(03-17-2015, 10:17 AM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:(03-17-2015, 10:13 AM)K'nahli Wrote: Can anyone briefly explain to me why thaumaturges get away with this without resulting in several posts that go off topic? I've only gotten as far as the level 20 or 25 healing quest. Never really played a thaumaturge past five or six.
THMs draw off their personal aether reserves. Think of like a cup with water in it. Spells take some of the water, but after a while, you can fill up the cup again.
CNJ spells must use WAY more aether or something, or they tap into the life force directly, bypassing these aether reserves.
I think it might be a combination of both? I mean, from my viewpoint it is easier to break something than to mend it. But, as I recall from a Sounsyy-post, THMs originally were able to animate the dead... which sounds suitably powerful. And let's not forget Arcanists' Physick is a heal using their own aether too. So there ARE examples of self-aether healing that doesn't seem to cause the same sort of trouble as the one presented in the CNJ story.
Then again, maybe that's why BLM started using outside aetheric energies. Trying to do something like a Flare on your own reserves would likely have the same impact as trying to Raise using your own energies. ... Yet ACN can Resurrect with no problems...
Really, I think the bigger question is what CNJ are doing so different from ACN who can do some of the same healing stuff with their own aether over needing to use outside sources.
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