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Armored Casting
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Available To
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Paladins
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Mnemonic
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[CASTING]
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Requirements
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None
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Prerequisites
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None
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Rank
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Cost
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1
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20
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2
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30
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3
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40
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4
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50
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5
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60
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- Description: Adjusts a person's armor so that they can better recover from a failed spell casting attempt. Armored Casting reduces the amount of mana lost when failing to cast a spell due to armor hindrance by 15% per rank (all fractions dropped) and has chance to reduce the roundtime of the failure.
- Each rank of Armored Casting returns 15% of of a failed spell's mana to the caster (rounded down) and gives a 33% chance to reduce cast roundtime by 1 second. At 3 ranks, cast roundtime is always 2 seconds for a failed spell; ranks 4 and 5 provide a chance to reduce it to 1 second. Armored Casting does not reduce the hard roundtime from CHANNELing a spell, nor does it stack with Rapid Fire (515).
- Messaging: Application of the specialization:
>armor casting milque
You adjust Milque's gold chainmail kirtle, making it easier for her to recover from failed spell casting.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
Cumulative Benefits Table
Armored Casting Benefits (on Armor Hindrance failures)
Armored Casting
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Percentage of Mana Returned
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Min Cast RT
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Max Cast RT
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Rank 1
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15%
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3 (67%)
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2 (33%)
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Rank 2
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30%
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3 (34%)
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2 (66%)
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Rank 3
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45%
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2 (100%)
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Rank 4
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60%
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2 (67%)
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1 (33%)
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Rank 5
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75%
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2 (34%)
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1 (66%)
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