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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:
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'''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]]
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* [[Ring of wizardry|Rings of wizardry]] (+3)
* [[Staff of wizardry|staves of wizardry]]
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* [[Staff of wizardry|Staves of wizardry]] (+4)
* Worshiping [[Vehumet]] provides a wizardry bonus to your [[Conjurations]] and [[Summoning]] spells.
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* 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.
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In addition, certain sources provide a wizardry-like reduction of failure rate (by 1/3) that stacks with wizardry:
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* [[Vehumet]] provides a bonus to [[Conjurations]] and [[Summoning]] for sufficiently [[piety|pious]] worshipers not under [[penance]]
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* Potions of brilliance
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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==
 
==See also==
*[[Spell success]]
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*[[Spell success#Wizardry, Vehumet, and other factors|Spell success]] for details on how wizardry affects failure rate
  
 
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[[Category:Magic]]

Revision as of 09:32, 1 February 2014

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

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

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