Also to note is that at lower levels, I would have a 0% chance to gain from a lightning/ebolt. Heck, even at 50 resist I had 0% chance to gain from spells like lightning. This was really obvious during T2A, as my dexxers (used for lich killing exclusively) would only have 55 resist or so, even after killing millions of gold worth of liches. The only gains I would even get were from resisting spells like poison, and the chance for that to happen was pretty low. On this shard my character gained to 70 from liches in about 2 weeks.
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Proof that resist gains are whacky here and the caps for gaining off a particular spell should not be using runUO defaults (they are wrong):
http://web.archive.org/web/200003061213 ... tchart.htm
Some things to note:
He casts 4600 flamestrikes from 88.5 magery, and is only at 95.6 when he finishes. On UOSA you would very easily have GMed by that stage. Unfortunately, he does not mention whether he only includes successful casts in his calculations for for resist.
Fireball to 67.6 resist. Here it caps at 55(?) I believe. His magery is nowhere near gm at this stage - I imagine if his magery was GM, fireball would take you far higher.3 64.6 67.6 63.8 64.4 1200 Fireballs
He casts 1000 ebolts while he has 67.6 resist, and DOES NOT GAIN A SINGLE POINT IN RESIST5 - - 70.5 79.0 1000 E-bolts
He uses lightning all the way up to 80.3. Here it is not possible to gain from lightning after 65. Note his magery is not even gm - light with GM magery should take you even higher.9 79.6 80.3 79.3 79.3 500 Lightning
Ebolts up to 90.6 resist. Here it caps at 85.13 89.6 90.6 87.6 88.5 800 E-bolts