Are resurrection scrolls the only way to revive?

[e11]

Just asking, because they are ultimately a limited supply.

[LaserGuy]

There is a spell in Necromancy that lets you revive, but you don't have access to it until later in the game.

Vendors restock their wares though, so if you've been buying them out, I believe the scrolls will eventually be replenished. You can also craft them if you're desperately low, though the crafting materials aren't super common either, but you can make at least a handful of them even in Act I.

[Chaoslink]

Every time you level up or every hour that passes, whichever comes first, the vendors restock their wares. Most are guaranteed a set amount of res scrolls each reset.

The real question you should be asking is what can you do to avoid dying so much.

[CaptainOwl]

Necromancy's skill - Last rite (3 AP)

[e11]

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Every time you level up or every hour that passes, whichever comes first, the vendors restock their wares. Most are guaranteed a set amount of res scrolls each reset.

The real question you should be asking is what can you do to avoid dying so much.

I'm not dying all the time, just thought I'd ask.

[sparrowbird611]

Originally posted by LaserGuy:

There is a spell in Necromancy that lets you revive, but you don't have access to it until later in the game.

Vendors restock their wares though, so if you've been buying them out, I believe the scrolls will eventually be replenished. You can also craft them if you're desperately low, though the crafting materials aren't super common either, but you can make at least a handful of them even in Act I.

How late are we talking? I'm cheap, and I want to buy that spell as soon as possible so I don't need to buy res scrolls.

[Stabbey]

Originally posted by sparrowbird611:

How late are we talking? I'm cheap, and I want to buy that spell as soon as possible so I don't need to buy res scrolls.

Really late. Level 16, which is like, 3/4 of the way through the game. Also, using that spell will deal a tremendous amount of damage, almost certianly killing you as well, unless you first use "Living on the Edge" to temporarily prevent your health from going below 1.

If you're worried, my advice is to just save often and reload if you do badly in a fight. Then use that knowledge in your reloaded save to try and do the fight better. That helps a lot, and there's no shame in it.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by e11:

Originally posted by Chaoslink:

Every time you level up or every hour that passes, whichever comes first, the vendors restock their wares. Most are guaranteed a set amount of res scrolls each reset.

The real question you should be asking is what can you do to avoid dying so much.

I'm not dying all the time, just thought I'd ask.

I only say it like that because stating that technically it’s a finite resource (though it isn’t) implies that that limit might be relevant to you. Given that you can buy approximately 30 or more per vendor restock, that’s a lot of dying.

[sparrowbird611]

Originally posted by Stabbey:

Originally posted by sparrowbird611:

How late are we talking? I'm cheap, and I want to buy that spell as soon as possible so I don't need to buy res scrolls.

Really late. Level 16, which is like, 3/4 of the way through the game. Also, using that spell will deal a tremendous amount of damage, almost certianly killing you as well, unless you first use "Living on the Edge" to temporarily prevent your health from going below 1.

If you're worried, my advice is to just save often and reload if you do badly in a fight. Then use that knowledge in your reloaded save to try and do the fight better. That helps a lot, and there's no shame in it.

Huh. Don't really need it any way, but I'm fanatically cheap when it comes to gold, so I'd like it for those times where I won a fight and want to revive the guy who died near the end.

Yeah, definitely helps. Had to do it in the "love has a price" quest. Accidentally botched the fight, and had to reload.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by sparrowbird611:

Originally posted by Stabbey:

Really late. Level 16, which is like, 3/4 of the way through the game. Also, using that spell will deal a tremendous amount of damage, almost certianly killing you as well, unless you first use "Living on the Edge" to temporarily prevent your health from going below 1.

If you're worried, my advice is to just save often and reload if you do badly in a fight. Then use that knowledge in your reloaded save to try and do the fight better. That helps a lot, and there's no shame in it.

Huh. Don't really need it any way, but I'm fanatically cheap when it comes to gold, so I'd like it for those times where I won a fight and want to revive the guy who died near the end.

Yeah, definitely helps. Had to do it in the "love has a price" quest. Accidentally botched the fight, and had to reload.

Meanwhile, I leave act one with enough res scrolls to last four full games worth of dying if I were to die an average of once per fight. Like, 40 per character.

[Greb]

As far as I know there's only three methods, right?

You've got your basic resurrection scroll, which can be often purchased / stolen in moderate quantities from various merchants and crafted by combining a sheet of paper with a water and a life essence, think this costs 2 AP to cast in combat but anyone can do it, etc. You can hold a stack of 20, but as many stacks as you want.

Then you've got the Glowing Idol of Rebirth, which automatically revives you when the person holding it dies, but then loses its charge, becoming an Ashen Idol of Rebirth or something like that. It's charged by combining it with a resurrection scroll - this can be done in combat immediately after you revive, at a cost of 1AP. You can obtain 2 in Definitive Edition, and as many as you have unique party members in Classic.

I think - although I'm not 100% sure - that they added a Resurrection skill in Definitive Edition, possibly only for Story / Explorer difficulty (don't quote me on that - maybe the story difficulty merely gives it to you from the start and other difficulties you have to buy it) which requires like 4AP to cast in combat and 4 Necromancer too, it's useful for cutting down on scroll use.

There may be sneaky ways of claiming free revives when doing certain events, like competing in the Arena of the One or moving between maps, but for obvious reasons they're not really very reliable.

I've never sworn myself to the God King for anything longer than five minutes. I don't know if joining him gives you any bonus resurrections like what happens to the NPCs you fight that are also Sworn to him...would be a cool thing if so, but I'm guessing it doesn't happen. By that point in the game anyway you're loaded down by resurrection methods.

Scrolls are very common, and only really cost prohibitive in the early game, where you will ironically need them the most. By the time you leave Act 1 you should have a fairly nice stack of them, and if you keep trading your loot in Act 2 for scrolls from merchants in the town, you'll build up a great supply as the value of your loot will grow with your level, whereas the price of Resurrection Scrolls remains static, etc.

If you really want the spell earlier than normal, consider using a mod for it. There's a few mods that add skillbook vendors, some even add skillbooks for spells / skills that NPCs use but you can't get access to, I know at least one of them adds the Resurrection book, costs about 4000 gold, can be picked up fairly quickly into Fort Joy etc. It's up to you, etc. Otherwise you need to wait until you reach the level tier where they begin to appear in vendor stock update.