Palemaster Woes
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:48 pm
Been playing a necromancer for a little bit now and finding that most of the necromancy spells are hard to pull off. Alot of them focus on applying a Level drain or some kind of abilty drain. However this is easily stopped by low level spells of 3rd or 4th level such as Negative energy protection and Deathward.
Ive looked for ways to combat this with lesser or greater breaches or those breaches applied by the Dispel magic range, yet they seem absent from those lists. Ive then looked into Dispelling magic on targets and found that as a Epic PM of any significant level you have a very low chance of doing this as most mundanes are classed as lvl 30 caster for purposes of dispelling against and most caster classes are likely to be effective caster level 28-30.
Effectively these low level spells make the majority of Necromatic spells for a epic Palemaster obsolete. For example we have a +4 to DC with enervation and Energy Drain which sounds great!, but these spells are rendered useless by the abundant use of Negative Energy Protection/Deathward potions/scroll or spells and no way for us to remove them without a barrage of Dispels and the hope that youll succeed with the palemasters low level Caster Level when trying to dispel.
Im not complaining, im merely pointing out how difficult this seems and am looking for solutions or perhaps word that this is working as intended?
Thanks for reading.
Ive looked for ways to combat this with lesser or greater breaches or those breaches applied by the Dispel magic range, yet they seem absent from those lists. Ive then looked into Dispelling magic on targets and found that as a Epic PM of any significant level you have a very low chance of doing this as most mundanes are classed as lvl 30 caster for purposes of dispelling against and most caster classes are likely to be effective caster level 28-30.
Effectively these low level spells make the majority of Necromatic spells for a epic Palemaster obsolete. For example we have a +4 to DC with enervation and Energy Drain which sounds great!, but these spells are rendered useless by the abundant use of Negative Energy Protection/Deathward potions/scroll or spells and no way for us to remove them without a barrage of Dispels and the hope that youll succeed with the palemasters low level Caster Level when trying to dispel.
Im not complaining, im merely pointing out how difficult this seems and am looking for solutions or perhaps word that this is working as intended?
Thanks for reading.