Channeling

Version 0.19: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

Channel magic is an ability that allows worshipers of Sif Muna to restore MP much more quickly. You gain this ability at *** piety.

The ability's success rate starts at 60%, increased by 4% for each of your levels of Invocations and additionally by (piety/25)%. The amount of MP recovered is from 3-5 per turn for 4 + random2avg(2 * Invocations / 3) turns. This is roughly equal to 4 to 4 + .66 * Invocations skill.

History

Prior to 0.19, Channel Magic was not based on a duration. With each use, it recovered a small amount of MP, depending on Invocations skill, and cost hunger but no piety. It was also referred to as Channel energy.