What Happened with this Wild Surge?

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• elminster Member, Developer Posts: 16,315

  February 2015 edited February 2015

  This is likely just wild surge 57 -
  
  "Strange visual effect; spell
  fizzles"

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• Tresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,264

  February 2015

  Wild surges cause completely random spell animations to play over the caster and the target. These animations are random every time and have no effect. The demon gate one does scare you if it shows up though.

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• Heindrich Member, Moderator Posts: 2,959

  February 2015

  Tresset said:

  Wild surges cause completely random spell animations to play over the caster and the target. These animations are random every time and have no effect. The demon gate one does scare you if it shows up though.

  Yeah... especially as I am pretty sure there is a Gate wild surge that actually does summon a pit fiend. Two pit fiends (if that were possible) would be absolutely insane for a BG1 party to deal with.

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• Tresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,264

  February 2015 edited February 2015

  Heindrich said:

  Tresset said:

  Wild surges cause completely random spell animations to play over the caster and the target. These animations are random every time and have no effect. The demon gate one does scare you if it shows up though.

  Yeah... especially as I am pretty sure there is a Gate wild surge that actually does summon a pit fiend. Two pit fiends (if that were possible) would be absolutely insane for a BG1 party to deal with.

  There is a gate wild surge and, while the text that appears says "Is that a pit fiend?!", it actually summons a much weaker Nabassu. A Nabassu is still a formidable opponent for BG1:EE, after all, that is what Aec'Letec is (only Aec is a bit stronger than average).

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• Tresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,264

  February 2015 edited February 2015

  Oh, and I believe it is possible to get multiple Gate wild surges at once. You just have to get either "Roll twice more" or "Roll 4 more times" and get really unlucky with what comes up.

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• kcwise Member Posts: 2,287

  February 2015

  You never forget your first gate. First, it's all, "Wow, look at the pretty colors," and then there's the screaming and the dying. Bonus fun if you have a surge in the middle of a busy city!

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• CaptRory Member Posts: 1,660

  February 2015

  I was in a tough fight sometime in the last few days and Neera got the Gate Animation and I cast Protection from Evil Radius 10ft actually hoping the demon would come out. XD

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• SionIV Member Posts: 2,689

  February 2015

  This along with the falling cow is the main reason wild mages are banned from my no-reload playthroughs.

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• Tresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,264

  February 2015

  I liked using the Summon Cow spell in vBG1. It never killed the entire area back then...

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