Thread: My Alchemist
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Old 05-08-2002, 01:25 AM   #9
otter
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Join Date: March 26, 2002
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I made a comparison by running 2 groups through on parallel saves, with 2 tanks and 4 spellcasters. One group had the 4 different pure spellcasters, and the other had 4 Bishops. What convinced me to run only Bishops as spellcasters is that they get noticably more than twice the mana capacity per level because they learn all the spells. By L 24 they can have all spells from all books.
The idea that it's cheating to practise casting spells is absurd. In fact, modern-day stage magicians practise much more than they perform, and lockpickers on either side of the law sit around playing with locks for practise all the time.
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