Re: Fighters and spellbooks

S wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
> > A carefully kitted out Valk at XP=30 has about a 60% failure rate
> > at Identify spell. For Identify that's good enough. For Attack school
> > spells high failure rates are NOT good enough. When you are
> > facing an advancing halfneshee you do not want to waste a turn on
> > a failed spell.

As was pointed out, the 60% level is acheived well before reaching
XP=30 with a carefully tuned spellcasting armor kit.

There is an advantage to maxing out XP and spell-tuned armor:
Failure rates for finger of death fall to 0% as you move up and
the damage done by magic missile spell increases as well. At
some point a combat-wombat Valk can go from using wands
and daggers to using attack-school spells and still be playing
what's essentially a combat-wombat style just with a different
set of "weapons".

To some extent attack spells are like zero-weight auto-charging
wands. "Z"ap with abandon while your manna lasts, then
switch to wands, then switch to daggers, then take out what
survives all that with two-weaponed artifact-and-saber.

> What use does a XL30 Valk have for Identify, though? By the time you
> reach XL 30 or have a robe and a heavily enchanted [HoB, you're already
> identified all the items that will be important to your success in the
> dungeon.

Good point. It's more a matter of getting to the point so much
is identified all that's left is charges on wands and rings. It
would be so nice for blessed identify to give the number of
charges left on a spellbook. It's while the failure rate still
hasn't dropped very low that the spell is the most value. Maybe
that's why I mentioned the 60% level - it's when my high level
Valks use it the most.

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