Magic skills and magic schools

[Tyrir]

1) How do magic skills affect the spells? Seems like fizzle rate is affected. Anything else?

2) Which magic skills affect which schools?

My guess is,
Alchemistry

• Fire
  
• Frost
  
• Air
  
• Water
  
• Earth

Litany

• Spirit

Sorcery

• Psych
  
• Astral

Necromancy

• Infernal
  
• Necromancy

Arcanum

• Arcane

Is that accurate?

[cANe]

Good question. Another issue is that no skill gains come from casting spells so it's hard to now if they are even affected by skills

[Mc'doge]

I don't think spell schools work like you think they do. There are spell schools for each basic caster. Necro, wizard, thaumawala, cleric, and sage. They each have spells that mite be used by another school.

Now the skill points in the schools affects fizzle, and backfire chances. That's all I know about that. Some spells don't fizzle or backfire like healing, but a fireball, or ice grasp would.

So basically if a wizard can choose the spell it falls under sorcery. If a necro can pick the same spell it also falls under there school.

[Tweed]

It's just their skill for using magic, I think they can learn whatever spell they want so long as you can find a book for it since nearly everyone in my party can heal now and my sage raises more dead people than my cleric does.

[ChopShop]

Well that is confusing. I guess it is par for the course with this game...