Magery and Necromancy conflict

Penalty thresholds#

Magery looks at your Necromancy; Necromancy looks at your Magery. The opposing value is the higher of base skill and effective skill. Skill equipment therefore counts, while temporarily reducing a skill below its base value does not remove the penalty.

What changes#

The penalty scales spell output. Verified examples include spell damage, Magery healing, stat-buff magnitudes, Magery-applied poison strength and relevant summon health and damage. It does not subtract points from the casting skill.

• At 100.0 in both schools, each school has 50% remaining strength.
• Chivalry is outside this two-school penalty.
• Normal tamed pets are outside the summon penalty. School-tagged summons consult their current owner’s opposing skill.
• Bind the Departed also scales its summon duration by this penalty.

Planning a hybrid#

A hybrid gains access to both toolkits while trading away strength. Evaluate healing and summons as well as direct damage when deciding how much of the opposing school to train. Individual effects can round scaled values to whole numbers.