how to learn to cast a spell i suck at

[evilserran]

I am a pianist succubus, and i know i am not "supposed" to have meteor...but i murdered an adventurer and they dropped some meteor books, so i learned it. However, i have a zero chance to cast it. How do i increase it? If i cast it at zero, will it eventually level up? Can i just never learn?

[Iyasenu]

Level up your Casting skill, for starters.

Second, be aware of Casting penalties, such as from Dual Wielding, wearing heavy armor, wearing a shield, Riding a mount, and hosting using Symbiosis.

Third, you're right that casting a spell multiple times will level it up.
Each level up boosts the cast chance of a spell.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Raise your magic attribute and control magic and casting skills (which both raise the magic attribute - so they kind of go hand-in-hand). You could cast the spell and fail it, which can level it up, but I'd recommend raising your skill through renewable novice spells first, preferably those in your domains as you can replenish spell charges through sleeping for spells within your selected domains.


Additionally, if you're holding something in your off-hand and/or are wearing heavier armor, this will also reduce your chance to cast spells. Symbosis and riding party members also reduces casting chance.

There's a feat you can get for heavy armor and shield penalties, but this removes the hard cap penalty on casting while wearing these set-ups - it doesn't actually reduce these penalties by itself.

[Akameka]

Meteor is kinda a joke spell. It's rare, costly, earn very few charges from reading unless you have like 100+ in memorization. It has high failure rate, it's hit or miss, it can randomly land in your face, severely damaging you, putting you on fire, consuming your blanket charges, burning your stuff, and outright killing you if you don't have enough HP + fire resist.

It's not really recomended unless you're rich, dedicate all Demitas inventory to clone the spellbook, and more importantly, end up being completely immune to fire someohow.

That being said, like all spells it gets easier to cast if you have good casting, light armor, and the spell is high level enough (so you have to use it. A lot. Which is unpractical at best with this one and suicidal at worst.)

You should probably settle for the gravity/earthquake combo or a good ball spell if you want AOE damage. They are more easier to get and upgrade.

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by Akameka:

Meteor is kinda a joke spell. It's rare, costly, earn very few charges from reading unless you have like 100+ in memorization. It has high failure rate, it's hit or miss, it can randomly land in your face, severely damaging you, putting you on fire, consuming your blanket charges, burning your stuff, and outright killing you if you don't have enough HP + fire resist.

It's not really recomended unless you're rich, dedicate all Demitas inventory to clone the spellbook, and more importantly, end up being completely immune to fire someohow.

Don't forget, if you happen to have the "Mana Battery" Ether Disease, you can drain Rods of Meteor to get more of the funny spell.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Originally posted by Akameka:

Meteor is kinda a joke spell. It's rare, costly, earn very few charges from reading unless you have like 100+ in memorization. It has high failure rate, it's hit or miss, it can randomly land in your face, severely damaging you, putting you on fire, consuming your blanket charges, burning your stuff, and outright killing you if you don't have enough HP + fire resist.

It's not really recomended unless you're rich, dedicate all Demitas inventory to clone the spellbook, and more importantly, end up being completely immune to fire someohow.

That being said, like all spells it gets easier to cast if you have good casting, light armor, and the spell is high level enough (so you have to use it. A lot. Which is unpractical at best with this one and suicidal at worst.)

You should probably settle for the gravity/earthquake combo or a good ball spell if you want AOE damage. They are more easier to get and upgrade.

I find it good for clearing out some heavily crowded Nefia rooms with just a one (or sometimes two)-and-done cast to just soften most things and get some damage over time going. If you know there's a lot of stuff to hit and it's otherwise going to take a lot of turns and single-target to do it, meteor's pretty good. Though I'd recommend only doing it after having learned magic manners feat so you don't burn all of the loot up in the room, too.

Fire resist with scale equipment is pretty easy to achieve, too.

[Akameka]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Originally posted by Akameka:

Meteor is kinda a joke spell. It's rare, costly, earn very few charges from reading unless you have like 100+ in memorization. It has high failure rate, it's hit or miss, it can randomly land in your face, severely damaging you, putting you on fire, consuming your blanket charges, burning your stuff, and outright killing you if you don't have enough HP + fire resist.

It's not really recomended unless you're rich, dedicate all Demitas inventory to clone the spellbook, and more importantly, end up being completely immune to fire someohow.

Don't forget, if you happen to have the "Mana Battery" Ether Disease, you can drain Rods of Meteor to get more of the funny spell.

yeah, that's how I got my meteor spell lol. some fool sold me a rod for like 800 oren in aquili teola, which gave me like 50 charges or so. Obviously it got tested right in the middle of the room LMAO

[Albreo]

Mana battery is the way to go for a spell character. You will have more spell charges than you can reasonably consume. Also, pick up as many books as you can find from dungeons to level up your Memory skills. Later on, a single arrow book can give you as much as 200 rounds of charge, and keep casting spells over the mana limit before you go to sleep to increase your mana capacity. In mid to late game you will be able to craft a grimoire that helps you read all the books, expand it with wrenches, and have yourself an easy time becoming a great spell caster.

As for meteor and earthquake, I prefer later. You can also use the ice ball spell to put out the fire near your party instantly. The prerequisite is that you must have high control magic and magic manner.

[Akameka]

In mid to late game you will be able to craft a grimoire that helps you read all the books, expand it with wrenches, and have yourself an easy time becoming a great spell caster.

Damn, good tip... I didn't think about upgrading the size of the grimoire... that's quite usefull.

[evilserran]

Yea i have magic manners, and heavy casting. However, i do often ride and symbios? i thought they helped not hurt, lol, since both of them are spell casters. My bad lol.