Ancient Teachings 52, 55, 58

[Kiyalin]

<p>I'm looking for a little info on the overall usefullness of these abilities.  I have Control Undeath, but so far have not found a great need for it.  I don't farm bonemire regularly, but I expect it might prove useful in the future.</p><p>Consumption - I don't have this yet.  I'm trying to save all my money for RoK and am still trying to get my toon back on track.  I need lots of Adept III's since I betrayed.  I've been soloing a lot though, and thought the DPS might be helpful.  But helpful enough to spend 2pp to get it now?</p><p>Drawing of Souls - I just don't know what to think of this one.  It seems mostly useless.  2pp to buy it...only a 1 in 6 chance of getting the great buff for +16% pet hps and 400 mit...and that only lasts 20 seconds?</p><p>Does anyone have any feedback on the practicality/usefulness of these abilities for soloing/farming?</p>

[Catodon]

Consumption is excellent for all playstyles; simultaneous extra damage and heals for you and pet.  I would imagine it will have an upgrade in ROK, so if you want to level fast to 78 and forgo spending money now you could.Control Undeath is situationally useful; worth mention that the master 1 version is drastically more powerful than the lower grades (3x more nuke damage from charmed warlock mob than adept1 level.) Probably won't be upgraded in ROK since the effect scales.Drawing of Souls is not tremendously useful, but you do have 2 extra damage spells (pbaoe and lifetap dot) to use when you need them.  STR/INT debuffing reduces mobs damage output slightly; the other abilities are more useful in raid/group situations (Tank in trouble on hard name, boost his hp/mitigation temporarily to save the day, etc.)

[Selantyr]

Drawing of Souls is also useful when soloing because it triggers Tainted Heals.

[KBern]

<p>The spells received from drawing of souls are very useful.</p><p>The def buff is an emergency type spell.  The offensive buff is probably my least used.</p><p>I use the dot, the aoe, and the swarm pet all the time.</p><p>I save the heal for an emergency also when my pet needs that extra boost.</p><p>I wouldnt spend a ton of money to get the master, but an adept 3 is nice to have.</p>

[Kiyalin]

How does DoS function exactly?  You cast the spell on a mob, an essence is consumed...you randomly receive 1 charge of 1 of 6 spells...kind of like a randomly rewarded Miracle?

[DrOctober]

Cast DoS on target which consumes essence (you should have several stacks of these laying around).Target suffers str/int penalty for the rest of it's relatively short life.Target dies and you get a 1 use spell (I think of 'em like potions).There are 6 different abilities you can get, and you can have all 6 available at any given time.  If you have 5 available, and you kill a mob that has DoS on it, you're not guaranteed to get the 6th ability your missing though, so keep casting.The real gem in the DoS dance is the 18% heal your pet gets from Tainted Heals when it lands.Regardless of the stat debuff, or the freebie ability, it'd be worth casting this if only for the extra spell to heal your pet.

[Kiyalin]

So the 1-shot abilities you get....do they last until used?  Are they NO-RENT or do they last until used up?

[Conequis]

<cite>Rethlyr@Mistmoore wrote:</cite><blockquote>So the 1-shot abilities you get....do they last until used?  Are they NO-RENT or do they last until used up?</blockquote>They last until used up.  I like to go out before a raid and try to get all of them up for a raid.

[Jolemai]

Also, the defensive buff increases your stamina - useful to cast before you Lifeburn for that extra kick. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Wizgic]

Where do you get the Control Undeath spell, what faction do you have to have?

[KBern]

It is dropped or crafted for you, there is no specific faction needed.

[DrOctober]

Control Undeath is one of the 'Ancient Teachings' spells that were added when Desert of Flames went live.In order to make this spell, a sage would have to find and scribe the recipe for it (dropped in DoF zones).The adept 3 takes 1 vanadium and a handful of common materials to make, fuel cost for it is about 3.5g.

[Naughtesn]

I add Unstoppable Soul to my Lifeburn to my LB macro...if it's up it get's cast first.