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My Bishop is level 17, and I have 100 in Wizardry and Fire magic. When I leveled up, Nuclear Blast wasn't on the list. What am I missing?
Did you change his class from/to anything other than a mage?
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townltu: Did you change his class from/to anything other than a mage?
I never class changed at all. I imported my bishop from Wiz 7.
Weird, i never encountered or read about that glitch
also know the game mechanics quite well,
based on that i could only imagine unlikely reasons
like corrupted files, ram error or OS realted issues
(e.g. when installing Wiz8 in \program files (x86) folder)

How i would try to resolve it:
1st: Backup the saves!

Use tha saves in a new install of the game,
preferably on another(working;) computer, preferably running Win XP,
that should exclude all hardware, install or OS related resons.

If this fails, it may indicate a corrupted save game.
In that case you would have the masters permission
to visit tk421.net/wizardry/files.shtml , get Wizardry 8 Editor(98K) and fix the issue.

Note that a corrupted save may cause more issues which may even be gamebraing.
Don't see a problem until he hits level 18... its may get a spell pick sooner not must and he has other casting picks i.e could have been offered a extra mind spell in stead.

p.s let the Bard cast it as he is better (more powerful) anyway.
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clupher: My Bishop is level 17, and I have 100 in Wizardry and Fire magic. When I leveled up, Nuclear Blast wasn't on the list. What am I missing?
Purist mages (bish included) get their 7th level spells at 18lvl. So totally not a bug, just wait until you lvlup. Hybrid classes get it even later - at 22lvl, but that's not the case with bishop. Besides you always can use save editor and simply add that spell to your spellbook.
Btw that spell is crap :P
Post edited May 18, 2015 by Hemaka
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clupher: My Bishop is level 17, and I have 100 in Wizardry and Fire magic. When I leveled up, Nuclear Blast wasn't on the list. What am I missing?
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Hemaka: Purist mages (bish included) get their 7th level spells at 18lvl. So totally not a bug, just wait until you lvlup. Hybrid classes get it even later - at 22lvl, but that's not the case with bishop. Besides you always can use save editor and simply add that spell to your spellbook.
Btw that spell is crap :P
Just in case someone else was interested, once I hit level 18, my bishop could pick NB. I don't know what the min Wiz and Fire are, as both were already at 100.

Thanks for the replies!
The skill requirement for a spell is (15 x level) - 15. (0 for 1st, 15 for 2nd, etc, up to 90 for 7th.)

The character's skill value is Highest Relevant Spellbook + (Realm/10).

90 in a spellbook will give access to every spell of that level, but a high Realm skill will give access to spells of that realm somewhat earlier. The latter matters more for bishops given that they have to split their casting between four books.