Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General Suggestions for a newcomer

Spending 5 skill points to get 1 is a TERRIBLE investment.

Here's a tip, get Alchemy pretty quickly, then trade your loot in Aleroth for Health and Mana potions, and any Small Empty Flasks. Mix Health and Mana for Restoration potions. At level 9, get Alchemy level 2 so you can harvest herbs. You can get have 70 Restoration potions by the time you hit the second questing area.

Mages and those who find a good condition short bow can get a head start on levels by carefully investigating Aleroth and its houses, even before taking on any quests.

Know Creature is a good skill to invest in for most players, even those who have played before, it lets you prioritize threats and shows you enemy weaknesses.

Pressing or Holding the Control key auto-targets the nearest enemy.

Mages are actually one of the better classes to play. Mages can purchase free skill points at stores (spellbooks, although not all spells have a book). Yes, any class can do that, but Mages get a much bigger mana bonus from Intelligence then other classes.

Even better is that you can abuse quickloading to check bookshelves for a free chance of getting a spellbook.

If someone owns the shelf and would object to your helping yourself, just BYOC - Bring Your Own Container. Drag it next to the shelf or other container, open your container and the shelf and drag from the shelf into the container, and walk out with the container. The AI only cares if you take things from a container and put them into your inventory. Don't try dragging from shelf to your container, then from your container to your inventory if the victim is right there, they will consider that stealing.

Another benefit for being a mage is that no spells in the game have a casting delay. You can cast as fast as you right-click. Lightning is a good skill, because you need to manually aim it and it always hits. Hold the control key and right-click and you zap anything hostile on the screen, with no risk to anyone friendly.

There are certain unique named items in the world. The bonuses on those are random, but the important one is Charm Quality, because the highest quality charms can greatly outstrip the bonuses on the item.