Magery

Magery


Reagents

There are eight reagents used in Magery spellcasting. They are:

Black PearlBlack Pearl
Blood MossBlood Moss
GarlicGarlic
GinsengGinseng
Mandrake RootMandrake Root
NightshadeNightshade
Spiders' SilkSpiders' Silk
Sulfurous AshSulfurous Ash

Mana

Mana is your personal magical energy. Your current mana level can be found in your Status Window. Used mana is restored automatically by resting.


Using Magic

Most spells must be cast on something, so casting a spell will usually produce a targeting cursor, with the targeting cursor over the individual, object or area on which you wish to cast.

Combat spellcasting can be greatly speeded up by the use of Macros.

There are eight circles of spells, each containing eight spells.


Casting Spells

There are two ways to cast spells in Ultima Online. You can either cast a spell out of your spellbook or by reciting a scroll.

Book Spells

Book spells require the proper reagents in order to be cast, and reagents are used up each time the spell is cast. They also draw on your personal mana reserves.

Book spells must be found and written into your spellbook, but once inscribed they remain in the book forever. Drag a scroll onto your spellbook in the backpack. It will inscribe itself into your spellbook, and you will be able to cast it thereafter, as long as you are carrying that spellbook.

Casting Spells

To cast a spell, you must have sufficient Magery skill for the circle – anyone can cast First Circle spells, while only grand master mages can cast Eighth Circle spells, with the others circles scaled in proportion. To cast a spell from your spellbook, you must first have found the spell and transcribed it into your spellbook, and have the required reagents in your inventory. Your ability to cast a spell is based on the circle of the spell and your Magery skill. Spells that are of the higher circles are more likely to fail, but when they succeed they will probably improve your Magery skill. Spells that are very low circle (relative to your skill) may never be miscast, but they won’t help you to improve either.

Open your spellbook and double-click on the spell you wish to cast. On targeted spells, your cursor will change into crosshairs; click on the thing or person you’re casting the spell on and the spell will be cast. The reagents used in the casting will be automatically removed from your inventory. If you don’t have enough reagents to cast the spell, the game will tell you. Your hands must be free of weapons or tools in order to attempt to cast. You can carry your spellbook openly in your hands, or leave it safely in your backpack.


Scroll Spells

Scroll spells do not require reagents or use mana, but each use drains a use from the scroll. Eventually, all uses will be exhausted.

Click on a scroll to cast the spell inscribed on that scroll. Scrolls can be found, traded for or created (using the Inscription skill) by advanced spellcasters.

In order to recite a scroll, you must choose a scroll from a circle no more than two circles above your own spell circle ability. This means characters who have only minimal Magery skill can recite up to Second Circle scrolls, while a mage whose highest circle spell is Sixth Circle can recite up to Eighth Circle scrolls.


Simplifying Spellcasting

You can simplify and speed up combat spellcasting by using Macros to associate casting a spell with your chosen hot-key. Also, each spell in your spellbook has an icon on its page in the book. You can drag this icon off the page and onto your screen. Clicking on the icon will cast that spell. (Of course, this all assumes you have the correct reagents.)


Magic in Towns

In Felucca, if a player casts an offensive spell in a town, the guards will be called on the caster, and the damage to the victim (if any) from the spell is only one hit point. In the other facets, you are not allowed to cast certain offensive and summoning spells while in guard zones, including most towns.


Magery Spells

1st Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Clumsy.png Clumsy uus jux 4 0.1 40.1 0 Blood MossNightshade
UO Spell Icon Create Food.png Create Food in mani ylem 4 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicGinsengMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Feeblemind.png Feeblemind rel wis 4 0.1 40.1 0 GinsengNightshade
UO Spell Icon Heal.png Heal in mani 4 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicGinsengSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Magic Arrow.png Magic Arrow in por ylem 4 0.1 40.1 0 Sulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Night Sight.png Night Sight in lor 4 0.1 40.1 0 Spider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Reactive Armor.png Reactive Armor flam sanct 4 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Weaken.png Weaken des mani 4 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicNightshade


2nd Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Agility.png Agility ex uus 6 0.1 40.1 0 Blood MossMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Cunning.png Cunning uus wis 6 0.1 40.1 0 Mandrake RootNightshade
UO Spell Icon Cure.png Cure an nox 6 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicGinseng
UO Spell Icon Harm.png Harm an mani 6 0.1 40.1 0 NightshadeSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Magic Trap.png Magic Trap in jux 6 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Protection.png Protection uus sanct 6 0.1 40.1 0 GarlicGinsengSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Remove Trap.png Remove Trap an jux 6 0.1 40.1 0 Blood MossSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Strength.png Strength us mani 6 0.1 40.1 0 Mandrake RootNightshade


