mage - impossible - necromancer island1 strategies?

[travelingoz]

Originally Posted by namad

so most of you seem to be suggesting i start over again from scratch (one of you literally did and the others suggested things that wouldn't be possible otherwise)

Well go back to an earlier save before you started investing runes in Alchemy......if you have one.

Originally Posted by namad

going for alchemy is a bit of a holdover from legends where getting infinite crystals was harder... speaking of infinite crystals how do you get them exactly? just buy every item you find and then destroy those items? what with the valkyrie's to feed I figured alchemy would end up being worth it in the long run if you took it early and could end up saving you 100s of crystals? but if crystals can be obtained infinitely then... this reasoning is wrong? anyways how to obtain infinitely?

It's not really necessary to take Alchemy since the Artificer skill was added to the Mage tree. As has been said above, the new crafting aspect of the skill allows you to create items from special scrolls (You'll know which scrolls because they will be stored in your inventory, not your spell book.). Using the scroll doesn't destroy it either! But it does cost some gold and a few crystals each time.