Ultima Online Mysticism - sixteen spells, and the skill that decides their damage is not Mysticism

The sixteen spells, by circle

uo.com’s own table. Two spells per circle, and the mana ladder is the same one Magery uses — with one exception, marked.

Circle	Min skill	Mana	Spell	Reagents
First	0	4	Nether Bolt	Black Pearl, Sulfurous Ash
			Healing Stone	Bone, Garlic, Ginseng, Spider’s Silk
Second	8	6	Purge Magic	Fertile Dirt, Garlic, Mandrake Root, Sulfurous Ash
			Enchant	Spider’s Silk, Mandrake Root, Sulfurous Ash
Third	20	9	Sleep	Nightshade, Spider’s Silk, Black Pearl
			Eagle Strike	Blood Moss, Bone, Mandrake Root, Spider’s Silk
Fourth	33	11	Animated Weapon	Bone, Black Pearl, Mandrake Root, Nightshade
			Stone Form	Blood Moss, Fertile Dirt, Garlic
Fifth	45	14	Spell Trigger	Dragon’s Blood, Garlic, Mandrake Root, Spider’s Silk
			Mass Sleep	Ginseng, Nightshade, Spider’s Silk
Sixth	58	20	Cleansing Winds	Dragon’s Blood, Garlic, Ginseng, Mandrake Root
			Bombard	Blood Moss, Dragon’s Blood, Garlic, Sulfurous Ash
Seventh	70	40	Spell Plague	Demon Bone, Dragon’s Blood, Nightshade, Sulfurous Ash
		50	Hail Storm	Dragon’s Blood, Black Pearl, Blood Moss, Mandrake Root
Eighth	83	50	Nether Cyclone	Mandrake Root, Nightshade, Sulfurous Ash, Blood Moss
			Rising Colossus	Demon Bone, Dragon’s Blood, Fertile Dirt, Nightshade

Hail Storm is the odd one. It sits in the seventh circle beside Spell Plague but costs 50 mana where its circle-mate costs 40 — uo.com prints it that way, and it is the only spell in the school whose mana does not match its circle.

The four reagents no other school uses

Mysticism draws on the eight ordinary reagents and on four of its own, bolded in the table above. They are the whole supply problem of playing a Mystic:

• Bone — Healing Stone, Eagle Strike, Animated Weapon.
• Demon Bone — Spell Plague and Rising Colossus. Two spells, both top-of-the-book.
• Fertile Dirt — Purge Magic, Stone Form, Rising Colossus.
• Dragon’s Blood — six spells, including every heavy hitter: Spell Trigger, Cleansing Winds, Bombard, Spell Plague, Hail Storm and Rising Colossus.

Lower Reagent Cost covers these the same as any other. At 100 LRC a Mystic carries nothing at all, which matters more here than in Magery precisely because four of the reagents are not sold on every corner.

Focus or Imbuing, and why that is so strange

Every other damage school in the game is driven by a magic skill. Mysticism is driven by Focus — a mana-regeneration skill — or by Imbuing, which is a crafting skill. The reason is historical: Focus replaced Evaluating Intelligence for this purpose in Publish 64 [!].

uo.com’s rule is simply that the higher of the two is used when both are present. That gives a Mystic two quite different templates for the same damage:

• Focus — also regenerates mana, and stacks with Meditation. The straightforward choice.
• Imbuing — does nothing in combat by itself, but it is the skill that builds the suit. A crafter who already carries 120 Imbuing gets Mysticism damage for free.

[!] The damage formula itself is not published. uo.com says which skill is used; it does not say what the skill does to the number, and there is no Mysticism equivalent of Magery’s ((Eval Int × 3) ÷ 100) + 1 on uo.com.

[!] Inscription does nothing published for Mysticism. uo.com’s +10% Grandmaster bonus names nine spells and all nine are Magery. uo.com does not extend it to this school.

Enchant, and the Spell Channeling rule

uo.com: “equipping weapons and shields requires the item to have the spell channeling property, in the same way as the property is required for mages”. So a Mystic is under the same restriction as a Magery caster — with one exception that is easy to miss.

[!] How long that temporary Spell Channeling lasts is not published; uo.com does not mention the effect at all.

Worth remembering either way: a Spell Channeling item carries a mandatory −1 Faster Casting, and Mysticism’s Faster Casting cap is 2 — the same as Magery and Necromancy, not the 4 the lesser schools get.

In PvP

Mysticism is the strongest disable school in the game, and that is what it is taken for.

• Sleep and Mass Sleep — a hard disable with an immunity window attached. The windows are on the timers page.
• Spell Plague — a stacking damage effect that punishes being hit while it is up, which is exactly what happens in a group fight.
• Purge Magic — strips a buff. Nothing in Magery does this.
• Cleansing Winds — a heal and a cure, on one cast, area of effect.
• Stone Form — defensive, and the reason Mysticism appears on templates that never cast an offensive spell at all.

[!] Sleep duration, Spell Plague’s stacking numbers and Cleansing Winds’ heal amount are not published.

In PvM

Two spells carry PvM Mysticism: Rising Colossus, the eighth-circle summon, and Hail Storm and Nether Cyclone as area damage. Animated Weapon is a lesser summon available from the fourth circle, which is unusually early for a pet-shaped spell.

Healing Stone is the quiet one. It is a first-circle spell that produces an item you can use later, which makes Mysticism worth eighty points on a melee template that will never cast anything else.

[!] Rising Colossus and Animated Weapon statistics, and what scales them, are not published. [!] So is the Healing Stone’s heal amount.

What is not published

• [!] The damage formula. Which skill drives it is published. What it does to the number is not.
• [!] The fizzle chance at any skill, and there is no published Mysticism equivalent of Magery’s 106.
• [!] Base damage per spell.
• [!] Enchant’s duration, and the duration of the Spell Channeling it grants.
• [!] Sleep and Mass Sleep durations, and whether Mysticism affects them.
• [!] Summon statistics for Rising Colossus and Animated Weapon.
• [!] Whether Inscription does anything at all for this school. The absence of a statement is not a statement of absence — but nothing published says it does.

Caps, and how to train it

Mysticism has Power Scrolls, so it runs 105 / 110 / 115 / 120 against the 720 total skill cap. It was added with Stygian Abyss and any race can learn it, not only gargoyles — a thing still got wrong, because the school arrived with the gargoyle expansion.

uo.com publishes no training path. The one below is unpublished, so every threshold in it is marked:

From [!]	To [!]	How
0	40	NPC vendor
40	63	casting Stone Form
63	80	casting Cleansing Winds
80	95	casting Hail Storm
95	120	casting Nether Cyclone

All of it on 100 Lower Reagent Cost, or the four special reagents will cost more than the scrolls did.

Where these come from

uo.com Mysticism · uo.com Inscription · uo.com Focus · uo.com Imbuing · uo.com Skill Titles · uo.com Skill Gain Systems. Everything here is from uo.com or the game itself; anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished where it appears.