Hi

I've just started back in the game after a good few years and have started a mage and am getting myself good and confused with it and which skills to go with etc

But could someone please explain to me what spellweaving actually is? And also with these mage weapons, if I have a mage staff does this mean I have to train up the mace skill? And would I have to train up tactics as well along with the mace skill?

As for a template, at the moment the skills that seem to be going up naturally from just exploring and killing things are magery, meditation, evaluating intelligence, resisting spells, focus and tactics ..... are any of these useless and ones I should get rid of? And are there any skills that I should be looking to improve?

Thanks so much for any help

Tallia the Confused

Spellweaving is a different set of spells brought in when elves were added to the game with Mondain's Legacy expansion. It uses a different looking spellbook than the mage one. You have to go to heartwood (elf city) to get started as a arcanist (spellweaver)

As far as mage weapons go, if you have a mage weapon you can use that weapon based on your magery skill (ie if you have 100 magery and it a mace weapon but it says mage weapon on it, you can have 0 mace skill and you will hit like you had 100 macing) whatever your mage skill is at would be equal to whatever melee skill would be as long as you use weapons labelled as mage weapons. Also some mage weapons lower your mage skill so you see like mage skill -10 ( the range is -0 to -29) a -29 will help you train up your mage skill

As far as skills go, it is really up to you. there are many was to pick your skills. It does depend on if you want to pvp or just pvm.

I run a basic mage/necro character for pvm:
magery
necromancy
spirit speak
inscription
evaulating intelligence
magic resist
meditation

yes I could tweak him alot more and make him more powerful but I like him like this.

focus and tactics, I would set to lower but you can make your character as you wish.

Thank you so much for that explanation, it has helped make sense of certain things a hell of a lot

I don't have Mondains Legacy yet so would presume I cant access the elf city so spellweaving is not an issue for me at least

That is correct you need mondain's legacy to access the elven city of heartwood.