Advancing too quickly?

I am a level 26 mage. Have all force spells, and all conveyance (isn't that the one with teleportation?) Anyway, my willpower is 18, and everything else is 8-10. It doesn't seem as if I am as able to persuade people as much as when I began the game. For instance, I was not able to persuade Loghaire Thunderstone to rejoin his clan. Do you think I put to many points into spells right off the bat, and I maybe need to work on some of my other areas? Oh yeah, am apprentice in haggle, persuasion, and spot trap. I am already about to go to quintarra. Do I need to back off the main quest for a while and build up skill in other areas? If so, where do I need to go to build up some points. Traveling about at random on the world map(a ploy I used as a newbie, to build up rank fast) does not provide with enough high level beasts.... Your thoughts?

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: bryant1380 on 2001-11-28 14:14 ]</font>

 

Howdy.
Did you talk with Randver about Dwarven philosophy? You need that info to get Loghaire to join. You'll need more INT and maybe expert Persuasion.
As to getting points, I do all the quests.

 

You should get Fire elemental, good for the fireflash and firewall spell. Have you ever tried killing 7 demons surrounding you in 2 hits with fireflash? Also, the monsters in Arcanum is too dumb, cast a firewall in front of you and when they whack you they take damage.
Get Black Necronmatic too. Harm is the best and cheapest spell in game, you'll kill anything in 1-5 hits. Summon undead is not really good but when ur 100% magic aptitude it summons a Undead Champion. Create Undead is good. You can reanimate any dead character to help you fight. Imagine, you just busted a boss and u can reanimate him to help you fight. And if the boss got real high damage, wow ur invincible.
Get White Necromatic too. Resurrect is handy, cause ur followers always want to be a hero but gets killed instead. If u got dog in ur party, u wont have to worry.
Alright thats all ur a fine mage at least better than me :smile:.
Darn it I was a fool for investing in Temporal! Hey, is phantasm any good?

 

Howdy, FLR.
I'd skip Phantasm if I were you. Every time I became invisible and made Virgil the Dumbass wait so I could do some thieving, Virgil the Dumbass was gone when I returned. I guess he thought I was gone forever, so he went home.

 

Perriman Smythe doesn't do anything with his Phantasm spells...at least, he doesn't do much. Never casted invisibility...

 

Force

If you choose Master of force disintegrate will cost 25 fatigue, Disintigrate does a few thousand hp electrical damage...