So this skill gives sp cost reduction and sp regen bonus. This seems very lack luster. I’m planning on putting 0 point in this and max Statue of Laima instead. Am I missing something? I don’t understand the love for Zemyna skill.
It’s easy once you look at what the statue does.
It reduces the SP cost of every skill you use in its vicinity by 2+2*skilllevel SP and the SP tick by 5 seconds (from 20 to 15 seconds).
If you max the skill it grants 32 SP (34 with Divine Might) reduction for every skill you are using in the AoE. While it might not be that much anymore for skills of Rank 6-8 classes (30-20% of a skills max SP cost), it actually enables you to cast many of your earlier skills for free (e.g. Divine Might up to level 7, Safety Zone up to lvl 7, Fade up to lvl 4, Guardian Saint up to lvl 4, Cure up to lvl 7/8, Heal up to lvl 7/8) or greatly reduce the costs of them.
A Bokor spamming Effigy e.g. uses 45 SP per cast at lvl 15 of the skill, so it reduces the SP cost and thus the overall SP pot consumption by at least 2/3, and other low-ranked classes like Peltasta have their SP consumption basically nullified because most skills use less than 32/34 SP even at lvl 10/15. Skills without CD time like Obligue Shot, Heavy Shot or Spear Throw can basically be spammed like no tomorrow because the limiting factor of SP consumption is no more.
Meanwhile having a higher level of Laima just helps with spending
less SP/cedar wood on the skill and nothing else…
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Take it at least lvl 1 because Zemyna works as a lure against non-aggressive mobs (makes it somewhat easier to gather them).
Zemyna also always take 1 dmg so it can “tank” a little bit if you don’t attack the mobs attacking the statue and pull the aggro off it.
I don’t think the SP reduction part is worth it. It scales terribly to higher rank skills (since they’ll consume a lot more SP).
Thanks for the replies guys. BTW how useful is the Vakarine one? Instead of using this skill isn’t it just easier to use Klaipedia or Orsha scroll and go to wherever you want?
Very useful. You only need 1 point in it and your whole party can warp to any goddess statue for free. It saves a lot of silver in the long run.
The trick is to have everyone use the statue and wait until you’re all on the map screen before clicking the destination.
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Oh that’s a good trick I guess. So no need to put in 5 points for 5 party members to use it?
Not at this time, no. But even if the statue is ever fixed to work as advertised, you’ll still be able to warp yourself and one friend with only 1 point invested (or 5 people with 4 points) in Vakarine if you use Divine Might beforehand.
This thread is a bit old, but as a diev3druid3 who invested 9 points on Zemyna and wish i could invest more i will add some info:
It will depend on your build?
If you have high SP cost high cd skills, then it will barely reduce a small % of the sp consumption per skill. So it shouldn’t be invested too much.
I believe Bokor effigy benefits quite well with the SP reduction, but also Druid3. [Lycanthropy]'s SP drain doesn’t disable natural sp rege. So the reduced natural sp regeneration time and the slightly lower cost skills allow you to keep the transformation for a longer time while doing your damage rotations, before the SP drain and the potions cooldown empty your mana bar.
I just desire to remove the idea that the skill is, by default, useless and bring some attention to it, to not discard it inmediatly.
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