Spells Memorized (an absolute must)

[Ratheus]

This is a feature i\'d like to see, one thing i hate about everquest is that you can only have 8 spells memorized at any one time. i think thats pretty lame... think about that fact that a noob can have as many spells to use as a legend. that does not make sense. the farther you progress you should be able to have many more spells at your disposal.  A legendary necromancer for example would have many more spells in his mind, how would he forget them? Ideas everyone?

[Deddarus]

or maybe have it as follows

magic skill affects spells available + fail rates
intelligence affects how many can be remembered

thus a good mage who is stupid cant remember many but can do them well and a poor mage who is a genious remembers all his piddly lil spells

that would lessen the chance of the uber-tank-mage scenario

[Ratheus]

agreed

[Syzerian]

i agree sorta
intellegence needs to be a certain level to memorize a spell
eg. need to be level 20 to learn lightning

magic skills should be one for each school of magic like fire and ice and effect spell success chance
eg. at level 10 you have a 10% chance of casting fireball

i think there should be scrolls and spell books
scrolls: anyone can use them no matter what (one use item)
spell book: used to remember spells

or it could be like tibia where you have to remember they incarnation of the spell yourself

[derwoodly]

Originally posted by Deddarus

that would lessen the chance of the uber-tank-mage scenario

Hey! don\'t nerf my class before I have had a chance to make it!  uber-tank-mage was what I was going to make!

[Deddarus]

uber-tank-mage killed any chance of varied characters on the server i used to work for... if u werent 1.. u were a corpse

[Umpapa]

I kinda agree.  But I sure hope they dont do that strange. you cast the spell and forget it thing like AD&D.  that sucks.  haha
 I like the mana idea

[Watcher]

Originally posted by Syzerian

eg. need to be level 20 to learn lightning

magic skills should be one for each school of magic like fire and ice and effect spell success chance
eg. at level 10 you have a 10% chance of casting fireball

Am I the only one here remembering that there are No Levels.

[druke]

.. i dont think you \"memorize\" spells at all, not 100% on  that . trust me PS\'s spell system is way different than any you have ever seen.

[Olig]

druke sez:

.. i dont think you \"memorize\" spells at all, not 100% on that . trust me PS\'s spell system is way different than any you have ever seen.

I know, and I can\'t wait for it! Hopefully it will involve more demand on the user depending on the power of his/her avatar. Such as if you are going to be an uber-tank-mage, the system would require the smarts irl to be one. (Maybe memorizing spell functions yourself and when to use them. COMBOS!)

[druke]

kinda.... no avatar system though

[Umpapa]

Hmm I never thought about it.. but what if the   essence of magic flowed like the tides?  maybe have different seasons or locations provide certain bonuses to certain types of magic.   Like mabye the Dead of winter and in a grave yard= bonuse to dark magic (necro magic)
or say  Early Spring and out in the woods = a bounus to druidic magic.  

Just some idea I had, pardon me if it does not make sense, I am coffee deprived right now..  ahhh WHY HAVE THE GODS OF FOLGERS AND MR. COFFEE FORSAKEN ME.   AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

LOL

[Kiva]

I have heard something which goes like this.

You use the glyphs of a certain way to cast your spell. When the spell has been cast, you need to purify those glyphs in order to use them again...

It\'s not very detailed, and I\'m not even sure that\'s how it\'s going to be, but my \'sources\' haven\'t failed me too bad, yet, so maybe it\'ll be something like this. I don\'t even know how purification of glyphs is going to work, but I know for certain that it wont be a Click\'N\'Boom kind of system. It\'ll require wits to be a mage.

And as far as what I know, any mage can cast any spell, as long as they have and know the right glyphs for the spell, however, Mr. Newbie Mage with 5 intelligence shouldn\'t think himself able to cast UberThunderOfDeathAndDestruction. He\'s simply not good enough, and if he even tried casting a spell he wasn\'t qualified for, it would blow up between his hands and turn him into a small pile of smoking red flesh and such.

Anyway, whatever the system turns out to be like, it won\'t be anything used in previous MMORPGs. A few similarities maybe, but that\'s about it. So you can easily count on getting something fresh and new to play with, that\'s for sure.

[Phinehas]

Originally posted by Gronomist
He\'s simply not good enough, and if he even tried casting a spell he wasn\'t qualified for, it would blow up between his hands and turn him into a small pile of smoking red flesh and such.

Yes!! I can\'t wait to stand around at all the noob spawning spots and watch this happen! Anyway, that system sounds pretty cool. I hope you\'re right, Gronomist. It\'ll be nice to have something original, I was starting to think that there aren\'t any truly original rpgs anymore.

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Phinehas
I was starting to think that there aren\'t any truly original rpgs anymore.

There aren\'t. We live in a world where everything has been thought of before.