Since the great catastrophe of the great catastrophe caused the madness of the Grand Arcanist Karthas to completely destroy the light of civilization of Netherreel, the rules of the magic web have been changed by the second generation of the goddess of magic, which has also led to the fact that everything of modern mages is built on the magic web.

The benefits of this are obvious, and the first is that the threshold for the caster is lowered!

It may seem a little unbelievable to say, but according to statistics, there are far more spellcasters on the continent now than there were in the days of Netherre.

At that time, even if Netherel had implemented universal education and began to popularize magical knowledge to the whole people, the success rate of Arcanists was also very low, and some scholars had studied the classics of Netherre's era, and were surprised to find that on the Floating City, which modern mages regarded as a dream land, there were not too many casters who really had the title of Arcanist, taking a floating city of 100,000 people as an example, there were actually less than 600 Arcanists on the register.

Some would say that the ratio of 100,000 to 600 is already very high. If you really want to look at it this way, it is true, after all, the proportion of modern spellcasters who become talented is only 1 in 3,000 or even less at most, but this view is too one-sided. There is one problem that we need to pay attention to, and that is the data of the Floating City!

The Netherriel Empire is not only a floating city, in fact, the Netherel Empire is very large, at that time, the Nethrel territory almost included most of Faerun, with a population of more than tens of millions. And who are the people who are qualified to board the floating city and settle down?

In short, those people are all the elite population of the Netharel Empire! Scholars, aristocrats, artists, writers, mathematicians, people with a talent for spell-casting, etc., these people have one basic attribute, that is, they are all scholars! All of them are highly educated talents!

This is also the reason why, after all the floating cities in the sky fell, Nethrel was completely finished, because the part of the people who represented the core of Nethriel's civilization was completely finished...... This directly led to an irreparable break in the Nethrel civilization, and in this case, it is strange that the Nethrel Empire is not finished.

But on the other hand, with the current Faerun, can a country come up with 100,000 such high-quality talents? Don't even think about it! But with so many high-quality people gathered together, the success rate of Arcanists is still frighteningly low, which is enough to explain the problem!

Arcanists are so talented! It is relatively easy for mages to learn spells nowadays, because when they cast a spell, the model of the spell is forgotten in their minds. But that's not the case with Arcanists, they learn a spell, they have to memorize that spell model, and they can't forget, and if they do, the next spell is over.

So if you want to become an Arcanist, you can't do it without a good brain.

Mages are much happier nowadays, they don't need to keep records of explosive spell models in their minds all the time, and in modern times, mages calculate the entire trajectory of magic in their brains (spell models), then lead them into the web through gestures and chanting, and finally release it by concentrating. Magic is mostly complex and sophisticated, and after each calculation, in order to protect the brain from burning, the web removes the structure of the spell from memory after each spell.

This greatly reduces the difficulty of becoming a mage, which is why there are still so many mages under the sad educational conditions of Faerun.

(Except for a few extremely developed areas in the Faren Continent, most of the areas have no public education, and the literacy rate is even lower and frightening, except for a few lucky people, only nobles or wealthy families can have learning opportunities)

The second benefit of casting spells is that it is efficient and convenient.

The reason for this is pretty much the same, because Arcanists need to memorize the spell models they have learned, so in general, Arcanists will have far fewer spells than their peers. At the same time, Arcanists are much slower to cast spells than mages because they don't have the convenience of casting spells from magic nets, and they must devote their energy to sorting out the rampaging raw magical energy.

The profession of arcanist is always the strong and the weak. The combat power of a low-level Arcanist is much lower than that of a mage of the same level. Generally speaking, a level 8 arcanist who can learn more than ten arcane arts is very, very remarkable. But what about an eighth-level mage? They can learn more than twenty spells. (This is only theoretical, after all, spell knowledge is very expensive, and it is right for a mage to learn it, but whether he can learn it or not is another question)

It is known that alchemy flourished in the days of Netheril. And the reason is because the arcanists know too few spells, and now the mages have a lot of things that can easily be done by relying on spells, but the arcanists at that time couldn't do it on their own, such as a simple spell like the falling feather technique, the arcanists are not very willing to learn, because it takes up too much energy, they will only learn more practical spells with more demand, and mages don't have this concern, as long as they can learn it, they will learn it all.

This contrast is reflected in the disadvantage of the Arcanist. But Arcanists are always the smartest kind of people, and as arrogant spellcasters, they naturally don't let themselves be embarrassed, so they develop a variety of magical items to make up for their shortcomings. (This is just talking about the Arcanist, not the Grand Arcanist, basically those who can be crowned with the title of the Great Arcanist are perverts, and cannot be speculated by common sense)

But compared to a pure individual, the Arcanist is indeed not as convenient and efficient as a modern mage. There are only a few spells that come and go for the arcanists, but the combinations of the mages' spells are ever-changing, isn't there such a saying, as long as a mage is given enough time to prepare, the mage can face any situation.

However, things are always two-sided, and there are advantages and disadvantages.

Modern mages have advantages over arcanists, but they also have many disadvantages. The first is the number of spell casts, the number of spell casts by the arcanist is not determined by the spell bit, in fact, the arcanist does not have a spell bit, the arcanist does not need to prepare spells in advance, most of them do not need to use the magic web, just rely on spells and gestures to cast magic, and casting magic requires the consumption of something called arcs.

The so-called arc is a measure of the speed and concentration of the brain's calculations, the first-level spell needs to consume one arc, the second-level spell needs to consume two arcs, and so on, theoretically as long as the number of arcs is enough, the arcanist can keep releasing spells!

To put it simply, the Arcanist's spell casting consumes MP, so as long as the blue is enough, there is no need to be afraid of anything. This is also why it is said that the weak of the arcanist are really weak, and the strong are always strong, the more advanced the arcanist, the more arcs they have, like the mage, the senior mage only has a few advanced spell slots, but the high-level arcanist is different, they can completely transform all the arcs into high-level spells. So the higher the level of the Advanced Mage and the Advanced Arcanist, the greater the advantage of the Arcanist.

Secondly, the Arcanist is more applicable than the Mage's!

Once in the lower or outer planes, where the web is weak, the mages become extremely vulnerable. In some places where the mana fluctuations were too chaotic, they didn't even dare to cast spells. But Arcanists are completely different. All Arcanists draw energy directly from the essence of magic to construct spells, and they have no need for a magic web or fear of frenzied fluctuations in mana.

That's why, in the days of Netheril, the Grand Arcanists dared to wave everywhere, whether it was the Abyss or the Astral Plane, they all made a name for themselves. At that time, those otherworldly creatures would tremble with fear of being caught and stripped of their bones for research. In fact, the most prosperous era of human enslavement of demons and demons was Netheriel, when it was common for an arcanist to wander the streets with his demonic minions, and now, when summoning a demon, mages are trembling on thin ice.