[CF-Devel] Two things - item_power, Divine Shock

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On Monday 16 February 2004 21:27
Mark Wedel wrote:

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      ERACC wrote:
     
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      > Gentlepeople,
     
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      > It appears, on crossfire.metalforge.net, that item_power does not
     
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      > SUM correctly. For example if I have a character that is level 14
     
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      > then that character can apply two items that have an item_power
     
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      > of +13. Thus the total item power equipped is OVER 14. [...]
     
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        Looking at the code, it seems pretty straightforward.  CAn you
     
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      provide a character name, as well as items you are trying to apply?
     
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       Might give a better clue as to what is going on.
     
     
Actually, I discovered this in a discussion with another player. He
was level 19 and had equipped item power total of well over 19. Katia
was on the server at the time and may remember who it was. I can't
recall. My character, poof, is over level 50 so unless some items
exist that he can equip to go over the total for his level I won't
be able to test it personally without starting a new character.

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      > Ok, who made Sorig's Divine Shock worthless? I don't mean the
     
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      > delay. I mean the prayer Divine Shock (ball lightning with god
     
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      > power) is no longer a useful attack spell. My character has level
     
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      > 24 praying. It takes casting Divine Shock about 63 - 65 times to
     
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      > kill a wyvern. [...]
     
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        The spells were generally converted as the old system had them,
     
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      but may have been some typos, or some other oddities.  I'll beef up
     
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      the spell a bit.
     
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        Note that while divine shock is god given, it is a level 1 spell
     
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      without a real high cost.  So in that sense, it could be considered
     
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      an odd spell - low level, but you probably have to be reasonably
     
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      high level before the god will give it to you.
     
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        But the old parameters of the spell more reflected the level of
     
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      the spell, not how hard it is to get.
     
     
Burning Hands is a level 1 spell yet it gets more powerful with the
level of the caster. Or at least it appears to. I double checked and
found that divine shock is a low level prayer, native grace of 50. I
still believe it has been castrated in the new code however. It also
seems to not be getting any more powerful with the increase in the
praying skill of my character. That doesn't follow the path of other
spells which *do* get more powerful with higher levels. Raise the
cost for it some if needed but please fix it where it is again useful
to have and use. IMO it should be at *least* as powerful as ball
lightning once the character reaches level 12 in praying. Get REAL, I
mean it is a *deity* granted spell for Sorig's sake. :-P

Gene (aka poof, aka eracc)
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