Anyone ever pumped scribe?

Vhan Tiegros · Post by **Vhan Tiegros** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:52 pm

Thinking about doing a wizard, but only if I can get his spells to the point where they come back supa fast. XD Like, my cataclysm comes back in maybe.. 10 second. Weaker spells regenerating at a rate of maybe once every 2 or 3. Has anyone ever made a wizard with that much scribe? I'm curious to know how much it would take. XD

PitBrat · Post by **PitBrat** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:35 pm

Bargain over Scribe

If you put about 5 points into bargain, you can make money selling the spells then buying them back cheaper. Stack up a few thousand charges for every spell quickly. Start with 5 or 10 charges, sell the stack to someone like the priest in Arindale, buy it back twice and then repeat. You can make millions in gold and have thousands of charges for every spell.
Plus, the shopkeeper will then have a stack of fully charged spells for sell. If you ever do happen to run out of charges, just trade it in for a new fully charged stack.
Then you can save all your points for you magic skill to make your magic attacks more effective.

or not.

-PitBrat

Vhan Tiegros · Post by **Vhan Tiegros** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:20 pm

Thanks, but i all ready know about that. XD In fact, that's what i've done thus far. I'm more curious to see just how good regenerative powers can get.

Scottg · Post by **Scottg** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:26 pm

Like most skills without several learning bonuses.. there is a practical limit in a normal game. In fact only the Wizard, Kenjassi, and I *think* the War Witch get a learning bonus in Scribe. I'm guessing that even with a high intelligence that practically speaking it tops out at less than 20. I also don't know what the regen will be like, but I seriously doubt that it will come anywhere near 12 sec.s for replenishing 1 Cataclysm.

Vhan Tiegros · Post by **Vhan Tiegros** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:28 pm

You are probably right, but I lan farm.

So... EXP is no object. XD Unless you get to about fifty million...

Scottg · Post by **Scottg** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:31 pm

Vhan Tiegros wrote:You are probably right, but I lan farm. So... EXP is no object. XD Unless you get to about fifty million...

Ah, beyond the practical and into the absurd.. me LIKEY!

Vhan Tiegros · Post by **Vhan Tiegros** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:33 pm

It's a good way to riase a character.

I'm guessing no one has ever pumped scribe as high as oh.. say 30... I'll need to try it with celestial magic.. Proviced channel yields the same back rate as scribe for those spells. Then i can actually see how fast the spell is recharging.

War-Wiz · Post by **War-Wiz** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:20 am

Like Pitbrat, I think the more spells you have, the less you need scribe.

I have "cranked" scribe before, both with and without the editor, to between 30 and 200. At that level the cost for even one more point is huge, we're talkin' hundreds of millions of advance points.

Being that you need about a million +/- adv. points to advance another level.....well, I'll let you do the math :laugh:

Getting your scribe up to 15 or 20 will allow you to recharge your lower spells fairly quickly. Spells like fireball and ice shards, but cataclysm, on the other hand, still takes a while to recharge. Something like 3 or 4 in a complete rest cycle at a campfire. The fun/fast one to watch recharge is fire burst

That one recharges in a hurry

Da Wiz :mischief:

Shadowfire · Post by **Shadowfire** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:12 pm

Indeed it does. It is also the one lower level spell that remains fully useful throught the game. (It is my ranged weapon of choice.)

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:14 am

I used it for awhile because I was farming the vale of ruin for xp. I didn't buy unlimited spells although I did have high bargain/honor so I had a lot of spells. I made a rule with myself to not exploit a game insanity (although I wish merchants in real life would do that). Of course farming the vale of ruin was itself kinda cheesy.

Anyhow scribe at the range of 15 or so wasn't that great. You noticed spells came back, but considering that I was a wizard it didn't come back near fast enough since I was killing primarily with spells. I did notice in the maze that the mega tree clusters spawned infrequently enough that my cataclysms would recharge but thats just because they didn't spawn much.