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I was asked yesterday to make an 83 BL spell. It looked straight forward enough, although there was no recipe known for it, so I said I would give it a shot.
Then I started looking for precedents, and found some rather odd results.
The spell is called Unrivaled Rapidity. It gives the BL pet Haste, ATK, AC, additional damage, and along with that procs a group Haste for the BL and his group. This complicated things, but it seemed it should not be that bad, since the previous BL spells in that line were essentially the same. I had to go back to level 68 though before I found a spell in this line that had a known recipe.
Growl of the Beast was fairly logical, Fine Vellum for the level, Quill of the Feral Lord for the class. There is no resist on a pet buff, so the Ink Additive of the Nameless made sense. The Invigorating Thickener fits in for the single target buff, and the Inks of Alacrity and Tribunal are logical for the pet Haste and AC. Two Inks of Zek cover the ATK and the damage multiplier, and again, those in in line with other spells with similar effects (the Mage and Necro pet buff spells in particular).
It gets strange after this point though. Growl of the Beast works, but Unparalleled Voracity, the level 73 spell in the same line, which has all the same effects, does not use the same recipe with a changed paper. The Mage and Necro pet haste spells continue in the same vein as their predecessors, but for some reason the BL pet haste does not (the Mage and Necro spells add STR to their pets, but do not have the added ATK, and as a result use Ink of the Rhino in addition to, or in place of, one of the Ink of Zek).
The 78 BL pet haste, Peerless Penchant, is essentially the same spell as previous ones in the line, but begins the group haste recourse. It would seem logical that the recipe would be the same with perhaps an additional Ink of Alacrity to cover the group haste, and perhaps Talisman Thickener instead of the single target Invigorating, although that starts to get complicated, since the primary spell is a single target buff.
The 83 spell continues the same trend, with the pet haste having the group haste recourse, but there seems to be some break in the logical progression of the recipe, since the recipe that seems like it should work : Fine Spell Tablet, Ink Additive of the Nameless, 2 (or 3) Ink of Alacrity, 2 Ink of Zek, Ink of the Tribunal, Invigorating Thickener (or Talisman Thickener) and a Quill of the Feral Lord, does not combine. Even trying two Thickeners to cover the two effects does not do anything, which makes sense, as I know of no spell that uses two Thickeners.
In other words, we have a whole spell line that is completely unknown, and such things bother me. Perhaps someone else has insight into what I am missing about this spell line, or an idea of why the recipe changed between the 68 and the 73 spells, which are identical other than level.
Then I started looking for precedents, and found some rather odd results.
The spell is called Unrivaled Rapidity. It gives the BL pet Haste, ATK, AC, additional damage, and along with that procs a group Haste for the BL and his group. This complicated things, but it seemed it should not be that bad, since the previous BL spells in that line were essentially the same. I had to go back to level 68 though before I found a spell in this line that had a known recipe.
Growl of the Beast was fairly logical, Fine Vellum for the level, Quill of the Feral Lord for the class. There is no resist on a pet buff, so the Ink Additive of the Nameless made sense. The Invigorating Thickener fits in for the single target buff, and the Inks of Alacrity and Tribunal are logical for the pet Haste and AC. Two Inks of Zek cover the ATK and the damage multiplier, and again, those in in line with other spells with similar effects (the Mage and Necro pet buff spells in particular).
It gets strange after this point though. Growl of the Beast works, but Unparalleled Voracity, the level 73 spell in the same line, which has all the same effects, does not use the same recipe with a changed paper. The Mage and Necro pet haste spells continue in the same vein as their predecessors, but for some reason the BL pet haste does not (the Mage and Necro spells add STR to their pets, but do not have the added ATK, and as a result use Ink of the Rhino in addition to, or in place of, one of the Ink of Zek).
The 78 BL pet haste, Peerless Penchant, is essentially the same spell as previous ones in the line, but begins the group haste recourse. It would seem logical that the recipe would be the same with perhaps an additional Ink of Alacrity to cover the group haste, and perhaps Talisman Thickener instead of the single target Invigorating, although that starts to get complicated, since the primary spell is a single target buff.
The 83 spell continues the same trend, with the pet haste having the group haste recourse, but there seems to be some break in the logical progression of the recipe, since the recipe that seems like it should work : Fine Spell Tablet, Ink Additive of the Nameless, 2 (or 3) Ink of Alacrity, 2 Ink of Zek, Ink of the Tribunal, Invigorating Thickener (or Talisman Thickener) and a Quill of the Feral Lord, does not combine. Even trying two Thickeners to cover the two effects does not do anything, which makes sense, as I know of no spell that uses two Thickeners.
In other words, we have a whole spell line that is completely unknown, and such things bother me. Perhaps someone else has insight into what I am missing about this spell line, or an idea of why the recipe changed between the 68 and the 73 spells, which are identical other than level.
(problem with SoF/SoD was too many factions to work because there was separate faction in each zone) As people move out of the HoT zones the fragments may become more uncommon, but then again, people won't be needing to stop and get the rk II spells as they scream through to 100.....
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