>Well, we put in a system for allowing people to learn the spells faster >for exactly this reason. If you didn't take advantage of it and chose >the slowest possible option, it's going to take a while.


I see your point and I'll wrap up with these comments:
- the default 5 is what the help file says to take if you are new to the class, perhaps something might be made clearer in the help file?
- I chose a high int race (with the exp penalty) to offset the default 5 affinity and while it has no doubt helped in a lot of learning, that one stretch was just freakin' brutal(roughly 2 1/2 hours to gain 4% being pretty efficent at casting). I have almost 50 hours in an invoker that hasn't even gotten to the third tier of spells yet.

I don't want to come across as being excessively whiny; I think you guys do a great job overall. But this was being more of a pain to play than the wood-elf druid I had, and I thought that one was pretty hard to play.