I thought I would start this thread because there isn;t that much info on Spellweaving, well from a pratical use point of view, also as a new commer to it I thought it could be usefull to have a point of view as I progress.

I'll post here as I continue down the road and let everyone know my thoughts.

Background, I'm a 5 x GM Mage and recently decided to add in Arcane to my template loosing my Bard skills to another char, so you can work on the assumption that all the other relevant Mage skills are in place and maxed, this is simply an addition to them.

Completed the initial quests to get my Spellweaving book (see other posts here), then the Summon Fey quest , this gave me my spellbook and three spells - Arcane Circle / Gift of Renewal and Summon Fey.

Rushed back to my house and layed a pentegram on the floor so I could cast Arcane circle (once you have the crystal as long as it's still alive you then don;t need the pentegram for casting).

Spellweaver skill from 0-35 on Arcane circle only in about 1.5 hours, I understand that it would then be best to move onto say Thunderstorm spell to continue but I don;t have that yet so I'm continuing to gain on Arcane circle (all be it slower now) up to 38 at which point I can start useing Summon Fey and continue my gains.

So total time to this point about 3 hours with the quests.

to be continued....

OK, so part way through day 2, I have managed to obtain all the spellweaver spells with the exception of Summon Fiend, this was achieved by the following:-

First 2 through the initial 2 quests.
Second 3 through Trogs at the painted cave and the rest I bought from someone at the bank (made things easier).

Carried on my training this morning and took the skill up to 40 with Reaper Form, the gains were quick and it only took about 30-45 mins.

From there I started using Summon Fey and I'm currently at 50 now with the gains being quite solid, I tried some of the other spells but the gains are definatly slower and so Summon Fey is theone to use up until about 52 when I will be able to use some of the others.

Duration of the spells is now increasing:-

Arcane Circle is now up to 7200 secs, and Gift of Life is now lasting for 300 secs so starting to be useful, I've also noticed that the recast time has reduced for some of the other spells and now down to about 1 minute before being able to re-use spells like Ethereal Voyage etc...

Last thing I went out and tried a couple of spells on some Trolls etc.., Natures Fury is cool, as long as you have the Mana you can cast as many as you like so with some good mana regen and starting amount you can easily have a constant supply of 3 going, damage was good on them but I haven;t tried on bigger stuff at the moment (I plan to later this evening).

OK, so in summary about 6 hours in total at the moment and all spells (minus 1) and up to 50 in skill.

to be continued

OK, Skill now up to 58 and I went on the hunt for my last spell Summon Fiend, which I understand is only available from doing another quest:- Fiendish Friends.

I also undertand that you must go to Sanctury to get the quest, so at the moment having explored the entrance I'm rather stuck to get in there on my own, I'm sure you can probably run through the spawn but I don;t know my way once in there so I;m not trying with this char.

I'll be logging and trying with another char (probably a new one) just to run through and see whats there, so next installment should be tomorrow but so far so good, seems like a worthwhile skill and oone that not that many people seem to have. Once I get completley done I'll write up a small summary of the whole thing.

Well, Brave Elison was sent to investigate the entrance to sanctury and well, no way.... I mean NO WAY will I be able to get in there alone.

I understand there could be another way in but I don;t know it, I'm going to post in general questions and see what happens.

to be continued

Thanks for sharing your journey through arcanism (sp)

Just a quick last note:-

1/ I'm only going to do one update each day, otherwise there is to many posts !!! (sorry about that).

2/ Tried the Dryad Allure spell out and WOW, if you ever had an arctic ogre lord on your side well it was great, into Ice and cast, then had a nice friend with me , Cool.

rgds

For sanctuary, work on your honor virtue. Once you reach level one, you get about a minute to of monster ignore.

However, I kind of like this, you can ALSO use Ethereal Voyage to the same effect. Keeps it in the Arcanist vein. Cast it and run through the place.

Well, what a day and not over yet but almost....

