Standard Buffs & Tankset Info

Your standard 'spell up' for a character has 3 main components:

• Standard spells
• Tankset
• Situational Spells (Elemental Shields, Truesight)

Overall, you can think of standard spells as 'low' and tanksets as 'high' buff levels. If you're wandering around doing random shit, just have 'Low' cuz why not. If its a real run, also have 'High'.

Total Gains

If you do the full spell up & tankset, the sum results are:

• Stats: +2 to Str, Con, Dex, Wis. +1 to Cha. (Luck is the only stat not impacted by buffs)
• AC: -68 (Or -158 if you use the additional Stone Skin / Flesh Armor items)
• Rando: +6 HR, -6 SaveVsSpell
• Resistances: fire[15%] cold[15%] electricity[15%] energy[10%] blunt[5%] pierce[15%] slash[15%] acid[10%] drain[10%] nonmagic[20%] magic[20%] paralysis[10%] unholy[15%]

The Resists are worthwhile, I'll make a page on how those work shortly.

Standard Spells

The standard spells are cast upon you by a Mage & Cleric:

Standard Buffs

Spell Name	Affect	Duration Rounds
fly	(flying)	1275
aquabreath	(go underwater)	1150
scry	(view adjacent rooms)	1150
bless	+6 HR, -6 SaveVsSpell	1150
ogre might	+2 Str	1250
trollish vigor	+2 Con, -1 Cha	1250
elven beauty	+2 Cha	1250
slink	+2 Dex	1250
sagacity	+2 Wis	1250
armor	-20 AC	500
shield	-20 AC	1250
acidward	+10 Resist Acid	250
resilience	+10 Resist Drain	1150
inner warmth	+10 Resist Cold	1150
valiance	+10 Resist Paralysis	1150
confidence	+5 Resist Pierce/Blunt/Slash	96
prismatic shield	+5 Resist Electric/Cold/Fire	96
Nimbus of Light	+15 Resist Unholy	400

Tankset

Tanksets are brewed by a Mage & Cleric. Which means leveling a Mage and Cleric (ideally multiple) and setting up some triggers. Most of the time these days you can also find these pots inside a Guild/Order potion chest.

Tankset

Spell Name	Affect	Duration Rounds
Antimagic Shell	+10 Resist Magic	1150
Shadowform	+10 Resist NonMagic	1150
Eldritch Sphere	+10 Resist NonMagic	175
Ethereal Shield	+10 Resist Energy	1150
Grounding	+10 Resist Electric	800
Blazeward	+10 Resist Fire	1150
Demonskin	+10 Resist Slash	1150
Dragonskin	+10 Resist Pierce	1150
Ethereal Web	-28 AC	650
Protection	1/4 Damage Reduction vs. Evils	500

There are two other spells that can be acquired from various potions/items in the game that I like to build into my tankset for an extra -90 AC:

Spell Name	Affect	Duration Rounds
Stone Skin	-40 AC	253
Flesh Armor	-50 AC	900

Stone Skin can be gotten through various means, some classes get it naturally (vamps), the two most common purchasable items are:

• a deep green potion (253 rounds)
  • Buy in Thul'Abhara from the shop just north of the entrance.
• a small green mineral sponge (500 rounds)
  • Buy in MacMillan's Family Farm from Kalendros, when you can find him.
• polishing compound (460 rounds)
  • Buy from Glint in the Kingdom of Juargan

Flesh Armor is gotten from Edonea's Garden in northern Salburg, dig for it.

Situational Spells

These are typically only applied when the mob does the thing these protect against:

Tankset

Spell Name	Affect	Duration Rounds
Fireshield	208
Iceshield	208
Shockshield	163
Elemental Supremacy	175
Truesight	40

Elemental Shields:

• Mobs might have elemental shields, in which case you want them too to nullify the damage.
  • If mobs do not have shields, you may (or may not) do additional damage to them (depending on their configuration)

Elemental Supremecy gives you all 3 shields at once, and replaces any individual shields you may have already applied.

Truesight:

• This guards you against becoming blinded by a mob's gouge attack.
  • Note that the blindness affect will still land on you as normal, it just doesn't actually affect you.
  • If truesight expires while the blindness affect is still on you, you will then be blind.
    • For this reason, it's also wise to carry cure blindness items so that you can cure your blind before truesight expires.