Thanks to both you & The Scotts for your explanations...I FINALLY
understand!
Heh, but I have a follow-up question <g>.
Why bother EVER specializing in anything but the one you want over 50? Umm,
rephrased:
When you specialize (at skill lvl 1), do you immediately start seeing
mana/casting/recovery time in that spell-type?
I'm only GUESSING the answer is that when you specialize (even at lvl 1)
your mana goes further. As you go up in Specialization, your mana (cost per
spell in time/mana/recovery) goes even further until you reach 50. At 51,
your main Specialization continues its mana-costsavings while your other 4
Specializations - while not getting worse - languish behind your main
Specialization.
Does that make sense, and am I close to understanding?
----- Original Message -----
From: Lanadina the Magician <lanadina@...>
To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] ARGH
> From: Lanadina the Magician <lanadina@...>
>
> Dan,
>
> Ok...let me try to explain very very simply =)
>
> When you specialize in a skill, that is completely seperate from your
normal
> skill, (EX. Alteration). My cleric isnt high enough to specialize, but I
> have a level 25 magician who has specialized in both Conjuration and
> Evocation. I use Conjuration alot more, so I will let that one go past the
> 50 mark. Once the SPECIALIZATION skill goes over 50, that ONE will be the
> skill you master at...the other skills that you specialize will be capped
at
> 50. That does not mean that your actual skill in Conjuration or any other
> skill will stop moving up. Look at Specialization as another skill
entirely.
>
> Once you are able to specialize (I beleive you have to be level 30 to do
> that as a Cleric) you will need to go to your guild trainer, and put ONE
> point in whatever skill you want to specialize in. As a cleric, I will
want
> to do Alteration, so I use less mana when I heal, cast faster, and with
less
> interruptions. Once you have ONE POINT in there, it will go up as you
play
> in EQ. You will see when it goes up with a message like, Your
specialization
> (Conjuration) has increased! (25) or whatever you have in that skill. By
the
> time you are level 30, your skill in Alteration is already going to rock,
> (about 150 or so). So, whatever skills you have, they will keep rising,
the
> only thing that will stop rising, is if you specialize in more than one
> skill, and one of them has gone over 50 skill. Everything will keep going
> up, until you hit 50 in specialize, and the one that went over 50 first,
> will keep rising. (Phew, I hope I didnt confuzzle you more)
>
> Specialization Alteration and Alteration are TWO different skills. Both
will
> keep going up =)
>
>
>
> Hope this clarifies it!
>
> Lanadina
>
> >
> >From: "Dan Harmon" <deharmon@...>
> >
> >I must be missing a very basic piece of information or just suffering
from
> >brain fart. Assume that I don't have a clue and am probably talking
about
> >something different than what YOU mean. :)
> >
> >I'm a lvl 13 cleric. Abjuration, alteration, evocation are AT LEAST at
> >skill lvl 60, and probably divination and conjuration are pretty high as
> >well. How can that be explained?
> >
> >I haven't noticed any better casting ability in any of my spells. How
can
> >that be explained?
> >
> >If I HAVE specialized, how can I tell which one it is?(they went over 50
> >about 3 weeks ago...I don't have a clue which was first).
> >
> >If I HAVEN'T specialized, how do I do it?
> >If I HAVEN'T specialized, what happens to the other 2-4 spell classes
that
> >have already gone over 50? Do they stay at 65, or do they drop back
down?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Mr. J Daniels <warpig@...>
> > > You can specialize in all spell types. But, once one reaches 51 the
> >rest
> > > will cap at 50, and the skill that reached 51 first will keep
> >increasing.
> > > I am level 30 I trained as much as I could in alteration and I havent
> > > touched the other specialization skills, I want to make sure my
> >specialize
> > > in alt. is the first to hit 51
> >
> >
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