>I saw a post earlier about lore/identify and I was recalling
>how mentally taxing lore is compared to identify. Any chance
>that the cost would get lower as you move up in ranks, age,
>better skill level, or race?

It does get cheaper (the percentage of your mana consumed gets less and less as you gain levels)

>Also on a side note, since nearly every communer and
>spellcaster gains trance except maybe Paladins and
>anti-paladins any chance to share the wealth since paladins
>cant use wands to slow that they could get it? I know that
>one path gains fast but that is like 24 hrs every 168 hrs with
>no eating or drinking and who knows if you could get that one
>in specific...

Uhm...no. Paladins and Anti-Paladins are hybrid classes of fighter & mage/shaman which is why they do not get any sort of trance.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!