Alchemy and Save Game Questions

[mberdine]

Hello all! I just recently rediscovered Wizardry and I'm very excited about playing Wiz 8. I last played Wiz 7 about 7 or 8 years ago. Anyway - I have a couple of questions that I would really appreciate some help with.

1. I'm having some trouble figuring out the mechanics of creating potions with the Alchemy skill. I have a Ranger with an Alchemy of about 10, built up exclusively by spell casting. How can he make potions? I know this is probably in the manual, but I haven't been able to find that since my wife cleaned my office!
2. Does anyone know if I can move my save games to another computer? I travel with my laptop, but the graphics are soooo much nicer on my desktop at home. Can I just copy the .sav to continue the same game on both computers?

Thanks for any help!

[Ben Lauritson]

1. Your alchemy skill needs to be a certain level to mix certain potions/powders/bombs. As far as I know, you mix them by "merging" the items in your inventory.
2. Yes, you can. Just copy the save games and you're all set

[petertmorgan]

Creating potions while in camp is a special ability of Alchemists only and doesn't happen everytime you camp (it seems to happen toward the beginning of the '8 hours', so my recommendation is if you're all healed and spell point regenerated after a short time in camp, don't wait the full 8 hours to see if your alchemist makes a potion).

Potion mixing can be done by anyone with Alchemy skill, but I think the lowest skill level that allows any mixing is '15' which allows.

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[mberdine]

Thanks. That helps. I guess I was expecting my Ranger to make potions while camping because he has the Alchemy skill. It's good to know that I shouldn't expect that!