Mastery Question Thread - Conquest of Elysium 3

So the mastery ritual is currently undocumented, but according to JK it is:

mastery
(monster offset 1 = become the next monster, 2 = the next next...)
masterycost
masterycosttype

So does anyone know if it is possible to use the ritual of mastery to transform into an already existant monster by setting the next monster in the list to:

selectmonster "Monster Name"

So for example, does this:

#Count
newmonster "Count"
copystats "Baron"
spr1 "\Baron\Baron1.tga"
spr2 "\Baron\Baron2.tga"
hp 16
str 6
mor 6
mr 6
armor 2
rank 0
move 2097152
human
melee weapon 2 "Greatsword"
gatherhands
mastery 1
masterycost 150
masterycosttype 5

#Vampire
selectwmonster "Vampire"

...Allow for a Count that can levy troops, gather hands, and transform himself into a Vampire for 150 Hands?

-Frank

Edited by: FrankTrollman

No, that won't work.
But creating a new monster that is identical to the vampire right after the count should work. LIke this.

#Count
,,,,,
newmonster "Vampire"
copystats "Vampire"

Disappointing. But thank you.

-Frank

The Monster is essentially the same, no drawback, except it is one less monster you can define as of the theoretical limit of 1000 new monster entries (Is this even implemented?)

Is there any way to give extra spells with a Mastery ritual? When my Count upgrades himself into a Vampire, he gets two 2nd level spells for becoming a 2nd level caster. But he doesn't gain any 1st level spells. And "more1spells 2" does not seem to work.

-Frank

Seems like have to make him a lvl 1 caster first and split it up into 2 consecutive masteries atm.

this may be a bug, not getting the correct num. of spells. But on gameplay side, why not make the count a lvl 1 caster, since he obviosly wants to be a vampire he should dabble in the dark/necromantic arts...

In the next version it'll work according to the changelog

A question regarding mastery...

In the documentation, it states that a negative offset can be used.

Is it therefor possible to use a mastery 1 on one monster, and a mastery -1 on the next monster to create
ritual of mastery that toggle between two states?

I ask, as when I attempted to do so, the monster with the mastery -1 ritual's special power menu would not appear in game.