Using Potions of Insight
dreamrider
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Does anyone know of any smart ways to use Potions of Insight?
I know that you can use them at times with a high WIS / INT character to pump the Lore value and identify collected stuff.
As far as I can see, there is no point to giving them to Clerics/Druids to expand their slots, because the potion does not last as long as the 8-hour rest period required to prepare the spells for use.
I know that you can use them at times with a high WIS / INT character to pump the Lore value and identify collected stuff.
As far as I can see, there is no point to giving them to Clerics/Druids to expand their slots, because the potion does not last as long as the 8-hour rest period required to prepare the spells for use.
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There are also a couple of dialogue encounters in which high WIS gains you extra response options which have more beneficial results. Off the top of my head, I can think of one specific instance, but that's also in BG2. Maybe there's a similar case in BG1, I can't remember.
So for BG1, Potions of Insight are pretty useless. Even in BG2, you won't necessarily find that your Mage wants to use Wish spells much (this depends upon your own playing style), so Potions of Insight might not be much use there either.
@DJKajuru
Yeah, knew about that. That's actually why I wanted to know of other uses, before I started glugging them off as Lore boosters when I have a perfectly cooperative Wild Mage who never seems to flub an Identify spell. (I wonder if that is a hidden bennie, that Neera never surges on Identify. I've probably had her cast that spell as much or more than any other, and never seen a Wild Surge on it.)
Realizing of course that a WS is only a quite low probability unless you are using NRD...which any WM should probably avoid until they are at least L6 AND Chaos Shielded, IMHO. You probably don't have the great higher level spells that really benefit from it until then, anyway.
It would actually be kinda cool if WIS DID affect the performance of Wild Mages, when you think about it.
(The lower your WIS the more powerful your wild magic, greater likelihood of a + to your spell level. The higher your WIS the more control, less likelihood of a Wild Surge. Or something like that.)