UO Second Age

zzyzx wrote:

Kabal wrote:just macro up lock picking for the price of about 1000 gold for a gm lock box and some lock picks, then use invisibility to get your magery to 92 which is enough to cast blades spirit and ev, then you will be able to make enough money to macro up magery all the way, I made my guy like that because I ran completely out of gold and had no way to make money, besides, arrows are just as expensive anyway right?

Isn't there also a way to gain magery using just a single scroll to something like 80?

Or does that not work here?

You need the possibility to succeed and a chance to fail in order to gain if I am not mistaken.

Kabal wrote:

zzyzx wrote:Isn't there also a way to gain magery using just a single scroll to something like 80?

Or does that not work here?

No idea, but hey, zzyzx, PM me and well do our warrior tourny fight today.

I thought I was out of the tuorney? I lost to everyone in my group...

what skill does my magery have to be to get gains off invis?

I always start at 5 points below a new spell circle so at 6th I would start casting at 55 real.

archaicsubrosa77 wrote:I always start at 5 points below a new spell circle so at 6th I would start casting at 55 real.

ok thanks

That doesn't work here. It only works if you can gain off of failures with 0% chance of success. So, say you have a level 8 scroll and 10 magery. You could attempt to use the scroll, but you'd have a 0% chance of success so you'd fail.

However... say you have the minimum magery needed to cast a level 6 spell (and thus, the minimum needed to cast a level 8 scroll). If you cast Ebolt 50 times, you might only succeed 1 time, and it cost you 50 of each reagent. With a scroll, you have the same success rate, but instead of using up the scroll on each attempt, you use it up on each successful cast.

My point is this... if you're dead-set on GMing magery as cheaply as possible, use scrolls when you get the exact minimum skill needed to successfully cast them. So if you need 51.8 to cast a sixth level spell and succeed, I'd suggest using level 8 scrolls to gain from 51.8 to maybe 60.0 skill or so (at some point, the reagent savings is balanced out by the cost of the scroll).

What are some good barding spots besides destard here?

Go to Delucia, find the rune ship outside the East Gate and hop on every rune you see that has a spawn name on it.