Training Mana

**pblack** · 07-28-2009, 12:40 AM

Well. I got a drake necromancer that has very low mana (12 right now). I found a hand axe of penetration and got precrowned with the robes of resistance. So I have good To, good hitpoints, good PV and good damage (dual blessed ring of damage). Because of that i'm basically playing a melee char with auxiliary magic.

But i'm gonna need better mana...way better... for the coming dire situations. I'm book casting light to train it up and my question is: does it make any difference wich spell i use? If I use a stronger, more costly spell, will it train faster? Or it is equivalent.. like...10 castings of light at 4PP is the same as one of magicmap at 40pp so the only thing that matters is how much PP i'm using?

also I know that creating slaves trains mana but I'm lawful right now and I'm gonna remain like that for some time so crating armies of slaves isn't in my plans right now.

**JellySlayer** · 07-28-2009, 12:48 AM

The fastest way by far is to make slaves--you're necromancer! If you have a blessed amulet of balance, you can limit the effects on your alignment, I guess, but you're much better off just going chaotic for awhile. At low levels, you can switch back easily enough later.

I don't think it matters that much whether you use big spells or small spells repeatedly, it's whatever drains your PP out. Bookcasting is nice because it drains your PP by a lot and doesn't use up castings.

But seriously. Use slaves. You will gain Mana 10x as fast as repeated castings.

**gut** · 07-28-2009, 08:43 AM

PP's will regen very quickly if you stand on
the 'tiny island' in Terinyo, and that might
help if you go the route of repeated castings.
As for which does a better job, I always go
with bookcasting, but I don't have any code
dived info to support it.