The Drunken Lizard Pub

I made a very long post about this exact subject. It's impossible to play a pure mage in this game. There's simply no way to do it unless you want to carry around hundreds of potions, and shop-scum so that you'll always have enough ingredients.

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I thought that might be the issue. I tested it a few times and came back with a few hundred hours of sleep racked up.

Jazzepi

I have what I think is a bug. I usually multitask a lot, so I end up alt-tabbing out of full screen games. I'd run Eschalon in a window, but it's too tiny and dark, things are hard to make out! So I just run it full screen.

Anyways, when I'm camping and I try to alt-tab out, it seems like 95% of ...

I have a save game that you can replicate this bug with. I'm playing version 1.02 and I'm in the bee hive dungeon. I quick saved before I hit the barrels there, the ones that open up the new passage, since I was going to do it with a sword. I hit it with the sword, and the barrels blow up. I take 50 ...

I was holding a weapon on my mouse cursor after picking it up. It was a 3 gold club that I was going to use for crate bashing. I hit enter to switch equipped weapons from my equipped sword to nothing, and the club vanished. It was not in my inventory, or in my alternate weapon slot.

Jazzepi

None of this has anything to do with my original point. I built my character without an deep understanding of game mechanics, not to min-max. I think the hitpoints/mana progression based on the stat at the time of level up is silly. D&D 3rd edition did it better with con bonuses adding ...

I'm curious what the size of your mana pool is at the moment. I would also like to say that you're probably spending a great deal of mana buffing yourself for meele combat. That's all well and good, but it's not what I want to do with my character.

My guess, and this may or may not be true, is ...

The point is he should be able to deal with the encounter in the first place.


That part was about the length of the rest time cycle he said he needed to recharge mana, it's very long, and the longer they are the more likely encounters are, which he complained about.


Actually, my character's ...

Perhaps to address the OP's concerns re: mana efficiency, it strikes me that this game probably isn't balanced for a 'pure' caster if by a pure caster you play the character so he doesn't use weapons, doesn't use armor, and doesn't use skills apart from magic.

Because, if it was balanced for this ...

I am wearing a meditation amulet when I sleep. Here's my current stats, in case you're curious.

str dex endurance spd int wis per con
15 14 20 10 30 24 26 20

Also, for super nova to match Fire Dart in efficiency it has to be hitting 4.3 opponents assuming there is no degradation in damage for ...

Interesting finding... I'm also playing a pure mage too, but i haven't got that many spells yet.

I agree that better spells should have a higher "damage per mana" ratio, if not, what's the point of finding new spells.

Simple, utility and time efficiency, the price you pay for that is mana ...

It is important to note that since all spells scale in a linear fashion, it's only important to look at the ratio since it never changes.

Your math is good, but the above logic is missing one critical additional component: Maximum damage dealing capability or damage / turn.

Consider level 6 in ...

It doesnt surprise me that the efficency of spells goes down as the spell level (in this case the type of spell) goes up, however you are wrong to compare to the damage to a single target spells with the AOE spells. As they should be less efficent when considered against a single target, and more ...

My general style of play begets that I play a caster. I love wizards. I love big flashy effects. I love blowing stuff up with a few incantation, and doing crazy, unmentionable things with magic that normal mortals can't. So, in that vein, I made a pure caster for Eschalon. At first it was a little ...