Talk:Manuscript of Elite Hacks


 * Occult Essence Flow (187) - Other Flow charms also confer the advantage of being usable while casting sorcery, but the Occult excellencies are far more likely to be relevant. All those spells that call for Occult rolls become up to twice as powerful. Summoning and banishment approaches certainty, while (arguably) spells like Wood Dragon's Claw become truly obscene.
 * Summoning and Banishment use Willpower + Essence, so excellencies cannot be applied to the roll. However, one which is particularly worth noting is Flying Guillotine. With insane accuracy and damage and ignoring penalties for targeting special characters, by default this is one of the best spells for mass combat. With an additional 5 automatic successes it becomes godlike. On the other hand, it may not necessarily be worth paying an extra 10 motes for a lot of spells, as many of them are expensive enough and accurate enough that adding more dice may be a waste as it will normally either hit or be perfected away. Also there are a large number of spells which do not use Occult as an attribute. Still pretty awesome though.
 * Actually, spellcasting doesn't allow the use of Flow charms either. "cannot take voluntary reflexive actions", p252