Can't cast reactive armor

[Discordia]

I have a char that whenever I cast reactive armor it says it wont adhere to
me I am not wearing any magic stuff or armor just newbie clothes I don't
think it has ever worked on that char I never really play it that much but
now I am so I think I just noticed it . Is it possible for a char to get
messed up like that ? If so I'll page a GM I just wanted to be sure its
possible before I did . Thanks

[Buddy Lee]

That is the message you get if you already have either Reactive armor, Magic
Refect or Protection cast. Untill the effect wears off you won't be able to
cast any of them. I think this is to prevent you from using magic reflect
and reactive armor at the same time. Just go out and fight some monsters.
Magic and none magic and you should be able to cast after a while.

Buddy Lee

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[Rick Cortese]

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No, it just means there is a residual protectiver type spell in effect. OSI
changed the way protective spells work, you can't have two like reactive
armor and spell reflection up at the same time. There is also a timer, if
you have RA up for a while, something bashes you to the point where it is
not in effect, you still have a "time out" period before you can cast it
again.

That being said, they are still great spells in certain situations. For some
things like clearing a dungeon entrance that has 5 or so monsters that
someone trained there, RA can't be beat to survive the intial lag/whupping
you take.

[Discordia]

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I'm sure I don't have any other spells up because it hasn't worked for at
least a month and and I have been bashed,casted on and killed counless times
and still no RA.

[Rick C]

"Discordia" <blo...@fuckoff.net> wrote

> Cortese:

> > No, it just means there is a residual protectiver type spell in effect.
> OSI
> > changed the way protective spells work,

> I'm sure I don't have any other spells up because it hasn't worked for at

> least a month and and I have been bashed,casted on and killed counless
times
> and still no RA.

IIRC, when they made the changes to the protective spells, one proposed
change was that, when a protective spell goes down, you can't cast it again
for as long as the spell was originally active, and it doesn't decay except
through fighting. So it'd be possible to wear an RA for a couple months,
then lose it, an be unable to cast it again for another couple months.

My memory also suggests that that was wildly unpopular (duh!) so it may not
have ever gone into effect, so I could just be blowing smoke, lol.

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>
> I'm sure I don't have any other spells up because it hasn't worked for
> at least a month and and I have been bashed,casted on and killed
> counless times and still no RA.
>

Thats happened with my mage. He had to die to remove it.

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[Myrex]

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>>
>> I'm sure I don't have any other spells up because it hasn't worked for
>> at least a month and and I have been bashed,casted on and killed
>> counless times and still no RA.
>>
>
> Thats happened with my mage. He had to die to remove it.
>

Doh, but you said you *had* died too :/

[Discordia]

"Discordia" <blo...@fuckoff.net> wrote in message
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Thanks for the ideas I guess it was messed up a GM fixed it after an hour
wait.

[Brent]

OrionCA wrote:
>However, tonight I was fooling
> around and had her equip a shield and she got the message, "Your
> reactive armor spell has been negated." I'll check later to see if
> it's down-down or just disabled until she puts down the shield.

Equipping any metal armor will knock it off of you. It is handy for
killing RA so you can lay on a spell reflection in a couple of minutes.
Also, RA is only good for up to 75 hp's of damage. If you take a few
hits and get to a lull, you can equip a helmet or something and recast
it in a few minutes.

Brent

[Grant Farrington]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:01:35 GMT, Brent <bab...@flash.net> wrote:

>Equipping any metal armor will knock it off of you. It is handy for
>killing RA so you can lay on a spell reflection in a couple of minutes.
>Also, RA is only good for up to 75 hp's of damage. If you take a few
>hits and get to a lull, you can equip a helmet or something and recast
>it in a few minutes.

You might want to add that it depends on you magery, eval int and
inscription scores, 75 is the maximum you can absorb if you have 100
in all three of these skills... so like 50 hp absorbed for 100 magery
and 100 eval.

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