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Does anyone know the best place to get wands recharged? Is it in ToSC, or in one of the shops in SoA? With the wand of monster summoning, I have one that has far more charges than my others, but I cannot remember where I got it.

just sell and buy/steal back the wand for a recharge is the only way i know.
most wand (summoning/fire/cloudkill/lightning) have a max charge of 50 the wand of fear and frost have a charge of 100.

The reason that I asked is that I have a wand with far more than 100 charges. I probably brought it from ToSC, but as I said, cannot remember where I recharged it.

wise grimwald wrote:Does anyone know the best place to get wands recharged? Is it in ToSC, or in one of the shops in SoA? With the wand of monster summoning, I have one that has far more charges than my others, but I cannot remember where I got it.

Wands are always recharged to their maximum. Charges differ according to the type of wand.

But only a very few merchants will buy back a wand a second time, that's you've sold to then stolen from them. Oddly enough, the Thieves' Guild in the harbor has one of those merchants. So you can chug a potion of mastery thievery, sell empties, steal full wands, sell again, steal again, etc, for as long as you can stand the sheer unmitigated cheese of it all.

very slight spoiler

As Fable says - people on here regard "sell and steal-back" as ripe Gorgon-zola. If you are careful - or if you can use simulcrum - you can afford to pay for the fully charged wand once and ration its use. I like to have a couple od cloudkill ones and one of monster summoning kicking around - the way to do that is to find them, not use them and sell them - after a good scrap and with a decent reputation, you can afford to re-charge them.
the cheesy was is to get your thief in their gloves of pick-pocketing, chug a potion of perception, one of mind focusing (+dex) and two of master thievery and find a gullible merchant - there are 3 I know of - Maevar's guildhall, the thieve's guild and the merchant in the sewers under the temple district.
one cash-raising technique that can get lots of xp too is to potion up and steal all the expensive scrolls from the woman in the adventurers mart and the book-stall nearby. use what you haven't got, save a selection in a case for Imoen in Spellhold and sell them to a fence. each spell nets XP and if you have ToB installed, you can erase and re-learn spells for the XP again. with 1000xp per level, level 9 spells get 9k of xp - which can push your levels up a bit.

it is very odd to have a low level mage (having dualled at fighter lvl 8) who then goes up to about level 9 just on learning stolen spells - I admit to doing that with one of my mages - can't cast half the spells in the book, but got the xp anyhow.

I try not to repeatedly re-charge wands by sell-steal though - even though it saves some cash.