Spell Costs

[Wilshire]

First off, Clerics don't have level 12 or 16 spells: Intelligence casters get them every four levels, but Wisdom casters only get them every 5 (5/9/14/etc.).

You're right. I don't know why I even said that since I am a wisdom caster and I know when I get my spells. Guess I wasn't thinking completely yesterday.

This. Most of the level 9 Cleric spells are garbage. Root is the only one I'd consider essential, with Center, Fear, and maybe Sense the Dead being potentially useful. You won't care about resists, won't want a summoned hammer, won't be AEing anything, stamina doesn't work on P99, etc.

14 has more good spells, but still plenty of garbage. Bind Affinity, Healing, and Invis vs. Undead are essential, and Symbol, Smite and Expluse Undead are probably worth it also. But you probably won't be dispelling, buffing resists, summoning a lightstone or sensing summoned things (although that last one might be useful in niche situations in the future, so maybe get it eventually).

This might be class specific, though. Some classes do get a lot of spells that are at least useful enough to buy at certain levels (druid at 14, for example) and you don't really want to pass on any of them, but I guess there are others that aren't really useful.

Any of the resistance buffs probably aren't that helpful until higher levels so they can wait until later. The spells that are basically "Summon a Light Source" are kinda useless for an elf that already sees just fine in the dark.

I'm a bit torn on the symbol spells, though. They're definitely very useful and worth having, but at the same time I can't really afford the components for them so I wonder if I'd use them enough to justify buying the spell. I might find that I only cast it once or twice before I've leveled up enough to get a better symbol.

Anyway, yesterday, I went to a spell vendor and priced my next-level spells. I didn't pre-buy them, but now I know how much I have to make over the next five levels.