Two Hour Magery

[WarderDragon]

Copied from UOStratics, for personal use:

Ok sorry to be hijacking this thread with this but here it is!

I decided to find out how long it would take to GM magery. As I have no spare char slots or chars on Atlantic I did this on TC, as I have no -29 weapon on TC I did the next best thing... If I was doing it on a production shard I would be starting from 50 (after buying it and taking the instructors quest) then using a -29 mage weapon. So to replicate this on TC I timed how long it would take to go from 21-71.

The char: Yippie.
The setup: 120 Med, Lich form (70 skill left on to maintain it), 100 lrc, 2/6, 40 lmc, 18 mr. Every other skill locked.
The macro: Last spell, wait for target, target self, wisper '.' (to stop the char timing out)
The accuracy: Used the '-time' command (uoa) to get my computers time in the journal screenshot next to the skills window.
I took screenshots every 10 points, at half way, at the first hour then the second hour, then when finished.

Started: 22:53:00 01/24/09, Spell - Cure
Reached 31.0 Magery @ 23:04:28 Spell - Switched to Bless shortly after this (10 points in 11 minutes 28 seconds)
Reached 41.0 Magery @ 23:17:26 Spell - Bless (20 points in 24 minutes 26 seconds)
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Halfway, Reached 46.0 Magery @ 23:27:15 Spell - Bless (25 points in 34 minutes 15 seconds)
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Reached 51.0 Magery @ 23:40:52 Spell - Switched to Greater Heal shortly after this (30 points in 47 minutes 52 seconds)
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Hours up - 55.7 Magery @ 23:53:01 Spell - Switched to Dispel Field shortly after this (34.7 points in 1 hour)
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For the sake of finding out I continued!
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Reached 61.0 Magery @ 00:11:10 Spell - Dispel Field (40 points in 1 hour 18 minutes 10 seconds)
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Second hour - Reached 70.0 Magery Spell - Dispel
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Reached 71.0 Magery @ 01:00:04 (50 points in 2 hours 7 minutes and 4 second)

Lag/Overcasting mean it's not 100% accurate, but thats good enough for me!

Roughly 2 hours to GM Magery. So yeah I was wrong with saying it's 1 hour, but I was still closer than saying 12.

[Miiralaeuntryr]

Damn! All i have to say is , now if only they brought back the Med bug! lol

[WarderDragon]

*Laughs*

Well, I've been considering more than one new RPC; and more than one of these new characters might include magery. The one caveat, aside from the deep internal cringe I feel at the thought of another character requiring thousands of reagents and magery-equipment, is that I absolutely hate the idea of training up the magery skill again. Thats the reason Kessell's magery skills were transfered to Nicholas the Old. Anything to make that path easier; the better.

I am not a fan of powergaming; but the thought of training seven new characters simultaneously...and I want to faint, honestly. *Chuckles*