armor choices for mage followers of tech characters

When you are a tech, is it worth it to give the magic armor you find to your mage-type characters such as Virgil or Dante? Or does your being a tech screw with the armor too much due to your proximity? Or does it even bother it?

 

If you play a tech heavy character you probably won't want someone like Virgil or Dante around as they would just waste mana failing to heal you.

 

I had Dante for only a few minutes. Didn't realize I would lose him when I got back to Dernholm. I picked up Jayne instead. I give her and Virgil bandages to heal me.

 

That's great. I've been holding on to some magical chainmail and weapons just in case. Does tech armor such as dwarven gauntlets and featherweight chainmail work on mage characters as standard armor?

 

Nietzsche Poster Child is a fairly simple background to bust out as a mage. Though its useless once you hit max level as I tend not to use hacks and mods.

 

How does all of that work? I haven't played Arcanum in months and I have yet to play with a character specializing in magic, but I have seen the "Magic Power Available" tag on magical items. Is this Magic Power like extra fatigue that a character can tap into when casting spells? In the case of armor, does having a high magical aptitude improve its protective qualities?

 

oops, I meant for followers like Virgil. If I played a mage. i'd stay strictly to magickal equipment because I'll be doing more than heal spells.

 

That seems accurate. I gave Virgil a charmed ring and it shows 55%. Gave Sogg some enchanted chainmail and it showed a mere 8%. So I took it from him and sold it so I could spend more time at Madam Lil's.

 

That's strange. Shouldn't magical power be 50% in the case of a magic/tech neutral character? That 8% suggest heavy tech aptitude; also 55% seems low for Virgil.
Anyway, always give the best magical equipment to the best mages, and avoid equipping tech stuff on them, the increased chance of a critical failure can be, well, crippling.

Good job See if you can loot more, it's definitely for a good purpose.

 

I love that in Arcanum you can critically fail and blow your own eye out. That sort of originality and limitation just would not with gamers these days.

 

Maybe it's different with the UAP, but in vanilla Arcanum Virgil's magickal aptitude stays at nine even when he gets up to Great Heal.

With an MA that low, some magickal items don't work that well. In my current game, Virgil is wearing a set of Charmed Plate Mail and it only has 55 percent magick power available.

I don't get why Sogg would get that eight percent result. It should be somewhere around 48 to 50.

Unless Machinegun Willie meant to say Magnus?

 

It was Sogg. Didn't want Magnus. Before the Great Hard Drive Crash of '05, I was playing vanilla Arcanum and got sick of him threatening to leave all the time. I took the little fella to Madam Lil's, all the bars, bought him nice equipment, complimented his beard, and he still kept complaining. I assume the UAP fixed a lot of that, but I just can't stand him now.

 

Weak items like charmed platemails and such have the highest magic power available for characters with weak or no magic auras. The more powerful the enchantment gets, the greater the magic aura necessary to gain it's boons.

 

Yes and what matters is the adjective prefix

"charmed" requires little aptitude to unlock the item's full potential
"magick" requires more
"arcane" requires the most


I missed a few prefixes but you can look them up