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Omley Boozebeard

10-21-2009, 04:35 PM

Magic seems pretty fun. I've been trying it out, although i've only got as far as throwing some heals on myself but the system sounds pretty cool

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Using magic requires Magic Skill and Reagents. Reagents can be bought from certain vendors. The various spells require different Magic Skill to be cast, and the less skill you have the more likely you are to fizzle your spells. Some spells simply cannot be cast at low levels. Practise easy spells first, then move up to more difficult ones to keep gaining skill points.<o:p></o:p>

To get started, open your spell book and drag some spells to your quickbar, for instance Lesser Healing and Spurt. Make sure you have the necessary Reagents.

To cast a spell you must first channel it. This is done by pressing the assigned quickbar button. You cannot move during the channeling time and you will be interrupted if you sustain damage. The spell fizzles very often until you have enough skill. After the spell is successfully channeled, it will remain channeled for several seconds.

To release the spell you'll need a target (target someone by looing at them and press TAB.) If you press the quickbar button of the currently channeled spell and your target is within distance (and not behind an obstacle) the spell will be released towards that target. If you hold Alt while pressing the quickbar button the spell will be cast on yourself.<o:p></o:p>
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Magic may seem simple at first but is in fact one of the most complicated and powerful arts to master in Mortal Online. Already with the few spells currently available in Beta a mage duel requires a lot of practise and skill. For instance Corrupt will deal very little damage to your opponent, but the reoccuring damage will interrupt him from casting spells with longer casting times - in turn giving you time to cast a more powerful spell, unless your opponent decides to ignore the damage from Corrupt and cast a quick Spurt on you to interrupt your spell. And so on. Make sure to learn the channeling times for spells and always keep an eye out for what spell your opponent(s) are currently channeling.

Jolle Poker

10-21-2009, 04:46 PM

Just so you guys know, the target + TAB thing won't be in later. It will all be aiming (well most of the spells will).

Thatcher

10-21-2009, 04:56 PM

Just so you guys know, the target + TAB thing won't be in later. It will all be aiming (well most of the spells will).

Thank Jesus.

Omley Boozebeard

10-21-2009, 06:07 PM

Will there be anyway to see a players health then and how can only most of the spells be aimed if there is no way to target something?

slugys

10-21-2009, 06:15 PM

actually, that sounds good to me, at least they added the ability to disturb spell casters, something else df failed at.

Supreme

10-21-2009, 06:39 PM

actually, that sounds good to me, at least they added the ability to disturb spell casters, something else df failed at.

Kill em?

Jolle Poker

10-21-2009, 09:04 PM

Will there be anyway to see a players health then and how can only most of the spells be aimed if there is no way to target something?

You can see players health as it is right now... Don't know if that'll be in the release though.

I have no comment on your second question, it's too stupid for me to comprehend.

Kran De Loy

10-21-2009, 09:14 PM

You can see players health as it is right now... Don't know if that'll be in the release though.

I have no comment on your second question, it's too stupid for me to comprehend.
I guess, classically in computer games, you cheat if you have 'notarget' on so, nothing sees you. So I would guess that he's just trying too hard to make a retard joke stick.

Btw: I tried to find a picture to go along with a geek trying too hard.. but all I found were these. I want those. (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/08/electric-bikes/) I really really want those. (http://japanese.engadget.com/images/2005/11/vs-image-geek-full-001.jpg)

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/images/2008/08/19/tron_bike_steve_jurvetson_flickr.jpg
http://japanese.engadget.com/images/2005/11/vs-image-geek-full-001.jpg

Omley Boozebeard

10-21-2009, 09:37 PM

You can see players health as it is right now... Don't know if that'll be in the release though.

I have no comment on your second question, it's too stupid for me to comprehend.

I know you can see it right now thats why I asked if there will be a way after the tab target thing is gone.

Whats so stupid about asking how you can have any spells that don't need to be aimed if you can't have a target, unless you just ment self spells wont need to be targeted. It's always said there would be some spells that auto targeted.

Jolle Poker

10-21-2009, 10:46 PM

I know you can see it right now thats why I asked if there will be a way after the tab target thing is gone.

