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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 1879357" data-attributes="member: 17296">Personal predjudice. I mean, here is an item that *should* be useful to a spellcaster. It's the only rechargeable staff or wand like item in the game. And yet it suffers from the fatal flaw of all wands, in that it's not really useful for spellcasters to store spells. Or, at any rate, it's not really useful for them to store spells wherein caster level is important.I mean, it's not like these rings are cheap. You're paying more for a ring of spellstoring than you would be for a set of pearls of power that would do the same thing (in general). Yet the pearls will give you more. Sure, if you're storing infrequently used utility spells that's another story, the rings allow you to have more spells "memorized", literally at your fingertips. But then again, why not just buy scrolls in that case? You'll likely end up using them nearly the same way, you'll keep the rings in a pouch or strategically aligned along your belt so that you can put them on and cast them as if casting from a scroll. If, on the other hand, it's a spell you're planning on using frequently enough to rate actually wearing the ring... then you're likely to want to cast it more than once anyhow... I mean, if you're having that much trouble with alloted number of spells per day it could be useful, but I've never really HAD that kind of trouble. If it's a spell I want to cast frequently I memorize it.Or if you're a non caster, they're great rings. Assuming you've got a caster friend to refill it for you, it gives you casting ability you wouldn't otherwise have. But for a caster, well... it does suck, you've got to admit. As written, it won't do for any of the caster's I've played anything they'd want from it. And so I think it's a lame rule because it's an item that was IMO written FOR a caster, and then they nerfed it to the realm of "with this item you're paying for the ambiance", because you can get better bang for your buck elsewhere.</blockquote>

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