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Witchdoctor · 01-09-2002, 08:22 PM

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Originally posted by melancholic_goat:
Don't be a sorcerer, the fact that they cannot learn scrolls makes them next to useless as spellcasters in my opinion. A dualled cleric to mage would be fine, but I would reccomend waiting until level 11 before dualling, and the downside of this is your mage will not be able to reach high level spells. The necromancer is probably the best route to go, for sheer spellcasting power at least.

PS. I am not experienced, but I thought I'd answer this anyway.

Sorcerors are better left until you have more experience with magic users. I would advise starting with a general magic user and figuring out which spells work best for you. Lord Ludtke is right, there are a lot of useless spells that you will likely never use, but there is still some variation between players in which spells turn out to be the most useful and the most used. You do get some extra spells with a specialist mage, but you have to give up access a whole school or two of magic, and it is better to know which spells you are going to want before you do that. Once you know which spells are really going to be useful, then the sorceror is great because you get alot extra without the memorization.

01-09-2002, 08:22 PM	#10
Witchdoctor Dungeon Master Join Date: September 5, 2001 Location: Columbia, Missouri Age: 62 Posts: 93	quote: Originally posted by melancholic_goat: Don't be a sorcerer, the fact that they cannot learn scrolls makes them next to useless as spellcasters in my opinion. A dualled cleric to mage would be fine, but I would reccomend waiting until level 11 before dualling, and the downside of this is your mage will not be able to reach high level spells. The necromancer is probably the best route to go, for sheer spellcasting power at least. PS. I am not experienced, but I thought I'd answer this anyway. Sorcerors are better left until you have more experience with magic users. I would advise starting with a general magic user and figuring out which spells work best for you. Lord Ludtke is right, there are a lot of useless spells that you will likely never use, but there is still some variation between players in which spells turn out to be the most useful and the most used. You do get some extra spells with a specialist mage, but you have to give up access a whole school or two of magic, and it is better to know which spells you are going to want before you do that. Once you know which spells are really going to be useful, then the sorceror is great because you get alot extra without the memorization.