I agree that the Eye spell should not automatically allow monsters to know
who cast.. if you drag it back to you sure.. that makes sense. BUT, if you
just look around and let it disappear out there where it ends up, it
shouldn't send every mad meany in to try to take the poor little caster
out. (Myself being a dark elf...I'm dinky doo compared to some) It really
isn't terribly useful just for that reason alone. Otherwise, it is kind of
neat.. but only a novelty, at best. Kinda like a chinese finger trap you
share with your friends ... it is neat and funny at first, but it gets
boring and you toss it in the drawer the next day.
I don't keep them memorized either. Normally I have a slot or two that I
use just for switching spells around that are not the real important
offensive spells I need. That way I can quickly memorize and use them and
then make space for something else I need/want to use.
Gaze is much better than glimpse because it makes you be able to see way
out there...and actually I gave the wrong area for that spell.. I was
thinking glimpse was the higher level for some reason, glimpse I believe is
in the wiz guild in neriak, if not there it may be in the cleric guild. We
do have it though.
I am on veeshan and will swiftly purchase the spell for anyone who really
wants/needs it...just give me a /tell on veeshan.. Alaia is my name.
At 12:44 PM 5/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Marziani, Michael D." <Michael.Marziani@...>
>
>Has anyone found a use for these? I cannot seem to locate them.
>
>Ok that is my cynical reply :). I can actually say that I found a use for
>these (other can increasing your divination skill for when you get
>invis--hehe). I have at times used these spells to get a closer loot at
>bandit camps and such to better see how many enemies are present (and who
>has weapons?), but in general these spells are not worth keeping memorized.
>
>I wish that these spells were more a little more useful, but the amount of
>magnification that you get from glimpse and gaze (its the same spell only
>gaze lasts longer and you can cast it on others) is just not very useful.
>If they perhaps doubled the magnification that you had with it, it could be
>useful (scanning the horizon for hill giants maybe?).
>
>Other than that, I would really like to see some more vision spells with
>more uses. Perhaps a night vision spell that gives us better low light
>vision (perhaps similar to ultravision that the dark elves get). Heat sight
>is nice but only useful for humans and erudites.
>
>Anyone got some ideas for cool and useful vision based spells? Perhaps make
>it so that if a monster attacks your eye of zomm, it at least won't then
>come after you? I mean come on that really makes no sense. You are a
>monster and see this little eye moving around. You decide to whack it cause
>it's annoying you, and somehow you immediately know that the little elf 2
>miles away casted it? Things like this make spells like eye of zomm
>completely useless. Anyway.. I don't really know what my point is, maybe
>that we need to get rid of useless spells or have them improved.
>
>-Solric
>
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