UO Second Age

Anyone tell me what the magery real skill has to be to reliably cast the gate spell with a scroll and with jes plain ol' regs? I be wantin' t' escort all the fine ladies ovah ta my new plush pad fo sum luvin!

069690 wrote:Anyone tell me what the magery real skill has to be to reliably cast the gate spell with a scroll and with jes plain ol' regs? I be wantin' t' escort all the fine ladies ovah ta my new plush pad fo sum luvin!

70 magery for scrolls casting close to 100% of the time.

Basically 100 magery to cast with reagents.

Scrolls behave as though their difficulty was two circles lower.

So since you have a 100% chance of succeeding a level 5 spell at 80.1 skill, you should get your skill to that point to 100% succeed with the gate scroll.

Of course, at that point, it would be cheaper to simply use reagents and succeed around 30-40% of the time on a normal cast, versus paying for a scroll.

My suggestion? Get the minimum magery needed to cast a level 7 scroll (aka minimum magery needed to cast a level 5 spell, or 36.1, let's round up to 40 so you have almost a 10% chance of success). At this point, double-clicking the scroll may fizzle... but it's not used up unless you succeed. PLUS you have a chance to gain skill! So from this point up to 80.1 skill, if you would have been using a Gate scroll anyways, raising Magery is basically free (though you have to sit there through a few fizzles)

TYVM all fo th' inputz. Been doin d escort bidness wit 77 magery to make some coin ta buy de regs fo mo' magery skill. 200gp a pop minus reg cost for a few fizzes is right fine and beats farmin for a zero combat skillz char.