Magic Stats Requirements

[a lemming]

I didn't see this topic anywhere, so if it is somewhere I'm sorry.

I am trying to research spells so that I may finally be able to use magic in this game, but every time I do, it says that I broke concentration and the magic ripped away from me.  I have been working on this for a while now, but to no avail, and I'm getting a little frustrated.  So I'm asking for someone to post the stat requirements for each way of magic here.

(i.e.
       Brown Way:
                         Intelligence: x
                         Will: x
                         Charisma x
                         etc.)

Thanks in advance.

[Kaityra]

http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=27873.0

And using the search function of this forum I found this:
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=31627.0

[Beniel]

I suspect that your stats do not affect how well you research something, only your level in a certain magical way. I believe stats only affect the strength of the spells you cast.

And from my experience, if researching something doesn't work the first time it is because you do not a have sufficiently high level in  certain way(s).

Note: Don't take my word for this as such, as I am not 100% positive that all this is true. But I am fairly confident I am correct.

[Kaityra]

And from my experience, if researching something doesn't work the first time it is because you do not a have sufficiently high level in  certain way(s).

I think for the basic spells you need at least the theoretical part for the first level of the appropriate way. At least it helped me when I had problems in researching spells.

[Beniel]

I was only really speaking for more complex spells. But yes, training is definitely needed to get those first few spells

[a lemming]

I have trained as high as I could in Brown way (still level 0 though because I cannot train the practical portion of the skill bar.), purified the armor glyph and still cannot research a spell.  If researching spells truly is solely dependent on training (at least the theoretical part), then I have absolutely no idea what's wrong.

[Caarrie]

sometimes it take several tries before you get the spell from the glyph even if you are at the correct lvl.

[a lemming]

sometimes it take several tries before you get the spell from the glyph even if you are at the correct lvl.

If by this you mean clicking the research button multiple times, I have done this...even to the point of near-death.  It also might be worth pointing out that I also have 2 skill points in Azure Way and the Air glyph, still no spells.

[Marqsaynt]

This may be a dumb question but, did you actually drag the purified glyph down to the first of the 4 slots before trying to click the research button? As far as I know, if a person tries to research a glyph and fail to discover anything, they get a failed message and their character actually gets physically injured. A second possibility, though less likely, is that you already have researched that spell and now it's just saying already known. Is the spell showing up in your magic book at all?

Edit: never mind, if you are near death seems it's working... is the stat bar trained all the way up in theoretical knowledge then?

[a lemming]

.............I.......am.....SOOOOO dumb.  Yeah, you see, my screen is to dark to see those four boxes (let alone anything at all at nigh, but that's besides the point.)  I dragged where I thought the boxes would be and it stuck, so I researched and it worked .  Thanks! 

[Marqsaynt]

*chuckles* Just glad you got it working. I actually didn't even know anything would happen if you tried to research, well, nothing! Learn something new every day. Have fun and welcome to PlaneShift.

[Bamko]

and this post might help another new person too!  no dumb questions.  though I used to ask more ingame myself....

enjoy! and happy hunting! 

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