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Type	Jewellery
Name	Ring of wizardry
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This ring increases the ability of its wearer to use magical spells.

Wearing a ring of wizardry provides you with 3 points of wizardry, improving your spell success rate significantly. This stacks with other sources of wizardry, but with rapidly diminishing returns.

Because spell power eventually winds up mattering much more than spell success rate, rings of wizardry are usually less desirable than rings which improve the power behind your spells, such as rings of fire, ice, or intelligence. However, if you intend to cast spells with low intelligence, heavy armour, or simply beyond the limits of your current skills, a ring of wizardry can be extremely helpful.

This ring will be identified when worn so long as you have some Spellcasting skill.

History

Prior to 0.8, this ring would not auto-identify.

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-Like a [[Magical staff|staff of wizardry]], the '''ring of wizardry''' improves [[spell success]] rates and spell power.   This item auto-ids if you have some skill in [[spellcasting]] as of version [[0.8.0]].
+Wearing a '''ring of wizardry''' provides you with 3 points of [[wizardry]], improving your [[spell success]] rate significantly. This stacks with other sources of wizardry, but with rapidly diminishing returns.
-==Tips & Tricks==
+Because spell power eventually winds up mattering much more than spell success rate, [[ring]]s of wizardry are usually less desirable than rings which improve the power behind your spells, such as [[rings of fire]], [[ring of ice|ice]], or [[ring of intelligence|intelligence]]. However, if you intend to cast spells with low intelligence, heavy armour, or simply beyond the limits of your current skills, a ring of wizardry can be extremely helpful.
-Wearing a second ring of wizardry would confer roughly 20% of the effect of the first ring (assuming you weren't also wielding the [[staff of wizardry]]). Thus, wearing the second ring is probably only worthwhile in situations where you are monitoring the success of a specific, high-level spell.
+This ring will be identified when worn so long as you have some [[Spellcasting]] skill.
-Ring of Wizardry can make spellcasting practical while subject to spellcasting penalties from other sources, such as heavier [[body armour]] or [[Blade Hands]].
+==History==
+Prior to [[0.8]], this ring would not auto-identify.
 [[Category:Ring]]