How important is UMD for a wizard?

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Carlos Santana
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How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by Carlos Santana » Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:11 pm

For a wizard, how important is UMD? Which interesting use and benefits it has?

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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by PinataPlethora » Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:23 pm

It's always nice if you have space for it, but there are other skills that are far more important, and most of what you'll get out of it, like immunity to death magic and negative energy, or increased AC, you can already get from your high level spells and Epic Mage Armor. In most cases, by the time you get it, it'll have niche uses at best, unless you're using it to get access to a race/class/alignment restricted item. If you actually NEED it for something, you're already in deep trouble.

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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by -XXX- » Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:57 pm

IMHO having access to some of the higher lvl divine scrolls (Word of Faith, Mass Heal, Greater Resto) is essential for most builds.

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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by Lorkas » Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:02 pm

Worthy of note: the entire restoration line of scrolls, including Greater Restoration, is accessible to any character without need for UMD.

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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by Sockss » Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:52 pm

It's nice for freedom wands.
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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by DarkDreamer » Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:57 pm

It never hurts to have 15 points...but its not life or death optimal.

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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by Hunter548 » Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:39 am

Freedom Wands and WoF scrolls are the two main things it gets you: The former a good for fighting evocation or conjuration mages, the latter for having some way to answer necromancers. So not a *huge* deal if you don't have them, but you should be able to fit it with no trouble.
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Re: How important is UMD for a wizard?

Post by Carlos Santana » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:32 pm

Thank you all for the replies.

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