Do not choose these spells as a wizard!

[Giacomo]

Okay, so this game starves you for scroll variety. You can find a hundred Scorching Ray scrolls, but you will probably never find a Sense Vitals scroll in your kingdom. I'm the damn baron with an wizard tower in each village, and I can't find second level spells in my kingdom (but I can find rods of metamagic (!!!) Man... Do these people even played pathfinder?)

Anyways, if you're playing a wizard for variety, there is a very specific set of spells that you should not choose on level up since you will be guaranteed to find a scroll during your journey:

Level 2: Scorching Ray and Acid Arrow are certain. You can also buy a scroll of glitterdust.
Level 3: Fireball, haste, hold person, dispel magic (actually, most of the defensive spells that wizards share with clerics can be bought off a cleric. Aparently clerics don't have a problem scribbing scrolls...).
Level 4: Greater Invisibility.
Level 6: Just found a Acid Fog and a Desintegrate scroll during the Season of Blooming end quest.

Do you guys know any more spells that are guaranted to show up?

[kirill-busidow]

Do not choose at start as wizard: Expeditios retreat, Shield, Magic Missile. You start with scrolls for this spells.

Also you can buy Hold person spell, i think.

Lvl 4: Can buy Controlled Fireball.

[oo]

Where can you find a Greater Invisibility scroll?

[Dusty_Monk]

Originally posted by oo:

Where can you find a Greater Invisibility scroll?

A certain witch sells it IIRC.

[Mysteria]

Rushlight tournament has:
Chain Lightning
Clashing Rocks
Dominate Monster
Dragonkind II (black)
Fiery Body
Finger of Death
Firebrand
Heroic Invocation
Mind Blank - communal
Overwhelming Presence
Polar Ray
Power Word Stun
Summon Monster IX
Umbral Strike

Also quicken metamagic rod and reach metamagic rod.

Also: diviniation specialist has dead levels where you don’t get any divination spells ...

I also must have found, although some very late game:

1: Ray of enfeeblement, Hurricane Bow, Enlarge Person, Touch of Gracelessness, Expeditious Retreat, Stone Fist,

2: Boneshaker, Blindness, Bull’s Strength, Fox’s Cunning, Pernicious Poison

3: haste, slow, vampiric touch

4: False Life (greater), Bestow Curse, Contagion

5: Angelic Aspect

6: disintegrate

7: /

8: horrid wilting

9:

Some came from the scroll artisan.

I also have in my inventory: acid arrow, burning hands, color spray, corrosive touch, various curse of ..., displacement, ear-piercing scream, expeditious retreat, fireball, frigid touch, haste, hold person, invisibility, mage armour, magic missile, protection from element (also communal resist element), protection from alignement (also communal), ray of enfeeblement, remove curse, scorching ray, shield, shocking grasp, slow, snowball, stinking cloud, stone call, stone fist, summon monster I and IV, touch of gracelessness, vanish, volcanic storm

[kirill-busidow]

Where you got Volcanic storm?

[Mysteria]

Random chest? All I know is that I have it. Sorry. I’d say post Pitax though.

[Edstyles]

Can you get these spells as permanent in your book by just simply getting the scrolls ?

[kl.borek]

you can read them from the inventory, what copies it to the spell book

[Edstyles]

Originally posted by kl.borek:

you can read them from the inventory, what copies it to the spell book

Oh i see thats Nice. But can only wizards do this ?

[Midnight]

Remember that you can learn a spell from a scroll even before you can cast it.

Might be worth it to snatch any scrolls you see and learn them in advance so that when you go pick spells on level up you won't pick them by mistake.

[Ghost]

Originally posted by Edstyles:

Can you get these spells as permanent in your book by just simply getting the scrolls ?

yeah but it's hard to find scrolls for all the spells

[Dorok]

It's weird I knew this easily with BG1 and didn't guess it with PK. Well it's not helping I almost never used a caster, only a few time Octavia if I feel stuck.

[Shadenuat]

Stoneskin: Staglord house Chest (herbs)