Item Identification

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

With my all Fighter party I'm having trouble IDing some of the higher lvl stuff, since the scrolls only have a certain power lvl. Can I pay at the shops or something to have this none?

[el_kalkylus]

You could always recruit Vi or perhaps that Psionic in Arnika and let them identify the items, if you allow yourself to do that. Just buy a book of Relic for one of them.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Yeah, I really didn't want any more RPS's, but I guess thet can just do their thing and split.

[ChaosTheorist]

Yeah, I'm having the same problem with my "no magic" party. Most other RPGs I've played had a "pay to identify" option for shops/NPCs/whatever, but apparently that idea didn't make it into Wiz8. You can sell the item (for 25% of the purchase price) and then buy it back, but magic-impaired parties get hit with a double whammy here: you typically don't have much cash either. About the best you can do is spend a while in the Rapax Castle as a non-Templar; the ever-spawning Rapax hordes drop goodies that sell for good amounts, so you can build up a respectable bank balance fairly quickly.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

That's an interesting idea! I could even sell the suff, buy it back and then reload! At leasr I'd know what it was then.

[ChaosTheorist]

That's an interesting idea! I could even sell the suff, buy it back and then reload! At leasr I'd know what it was then.

In fact, that's how I got the weapon stats for Excaliber in the thread on dual weapons; in actuality, Excaliber is still being used unidentified by my second Fighter. Same with the Hades Harp and Renaissance Lute being used by the Bards; they work, but they're "question mark" items in inventory.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

I grabbed the mook and got him up 1 lvl so I could give him the ID spell (9th lvl and he doesn't even come with it?). I'll use him now and then as I need to.

[ChaosTheorist]

I grabbed the mook and got him up 1 lvl so I could give him the ID spell (9th lvl and he doesn't even come with it?). I'll use him now and then as I need to.

FWIW, next time it might be easier just to buy a Book of Relics from Anna.

I'm getting to where I pick fewer and fewer spells at level-up time, at least for spell levels 1-4; instead I visit the shopkeepers and buy the books. Ferro sells most of the level 5 spells of interest, but I usually pick at least a couple of them before I get to him (Purify Air at the minimum, for the SE Wilderness Death Lords). As nearly as I can determine, you can buy books for all but 4 of the spells in levels 1-5, and you can find a book for 2 of those 4. And there are 3 sets of Set/Return Portal books to be found, so you can have those well before you get to Ferro. This is especially key for a Bishop: unless you're going to play until s/he reaches character level 101 (is that even possible?), the only way to get all the need/nice-to-have spells--much less all of them--is from buying/finding books.

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

I saw Anna 'til I was blue in the face. She just never had the darn thing. Urq only needed 160k for lvl up so I just completed a quest or two and did a bit of combat instead.