An issue with spellbats is that multiple bats don't really increase the damage output, and each individual bat does 1/3rd of the damage the focus would have originally done, at a much higher complexity cost of 8, compared to Projectile's 4. The mobs have a brief period of invunerability after a spellbat hit as well. Now a swarm of bats still do have a benefit (absorbing projectiles that would have been shot at you, doesn't matter if a few die, and a few other minor benefits).
They are definitely more fire and forget though. Just cast and keep moving, no aiming required.
They probably would work well with the healing focus though, although their complexity + heal focus complexity means you can't get that strong of a healing focus, and it is more of the regeneration effect than the bulk heal.
Once the eldritch stuff is available I want to create a bolt-ice-taint focus with full power and splitting somewhere in it.
THAT thing will be quite powerful. The advanced focus just has not got enough power for me. Neither did ice ._.
But taint at lv 5 packs a punch with split. 16 damage.
Plus, I have a heal focus and a break plan focus.
I only need one attack focus. I am more pacifistic
A really strong attack is to make a shotgun blaster focus.
The triple scatter ends up being 8 total projectiles, and with slow speed seeking projectiles, you can get all of them to home in on a single target. With Flux 4, you have 7 damage per projectile, ignoring armor. All 8 bolts hitting the same target is worth a whopping total of 56 damage per cast, although you are most likely to hit only 3-4 of them, which is still more than enough to 1 shot most of the time.
Increased divisions on Scatter doesn't increase total damage, but stacked Scatters do. Each scatter is worth 2x damage total effectively.
Notably this was made on beta 13, but as far as the patch notes go it should have only improved in effectiveness, with the Seeking modifier on Projectile being buffed to be more reliable.
On the topic of getting Ordo, Nether bricks are a very easy source of it. You effectively turn each Netherack into 1 point of ordo.
Also, something to note, doing your essensia distilling in the Nether is a really solid choice. The rifts often spawn at lava level, and the seeds consequently die to the lava doing nothing.
Even if this isn't the case, Magma blocks ALSO damage the seeds, faster than they can transform them into tainted rock.
And if the worst comes to worst, and the Seed actually does survive? All that worthless Netherack... is turned into tainted rock, which when the seed dies, turns into porous stone. AKA ore central.
Server is going down tonight and will be down till sometime tomorrow around 8 AM to 4 PM, depending if I get stuff done before my shift starts for work. I need to fix an issue and the server has to be down during it, and it involves some long DL/upload times.
1. Mystcraft's dev has seriously screwed us in the past, to the point of me saying screw him (Forge updated and it broke his code, (a 4 line update and it would have fixed it) and another of our mods needed that updated forge to fix a massive crash error that was destroying the server at the time. His response was to flip me off when I asked if he could put out a minor patch just to fix this). That, and the "build your own dimensions" thing wrecks servers pretty easily. Considering how the only way to get rid of them is for me to manually delete them.
2. Waila + wawla are both client side, on top of the map. If you want that over what we have, get it. You can customize the client side of things without any issues.
A few infusions I would like would be related to more "useful" effects. Perhaps an upgrade to morphic fingers that further lets you use your hands as a omnitool (although, weaker than a normal tool) and/or perhaps have a built in silk touch for your hand-digging. A swim speed booster as well would also be nice (Thaumic Webbing?) to further put value to the underwater breath upgrade (Which, quite frankly, is worthless if you have a respiration helm 99% of the time). Again with Morphic Finger's upgrade, let it also have the ability to augment your bare handed punches as well. Warped Tumor should be able to effect your permanent warp as well. Considering how much warp you end up with if you have just a few addons (I have a few of the add ons, and currently sit at a 67%ish of the warp bar as perma warp. Literally no point to trying to fight lesser forms of warp at that high) I wouldn't even notice an additional 50 points of standard warp being stored. If nothing else, warped tumor should have upgraded follow up that lets it help you fight specific warp effects (Sun scorned, Blindness/Blurry Vision, death squads, ect.) instead.
Personally, I'm a fan of divergent choice pathways, and having each of the infusions having a further enhanced upgrade, that you can only pick one of. Example : Warped Tumor has an upgrade to help it resist either Sunscorned and Unnatural Hunger, or the death squads (Mindspiders/Eldritch Guards).
It just feels like a lot of the effects are redundant with things you will find on your armor anyway, and other things are worthless (Or, at the very least, unliked) due to the lack of a toggle on the effect. It just feels strange, that the hardest to unlock part of Thaumic Horizons (so far anyway) is one of the least useful.
haven't ignored you, I have been really busy (Someone quit at my job, plus our only local competitor went out of business. My hours have skyrocketed as a result).
Don't think there is a warp effect that causes that Zetaliner. Might want to check for other issues, for blindness should not drop your view distance to nothing, you are still supposed to see roughly 2-4 blocks around you.
Mithion, I'm curious, do you think you will manage to get your power system fixed before you leave AM2 for good? Sort of sad that it is a serverkiller due to it saving many times a second eating the TPS.
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An issue with spellbats is that multiple bats don't really increase the damage output, and each individual bat does 1/3rd of the damage the focus would have originally done, at a much higher complexity cost of 8, compared to Projectile's 4. The mobs have a brief period of invunerability after a spellbat hit as well. Now a swarm of bats still do have a benefit (absorbing projectiles that would have been shot at you, doesn't matter if a few die, and a few other minor benefits).
