It may be just myself, but Im only seeing the infest debuff last long enough to hit 1 spawn. Is this working as intended?

Cooldown times

Base with 0 necromancy ranks: 10 minutes (confirmed) - previously 20 minutes
Ranks 1 to 120: -2 seconds per rank (confirmed up to 107 ranks)
Ranks 121 to 200: -0.75 seconds per rank (speculative)
Ranks >200: -1.5 seconds per rank (speculative)**

Necromancy		Cooldown
Ranks		(in minutes)
0		10
30		9
60		8
90		7
120		6
200		5
240		4

**Cooldown times of (4:57) and (4:45) with 202 and 210 ranks, respectively, indicates that ranks greater than 200 have a 1.5 second per rank bonus. Values in the above table for ranks greater than 107 still need to be confirmed. What's needed is the cooldown time from anyone with ranks in the 120 to 200 range.

Mark

Finally had a chance to play around more with Sacrifice Channel. It now works as advertised (yay!). Absolutely loving it, thank you so much! The ability seems very well balanced. It makes it possible to keep an animate around indefinitely, but not without due attention and active involvement (sacrificing a creature every 20 minutes). It's also truly keeping within the spirit of sorcery and necromancy. Very flavorful and apt.

Thanks again,

~ GtG (and minions)

Anybody spent time using Sacrifice Infest? How much does it weaken AS/DS/CS/TD? How many "gens" are affected? Is it always the same number, or does it vary, or does it apply for a set amount of time? Does it only apply to critters that generate in the room with the Sorcerer, or can they generate anywhere in the hunting area? Does it work on bandits, even though they generate with different descriptions? I do not currently have enough necromancy skill to test it myself.

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>Yer perception ain't high enough an yea know it.

Deh?

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>Daid: Pretty sure you have a whole big bucket as your penny jar. You never have only two cents. :p

I gave up trying to test it, with no indication that something is infested, its hard to know if the next target I saw spawned after infest, or before and it also feels like by the time a new spawn occurs, the infest duration is over so who knows.

Here is the log from 1 infest with a 703 Verify at the end.

>711
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Pain...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +550 - TD: +429 + CvA: +25 + d100: +80 == +226
Warding failed!
An enormous rift crawler contorts in excruciating agony!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>711
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Pain...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +550 - TD: +429 + CvA: +25 + d100: +90 == +236
Warding failed!
You feel the unnatural surge of necrotic power wane away.
An enormous rift crawler contorts in excruciating agony!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>706
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Mind Jolt...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +429 + CvA: +25 + d100: +49 == +177
Warding failed!
Its eyes flash with a searing jolt of light!
It is heavily stunned!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
* Covette joins the adventure.
>702
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Mana Disruption...
Your spell is ready.
You channel at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +429 + CvA: +25 + d100: +39 == +167
Warding failed!
Massive internal disruption for 75 points of damage!
(65+ hidden damage!)
... 15 points of damage!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
>sac infest craw
You focus your inner thoughts, channeling a part of your spirit as you initiate a link with the rift crawler.

Steeling your thoughts, you begin to draw energy from your victim.
The crawler contorts in agony!

Your senses tingle, then become awash in a flood of power as the life leaves your hapless foe!
As the rift crawler dies, the beast's massive body curls in on itself, convulses once, and stills.
Mastering the struggle against the frantic rush of stolen power, you infuse the wild energy with a dark haze of necrosis. With a small smirk, you force the sickly currents from your body, commanding them to seek and infest similar creatures in the area.

Then one spawned as I was running around, and of course unburrowed on me:

You feel a rumble come from beneath your feet.
The ground begins to shiver slightly, casting thin ripples across the landscape. As the protuberances increase in intensity, an enormous rift crawler launches to the surface from within! The crawler's massive maw lies agape, its glistening obsidian teeth gnashing at everything in their path!
You take the brunt of the blow from the crawler's massive body, narrowly avoiding its razor-sharp teeth!
... 15 points of damage!
Nasty blow to your right arm!
You are stunned for 1 round!
The crawler lurches through the air before finally landing with a solid thud.
A fallen crusader gestures sharply toward you!
A fallen crusader's eyes glow with silvery grey light, and then everything around you shimmers to match the argentine color.
CS: +396 - TD: +435 + CvA: +4 + d100: +21 - -5 == -9
Warded off!
With a faint flicker, the grey luminescence fades away.
You are still stunned.
* Alexandretta joins the adventure.
>tar craw
You are now targeting an enormous rift crawler.
A fallen crusader swings a gilt-edged steel talon sword at you!
You stumble dazedly, somehow managing to block the attack with your rowan staff!
>711
You are still stunned.
>711
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Pain...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +396 + CvA: +25 + d100: +36 == +197
Warding failed!
An enormous rift crawler contorts in excruciating agony!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>711
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Pain...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +396 + CvA: +25 + d100: +58 == +219
Warding failed!
An enormous rift crawler contorts in excruciating agony!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
A fallen crusader traces a twisted symbol as she calls upon her inner power.
>703
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Corrupt Essence...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +366 + CvA: +25 + d100: +20 == +211
Warding failed!
An enormous rift crawler is suddenly surrounded by a blood red haze.

