really sick of spell research!Follow

Anybody else find this almost required tradeskill for casters tedious, overpriced etc? As a necro almost every freakin pet I get requires 2 or 3 pages. I never seem to find these pages while hunting, and there is too many people searching merchants now buying them up. Also it is a very expensive tradeskill to get up, which makes it hard for new players to really get into. In fact many new players have no clue how to do it, what it does, etc. But Anyways it is ashame when you go into bazaar and 1 person is selling the lvl 33 necro pet and they want 2500pp! I had the same problem with the lvl 24 pet, so I just skipped it because it was going for 1000. My research is like 32ish and I can't afford (nor do I really want to buy) words off merchants. IT costs time and money and I don't want to invest either in this terrible skill.

It wouldn't be so bad if the non-required spells required research, but no they make our pets, which argueably is the most important spell of a necro, research only. The only breaks we get are the pets that both Shadowknights and Necros use, and even then they are hidden on shadowknight vendors (and yea people still try to overcharge for the lvl 16 necro pet even though its merchant buyable).

I think SOE should just consider either doing away with it all together, or making other recipes besides mob dropped words to skill up. Yes Yes I am aware of the practice runes in south ro, but they are more painful to aquire then the words themselves. I also am aware of refineing runes from a nabimbi merchant, but once agian newbies can't afford 5pp a combine.

The way the game plays now very few people feel like spending hours and hours searching, combineing etc in this tradeskill. The game is now mostly higher end people and therefore people want to get to that point ASAP. IT holds people back when you have to pay outrageous prices for your spells (and even words) in bazaar and waste time time do this crap. I know at higher levels spells are even more expensive, but I don't mind paying good money for a spell I will use for months compared to a week. No reason any spell prior to lvl 50 should be more then 500pp.

As a necro myself, i managed to get my spell research up to one-thirty....six or so, but it's too much a pain in the tookus to continue. I've been buying spells from Bazaar since the fifties or so. And yes, 25k at a time gets to running a lot. I've never have more than 30k at any given time.

i have a level 40 necro and i dont remember ever having to use spell research for spells, i thought research was primarily for 50+ spells, i bought all my pet spells from vendors if i remember correctly, i was under the impression that pretty much all spells up to level 50 are vendor sold (i could be wrong about this, its been a very long time since i played a character at that level)

Unless I am missing something almost every pet past lvl 16 is research only for a necro except the ones that Shadowknights get also. Those are really the only must have spells I guess, although the damage shield is nice for soloing (I can take more damage then my pet at this level, 12 hp DS helps).

I suppose you could get to 50 without researched spells if you don't mind using lightblue and green pets.

I know the lvl 16 pet is Shadowknight guild purchaseable (tell the idiots selling it for 1000pp that in bazaar), the 20 pet is research only, 24 is research only, 29 is storebought, 33 research only 39 storebought, and I think 44 is research.

I wouldnt even bother with low level spell research until after combine server goes online at end of june.

2500 is absurd price for below 50 spell. My advice is hunt down words you need for spell and then /ooc in PoK and Baz genral and necro chat that you have components an need a high level spell researcher to do combine for you.

I would bet for every necro researcher that wants 2500 for a level 20 spell there are probaly ten that would do the combine for free. If you were on druzzil I know I would.