Spells, staves and wands?

[Void]

Hello, I am loving this game however I have spent ages searching for guides ect for magic users. I have got to the farmlands and still only have the basic heal, fire and fire ball spell. I also only have a healing and fire stave. I can only see dev logs for years ago saying "you will find scrolls everywhere" and a cool video showing portal spells ect. When I got to the farmlands I presumed there would be some sort of mages academy to learn news spells but cant find one. Can someone bump me in the right direction, I havnt seen anything sold in villages ect but maybe I am not looking in the right place? Thank you in advance!

[Janna]

Tomes only got added recently with the Windless Woods update, so all the youtube videos you've seen are talking about the plans for them. Inside Sleepy Haven (the big town in Farmlands) there is a mage shop that sells some tomes to purchase. There's also another mage shop inside the Eyre in the Windless Woods (although you need some reputation to be able to buy these ones).

[Void]

Brilliant thank you!

[Blazerik]

The magic really needs more development focus. Not only are tomes scarce, but staves are too. I did basically all of the first island and still only ended up with those 3 tomes, and and a low level staff, level four or six I think, the stronger of the three not even being for the element I preferred of the TWO elements I found. meanwhile same areas I found the moonstone sword, which is around level 13 or 15 iirc, and (although its a little rng based) the hero sword which is also level 15.... I'm like 8 levels higher in magic than my staff can handle.
(Even the pink bow that is very easy to get is better than these staves)

This didn't really improve much in the farmlands either, not finding tomes or staves so far.
and I have yet to find an element other than healing and fire, yet I've found magical trinkets of other elements. Magic accesibility is really low, especially when compared to others.

P.S. variety in magic weapons even if its just in appearance, wands, staves, crystals, books would be nice too. If you wanted it to be more than just looks you could have differences in damage and effects, but I don't think this game has reached that stage of combat development.

[Void]

I went to Sleepy Haven and the same three tomes as well as a 'jump' spell just keep cycling around. I see wizards and mages with cool staffs but I still only have the Novice fire staff. I may have missed quests to find others as I think certain speeches to activate quests are locked behind a certain level of reputation but im not going to interact with everyone again in an area.
Hopefully they will add more tomes and work on the other aspects of magic (like mages companion ect). I will likly return to the game when this is bulked out a bit. Still a good game though, though I think if I continued it would be better to switch to melee or ranged character

[MrReddiculous]

There are more tomes in Windless woods, there are a couple of "hidden" quests that give you nice weapons and tomes. On azura you can find a chaos staff and the farmlands can get you the nebula staff. There are way more options for staves in the Windless woods though. Probably because those druids do a lot of things with magic.

[Void]

Brilliant thank you, I know the dev mentioned the windless woods but its good to know there are more options available. I will keep going as a mage then and see if I can find these staffs in the farmlands and azura!

[Firelillx]

the magic update kinda killed the game for me. I used to rely heavily on the healing spell, and now with magic draining, I have a hard time surviving attacks I used to be able to. Makes me feel like I've gone back to the beginning of the game while I am higher level and completed most of the old quests. I know you can eat food to regen, but some of the food is not easy to make and I am not much of a farmer. Love this game, not trying to be too harsh. But the magic being update makes magic too hard for me and I kinda gave up. I hope I can get back into it one day.