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Right yeah I forgot like lurker said you get a free heal at the end of the round by Worm 01/04/2016, 1:25pm PST Each spell takes 1 or 2 AP to cast and lasts a number of turns. So we could just go the completely ridiculous way of out of combat spells having no cost and their turn count only starting at the beginning of the next combat encounter. This would be really fucking ridiculous because you could haste everyone, armor everyone, pop all self cooldowns, and just start every combat encounter with such an overwhelming advantage that they'd just need to let enemies do the same thing, which would ultimately just be a push. Spells could tick down while out of combat. I feel like this would just be confusing and unfun. What would be the AP to second ratio? If spell duration ticks down then AP probably would have to recover at the same rate, ultimately you'd just be left in the same situation you are now. There's just zero way to reconcile it, prebuffing would have to have a similar cost to incombat buffing or it'd just be overpowered, and you'd end up in the same dumb ass position as Baldur's Gate 2, giving each enemy NPC a ton of buffs active on them at the start of the fight to 'balance' things.

Is there no way to cast a spell out of combat in this game? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/22/2015, 9:22pm PDT     This bugs me, and here is the other thing that bugs me. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/03/2016, 10:00pm PST         All buffs are turn based so if you could pre-buff it'd be game breaking. by Worm 01/04/2016, 8:18am PST             How is healing hit points a buff? by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/04/2016, 8:55am PST                 You can use health packs out of combat. I'm pretty sure. by Worm 01/04/2016, 9:04am PST                     Healing spells only get the last bit of damage you took by Lurker 234523 01/04/2016, 11:00am PST                         Yeah security & corporate were the only useful ones in Dragonfall NT by fabio 01/04/2016, 4:15pm PST                     Re: You can use health packs out of combat. I'm pretty sure. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/04/2016, 11:25am PST                         Right yeah I forgot like lurker said you get a free heal at the end of the round by Worm 01/04/2016, 1:25pm PST         The no pre-battle arranging was a big weak point in Dragonfall by fabio 01/04/2016, 9:57am PST             Re: The no pre-battle arranging was a big weak point in Dragonfall by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/04/2016, 11:22am PST