Next Question: Multiple GA spells... (in General)


Shidoshi July 12 2005 9:54 AM EDT

You'll probably be sick to the sight of my name by the end of the week :)

Does it make a difference to have multiple minions with GA? Will they all cast their own GA's on one another, thereby giving each minion multiple GA's which will reflect back multiple serves of damage? Could they theoretically end up reflecting back more damage than was originally done? Or would they only be able to possibly reflect up to the maximum damage done?

Xiaz on Hiatus July 12 2005 9:57 AM EDT

I believe the all the trained GA just acts as one stacked GA. So no, you don't get multiple reflections of the damage. It just acts as one GA of the equivalent exp size.

I could be totally wrong, but iirc that's how it is :)

bartjan July 12 2005 9:58 AM EDT

All enchantments do stack. However, it's their level that stack, not the effect.
For example. 1 minion with a level 10,000 GA and another one with a level 15,000 GA has the same result as 1 single minion having a level 25,000 GA.

There is (at least) one drawback for having multiple minions training the same (defensive) enchantment, and that's the fact that Dispell Magic does act on each spell individually. Using the same example from above, a Dispell Magic spell with an effect of 20,000 will completely cancel out the 10,000 and 15,000 GA, but not the 25,000 GA (the result is a 5,000 GA).

GA is at its optimal value if the level is the same as the damage you receive.

LumpBot July 12 2005 10:00 AM EDT

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Shidoshi July 12 2005 10:03 AM EDT

thanks for that guys. sorry, but I can't use chat, doesn't work for me. I'm sure I need to change some settings to fix this, but I am not permitted to do so.

Manta July 12 2005 1:38 PM EDT

I just copied bartjan's explanation on the wiki.

However, there is also a (small) advantage in training the same enchantment on multiple minions: namely, the cost in experience of a 25K level GA is more than a 10K GA plus a 15K GA, due to the increasing cost of training 1 level of an enchantment.
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