How to use identification?

[Poddy]

Hi guys,

to use identification (i play a Witch) i right click on the item, use spell, use Identification, but he shows "Wrong item for this spell". Than i set Identification in a slot and try to use it from there, but he shows the same.
I have no idea how it should work, can anyone tell me if i am doing something wrong with that?

[starkadd]

Don't do that.
Just trigger the spell or scroll or potion before, not by right-clicking, THEN open the inventory and look at the object with the right-click. It works like this for me. The spell/potion/scroll has a duration, you can look at a few objects before the effect disappears.

[DrLoboto]

Not sure if some would consider this an exploit, but if you pause the game after triggering the spell, you can still right-click and identify all unidentified items in your inventory without having to fear that the effect will wear off before you're finished.

I would be fine with an "x items per spell" restriction or something, but it shouldn't be a real-time challenge of "see how many items you can quickly click on before time runs out".

[Poddy]

Thank you, i try it next time on this way.

[red255]

the identify spell just raises your lore skill.

you identify items with your lore skill, if you have a decent lore skill and can't identify the item, its worth enough money to justify paying the 100 to get it identified in a shop.

[Tesseract]

Identify works very strangely in NWN compared to pnp.

[Poddy]

I skill lore skill. Think i have on it 11 or 12 now. But some items i can't identify with it. As example, the helmet from the ork king in a cave near Letzthafen (in german, the city where you came out after the final in Niewinter) i can't identify with lore skill

[Tesseract]

You need a certain amount of Lore to identify any given item based on the item's value. If the helm is worth more than 4800 gp, you won't be able to identify it with 12 Lore.

https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Lore#Notes

[allenayen96]

Identify can ONLY be cast oh the caster ( that is YOU) I stopped putting points in Lore at ten points. If I can't ID something I cast Identify ( 10+10=8=28) If you multi-class ONLY the caster lrvl is counted