<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Hibbs, Phil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil.hibbs@capgemini.com">phil.hibbs@capgemini.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Definitely not 18 - I've always played that 1 point of
Multispell gives you a second copy of the spell, so that would be 9 MP for 2
spells, but a strict reading might say that you need 2 points for 2 spells and
therefore 10 MP in total.</font></span></div>
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<div><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Phil
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</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Thanks Phil,<br><br>Really?<br><br>That seems like an unreasonable bargain...as long as your multispell % is decent, why cast a single 10-point "blast of whatever" at someone, when you can cast 5x 5-point spells for the same cost? (And if the scaling is linear, get 250% 'bang' for your MP 'buck'?)<br>
<br>In fact, throwing this on a quick spreadsheet, this seems to even MORE overpower the higher-powered sorcerers - with a 4 point spell, your choices are either a single "4" or 2x2's for net total damage:MP of 1.0 either way. But at a 6mp spell, you could cast 3x3s for a max dmg of 9 or 150% of 'value' of the invested MP. The 10-pt example is above, and it gets even grosser with more powerful spells...<br>
18 pt (best is 9x9) 450%<br>30 pt (best is 15x15) for 750%<br>...not that people are usually tossing 18 or 30 point spells, of course.<br><br>I can see offering a 'discount' if the multispells are the identical spells, but only by an mp or so. It seems logical to me that EACH spell has to be powered, but the advantage of the multispell is solely chronological - that is, you get the effects simultaneously.<br>
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