Wizardry: Difference between revisions

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Wizardry refers to items and effects that directly reduce your chance of failure when casting spells. These are provided by:

Rings of wizardry (+3)
Staves of wizardry (+4)
Quaffing a potion of brilliance provides a temporary wizardry bonus (+6)

In addition, certain sources provide a wizardry-like reduction of failure rate (by 1/3) that stacks with wizardry:

Vehumet provides a bonus to Conjurations and Summoning for sufficiently pious worshipers not under penance
Potions of brilliance

All of these sources stack but very weakly; the first 3 points of wizardry are about as good as the next 9. In no case can failure rate be reduced by better than half using wizardry. Notice that a potion of brilliance will reach the one-half cap by itself.

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-'''Wizardry''' generally refers to items and effects that directly reduce your chance of failure when casting spells.  There are four main sources:
+'''Wizardry''' refers to items and effects that directly reduce your chance of failure when casting spells. These are provided by:
-* [[Ring of wizardry|rings of wizardry]]
+* [[Ring of wizardry|Rings of wizardry]] (+3)
-* [[Staff of wizardry|staves of wizardry]]
+* [[Staff of wizardry|Staves of wizardry]] (+4)
-* Worshiping [[Vehumet]] provides a wizardry bonus to your [[Conjurations]] and [[Summoning]] spells.
+* Quaffing a [[potion of brilliance]] provides a temporary wizardry bonus (+6)
-* Quaffing a [[potion of brilliance]] provides a temporary wizardry bonus, in addition to increasing your [[Int]].
-All of these sources stack, but rings and staves of wizardry stack very weakly with each other - it is generally only worthwhile to use one ring or one staff.  They stack efficiently with the other two sources of wizardry, though.
+In addition, certain sources provide a wizardry-like reduction of failure rate (by 1/3) that stacks with wizardry:
+* [[Vehumet]] provides a bonus to [[Conjurations]] and [[Summoning]] for sufficiently [[piety|pious]] worshipers not under [[penance]]
+* Potions of brilliance
+All of these sources stack but very weakly; the first 3 points of wizardry are about as good as the next 9. In no case can failure rate be reduced by better than half using wizardry. Notice that a potion of brilliance will reach the one-half cap by itself.
 ==See also==
-*[[Spell success]]
+*[[Spell success#Wizardry, Vehumet, and other factors|Spell success]] for details on how wizardry affects failure rate
 [[Category:Magic]]