Whats so stupid about asking how you can have any spells that don't need to be aimed if you can't have a target, unless you just ment self spells wont need to be targeted. It's always said there would be some spells that auto targeted.

Did I ever say they would remove targeting? No I did not sir. I said that most spells wouldn't require target later on. You will still be able to target others with TAB, including yourself.

For your question on "how to cast spells with no target", think of niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger's magic missile.

Omley Boozebeard

10-21-2009, 10:51 PM

Did I ever say they would remove targeting? No I did not sir. I said that most spells wouldn't require target later on. You will still be able to target others with TAB, including yourself.

For your question on "how to cast spells with no target", think of niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger's magic missile.

Oh

Just so you guys know, the target + TAB thing won't be in later. It will all be aiming (well most of the spells will).

I thought you ment they were getting rid of the target system instead of that they were gettting rid of it for casting spells. Obviously I know how you cast spells without targeting I just didn't understand how some spells could use targeting if there was no targeting system :P

I can't find any cuprum for my spells :<

slugys

10-21-2009, 11:41 PM

jolly is not so err, jolly atm eh?

Kran De Loy

10-22-2009, 12:31 AM

Omley Boozebeard

10-22-2009, 12:52 AM

Nah, it's probably a consequence to Omley always niggering on Jolle's anime stuff.
And Jolle always terrorist bombing Omley with the same anime stuff.

What a wicked world we live in. :mad:

Btw: What -is- the Target+TAB thing? I thought you were referring to targeting using tab, but later you make it sound like that's something almost completly different.

No, thats exactly what it means. Jolle said that, later most spells wont require you to use tab target. You will actually have aim them but I thought he ment that they were getting rid of targeting people with tab all together. Thats where the confusion arose.

The audacity of some people. I fell down a cliff into a ravine and died. Luckily there was a priest down there so i ressurected and made the 30 second run back to my corpse. I passed a guy on the way and when i got to my corpse my dagger was gone. So I ran back and saw him attacking the priest with my very dagger. So I went up to him and said "you stole my dagger!". To which he replied "no I didn't, I have loads of these." I was quite amazed he expected me to believe him, having just seen him running away from my corpse down in a ravine with no one else in sight for 100s of meters either way. Not only that but he was even Grey from having looted a blue corpse. Some people will try anything on.

Kran De Loy

10-22-2009, 12:53 AM

No, thats exactly what it means. Jolle said that, later most spells wont require you to use tab target. You will actually have aim them but I thought he ment that they were getting rid of targeting people with tab all together. Thats where the confusion arose.
Ah. I didn't even know you had to target for every spell as it is now. Bit confusing Jolle. A. Bit. Confusing.

Omley Boozebeard

10-22-2009, 01:01 AM

Ah. I didn't even know you had to target for every spell as it is now. Bit confusing Jolle. A. Bit. Confusing.

Yeah neither did I when I read it.

Is intelligence for crafting? Because I assumed it was something to do with magic and put skill points in it but my spells only increase my psyche (which in turn is increasing my mana).

Also spurt is so fucking useless, does 3 damage! I guess its for interupting but so far I can't tell any difference in casting time for the spells that I can cast. Lesser heal, greater heal and spurt all seem to have roughly the same cast time. Spurt definatley isn't short enough to bother casting it anyway.

Jolle Poker

10-22-2009, 08:58 AM

Ah. I didn't even know you had to target for every spell as it is now. Bit confusing Jolle. A. Bit. Confusing.

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4723/125595615198.png

Kale

10-22-2009, 12:34 PM

Are you sure that offensive tab-targeting is going to be disabled for nukes? I was following things a few weeks ago and couldn't find any confirmation.

If someone knows where some official info is on this, share pl0x

Jolle Poker

10-22-2009, 04:51 PM

Henrik was ranting on IRC one day, he mentioned it there. I think there is a thread with all the quotes somewhere in the beta forums.

Kran De Loy

10-22-2009, 10:17 PM

Henrik was ranting on IRC one day, he mentioned it there. I think there is a thread with all the quotes somewhere in the beta forums.
Bah, IRC is not official. I hate that.