So after many suggestions as to the entrance of Sanctury I headed off and decided to use Gift of renewal for any damage and just invis myself if I needed to on the way through...

1st try was OK, made it to the end and got the Summon Fiend quest... GREAT and off I went to hunt the 50 imps that you have to get for the first part. Now I looked at various places for Imps and decided on the Honesty Moongate because you immediatly there with no hassle, assuming you don;t mind the other spawn of Gazzers, about an hour later I had the 50 Imps although I have to say it was at times interesting when there was multiple Paragon spawn.

So If I went back home and stocked up on regs had a break and headed of for Sanctury again... Not so lucky this time, as I entered I ran half way and instead of the right hand fork in the road I went left... Opps, not a good idea and with posion on me I was draining fast and yep sudenly Grey... Arggg.

So after a long ride to Brit Bank via a healer I re-sticked on provisions and headed straight back.

This time I entered and in my mind was thinking "now don;t forget the right hand fork in the road" and I didn;t but unfortunatly I ran straight into one of the buildings which dropped me into the caves below, Hmmmm so I was standing there thinking OK, this isn;t that bad not alot down here I'll just get myself together and go back up, after a short rest I returned to the ladder that was at the top of the caves and went to climb it, however after a painful experience witha set of spikes popping out of the ground, yes you guessed I was grey again.... Argggg

So, not to give up I ran around the caves looking for a way out and suddenly came out just south of the main entrance !!!, so i visited the healer (who was starting to get to know me now!) and trotted off to Brit for more provisions. This time I thought I'm not doing this riding thing and pulled out an Arcane Cloak that I had, insured it and stuck it in my pack so at least if there was another repeat I could recall to a bank.

So I returned again, this time straight in smoothly no hassle and collected the second part of the quest, to get a Stout Whip.

Not so hard you can actualy come out of Sanctury to the Yew Orc fort and play around there, eventually you'll get a Captain and spawn, I think it took me about 30 mins or so and I have no idea how many Orcs later, but a huge pile!!.

Back into Sanctury to deliver the Whip, Jzs I thought here I go again, but smooth as a dream, once you get to knwo the route really well (and I do know) it's not to bad it just seems like it, I even stayed in there a while and played around with a couple of Titans!!, anyway so I collected the third part of the quest.... Go kill an Arcan Deamon !!!

Great , I remebered seeing them when I did the first quest at Exodus Dungeon, so I nipped off to the entrance and sure enough it's not hard to one, BUT and this is the BIG BUT for me right now, there is so much other spawn, not to say anything of the Paragon Fire Ellies that I just can't get more than a couple of spells into a Deamon and by the time I then recover so has the Deamon !!, I've been trying now for quite a while and I think I'm going to have to resign to the fact that I;'m not going to kill an Arcane Deamon with all the other spawn there. I can only investigate other locations for one taht maybe arn't as full of other monsters.

If anyone fancies a group trip to Exodus so I can focus on killing one while the other spawn is held off then let me know (I normally play daytimes in the week).

So one hell of a day really, Oh yeah I forgot to mention when I was killing the Imps I used Natures Fury mainly and it was great, I could hold a constant supply of 3 of them with no mana problems and it was very affective against all teh spawn, I've also being trying the other Arcane spells and at least I'm convinced that all the work is worth it.

Thats it for now and the next update will probably be Monday, but it depends what else happens today.

rgds

Congrats on doing so well. Hope you can get the help you need with the excess spawn. Sadly I'm on LS and can't be of much help

Vepl

I didn't bother with summon fiend myself. The pixies are much better than any fiend you summon from a fighting stanpoint. I figured that summon fiend is for a red that wants spellweaving since they couldn't go to ilsh and get the summon fey spell.

Well, not a great deal today, I spent about 45 mins raising the spellweaving skill mainly using Summon Fey, it increased well through PH.

I've been using the spells out and about with various monsters and I'm definatly pleased I decided to tarin it, although I'm still stuck getting the deamon for the last spell.

I will be owrking on completing th elast quest today.