Starting Skills Packs for a magic user

[bobturke]

Ah thats cool, anyone played a higher skill lvl mage? How are they then? Also how is SP regen'd in this game, is it fast regen / combat, ala AC1? Or is there a lot of downtime?

Sorry SP means skill points (used for buying new skills/stats). Sap is the name of the 'magic power/mana' type stuff in SoR. Once you know what your doing you can work with very little downtime, especially in a team.

In a team other mages can 'heal' your Sap. Solo you can use a self healing ability to heal your Sap.

[bobturke]

Just curious what you mean by extra SP past 20?

The skill tree splits into Offensive Magic and Defensive Magic at level 21. So you have to level Off Magic and Def Magic seperately. Each level of magic gives you 10 SP so if your an Off mage and you decide to do a bit of healing, say 3 levels worth to level 24, you get a 'bonus' 30 SP to spend. These can be spent on any skills available at your level not just on Def magic skills.