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Wisdom and spells

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate (Classic)' started by Fudashi, Jan 17, 2002.

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    Alright, according to the manual a wisdom below 13 will increase the chance that of spell failure. Does this apply to mage spells?
     
    Fudashi, Jan 17, 2002
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    Wisdom applies to priest spells.
     
    Mollusken, Jan 17, 2002
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    Alright, but the minimum for a priest is 13 wisdom, making any negative affects on priest spells for less then 13 wisdom a moot point.
     
    Fudashi, Jan 17, 2002
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    I know sort of redundent insnt it. who knows maybe they orriginally had thought about a monster that could drain wisdom. That could explain it.
     
    kemanmaldea, Jan 17, 2002
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    Well in BG2 Anomen has 12 wisdom for awhile, giving him a 5% chance to fail...but that's off topic isn't it?

    Well if it has bonuses to 25 shouldn't it have negatives to 1?
     
    Lord Sarevok, Jan 18, 2002
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    Wisdom gives bonus spells to priests so with Wisdom 13, you will have less spells to cast:

    Wisdom 12: failure chance 5%
    Wisdom 13: and higher: 0% failure chance

    about bonus spells:

    Wisdom 13: 1 1st lvl spell
    Wisdom 14: 2 1st lvl spells
    Wisdom 15: 2 1st lvl, 1 2nd lvl
    Wisdom 16: 2 1st lvl, 2 2nd lvl
    Wisdom 17: 2 1st lvl, 2 2nd lvl, 1 3rd lvl
    Wisdom 18: 2 ist lvl, 2 2nd lvl, 2 3rd lvl

    etcetera.

    A good thing is that in BG1 you can get two tomes of wisdom and in TOTSC one, so at the end your wisdom can be 3 higher...
     
    Shadowcouncil, Jan 18, 2002
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    Alright, so the chance of spell failure only applies to priest spells. Thanks guys.
     
    Fudashi, Jan 18, 2002
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    Wisdom has only affect on priest spells... Mage spells never fail in 2nd edition... you can only fail to learn o spell, not to cast.
     
    Shadowcouncil, Jan 19, 2002
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  9. Lord Sarevok Guest

    I would take a high wisdom cause you get a lot of bonus spells from it. You could have 21 wisdom with all the tomes, that would help a lot if you imported into BG2!
     
    Lord Sarevok, Feb 3, 2002
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    2 tomes of wisdom??
    oh?
    Explain yerself young man!
    What gibberish is that what you utter?
    Whereabout might this fine treasure be?
     
    FisH, Feb 3, 2002
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    One is underneath candle keep, and the other is from the from doing a certain quest in Baldur's Gate...

    I hear there is another one in TotSC too...
     
    Lord Sarevok, Feb 4, 2002
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    [​IMG] Nope, there is no 3rd tome of wisdom in ToSC. There are only the two you mentioned.
     
    Ragusa, Feb 4, 2002
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    [​IMG] (spoiler)
    hey don't read then!!

    ok

    Found the second, hehe, stupid Bitch Queen, kiss my thieving arse!!!
     
    FisH, Feb 4, 2002
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    *possible spoiler*

    I thought there was one in the top of durlag's tower...
     
    StressedE, Feb 5, 2002
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    Ragusa, its true, if you have ToSC there are a total of 3 Tomes of Wisdom throughout the game, 2 of them are just from the regular BG disks, and a 3rd can be found in Durlag's Tower.
     
    ArtEChoke, Feb 5, 2002
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