Quick Question on Lores

[Kenn]

To be able to attune to lightning, you must be trained in water / air lore. So it would stand to reason that if you can attune to lightning, you can also attune to the other two lores that you've trained in.

Yet I can't find a way to attune to water / air. I say this because I'd like to attune to water so my major ewave does ice damage if I'm hunting around TI. (Sometimes I just like to kill things with fun spells.) Anyway, is there some way of attuning to water without having to lose ranks in air and thus my lightning lore?

[Miss X]

If you have 20 ranks in Air and Water then you should be able to attune to them.

This is the info from the GS website, so if you are doing everything right and it's not working, you might want to assist. (Unless there is some catch I'm not aware of, which is possible)

ATTUNE
This new command allows a character with the proper lore training to attune to the element of their choice. A minimum of 20 ranks in any of the Elemental Lores (Air, Earth, Fire, Water) will allow a character to become attuned to that element.

If a caster has less than 20 ranks in every single element, he cannot attune to any element. If a caster is not attuned to any element, he will get a random element each time he casts a spell that depends on attunement. Also, if a caster’s highest element is either water or air and the other element (that is, water for air, air for water) is OVER half the higher element, he may be attuned to lightning.

At any time, a player may ATTUNE RANDOM in order to go back to getting random elements each time. This addition grants a possibility of 5 flares (air, cold, earth, fire, lightning) for spells 411, 415, 435, and 915.

[drigore]

Attuning is fucked. It's programmed wrong. You can only attune to your highest lore training. So, you're stuck with lightning because that's what it reads. Soooo many people have complained about it, but no, there's nothing you can do except drop all your air lore, or drop it less then half of your water lore to get water/ice.

[LordBacl]

What is the minimum lore needed for lightning anyway? Isn't it 40/20? It won't work at 20/10 will it?

[drigore]

20/10 or 20/11 should work. It's half the rank of the dominate lore, and you can swap them around too if need be.

[Kenn]

Originally posted by Miss X
If you have 20 ranks in Air and Water then you should be able to attune to them.


Elemental Lore - Air...............| 108 26
Elemental Lore - Water.............| 108 26

>attune element
You close your eyes, and quickly sense that you are already attuned to the element of lightning.
>attune water
USAGE: ATTUNE RANDOM - Focus randomly on any element.
ATTUNE ELEMENT - Focus on your attuned element.
>attune air
USAGE: ATTUNE RANDOM - Focus randomly on any element.
ATTUNE ELEMENT - Focus on your attuned element.

Well that's shitty. If I'm not mistaken, lava things are immune or take less from lightning huh? So if I were to run into a mob of lava golems in the future and try to major ewave, I wouldn't be able to switch to the element that would hit them.

[Edited on 5-23-2005 by Kenn]

[hectomaner]

umm, its ATTUNE ELEMENT, not attune air

and you will only get to attune to the element with the most training, and in this case it defaults to lightning

as for the major ewave thing, you can always ATTUNE RANDOM and hope you get off lightning

p.s. lores suck as a wizard. nothing but waste of TPs

[Edited on 5-23-2005 by hectomaner]