Add that to the streamlined skills, streamlined gear and the utility of Alt Magic and it is likely the strongest central option for any newcomers. Magic can have more steps that most combat styles (depending on what youre doing) - its hard to get simpler than 'take this and hit the man' - but that doesnt make it take much longer than the other styles. If you want to start fighting harder stuff or using bigger spells you need more, but that is no different than needed better weapons as melee or ammo as ranged (which also need crafting skills in order to make gear).

Basically just Mining and Runecrafting, and not very much of either. This guide only contains instructions for the base game, and does not take Throne of the Herald options into consideration. 引用自 Oktober12th：The amount of other skills you need to start casting spells is very very minor. And base and Alt Magic use the same skill, one of the few skills (and only main Combat skill) that is truly both combat and non-combat. While some of the Alt spells require combat loot as components, most of them do not. With the Alt Magic spells in consideration, Magic will even allow you to grind levels early and with no danger - something the other skills dont allow for. Both melee and ranged have that split into two or more skills. Magic skills also have all of their required parts in one skill - Runecrafting has Ammo, Weapons and Armor for spellcasters all under the single skill. Basically just Mining and Runecrafting, and not very much of either.

Cloth could be gained from fighting NPCs, chests or thieving (depending on the tier of the cloth) or similar to how leather to dragon hide works in the shop.The amount of other skills you need to start casting spells is very very minor. Various pieces of equipment could come from crafting, as the armor is cloth. Would have the option for pure magic experience or defensive casting (Magic + Defence exp) When magic is used for combat, a drop down menu would include any combat spells you have the level to cast (if too much clutter, remove the lowest tier spells first) and if you have the runes to cast, you will begin casting in combat, like range with arrows. ranging from 2 up to 10 (only for basic elemental runes). Mastery levels would increase the amount of runes created per essence. Each node in Runecrafting would required the talisman, which is from drops, chests, thieving, etc, but the air talisman would be the easiest to get as Air Runes are needed for basically everything and introduces players to Runecrafting. Runecrafting would use essence gathered from Mining. Using runes, created via Runecrafting, would give an option for many more NPCs, dungeons, and new equipment types. Adding Magic as another means of combat would farther expand on how we do combat.

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