They are definitely more fire and forget though. Just cast and keep moving, no aiming required.
They probably would work well with the healing focus though, although their complexity + heal focus complexity means you can't get that strong of a healing focus, and it is more of the regeneration effect than the bulk heal.
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A really strong attack is to make a shotgun blaster focus.
Start - Scatter [30 degree arc, 2 projectiles] - Scatter [30 degree arc, 2 projectiles] - Scatter [30 degree arc, 2 projectiles] - Projectile [Seeking, speed 1]- (Damage mod. Personally used Flux rank 4).
The triple scatter ends up being 8 total projectiles, and with slow speed seeking projectiles, you can get all of them to home in on a single target. With Flux 4, you have 7 damage per projectile, ignoring armor. All 8 bolts hitting the same target is worth a whopping total of 56 damage per cast, although you are most likely to hit only 3-4 of them, which is still more than enough to 1 shot most of the time.
Increased divisions on Scatter doesn't increase total damage, but stacked Scatters do. Each scatter is worth 2x damage total effectively.
Notably this was made on beta 13, but as far as the patch notes go it should have only improved in effectiveness, with the Seeking modifier on Projectile being buffed to be more reliable.
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On the topic of getting Ordo, Nether bricks are a very easy source of it. You effectively turn each Netherack into 1 point of ordo.
Also, something to note, doing your essensia distilling in the Nether is a really solid choice. The rifts often spawn at lava level, and the seeds consequently die to the lava doing nothing.
Even if this isn't the case, Magma blocks ALSO damage the seeds, faster than they can transform them into tainted rock.
And if the worst comes to worst, and the Seed actually does survive? All that worthless Netherack... is turned into tainted rock, which when the seed dies, turns into porous stone. AKA ore central.
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Server is going down tonight and will be down till sometime tomorrow around 8 AM to 4 PM, depending if I get stuff done before my shift starts for work. I need to fix an issue and the server has to be down during it, and it involves some long DL/upload times.
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1. Mystcraft's dev has seriously screwed us in the past, to the point of me saying screw him (Forge updated and it broke his code, (a 4 line update and it would have fixed it) and another of our mods needed that updated forge to fix a massive crash error that was destroying the server at the time. His response was to flip me off when I asked if he could put out a minor patch just to fix this). That, and the "build your own dimensions" thing wrecks servers pretty easily. Considering how the only way to get rid of them is for me to manually delete them.
2. Waila + wawla are both client side, on top of the map. If you want that over what we have, get it. You can customize the client side of things without any issues.
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crashed last night. I've fixed it since then.
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A few infusions I would like would be related to more "useful" effects. Perhaps an upgrade to morphic fingers that further lets you use your hands as a omnitool (although, weaker than a normal tool) and/or perhaps have a built in silk touch for your hand-digging. A swim speed booster as well would also be nice (Thaumic Webbing?) to further put value to the underwater breath upgrade (Which, quite frankly, is worthless if you have a respiration helm 99% of the time). Again with Morphic Finger's upgrade, let it also have the ability to augment your bare handed punches as well. Warped Tumor should be able to effect your permanent warp as well. Considering how much warp you end up with if you have just a few addons (I have a few of the add ons, and currently sit at a 67%ish of the warp bar as perma warp. Literally no point to trying to fight lesser forms of warp at that high) I wouldn't even notice an additional 50 points of standard warp being stored. If nothing else, warped tumor should have upgraded follow up that lets it help you fight specific warp effects (Sun scorned, Blindness/Blurry Vision, death squads, ect.) instead.
Personally, I'm a fan of divergent choice pathways, and having each of the infusions having a further enhanced upgrade, that you can only pick one of. Example : Warped Tumor has an upgrade to help it resist either Sunscorned and Unnatural Hunger, or the death squads (Mindspiders/Eldritch Guards).
It just feels like a lot of the effects are redundant with things you will find on your armor anyway, and other things are worthless (Or, at the very least, unliked) due to the lack of a toggle on the effect. It just feels strange, that the hardest to unlock part of Thaumic Horizons (so far anyway) is one of the least useful.
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haven't ignored you, I have been really busy (Someone quit at my job, plus our only local competitor went out of business. My hours have skyrocketed as a result).
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Something you're not getting, because you literally ignored the....
Big, Bolded, Bright Damn
Red Sign of READ ME.
Basic reading skill is a prerequisite to join our server.
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Yea, I got the message, I just tend to do them in batches. Odds are I'll hit you sometime today.
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Don't think there is a warp effect that causes that Zetaliner. Might want to check for other issues, for blindness should not drop your view distance to nothing, you are still supposed to see roughly 2-4 blocks around you.
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Mithion, I'm curious, do you think you will manage to get your power system fixed before you leave AM2 for good? Sort of sad that it is a serverkiller due to it saving many times a second eating the TPS.
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If you have Pam's Harvestcraft, her milk recipe is great for it.
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you are probably forgetting infusion enchanting.
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Pretty sure it still needs stability modifiers like a normal alter Zeklo. Try that.