Thread: Mage or Bishop?
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Old 10-19-2005, 04:59 AM   #4
Sinteuil
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Join Date: December 17, 2004
Location: Zembla
Age: 56
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It occurred to me that one possible strategy for your mage would be to collect all the books you want for them until very late in the game. Then, change them to bishop for one level so they can catch up on their book learning before returning to mage. Almost seems like cheating, but you'd have a hell of a powerful caster by the end of the game! As far as I know, this should work, despite the fact that your mage-turned-bishop will have no skills in any schools besides Wizardry, since the readability of a book is based on both character class and school skill, and Wizardry counts as a school for every spell in the game now. This may also mean that you could safely neglect all schools except Wizardry for a pure bishop as well. Is there a reason (other than role-playing) to develop Psionics if your Wizardry skill will cover for it? I haven't tested this, and the mod probably wasn't intended this way, but I imagine you could seriously power up your pure bishop by pumping points into Wizardry and realms, and just ignore the other schools altogether.
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