Since I don't have the strategy guide, I don't have any real information on the archmage retort's ability to "make your spells twice as hard to dispel". A lot of the spells and effects are described as being "like dispel magic"; does archmage work against:
1. Disjunction
2. Counter magic
3. Node fizzle
4. Nightshade
And I wonder just how the "twice as hard to dispel" is calculated. Let's say it works against node fizzle: if I try to cast Healing in a node, the chance of fizzle is 50/65. Does that really drop to 25/65 with archmage? If so, that would be pretty powerful! I'm suspicious that it's more like 50/80, which is still decent, but not twice as hard to dispel.
1. Disjunction
2. Counter magic
3. Node fizzle
4. Nightshade
And I wonder just how the "twice as hard to dispel" is calculated. Let's say it works against node fizzle: if I try to cast Healing in a node, the chance of fizzle is 50/65. Does that really drop to 25/65 with archmage? If so, that would be pretty powerful! I'm suspicious that it's more like 50/80, which is still decent, but not twice as hard to dispel.
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