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When assigning skills points upon levelling up, remember the following rule for mages: the realm skills (earth, water, air, fire, mental, divinity). are easier to boost up with practice than spellbook skills (divine, psionic, wizardry, alchemy). Here's an example - take the hidden passageway from the prison to the bank vault. Start casting knock-knock spells on the door at power 1. Do this about four times then quit out of the lockpicking attempt. Your earth skill will usually go up a point. Keep doing this and every so often your wizardry skill will increase as well.
Hence, when levelling up, put maximum skill points into your spellbook skill(s) as this will lead to your getting more powerful spells. For the realm skills you just need to practice a lot. This is especially important for the bishop at early levels. Pump every point into your spellbook skills, I usually go for divine, psionic and wizardry while practicing alchemy with spells.
When in combat, unless you are in a desparate situation or fighting for your life or out of mana, keep casting spells every round to practice your skills. Constantly casting a spell at power level one is a good way of practicing without wasting mana.
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