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Rank
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Square
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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.
Mechanics
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.
Additional Information
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 Roundtime (on Fumbles and Armor Hindrance failures)
Armored Casting
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Cloth
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Leather
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Scale
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Chain
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Plate
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Rank 1
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5
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10
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15
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20
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25
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Rank 2
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4
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8
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12
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16
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20
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Rank 3
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3
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6
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9
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12
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15
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Rank 4
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3
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4
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6
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8
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10
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Rank 5
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3
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3
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3
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4
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5
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