magic

Azariah

how many wizards do i need to actually cast blessing?

Lord Thane

Azariah per game guide 12 per land. That's based on a 1 school per land ratio, with 75% success casting rate.

Keep in mind more schools and more wizards increases the chances. Also keep in mind Race modifiers that can make it easier or harder to cast.

https://thardferr.com/guide/chapter-4/

DougEfresh

i know the game guide says that. but i remember using way less to cast back in the day.

Azariah

ok so i just need more schools

Mack10

I believe for a blessing 4:1 was safe to use with 2:1 schools for a Human. Growing crop was about the same.
Natural Growth was about 8:1 but got lucky quite a bit with 5:1.
Elf I think I used 3:1 for Bless/GC but I think I always had 3:1 schools.

Xliest

Ya I think it used to be between 4 and 10 per acre on average obviously elves had an easier time and non magical races would have a tougher time.

Rennoc

I know the guide says that but yeah it used to be 3-4:1 at 1:1 schools as human(before tech) pretty sure. At 12:1 and 1:1 schools I don’t think blessing makes sense after upkeep of the wizzies and building space of schools. Might as well run more houses markets and gh, or forges.

Leo

Rennoc

I second that. Almost never failed a bless/gc with a number between 3-4 wizz per land @ 1:1 schools as human. GB with 6-7 per land.
The game guide projects the initial plan but it must have been buffed to actually make them worthwhile. Currently 5-6 wizz per land fails 50% of the time. Without GC/Bless/GB due to upkeeps the economy collapses in most cases with a decent army.

saadht

I feel like magic needs a major overhaul. After offensive spells giving retals, bless only giving 10%, and failure rates at 1:1 schools being actually quite high, I feel we will break a great part of this game by nerfing magic like this.

PS truesight giving retals basically makes it useless. You TS before attacking, successfully giving the defender 2 retals on you.

RIP magic as it stands.

TheKeeper

saadht I removed retal on TS

Xliest

Leo for GB 10 as a hard cut off seems like a good idea that spell is so good that it needs to have some boundaries for casting.