On Evocations

[4Hooves2Appendages]

There are many powerful evocable items. Barring god conduct (Ru only I guess) there seems no reason for any character to ignore evocations.

However, I frequently struggle to make an educated decision about how much to train at what point. Late in the game I often train defences and support magic when evocations may be providing more benefit.

So, how does one decide? How much evocations do you train, and when?

[crate]

get ~5 somewhere in lair-orc, probably, since it almost doubles wand power and the hex wands are both extremely good and common enough that you'll actually have some

can get up to ~10 or so later, though possibly this is not worth it unless you have more than just hex wands?

with how xp per skill level scales, these investments are very low cost and make you significantly stronger

[Reptisaurus]

There are many powerful evocable items. Barring god conduct (Ru only I guess) there seems no reason for any character to ignore evocations.

However, I frequently struggle to make an educated decision about how much to train at what point. Late in the game I often train defences and support magic when evocations may be providing more benefit.

So, how does one decide? How much evocations do you train, and when?

20-ish if I have a rod of clouds or I'm playing a wandstabber. Less if I don't.