Necrotic energy from your rowan staff overflows into you!

You feel rejuvenated!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>703
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Corrupt Essence...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +366 + CvA: +25 + d100: +70 == +261
Warding failed!
The blood red haze surrounding an enormous rift crawler stirs slightly, but appears otherwise unchanged.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>711
You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Pain...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at an enormous rift crawler.
CS: +532 - TD: +396 + CvA: +25 + d100: +36 == +197
Warding failed!
An enormous rift crawler contorts in excruciating agony!
As the rift crawler dies, the beast's massive body curls in on itself, convulses once, and stills.
The blood red haze dissipates from around an enormous rift crawler.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

If you notice, this Crawlers TD was 396, which is far below the normal TD of any Crawler. Casting 703 on it pushed the TD down to 366. With a pushdown of 30 on 703, according to the Wiki the Crawler would be level 99 and should have a TD of about 420, which then after the debuff of infest would equal 396.

I could be doing this all wrong, but it appears to make sense in my head and when I work it in reverse, anyone able to verify my findings?

-Zlukhaine

So I was going to post a revision of my chart with the lowest TD base value of a Level 98 Crawler being 414 instead of 417, but now that we have the formula it's kinda moot. Thank you for the info and all the work being put into this!

-Zlukhaine

I have been trying to use Sacrifice Channel with 66 ranks of Necromancy lore on critters that are level 38.

Based on my calculations (and in-game feedback from the Spell Active system), I should have a Sacrifice Cooldown of around 7.8 minutes.

So, I successfully Sacrifice Channel at Mud Wasp(38) and refresh the Animate Dead (730) Duration to 10 minutes.

With less than 2 minutes left on my Duration (8 minutes have elapsed) and the Sacrifice Cooldown removed from my Spell Active list, I attempt to Sacrifice Channel the same creature (Mud Wasp) with the following results:

>>You steel your thoughts and focus on the wasp, but you are unable to draw enough of your energy to drain such a powerful foe. Perhaps you should wait a while longer.

What does this mean? Why can I not successfully sacrifice the wasp?

Wait another 1:30 with only 26 seconds left on the Animate Dead timer - I was able to successfully sacrifice the Mud Wasp.

Do you have to find a super low-level creature? There aren't any of those on Teras...

I haven't been able to reproduce this since testing it. I know that the spell dropped off my list of Spell Active, but I wasn't watching for the messaging. I was able to successfully re-sacrifice three times while watching for that messaging and then doing Spell Active to verify it wasn't running before searching for a critter to sacrifice.

Unless you tweaked something since your post?

Would the powers that be consider offering increasing the maximum duration of animates based on lore, salts, wand, etc to at least two times the current limits? It's not impossible to refresh your animates at the current stage but upkeep and forgetting in a short period seems to happen a lot and for those equipping animates it's less fun to worry about losing gear when animates fall mid-hunt.

I don't see how capping the current limits at 2x or approximately 1 hour changes the spell much besides making the upkeep less frantic than every 10-29 minutes of finding a freshing sacrifice or wave of a soulstone wand.

Rolf

The base duration is 10 minutes. Exceptional salt crystals raises that to about 26 minutes. A soulstone wand base\caps at about 29 minutes (I don't think the 90 ranks of necromancy lore make a difference with the wand).

+1 to longer times for animate dead

>Make it red to contrast with the other spells and it'll be much easier to keep track of in my experience.

the problem is it's in the 700s and pretty far down the list of spells I wear so I have to scroll down to see it

>Either your resolution stinks or you wear WAY too many spells.

I wear the max amount before spell burst kicks in, although I need to recalculate after the past 9 months or so of training.

That wall of text makes me twitch just thinking about how much effort it must take to keep all that up..... I knew there was a reason I don't have any characters in GoS...

Starchitin

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

>I am also at a +1 for longer duration. 2x would be ideal but even 50% increase would be nice...

any movement on this? Something to be thankful for next week? maybe an early Thrakmas present?