Mage Level

My mage has reached his max level. He can't cast any level 9 spells or use level 9 scrolls.
Is this right. He can copy the scrolls to his mage book, but can't use the scrolls.

The highest level you can reach in bg2 for a mage is L17 ,no spells above 8th level. You should be able to cast 9th level scrolls though if you can copy them maybe you are a specialist mage.

You weren't supposed to scribe those spells, but cast them in battle from the scroll. It's a one time only sort of deal.

[Eddith]

Why then do they even bother to include 9th level mage spells in the game? It seems like they throw them in the game to piss us off. I think it's completely ridiculous.. same thing happened with BG1 and Icewind Dale.. I can understand it in those games because of the lower XP cap but BG2??

Eddith

You got level 9 spells in IWD as well. It's to see who's paying attention to the manual or not I suppose.

[Tobbin]

Well, they wanted to leave you with a taste of what 9th level spells were like (hence, being able to cast them from the scroll), but wanted you to want for something more in BGIII or NWN. It's a popular tactic that many companies do. If I remember correctly, it was this way back when they had the gold box series of games too. You can cast the 9th level spells in BGII, just can get a high enough level to cast them from memory. If you install the experience point remover, then you can get to a high enough level to cast the spells. So if it's bothering you a lot, you can download that from http://www.teambg.com Just go to the player options (not developer) and you should find it there. It looks like there is a link to another page, so you will have to hunt down that page a little to find it. Totally worth it though.

Level nine spells are in the book to tell you what the bad guys are throwing at you.

Personally, I think they should've lowered the EP cap and made levelling up a lot harder in this game. Doesn't seem like there's a lot to look forward to in BG3 in that respect. How much EP did Firkraag give? Fully matured, a red dragon is still only supposed to give 24,000. I won't even talk about the 75,000 or somesuch for killing one lousy vampire (Bodhi).

[el_kalkylus]

Yes, I was also very suprised when I got 75.000 for killing Bohdi. She was pretty easy I think, a lot easier than Firkraag.

I think 75k exp can be justified by other than killing Bodhi you restored Imoen's soul. Btw I was expecting at least a tiny bit of dialogue from Imoen when we killed Bodhi. I mean we got her soul back! Duh!