Returning Player

[jamie.sandell]

Hi all, I’m returning to OSI after about 20 years eek.
I want to play a caster and was thinking of a mage build if you’d be so kind as to offer your expert advice.

I’m going to buy the deluxe addon which will give me some starting cash and a starting suit, but I know nowhere near enough money for scrolls, so I’m going to be stuck at GM for a long time whilst I farm money

I would like to participate in champ spawns as well.

I was thinking

Magery
Evaluating Intelligence
Meditation

and then Spellweaving (my understanding is Arcane Empowerment would make any summons such as EVs better).

Which would leave two more skills for GM. Necro and SS so I can leach mana and make mage fire skills hit harder by casting Omen?

really open to suggestions.

possibly a mage tamer instead?

 

[Pawain]

Hi all, I’m returning to OSI after about 20 years eek.
I want to play a caster and was thinking of a mage build if you’d be so kind as to offer your expert advice.

I’m going to buy the deluxe addon which will give me some starting cash and a starting suit, but I know nowhere near enough money for scrolls, so I’m going to be stuck at GM for a long time whilst I farm money

I would like to participate in champ spawns as well.

I was thinking

Magery
Evaluating Intelligence
Meditation

and then Spellweaving (my understanding is Arcane Empowerment would make any summons such as EVs better).

Which would leave two more skills for GM. Necro and SS so I can leach mana and make mage fire skills hit harder by casting Omen?

really open to suggestions.

possibly a mage tamer instead?

Great start. Most have advanced to using a pet rather than an EV.

Magery, eval, weaving, taming, lore, vet. 120

Meditation as needed to run consume without mana loss. One of mine just needs 30.

You will be a killer.

 

[jamie.sandell]

Great start. Most have advanced to using a pet rather than an EV.

Magery, eval, weaving, taming, lore, vet. 120

Meditation as needed to run consume without mana loss. One of mine just needs 30.

You will be a killer.

Two evs really that bad? Or is the mage tamer just that much stronger? If all those skills are 120 it won’t leave any for meditation? Or go old school and drop weaving for med?

 

[Pawain]

Two evs really that bad? Or is the mage tamer just that much stronger? If all those skills are 120 it won’t leave any for meditation? Or go old school and drop weaving for med?

Pets are much stronger now. We can use advanced training on them.

Don't drop weaving! Your suit can easily get 30 Mana Regeneration. Meditation is for the increased MR. We rarely actually meditate.

 

[Felipovisk]

Evs are just not good against high end bosses, they do a lot of dispels, and event with mage mastery its not worthy. Tamming is the top choice for mage and casters, you have a non tamming option with the summoner:

120 magery
120 eval
120 mysticism
120 focus or imbuing
120 spellweaving
120 meditation

use the spellweaving mastery to summon a reaper and do some AOE, and get a focus easier. Mysticism summon, raising colossus also pretty good and tanky compared to EVs

 

[jamie.sandell]

Thank you both. It seems if I want to do a mage I’d be gimping myself if I didn’t do it as a tamer, rather than a pure caster? Or is the RC build good too?

 

[Pawain]

Thank you both. It seems if I want to do a mage I’d be gimping myself if I didn’t do it as a tamer, rather than a pure caster? Or is the RC build good too?

RC does physical damage and many event mobs can Dispel them. They are tankier than EVs. Some events are in cities so you can't cast summons.

Making a tamer will keep you busy for years.

 

[Pawain]

My main ones look like this:




This one will drop the meditation until Eval is 120.

 

[Pawain]

Head over to the Taming forum when you are ready to make a pet to assist you.

UO Tamer

This forum is for discussion of the Animal Taming, Animal Lore, Herding and Veterinary skills.

community.stratics.com

 

[jamie.sandell]

Head over to the Taming forum when you are ready to make a pet to assist you.

UO Tamer

This forum is for discussion of the Animal Taming, Animal Lore, Herding and Veterinary skills.

community.stratics.com

Thank you so much. I may have to “cheat” and buy a mythic token, I’ve never found raising taming fun and it was always painfully slow.

 

[Pawain]

Thank you so much. I may have to “cheat” and buy a mythic token, I’ve never found raising taming fun and it was always painfully slow.

Once you are at 90 you can use the mastery to get to 120 taming without taming anything.

 

[James [W^H]]

Thank you so much. I may have to “cheat” and buy a mythic token, I’ve never found raising taming fun and it was always painfully slow.

You can also macro, (attended of course ) Animal Lore to 120 from any skill level without a Mastery. The key is to lore a wild animal like a horse. A wise tamer would put the horse in a stall at the stables before it is released, so it doesn’t wander away.

 

[James [W^H]]

My main ones look like this:

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This one will drop the meditation until Eval is 120.

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I always run a 120 scroll with 100 Vet skill on my Tamers and use the extra points somewhere else. I carry vet on jewelry for stable slots that 120 gives if needed.