Dan,
I am so glad to hear you understand! YAY!!! Now to your follow up question,
I want to specialize in ALL of them eventually, just to get the skill up.
Even with the specialization capped at 50 for the other 4 areas, it will
still help you in your spell casting. Not as much as the one you master, but
it will definitely help =)
Hugs, and good luck to you in your journey =)
Lanadina
>From: "Dan Harmon" <deharmon@...>
>Reply-To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
>To: <EQ-Clerics@onelist.com>
>Subject: Re: [EQ-Clerics] ARGH Ahhh, thank you!
>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:30:47 -0400
>
>From: "Dan Harmon" <deharmon@...>
>
>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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