WF Celestial Warlock... ASF issue

[Gnominal_Aphasia]

Hi,

After discussing HC warlock builds and strategies earlier today with Saighneain of Thelanis (very nice guy from Norway and extremely helpful... thanks chef!) I decided to roll a 32 point WF warlock and test it a little before Wednesday...

to my surprise, none of my spells (including shield, web and expeditious retreat) display any ASF penalty... I was expecting to see a red text 5% ASF penalty for all spells with somatic requirements. I haven't noticed a spell failure yet either and I haven't spent any AP in the WF tree so far.

I have simple composite body (no mithral feat).

Does anyone know if this is a known issue? Does it affect only Celestial pact (i quickly rolled a WF wizard and the 5% ASF penalty was correctly displayed) or all Warlocks?

AND, do you know if I then chose to take Mithral Body / Adamanine Body and spent 3 AP in Inscribed Armor from the WF tree, giving -15% ASF penalty, would the resulting ASF penalty for Mithril Body / Adamantine Body be 0% / 15% or 5% / 20% ?

Thanks!

[Garix]

Hi,

After discussing HC warlock builds and strategies earlier today with Saighneain of Thelanis (very nice guy from Norway and extremely helpful... thanks chef!) I decided to roll a 32 point WF warlock and test it a little before Wednesday...

to my surprise, none of my spells (including shield, web and expeditious retreat) display any ASF penalty... I was expecting to see a red text 5% ASF penalty for all spells with somatic requirements. I haven't noticed a spell failure yet either and I haven't spent any AP in the WF tree so far.

I have simple composite body (no mithral feat).

Does anyone know if this is a known issue? Does it affect only Celestial pact (i quickly rolled a WF wizard and the 5% ASF penalty was correctly displayed) or all Warlocks?

AND, do you know if I then chose to take Mithral Body / Adamanine Body and spent 3 AP in Inscribed Armor from the WF tree, giving -15% ASF penalty, would the resulting ASF penalty for Mithril Body / Adamantine Body be 0% / 15% or 5% / 20% ?

Thanks!

From the Wiki:

• The Arcane Spell Failure from light armor (but not shields) is ignored by Warlocks when casting Warlock spells. The Enlightened Spirit Tier IV enhancement extends this benefit to medium armor.

So you could take Mitral Body without penalty (assuming it isn't bugged) but you'd need to start reducing the full 35% from Addy Body

[Gnominal_Aphasia]

From the Wiki:

• The Arcane Spell Failure from light armor (but not shields) is ignored by Warlocks when casting Warlock spells. The Enlightened Spirit Tier IV enhancement extends this benefit to medium armor.

So you could take Mitral Body without penalty (assuming it isn't bugged) but you'd need to start reducing the full 35% from Addy Body

Thanks... i never realised that the light armor proficiency also negated the inherent WF ASF penalty.

[Garix]

Thanks... i never realised that the light armor proficiency also negated the inherent WF ASF penalty.

Technically it doesn't. It's a class feature so it only applies to Warlocks in Light Armour. For a WF wizard or Sorc they would have to overcome the inherent ASF penalty even if they were proficient in wearing the armour