Piercing Gaze (416)

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Piercing Gaze (416) Mnemonic [PIERCEGAZE] Duration Instantaneous Utility Magic   Availability All

Minor Elemental Spells Elemental Defense I (401) Defensive Presence (402) Utility Lock Pick Enhancement (403) Utility Disarm Enhancement (404) Utility Elemental Detection (405) Utility Elemental Defense II (406) Defensive Unlock (407) Utility Disarm (408) Utility Elemental Blast (409) Attack Elemental Wave (410) Attack Elemental Blade (411) Offensive Weapon Deflection (412) Attack Elemental Saturation (413) Attack Elemental Defense III (414) Defensive Elemental Strike (415) Attack Piercing Gaze (416) Utility Elemental Dispel (417) Attack Mana Focus (418) Utility Mass Elemental Defense (419) Defensive Magic Item Creation (420) Utility Elemental Targeting (425) Offensive Elemental Barrier (430) Defensive Major Elemental Wave (435) Attack

Piercing Gaze allows the caster to attempt to peer into, behind, or under all sorts of containers.

There are several factors that contribute to the spell's success, which includes: Perception skill ranks, Minor Elemental spell ranks, Intuition bonus, Logic bonus, and the spell Disarm Enhancement, which also takes Aura into account.

Be warned, many containers have a natural resistance to the spell due to the nature of the way the container was created or from the material it was created from, such as mithril or being enruned.

Be further warned that the spell can also cause some traps to be set off, which will strike the spell caster and possibly others in the room.

Messaging

Failure:

You gesture at a scratched thanot trunk.
You gaze at the trunk but your vision is obscured.

Success on a trapped box:

You gesture at a rotting haon coffer.
You gaze at the coffer and see. . .

A rotting haon coffer which contains:
  Some silver coins (in)
  An opal inset gold pitcher (in)
  A blue spinel (in)
  
Peering through the haon coffer, you notice that the hinges have some springs incorporated into the design in an unusual fashion.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

Resources

• Kaldonis's guide to Popping Boxes
• Minor Elemental Spell Circle: Piercing Gaze, on Play.net