Any empaths out there train in telepathy lore? Don't really have a reason for asking, I'm just curious and trying to avoid grading some papers.
I trained 100 ranks in it so that I can use sympathy in Reim/Sanctum/Rift a while back. At the time I felt a little ridiculous spending that many points just for 1120, but I've been pretty pleased with the results. It makes a huge difference when hunting in undead/mixed areas to be able to disable all the creatures in the room. I used to have to just run away when things got dicy in the sanctum.
I've also found myself using 1108 a lot recently. I know that telepathy lore helps 1108, but there's not really any information on exactly how much of a benefit you get from lore. I used it so little before I picked up those telepathy ranks that I don't really know how much of a difference, but I've gotten a lot of use out of a combo of 1108/1110. I can immobilize just about anything for quite a long time with 1108 and just let the 1110 warding cycles do the rest of the work (I get 6 cycles!). It's kind of slow, but an interesting means of crowd control, especially in warcamps. In an orc camp, I can just hit orcs with 1110 and wander off to another room, and they'll be dead when I come back.
One of these days I'll do the math on the percentage of instakills I get from 1108, but even with 100 ranks it's not that high. Maybe 5%? It's a shame it's just random and not an endroll threshold like 717, but I guess 1108 costs a lot less mana too.
Does anyone else out there actually use 1108? It's one of those spells I had kind of written off, but I really like it these days. I do think the telepathy really cuts down on the likelihood of making the creature just run off into another room, which is probably the reason why I didn't use it much in the first place.