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Dark Archon 05-10-2014 09:31 AM
[Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
While I read it, it striked me that basically the most impeding thing to cast things in combat is that you have to gather energy for every spell for 5 seconds. Anybody tried to play it with collecting the energy per turn: Concentrate, roll aganist Path and collect energy equal to MoS? It's interesting that effect it would have on gameplay.

Refplace 05-10-2014 09:48 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
There are a couple of options that let you do that published.

Nereidalbel 05-10-2014 09:54 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
It's a -4 to skill to skip the 4 extra Concentrates. There is also a leveled Perk to allow you to mitigate that penalty.

Dark Archon 05-10-2014 10:20 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nereidalbel (Post 1760359)
It's a -4 to skill to skip the 4 extra Concentrates. There is also a leveled Perk to allow you to mitigate that penalty.
There is only one perk in original book, Ritual Mastery, and it's not leveled.

Nereidalbel 05-10-2014 10:22 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Archon (Post 1760368)
There is only one perk in original book, Ritual Mastery, and it's not leveled.
It's been posted on the forum many times. Gimme a few and I'll dig it up somewhere.

Angle 05-10-2014 10:23 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
It's not in the book, it's something that's been floating around these forums.

Refplace 05-10-2014 10:32 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
Ritual Mastery is suggested as an optional leveled. See Pyramid: The Laws of Magic p 17
Also see Speed Casting same book, page 18
EDIT: Even without that issue you can do this if you can absorb the penalties.
So your losing some of the energy you would have gathered if you took your time but for smaller Rituals that might be just fine.

vicky_molokh 05-10-2014 10:32 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Angle (Post 1760372)
It's not in the book, it's something that's been floating around these forums.
Speed-Casting is official, but it's not a Perk.

Nereidalbel 05-10-2014 10:48 AM
Re: [Ritual Path Magic] Energy Collecting
 
Here we go. It's a combination of a leveled Perk, a Rules Exemption Perk, and some levels of Natural Caster.

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Originally Posted by PK (Post 1661504)
Like these?

Gathering Mastery -- Improved Path Caps 4 (Only for faster energy gathering*) [4] + Natural Caster 4 (Only for faster energy gathering, -50%) [30] + Rules Exemption (The Natural Caster in this ability can stack with normal Natural Caster) [1]. Your attempts to gather ambient energy take only one second (or one minute for non-adepts), at no extra penalty. 35 points.

* This is a feature because perks cannot have limitations.

vicky_molokh 05-10-2014 11:55 AM
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Another idea: Modular Ability limited to only working with Speed-Casting and enhanced with Reflexive or at least Reduced Time.


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