Posted by Ven on March 10, 2000 at 14:21:05:
In Reply to: Some helpful advice (perhaps) about conjurers posted by Kygolas on March 10, 2000 at 12:23:03:
> Ok, i thought i'd post a few things that i have found out about conjuration, that people might find helpful. I suppose that many may already know this, but here goes.
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> 1) The ammount of mana put into a conjuration is often less important than the area where the conjuration is performed, if you are looking for a powerful servitor. Some areas are strong for certain elements or for angels and archons, others are not. if you find youself consistently investing huge ammounts of mana for an even con, try conjuring somewhere else. However, in general, if you get a weaker servitor with a large investment of mana, you will be able to bind it multpile times (this has been especially true for angels)
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> 2) Though i have yet to really test this out well, it seems like the places that are good for angels are also good for archons.
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> 3) As you go through thera take notes about where you have conjured, what type of creature showed up and how strong it is. If you find a place that consistantly conjures strong servitors, it is worth heading a little out of your way to perform the conjuration, especially when you consider that whatever it is you conjure will be with you for 20 min or so.
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> 4) Charisma matters. With a natural 20 charisma, i have only had two servitors turn on me in something like 80 hours of playing, and i usually invest only 200-250 mana into a binding. (it should be noted, that i am good aligned, and therefore don't deal with demons and devils)
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> 5) This is somewhat speculative, but it seems that though there is a correlation between type of servitor conjured (i.e. winged radiant terrible...etc.) and of said servitor, it is posible to conjure a winged angel that is more powerful than a radiant angel.
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> Anyway, as a disclaimer, all that i have said is just empirically derived, i do not have any a priori knowledge of the code, so if its wrong, i take no responsibility
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> I hope this helps anyone who is interested.