You failed cast a rune of shielding?

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Postman
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You failed cast a rune of shielding?

#1 Post by Postman »

After moving to East I suddenly started to get a lot of runes failures. I don't remeber it in previous versions (v38 now). What's causing it?
I removed unlucky elrich perl, but still getting failures...

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Re: You failed cast a rune of shielding?

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Got it. It was Nature Vengence powered by arcane disrauptive.

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Re: You failed cast a rune of shielding?

#3 Post by Grey »

Perhaps the game should specifically told you "x failed because of itemy" ?
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Re: You failed cast a rune of shielding?

#4 Post by edge2054 »

The error message will be more specific next beta.

"if not silent then game.logSeen(self, "%s's %s has been disrupted by anti-magic forces!", self.name:capitalize(), ab.name) end"

The stat itself that causes this is used in more then one place though and is basically a hidden temporary value added when you wear antimagic items. It stacks, meaning that if you have one item that's gives 10% failure rate and another that gives 50% the game rolls once against 60%, in which case a single item isn't to blame.

Simply adding spell failure to the character sheet with an appropriate tooltip pointing out that wearing arcane-disrupting items is the most common cause of this stat could go a long way though.

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