New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing


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Wizlab Walloper

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 14:37

New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

True Seeing
Level 5 Charm

You can see invisible. The Misled status effect does not affect you. You can tell what is an illusion and what is not (ex: rakshasa). You know what brand a weapon is, and whether it is cursed or uncursed. You can see mimics before they attack you. You can see hostile castings of Trismegistus's Hermetic Seal (if this spell gets into the game). You can see magical traps, including teleport traps, Zot traps, mark traps, etc.

This spell causes minor magical contamination when used (to prevent keeping it on all the time).

Tomb Titivator

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 14:41

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

Sounds an awful lot like Divinations to me.

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 14:42

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

Charm? This sounds like it'd fit in Divinations more.

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 14:42

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

Perhaps it could be accepted as level 9 Charms/Hexes spell. As suggested it is too powerful and there is a trend of removing Detect foo spells, Insulation (grant rElec) etc.

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 15:00

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

Casting a spell every time a new item comes into los then resting off glow being optimal sounds really bad

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 15:01

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

Seems to duplicate a lot of Ash abilities.
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Wizlab Walloper

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 15:02

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

One-Eyed Jack wrote:Casting a spell every time a new item comes into los then resting off glow being optimal sounds really bad


It would only work on weapons held by enemies.

And yeah, I forgot that the devs removed Divinations from the game :oops:

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Post Thursday, 14th November 2013, 16:28

Re: New Level 5 Spell: True Seeing

And here's the ancient blog post detailing it, for reference!

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