wad stats should i add for mage?

no no no....

You dont need any strength or con or stam.

You have to have loads and loads of defence though and a little bit of magic and intel.

Go for:

def = 2x intel
intel = 2x magic

Or of course you could do what my mage is doing....

Magic = 2x intel (I'm not there yet, I need another 100 mag for that)

Stamina = hps and you need hps otherwise when you get a small lag spike or faldon throws yet another wobbly you'll get 1 hit by justabout anything.

I have 60 stam on my level 74 mage and that combined with a few other things gives me 106hps.

Thats enough for me to survive a couple of lucky hits by a blue before I cover them in slimes with a DT topping.

With my huge amount of magic I get an energy boost giving me almost as much energy as mana so I can outrun anything long enough for the slimes to kill the last monster and for me to cast a fresh lot to kill the one (up to 5 blues once) following me....

Don't add anything to defence EVER
Ditto strength and constitution. I've added a little to my str so I could wield my noble longsword of the sourcerer (which I dont dare remove now or I'd never be able to hold it again because of certain updates....)

Get a disgusting number of spells.

Almost all of them are useful for something....

I've got 3 and a bit pages of spells, at least 4 of which I cant use but which I'll learn to use later.

The reason I do that is because cheap spells on the market very rarely come around and when they do I scrabble every gp out of my bank and buy them for later use.

I've not bought a single spell over 3k  and I've got:

Level 9 Lightning
Level 7 Icebolt (OWNS but eats up your mana like a whore)
Level 7 Fireball (Effective and fast but I know for a fact that Burning Arrows are better)
Level 7 Chain Lightning (Does tons of damage against anything without clit resist. Use to steal kill xp from your slimes at the end of a fight)
Level 9 Holy Armour (Chuck it on before a melee fight, blocks a couple of hits, long enough to cast slimes)
Level 8 Dark Touch (I've got level 10 in the bank for a sweet 2k and I'm waiting for a level 9)
Level 8 Exorcism (Not really worth the mana points for the damage it does. Only use against single targets.)
Level 9 Fire Rain (Can 1 hit a wolf if its on a targeted square. Too bloody random to use in a real fight)
Level 7 Blizzard (See Fire rain)
Level 8 Energy Bolt (OWNS but I need to get my wiz up another 20 points to master it)
Level 9 Summon Slimes (A must have. I can summon 10 in a double cast with my 50 taming)
Level 2 Summon Wolves (Weaker than slimes, I'd get a higher level but demon skulls are a bitch to get)
Level 2 Nature Shield (Cures poison and heals. Great spell for poison taming)
Level 1 Ethreal Gate (Can't use yet)
Level 1 Illusionary Menace (Massively useless for a mage. Slimes are faster, do damage and have more hps)
Level 1 Magic Missile (dont bother buying a 20k level 2 MM)
Level 1 Night Sight (A lantern is less hassle but I like my noble/sourcerer shield)
Level 2 Death Darts (Useful for taming things, DT is too strong usually)
Level 5 Town Portal (Cast just before battling something big and nasty or to get a friend from town)
Level 5 Wraith (Fun but not very functional)
Level 8 Antimagic (Have you ever seen anyone actually use this in a fight? Clit just blows it away)
Level 1 Shield (Waste of money since I already had Holy Armour which is better)
Level 1 Bless (Can't cast. Rumour has it its broken....)
Level 1 Holy Strike (Never EVER buy this piece of crap, it doesnt work)
Level 1 Cure Posion (I'd rather use Nature Shield)
Level 5 Holy Aura (I can cast this all day long... which is just as well with certain people MBing and Ebolting the crap out of everyone in Dcave...)
Level 1 Greed (For pinching money on the ground)
Level 1 Poison Cloud (Crap and too mana hungry to use against decent monsters. Use to get Necro up until you can cast DT.)
Level 1 Bestow Favour
Level 3 Earthquake (Fizzle too much to use)
Level 7 Nova (Cuts anyone of moderate hps to shreds if they're too close and you click fast)
Level 4 Flash (Don't cast next to pets or summoned pets or they'll attack you, recently found it raises wiz better than ebolt)

Also have a level 1 Mind Blast for only 2330gps which was still 5/5 energy.... Going to try and rescribe it on my making-stuff char....

Eh?

So what do you practice raising scribing on?

I'm also not talking about scribing up but scribing it to the same level.

You are only able to scribe a book into lower level books so therefore you cannot scribe lvl 1 books from a lvl 1 book.

You can't scribe a level 1 book down.

u start scribing on lvl 2 books

All you need is some stamina, some intelligence, and extremely high magic. Raise your tactics, magery, etc.. and then reset your character stats later. By then you will know what you need.

Also, make a warrior and level him high, giving him con, stam and str. Use that character to get money to pay for your mage items and spells.

Drat

I finally dig up a level 9 DT for 2049gps, learn it then find I need another 45 intel to learn my level 10 :?