Alrighty, I need some help adjusting my mage template

Heres where he stands right now

110 Focus
110 Magery
100 Meditation
110 Resist
75 Inscription
100 Spirit Speak
105 Eval Int

95 STR
32 DEX
118 INT

I dont really use him for PVP at all, more for pvm and DOOM
Could I get some help switching his template around so that
I can kick serious butt no matter what im doing?

Drop Spirit Speak and Focus, raise Inscription and pick up Spellweaving.

Drop the Dex, put it all into Str and Int.

okay so this is what i did so far

transferred inscription, focus, and spellweaving onto soulstones

now i have this as my template

110 mage
110 med
110 resist
110 eval
100 SS
110 necro

what should i do now? any pointers?

Try to get a spell channelling zero-penalty mage weapon (swords of prosperity or staff of magi).

Your template you have there is almost exactly the template of my char Callavero, with the remaining points put into focus until I can powerscroll various parts higher.

It's a fair template. Don't powerscroll higher, though, until you get the hang of it and decide if you like it.

would i have to put points into the weapon skills? and what would getting a weapon do? because right now i have a boomstick and a chaos shield from the vesper museum, i like the stats that they give off. that just seems like alot of stuff to compromise for a weapon. because the rest of my gear needs work too, my suit is 100 lrc and some good mods like lmc and extra mana, but i dont have 70's in all my resists, and my hat is from the vesp museum too

No, the advantage of a spell channelling zero-penalty mage weapon is that it uses your magery skill as your chance to avoid getting hit.

So holding it while you have 110 magery and no weapon skill means it's like you have 110 weapon skill--with the exception that you cannot use special moves.

There's also the very cheap "Staff of Power" which sometimes you can find for 5k gold. But that weapon requires you get jewelry with +15 magery in it to compensate for the -15 magery penalty you get holding it.

That said, i've had chars use staff of power a good year or two before i got them something better.

What to do about Slayer Spellbooks though? Are those mage weapons worth giving up slayer damage?

I bought some swords of prosperity for 1.8 mil

But someone told me that since necro is 2/6 now i should keep my boomstick and chaos shield?

Slayer spell books are great for wrestle mages and anat/eval mages.

But I personally don't like them for mages that don't have some kind of defense from melee.

With a boom stick, for instance, if you don't have mace skill, then every single creature that touches you will hit you. With swords of prosperity or staff of magi, you'll only be hit as often as someone with a weapon skill of your magery level (i.e., 110 magery gets hit as much as 110 swords would be hit).

I'd rather be able to stand in the midst of a bunch of monsters and spam wither or earthquake or harm or whatever (something I can do with swords of prosperity) than to be able to hit hard with mage spells but be hit every time something touches me.

Furthermore, slayer spell book only helps magery spells. But a necro mage has necro spells, too. So what's the point of having no melee defense while you cast necro spells.

I guess it's all about preference, but going into wraith form and spamming wither while surrounded by monsters is a nice feature in necromancy. And you can't do that without melee defense.

Okay so I was trying out my swords and i like the block part of it
but now my cast recovery and mana regen suck

if someone wants to help me fix my suit im on atlantic
or i can post stats here
or my aim is Age Of Carl

You'd be better investing in 3/1 jewels. But a staff of the magi is better because then you can use pots. It also has +1 fc on it. My necro mage suit is as follows - its works brilliantly

Kasa of the Ra-jin (Uber resists and +12SDI)
Pendant of the Magi (30% lrc lmc 3MR)
Rune Beetle carapice (3MR and 15 lmc)
Royal leggings of embers (resists + never need repairing)
Stitchers Mitts (30% lrc)
Medable arms (10 lrc and 4 lmc)
Quiver of Infinity (10% dmg modifier)
1/2 ring with 18 lrc
0/3 brace with 20 lrc and +13 resist spells
Scrappers compendium with 1/1 casting and +11 eval
Totem - Bloodwood spirit +10 SS +5 Necro

I have 6 MR on my suit and 80 Med, With a shadow Wisp I'm at cap MR :grin: