Spell Training

It is conventional wisdom what dictates that conventional wizards train up the wizard circle every training, and chose between the major and minor elemental circles for their secondary abilities. An unconventional wizard, I -- I have found that more creative training brings many advantages.

Zanoverian wizard spell training identifies the important spells which the wizard will use as soon as he or she acquires them. The important spells are targeted so that the wizard is able to use them as soon as they can.

We want minor shock (901) by level 1. We want minor water (903) and personal blur (503) by level 3. We want brights (406) by level 6 and minor fire very soon after 6. As Volners, we need access to the graveyard so we need the unlock spell (407) as quickly as possible to get us through the gate.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle
0	901	---	401
1	902	501	401
2	902	502	402
3	903	503	402
4	904	503	403
5	904	503	405
6	904	503	406
7	906	503	406

The next most important spell is the one that beefs up our attack strength. That is elemental focus (513) which we want at level 13. And the key to everything is the wizard shield spell (919) which we want at level 19 so that we can finally start hunting something undead other than wraiths.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle
8	906	505	407
9	906	507	407
10	906	509	407
11	906	511	407
12	907	512	407
13	908	513	407
14	910	513	407
15	912	513	407
16	914	513	407
17	916	513	407
18	918	513	407
19	919	514	407

We probably want to play with a familiar (920) when we title. The next important spell is the cone of lightning (518). I know you want to learn to enchant at level 25, but enchantment is not really a very practical spell until we reach the age of about 30. So I suggest that we target enchantment (925) for age 30, and otherwise target the top of the minor elemental spells, elemental targeting (425) and barrier (430). These last two spells improve as we move up the minor elementals list until we hit ages 70 and 75, when they both max out at +50.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle
20	920	515	407
21	920	517	407
22	920	518	408
23	920	518	410
24	920	518	412
25	920	518	414

Here we can cast guards (414) on ourselves. No more waiting around for massies. At this age, we are ready to start triple training every third training. To do this, we have to accumulate 27 physical skills training points for two trainings, and then do our triple-train.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle	Physical TP Bank
26	920	518	416	27
27	920	518	418	54
28	921	518	420	0
29	923	518	420	27
30	925	518	420	54

Congratulations! You are 30 trainings old. You are an enchanter (925), and you are an embedder (420) as well! Now we can pick up a bit of steam. We want to acquire minor elemental barrier (430) as quickly as possible, so we are triple training every other training now. We do that by putting back 40 physical training points per level. Luckily, it's time to triple-train at 31 anyway.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle	Physical TP Bank
31	925	518	423	0
32	925	518	425	40
33	925	518	427	0
34	925	518	430	40

We have elemental targeting and barrier (425 & 430) now. Lets keep training this way until we catch the minor elemental circle up to our actual level.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle	Physical TP Bank
35	925	518	433	0
36	925	518	435	40
37	926	518	437	0

We will continue to train once per level in the minor elemental circle for the foreseeable future. We need to slow down our spell training though. Combat maneuvers is going to be important to us eventually, and that's going to take a lot of the training points we've been banking for spells.

Training	Wizard Circle	Major Elemental Circle	Minor Elemental Circle	Physical TP Bank
38	927	518	438	27
39	928	518	439	54
40	930	518	440	0
41	931	518	441	27
42	932	518	442	54
43	934	518	443	0
44	935	518	444	27
45	936	518	445	54
46	938	518	446	0
47	939	518	447	0
48	940	518	448	0

If we've trained in mana share up to 120, we are now able to sense the amount of mana in a mana pool for enchantments. You can now take the major circle up to meteor storm, or keep going with the wizard circle.