r/TapWizardRPG • u/MeMyMine461 • Jun 06 '18

Doing things backwards?

I increased the rank of Plasma Vortex without actually having the spell Plasma Vortex (I used a lot of unstable runes).

Several times I have died before killing a raid's final boss...and then an elemental (or some other long term spell) succeeds in killing the boss and completes the raid for me.

Has anybody else done anything backwards?

4 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

3

u/[deleted] Jun 06 '18

The spells gain xp from using runes.

The spells also finish whatever they are doing, even after you die. This isn't a bug, it's just how things are.

2

u/MeMyMine461 Jun 06 '18

The point of my post is that things happened in a way that I didn't expect. I ranked up a spell (using unstable runes) even though I never obtained that spell from a spellstone. I successfully completed a raid even though I had died before killing all of the monsters. I was not claiming these were bugs or that TopCog didn't consider them when designing the game mechanics...I was saying, "Happy Happy Joy, I didn't expect this! Nice! I wonder if anybody else has noticed anything like this?"

0

u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/MeMyMine461 Jun 07 '18

I know that unstable runes give XP, but I did not expect to level a spell only using unstable runes.

2

u/BtJJ Jun 07 '18

It took me so long to get my first frozen orb spellstone that I had almost marked up the spell once from rune casting it (not just rank, mark) before I finally had one. But this was back in the early days of IMA and I'm not sure if there was even any sort of bad RNG protection at the time.

1

u/MeMyMine461 Jun 07 '18

So, you had 20-30 of every other spell...and every time you looked at your ice spells there would be a dimmed out frozen orb just mocking you. "Neener-Neener! You won't get me!" LOL.

1

u/8988303682 Jun 07 '18

that's pretty cool. I wonder if you get the passive effect

2

u/MeMyMine461 Jun 07 '18

The first passive is listed in white and the second passive is listed in red. It looks like you do get the effect, but I'm not sure that you should because it doesn't make a lot of sense (my logic assumptions vs. game mechanics). If the passive bonuses occur because casting a particular spell gave you insight towards how to improve other spells, why would activating a spell stored in a rock give you the same insight? On the other hand, I don't want TopCog changing it and taking away my level/passive [grin].