Farcaster Bless Question

[boozermonkey]

I’ve taken this bless numerous times now and I really can’t determine if it’s working or not. There is no farcaster icon on blessed units and it’s difficult to determine conclusively if mages blessed with it are actually getting the 50% range bonus, so appreciate it if you folks can test it as well.

[Selgeron]

it definitely works, you can test it in single player, count the squares, something that normally goes 30 squares is 45 squares. Whether or not your units will be ACCURATE at that range...

[voronin_mike]

Yeah, I personally prefer the precision bless for mages. But range is useful if you often use shorter-range spells.

[Draken]

Originally posted by voronin_mike:

Yeah, I personally prefer the precision bless for mages. But range is useful if you often use shorter-range spells.

There are also some nice 100 precision instant hit spells. WIth the battlefield being bigger, even a range 40 or 50 spell might appriciate more range.

[boozermonkey]

The point blank evo spells are quite effective when used on advance and cast and I was trying to use far caster for those and the short range priest buffs on ash and MA Ermor.

I really want to get eagle kings to do attack, attack, then shoot off point blank aoe spells. It’s just not working out for some reason.

[voronin_mike]

Originally posted by boozermonkey:

I really want to get eagle kings to do attack, attack, then shoot off point blank aoe spells. It’s just not working out for some reason.

Iirc, fliers given attack-attack-fire or cast were for some reason advancing on foot for 2 turns then cast or fire from the position they were in - in Dom5 and probably ealier. It was very clear with dragons. And as many fliers are not very fast on foot... Not sure whether it was WAD, legacy code, or something else.

[Rovsea]

Originally posted by boozermonkey:

The point blank evo spells are quite effective when used on advance and cast and I was trying to use far caster for those and the short range priest buffs on ash and MA Ermor.

I really want to get eagle kings to do attack, attack, then shoot off point blank aoe spells. It’s just not working out for some reason.

Well, farcaster can't do very much if the base-range is sufficiently low. For example, Shockwave would go from a Range 2 spell to a Range 3 spell. 1 extra tile just isn't a very big boost.

[Selgeron]

The real issue with farcasters, is because of the precision most mages will target closer targets because they are more likely to hit anyway.

But farcaster works really great with like, incinerate or send to inferno etc, which have 100% accuracy but relatively short range.