Dont understand wizard spell memorization

The manual seems fairly vague.

I have a level 3 wizard whose spec is evocation. His two restricted schools are necromancy and illusion. His INT is 18.

I only know two spells for 2nd level, Knock and Web. Therefore, I can't memorize a third spell because neither of those is a "gold" spell for me. Cool. I get that.

The problem is with my 1st level spells. I should be able to remember 4, 3 normal and a bonus gold spell. No matter what order I try to memorize Magic Missle, Identify, Burning Hands, and Shocking Grasp in, it will NOT give me a fourth spell. I've tried duplicating memorization of Magic Missle. That can work, just as long as it's not the fourth spell.

I think it's a bug because it sometimes is the fourth spell I can't remember and it sometimes is the third (in order reading down the list).


Bug? Or noobish failure to implement game mechanics?

 

Don't specialist wizards have a tab at the top of their memorization screen for the specialist spells? Not unlike a clerics domain spells for example? Are you memorizing it there and having it still not go through correctly?

FR

 

If you're a specialist wizard, at third level with an 18 Int you should have 3 white 1st level slots and one gold slot. You need to click on one of your gold 1st level spells and drag it into the gold slot. If you don't have a gold slot, then there's something buggy with your install.

 

Or you haven't chosen any of the specialist
spells while levelling up.

 

Magic missle, shocking grasp, and burning hands are all evocation, so that's not the problem. Since yo're just third level, you might as well do a re-install to see if that fixes your problem.

 

Thanks for the replies everyone.


Feyd - There is no tab for specialization like clerics have. Although I'm still glad you said this because I didn't know I could change my cleric domain spell.

Kalshane - I DO have three white and one gold slot. The slots aren't the problem. The slots are there. And they will allow me to (seemingly) drag the spells into them. Of course, you can only drag a gold spell into a gold slot... as you guys all know better than I...

Maggit - JerryB is right. I have plenty of gold spells.

JerryB - Hey, Jerry, I'm in AZ too... Bullhead City. When you say since I'm "just third level" to do a reinstall, do you mean that I will lose all my save games? When we do reinstalls of this game, do we do clean wipes of the whole folder? I think I'd rather put up with the bug...

 

Bullhead City, isn't that a suburb of Nevada? You probably know where Yuma is though, so I shouldn't poke fun at you from the inside of a glass house.

Seriously though, third level is like nothing into the game at all, so I'd rather start over than go all the way to tenth level or further with a bugged character.

 

This is a necro, but I'd like to note I'm having the same problem, am also third level, and have the same specialist school. Strangely, I can use my extra 0 level slot (ray of frost gooooooo!), but if I fill up my avaliable level one and two slots, there's an empty one after resting. The missing spell isn't always the one in the gold slot, either, and sometimes it isn't even an evocation spell. Even if I try straight evocation spells (and with magic missile and scorching ray, why wouldn't I?), one is always gone.

I also would rather just bite the bullet and have an inferior wizard than start over again.