LordTenacious

10-22-2009, 10:30 PM

hey guys, i was irc once and he said there were gonna be tanks and you be like general patton and go through your enemy like shit through a tin horn.

Monte

10-23-2009, 11:43 AM

Well, since a magi is what I usually play, I downloaded the client again and will try it out this weekend. Anybody else with the client want to fuck around and rule MO for a little while, look me up.

Jolle Poker

10-23-2009, 03:11 PM

In other news:

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/25395-current-patch-v-0-7-9-10-known-issues-not-issues.html

The crafting system will be overhauled in the coming weeks. So please refrain from reporting issues on crafting, such as weapons/armor since the entire system will be changed, fixing the old one would be futile.

Omley Boozebeard

10-23-2009, 03:36 PM

In other news:

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/25395-current-patch-v-0-7-9-10-known-issues-not-issues.html

:O

Gromit

10-24-2009, 03:45 PM

This game isn't coming out for another year or so is it?

Ah well, it's not like niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger will be in a playable state by then anyway.

Kran De Loy

10-24-2009, 08:44 PM

This game isn't coming out for another year or so is it?

Ah well, it's not like niggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggerniggernigger will be in a playable state by then anyway.
Seems I was right when I said 'Fourth Quarter? More like early-mid December."
Now it seems like they'll release like every other shitty ass MMO that's come out, than not be complete until 1-2 months after the release while even than needed plenty of small fixes.

Omley Boozebeard

10-25-2009, 06:30 PM

Seems I was right when I said 'Fourth Quarter? More like early-mid December."
Now it seems like they'll release like every other shitty ass MMO that's come out, than not be complete until 1-2 months after the release while even than needed plenty of small fixes.

December is in the 4th quater...

Kran De Loy

10-25-2009, 06:38 PM

December is in the 4th quarter...
We also happen to be in the 4th quarter already. They technically could release tomorrow and still be on the publicized schedule.
What I was saying is that even if they release just before the Christmas rush, they still wont be properly prepared.

Supreme

10-25-2009, 08:03 PM

You forgot to say Fix'd.

Kran De Loy

10-25-2009, 08:32 PM

You forgot to say Fix'd.
I try the subtle approach on that kind of stuff. I mean I would fucked up a shit creek if I didn't have spell check. As at least Tetsu has commented in some way on before.

Tetsu

10-25-2009, 09:45 PM

what did i do?

Kran De Loy

10-25-2009, 10:04 PM

what did i do?
Grammar Nazi'd me a few times.

Tetsu

10-25-2009, 10:07 PM

Grammar Nazi'd me a few times.

i dont grammar nazi. i might point out spectacular stupidity though.

Kran De Loy

10-25-2009, 10:13 PM

i dont grammar nazi. i might point out spectacular stupidity though.
http://ritesofpatches.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/meh-cat.jpg

Tetsu

10-25-2009, 10:18 PM

like that. that was pretty dumb.

Kran De Loy

10-25-2009, 10:23 PM

I hate people.
Yeah, I know.

Tetsu

10-26-2009, 02:08 AM

Yeah, I know.

you dont count as a person

Gromit

10-26-2009, 05:47 AM

faggots

Kran De Loy

10-26-2009, 06:23 AM

faggots
That's a badge of honor around here. I'm glad I got another promotion, not exactly sure what I did to get it tho.

Mikee

10-26-2009, 06:26 AM

I wish this thread was about real magic.

slugys

10-26-2009, 04:51 PM

the only real magic in the world is smoking a joint while getting a blowjob.

losinglife

10-26-2009, 08:57 PM

while watching star wars

Supreme

10-26-2009, 08:59 PM

or lord of the rings

Tetsu

10-26-2009, 10:09 PM

or itunes visualizer

LordTenacious

10-26-2009, 10:10 PM

or bangbus.com trailers

Kran De Loy

10-26-2009, 10:11 PM

or youngporn.net trailers

losinglife

10-26-2009, 10:58 PM

or dancingbear.com