Spellbook distribution research thread.

[SinsI]

I don't have the first clue how to create a cheater character, honestly. But it should go pretty quick with a necro lvl 25 in the gremlin cave.

I used Artmoney and did a few trials: 500 casts in wilderness gave from 3 to 11 spellbooks on a human Fighter, and increasing LE to 69 from 10 didn't show any increase in the number, so that's one theory that is more or less disproved (LE-dependence).

[Soirana]

I thought that spellbooks were all DL 1?

Well, all weapon prefixes appear on DL1, but they are more common on weapons (presumably in uniform fashion) on higher Dl.

In other words these two ideas do not strictly contradict.

[Carter]

I thought that spellbooks were all DL 1?

iirc create item and wish are the only books which are not DL1.

[Soirana]

iirc create item and wish are the only books which are not DL1.

I've got create item in the mindcrafter archmage attempt, so this is not true...

[Soirana]

Another 25

Bless
3xCalm monster
Cure light w
Cure serious w
2xDarkness
Disarm
6xFrost bolt
2xIce ball
2XKnock
3cMagicMissile
Slow poison
2xStun ray

Overall: 18/75 Frost Bolt

[Soirana]

And last 25

Acid bolt
Bless
Darkness
Disarm trap
Fire bolt
Fireball
7xFrost bolt
Knock
5xLight
Lightning ball
2xLightning bolt
Magic Lock
Magic Missile
Teleportation

Overall -- 25/100

Hmmm... I thought it will be higher

[Carter]

25% is still a significant skew thats for sure, when you consider the 40 spells available.

[Cactus]

I'm done with the R60 Salamander Wizard that generated 100 spellbooks on PC:5. This took longer than I expected: 36000 turns were played, >5000 monsters killed and the char advanced to level 20. Testing with a Druid might be really tedious due to lower spellbook drop rate.

Here is the complete book drop list in order of appearance (starting books not included):

Fire Bolt
Light
Magic Lock
Fire Bolt
Knock
Web
Fire Bolt
Web
Fire Bolt
Revelation
Darkness
Strength of Atlas
Slow Monster
Lightning Ball
Slow Poison
Frost Bolt
Knock
Fire Bolt
Lightning Bolt
Invisibility
Darkness
Fire Bolt
Fire Bolt
Darkness
Light
Fire Bolt
Know Alignment
Invisibility
Fire Ball
Farsight
Stun Ray
Fire Bolt
Frost Bolt
Fire Bolt
Fire Bolt
Calm Monster
tract of chaos
Fire Bolt
Acid Ball
Slow Poison
Fire Bolt
Knock
Magic Missile
Burning Hands
Fire Bolt
Darkness
Darkness
Stun Ray
Fire Bolt
Fire Bolt
Slow Monster
Light
Fire Bolt
Know Alignment
Magic Lock
Fire Bolt
Death Ray
Light
Fire Bolt
Disarm Trap
Fire Bolt
Burning Hands
Invisibility
Darkness
Fire Bolt
Cure Light Wounds
Darkness
Fire Bolt
Acid Bolt
Slow Monster
Cure Light Wounds
Strength of Atlas
Strength of Atlas
Fire Bolt
Fire Bolt
Slow Poison
Darkness
Fire Bolt
Frost Bolt
Fire Bolt
Darkness
Stun Ray
Fire Bolt
delicate tome {destroyed by lightning lizard}
Frost Bolt
Light
Fire Bolt
Scare Monster
Fire Bolt
Knock
Fire Bolt
Slow Monster
Slow Monster
Burning Hands
Fire Bolt
Lightning Bolt
Knock
Frost Bolt
Fire Bolt
Magic Lock

And the .vlg:
http://pastebin.com/fryWZH6f

That's 32/100 books of Fire Bolt.

[SinsI]

I always thought this is a feature, not a bug - characters that specialize in a certain spell get more of its spellbooks, it is a bonus, not a replacement.

[Blank4u47]

I always thought this is a feature, not a bug - characters that specialize in a certain spell get more of its spellbooks, it is a bonus, not a replacement.

Me too, however, it seems a tad excessive at its current percentage. So the purpose of this thread is to get feedback from several people in hopes of getting a definite percentage before we report this as a better defined bug/rfe.