3rd Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Bless.png Bless rel sanct 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 GarlicMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Fireball.png Fireball vas flam 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Black Pearl
UO Spell Icon Magic Lock.png Magic Lock an por 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Blood MossGarlicSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Poison.png Poison in nox 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Nightshade
UO Spell Icon Telekinesis.png Telekinesis ort por ylem 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Blood MossMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Teleport.png Teleport rel por 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Blood MossMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Unlock.png Unlock ex por 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Blood MossSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Wall of Stone.png Wall of Stone in sanct ylem 9 10.1 50.1 3.5 Blood MossGarlic


4th Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Arch Cure.png Arch Cure vas an nox 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 GarlicGinsengMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Arch Protection.png Arch Protection vas uus sanct 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 GarlicGinsengMandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Curse.png Curse des sanct 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 GarlicNightshadeSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Fire Field.png Fire Field in flam grav 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 Black PearlSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Greater Heal.png Greater Heal in vas mani 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 GarlicGinsengMandrake RootSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Lightning.png Lightning por ort grav 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 Mandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Mana Drain.png Mana Drain ort rel 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 Black PearlMandrake RootSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Recall.png Recall kal ort por 11 24.1 64.1 17.8 Black PearlBlood MossMandrake Root


5th Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Blade Spirits.png Blade Spirits in jux hur ylem 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Black PearlMandrake RootNightshade
UO Spell Icon Dispel Field.png Dispel Field an grav 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Black PearlGarlicSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Incognito.png Incognito kal in ex 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Blood MossMandrake RootNightshade
UO Spell Icon Magic Reflection.png Magic Reflection in jux sanct 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 GarlicMandrake RootSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Mind Blast.png Mind Blast por corp wis 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Black PearlMandrake RootNightshadeSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Paralyze.png Paralyze an ex por 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Black PearlNightshadeSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Poison Field.png Poison Field in nox grav 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Black PearlNightshadeSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Summon Creature.png Summon Creature kal xen 14 38.1 78.1 32.1 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s Silk


6th Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Dispel.png Dispel an ort 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 GarlicMandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Energy Bolt.png Energy Bolt corp por 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 Black PearlNightshade
UO Spell Icon Explosion.png Explosion vas ort flam 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 Blood MossMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Invisibility.png Invisibility an lor xen 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 Blood MossNightshade
UO Spell Icon Mark.png Mark kal por ylem 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 Black PearlBlood MossMandrake Root
UO Spell Icon Mass Curse.png Mass Curse vas des sanct 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 GarlicMandrake RootNightshadeSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Paralyze Field.png Paralyze Field in ex grav 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 Black PearlGinsengSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Reveal.png Reveal wis quas 20 52.1 92.1 46.4 Blood MossSulfurous Ash


7th Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Chain Lightning.png Chain Lightning vas ort grav 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Black PearlBlood MossMandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Energy Field.png Energy Field in sanct grav 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Black PearlMandrake RootSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Flamestrike.png Flamestrike kal vas flam 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Sulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Gate Travel.png Gate Travel vas rel por 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Black PearlMandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Mana Vampire.png Mana Vampire ort sanct 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Black PearlBlood MossMandrake RootSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Mass Dispel.png Mass Dispel vas an ort 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Black PearlGarlicMandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Meteor Swarm.png Meteor Swarm kal des flam ylem 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Polymorph.png Polymorph vas ylem rel 40 66.1 106.1 60.7 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s Silk


8th Circle

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Earthquake.png Earthquake in vas por 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossGinsengMandrake RootSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Energy Vortex.png Energy Vortex vas corp por 50 80.1 120.1 75 Black PearlBlood MossMandrake RootNightshade
UO Spell Icon Resurrection.png Resurrection an corp 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossGarlicGinseng
UO Spell Icon Summon Air Elemental.png Summon Air Elemental kal vas xen hur 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Summon Daemon.png Summon Daemon kal vas xen corp 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Summon Earth Elemental.png Summon Earth Elemental kal vas xen ylem 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s Silk
UO Spell Icon Summon Fire Elemental.png Summon Fire Elemental kal vas xen flam 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s SilkSulfurous Ash
UO Spell Icon Summon Water Elemental.png Summon Water Elemental kal vas xen an flam 50 80.1 120.1 75 Blood MossMandrake RootSpider’s Silk


Skill Mastery Spells

Spell Words of Power Mana Cost Min Skill Skill for 99% Min Inscription Required Reagents
UO Spell Icon Death Ray.png Death Ray in grav corp 50, Upkeep 35 90 ? N/A Black PearlBlood Moss
UO Spell Icon Ethereal Blast.png Ethereal Blast uus ort grav 0 90 ? N/A Blood MossGinsengMandrake Root


Trivia

  • Originally, you could not open your spellbook if another object was in your hands.
  • Like using potions, originally you could not cast a spell if you were holding anything other than a spellbook. Now, if you are holding something and it is not spell channeling, it will automatically be de-equipped for you when you cast a spell.


References