TM sort of lackluster).

... What? How much PvP do you do? Anything that can be used to reduce vitality is amazing when combined with other attacks.

You can disable/dispel/targeted TM while cyclic TM spells are chipping away at your opponents life.

>>Old AC never did anything to stop stalking.


Hi, here's where you're wrong. If someone had AC up, stalking them would work like this...


"You work your way towards XYZ to follow them silently..."


6 seconds or so pass.


"You have lost your mark"



You could not stalk join someone's group if they had AC up. Doesn't matter if they stayed in the room, or moved away, your stalk would always fail.

Bug or not, I myself thought it fit the 'slightly out of phase with reality since covered in aether and unable to be located magically' theme the spell seemed to have for a while. I'd say 'maybe it covered your tracks somehow' but hilariously, I remember that even if you couldn't be located via locate or a familiar, a ranger companion could locate you, and a ranger could then track down the companion even with it up, so maybe it wasn't intended to be anti-physical-stalking, just magic stuff.



....then again, -I- remember when the spell used to drain 15% of your spirit upon casting. I even had much fun revolving around that particular aspect of the spell, until it vanished, along the same time it stopped coloring your eyes (which also left, came back, left, came back, then left again. Perhaps this stalking thing was also one of those on off on off on off features)


~T