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Spell Books - the ones that give you bonus arcane knowledge points - may need to be looked again.  I think it would be better if those books actually contained some random spell, with the percentage chance of finding a given spell being higher the cheaper & more common a spell is.

Currently, if I find a book, I basically get to decide what spell it has in it.  It'd be better if it contained some random spell, with the chance of finding any given spell being higher the cheaper & more common the spell is.

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Tech Books - I imagine findind these grant research points, but I haven't found any yet.  If so then I'd do the same thing with a random tech.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I like the idea of finding a single random special spell from a quest book - something unresearchable through normal means (or without shards of that type).

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I like the idea of the spellbooks containing a particular spell. And perhaps if you had diplomatic ties to a nation you could give it to them as a gift, which would be especially useful if the particular spell was one that wasn't in a spellbook you possessed. If not, you could always sell it.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Finding scolls of a particular spell or earning them as quest rewards would be great.

I think there is room in the game for both reward, particular spell scroll, entire spell books, and generic 'arcane lore' that give research points.

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

A scroll would work nicely as a magic item; grant access to a cool spell, but only for the particular Sov/champ who has the scroll equipped.

Also, wands as a missile-damage ranged attack that do damage of a particular elemental type (and maybe work off intelligence instead of strength?) would be interesting, so spellcasters still have some power even once their mana is depleted.