I really feel like the computer is getting confused. At a point when I have 3 power pips and one regular pip and I cast a spell for 4 pips it takes them all. Shouldn't I have 7 pips before casting? Minus 4 should leave me with 3. I distinctly remember in dueling training that one pip and one power pip = 3 pips. Why does the computer short me all the time?
Is the spell you are casting from your school or not? If it is not from your primary school, then you only had four pips to cast. Primary schools are the only ones that recognize power pips
The computer is fine. Besides, computers work on programs/commands implemented by you (the user).
Anyways. About your thought.
Power Pips only work for spells that are your school only.
So, since you're , Kraken would cost you 2 Power Pips as opposed to regular four pips. However, if you're using say Vampire, the spell would consume four pips (regardless if they are Powers or not) since you're not .
The only exception to this rule is the use of school mastery amulets. These amulets allows your Power Pips to count as a school based on the amulet you're wearing. For instance:
If you're wearing say a Mastery Amulet, then the example I used earlier, Vampire would only consume Two Power Pips and not the entire four.
This is also why many wizards choose to employ Mastery Amulets when questing. It brings out the maximum use of your pips.
It sounds like you used a spell that was not from your own school, and that you didn't have mastery for. Yellow pips are called "power pips" and are worth two points for casting any spell you have mastery over. That means spells from your own school. To get mastery over a second school, you must have a mastery amulet for that school equipped.
For your storm spells, a "4 pip" spell like Kraken takes two yellow power pips or four white pips. In the scenario you described (three yellow pips and one white one), it would leave you with one yellow and one white pip as leftovers. Then, in the next turn, you'd get either another yellow or another white pip.
But say you wanted to cast a Satyr from the Life school and you didn't have a Life mastery amulet... That spell would take all four of your pips, regardless of their color, because the yellow pips only count as one pip when you don't have mastery.
Basic rule: Yellow pips only count for two in your own school. Otherwise, they count for one in every other school.
In order to effectively use spells from a second school, you need a mastery amulet. They drop for free in some dungeons like Waterworks, or from bosses at level 90-110. Or, you can buy them in the Crown Shop. Sometimes they go on sale. The Life mastery amulet will probably go on sale for 50% off in March, around St. Patrick's day (17 March).
Power pips count as a single pip for odd number spells for some reason. However, at level 110 you get the pip conversion stat that will give you a chance to get that pip back!
You see, power pips are only worth 2 pips on a spell from your school. You are lightning, so a power Pip can be used on a 2 pip lightning spell, or a one pip spell from any other school. Hope that helps. Hunter NightThief 53
Well power pips only affect the element you chose in the beginning test like I am life. I have a power pip and 2 regular pips I can use a four pip move that is life element or I can use a three pip move other element (like Death or Ice). Power pips will only count as 2 for your character if you use a life element card. Hope I cleared some things up.
Then I'm afraid you misheard him, a normal pip=one pip and a power pip=two pips for a school you have mastery of. That is how it has been for me and every enemy I've fought be it another player or monster and every player and minion I've fought alongside in the almost 8 years now I've played the game.
That really depends, was the spell you cast a storm spell? If not, then the spell will use all of your pips. Power pips are only for your school spells. All other spells treat them as a normal pip.
I really feel like the computer is getting confused. At a point when I have 3 power pips and one regular pip and I cast a spell for 4 pips it takes them all. Shouldn't I have 7 pips before casting? Minus 4 should leave me with 3. I distinctly remember in dueling training that one pip and one power pip = 3 pips. Why does the computer short me all the time?
Alexis Dawnbreaker lvl 43 Storm
Hi there, it sounds like you used an off school spell. Power pips only count as 2 pips for spells that match your school. As a storm wizard if you used a 4 pip spell from any other school besides storm- your 3 power pips and a pip count as 4 pips total.(Your power pips are only one pip each in this case since you used a non storm spell). The only exception to this rule is if you wear a mastery amulet which will allow your power pips to count as 2 pips for the storm school and the school that the mastery amulet specifies.
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, Kraken would cost you 2 Power Pips as opposed to regular four pips.
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Alia Misthaven
