hints and tips for wizard

[newbie]

When you join the wizard guild start by investing xp points in other heath and magic. when you get to 5 or 10 magic think about Fighting skills and covert skills.
When these skills, (magic, covert, fighting ) are all 5 think about what order to join or what spells you want to use. Narquims mist of doom is a good starter after malich's penetrating occular lance, but after that aim for kamikaze rabbit spell. Sorklin's for defense will be ok untill you get to join a guild, then think about CCC or the spell that uses ash .
Once your level gets to Thirty start to think about which order to join. Ask players from the orders what they are like and pick one you like ONCE YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT SKILLS!
Dont charge into an order , put it off as for as long as possible. especially if it's a player killer only order, prepare properly.

If you're not sure you have the skill to cast a spell, dont. Spell check it and work on those areas.

If you get to scribe spells, scribe all the ones you know and store them in a vault. if you die, you know where they are. Collect as much money and put it in a bank.
Always consider something before you attack it and avoid trolls or gnolls if possible.


lastly dont advance until you have 100K XP points minimum.

[Verin]

How can we find out which orders are PK orders?

[bingles]

Try reading the order book in the order choosing room?

Or try visiting Sekiri's website. A lot of the info on his site is out of date, but the section on orders is still fairly accurate.

www.geocities.com/sekiri98/

[Blue Beetle]

Guest-Verin said:

How can we find out which orders are PK orders?

There is only one.... The Last Order.

[Blue Beetle]

Forgive me. The Last Order and their Hedge Wizard off-shoot.

[newbie]

Well, You've reached the message in the student's lounge that says 'you must pick an order'

Everyone picks Circle cos they think nes is cool. But hold on a min. In the future every order will have a spell which they can use. In fact in the future joining an order may be something that you do (refer Devon) as you become a wizard. Don't join an order based upon what they can do now, but on what they could do in the future!
Research all the orders.
Once you've joined an order you'll find that you have various primaries. Now it's a balance game. You will either charge up the primaries (which get expensive in terms of xp and money above 100 levels) or concentrate on the all round skills. Before you join an arder I reccomend putting xp into other life so youhave 1.5 k hp and then making your character as round as possible. However, this is still possible once you've joined an order. At around 100 days (or before) you'll get towards guild maxing your skills. Don't forget to put xp into other areas, be it for quest of fun purposes. However even if you put 12 million xp's into cr.mi.mi you wont ruin your character (but you'll find looking for purple mineral powder in blue moon park in bp unbelievably easy!).
You'll think you are a tough wizard at 10, 20 and Thirty days. You aint. Even at 100 days it possible to die. I've even seen Sekiri's ghost. Believe it. Don't do anything you aren't 100% sure of. Or if you do, good luck, and dont say didn't warn you!

Don't forget to learn non magic commands from other players, or be afraid of asking.(nicely)
magic commands are in the main learned from npc's.

Newbie spells (up to 4/5 days old)
malich's penetrating ocular lance
Sorklin's field of protection
narquim's mist of doom
Any spell in the gym tome

Midbie spells ( 5 to 60 days)

Obvoiusly these depend on your order, and some spells will be out of your reach. Pick one and work towards casting it.
KOF (eveyone)
CEIB (nearly everyone)
JPCT (eveyone)
TCDF (silver stars)
PFG (Aim for this, but it is difficult for some wizards)
bhee (everyone)
CFD (silver stars)
CFM (silver stars)
RPS (silver stars)
CBIB (blue wizards?)
PLG (most wizards)
CCC (at the harder end of the spectrum)
most offensive spells,gon ,eha and defensive ones, eff.

oldbie spells
well oviously spells that need bonuses of 200/300/400 are here.
NEF
WGS
WBPS
JHSD


Finally there are some good wizardly sights out there. Dunno if I'm allowed to advertise them, but here goes..

Spellcheck project
spc.darkmud.co.uk
Spell levels etc

Zuroc's pages
www.molcon.f2s.com/discworld/wiki/

Information on everything

Sekiri's pages
come.to/discworld/
spells (aging and dated, becarefull!))

Haplo's pages
www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Metro/9141/index.html

Info on some things

pendrakes pages
homepage.ntlworld.com/ian.avery2/

Sined's pages
beam.to/sined

Altreus pages (uptodate info on spells)
lore.drunkpanda.com/


Finally the best newbie guide i found was
Oben's guide
www.demont.freeuk.com/guide.html


A good Hoodwinkers/taxi's/ collector's cards board is here
zigzagforums.proboards36.com/

Most of theses pages have maps, hints, ideas, research, etc. Look here for information.