Research & Specialization

[pS]

Research and Specialization is two of the most undescribed skills I heard in
EQ.
I am hoping to collect information about those two.

This is what I know about Research.
EQ Vault has some small info about Research.
For Research, you need a class specific tome.
You can buy an instruction book at the guild.
It is like a trade skill that uses a tome to combine items for spells.
I assume that means it does not have a skill cap.
The more you practice the better you become like other trade skills.

Specialization
One can specialize in one skill (I heard).
It will cast faster and/or use less mana on the specialized area.
EQ currently lets you specialize in more than one skill.
I also heard it is currently broken in EQ that it doesn't work.
How much of it doesn't work - I don't know.

How do you practice to gain in skill points ?

Does one gain specialization skill as one practices more ?
If it does, this skill grows much-much slower that other magic skills.
I have not seen anything more than "very bad" on any specialized skill on
level 22 wizard.

Does anyone have specialization other than "very bad" without putting
practice points into them ?

Or does one MUST use practice points to increase specialization skills ?

[Seraphine]

there are a few people researching that play in unrest on fennin, if you
play that server. i sell them the runes and words i fond as loot. dont
really know how it works, i hve a few levels to go before 30. The way they
consistantly purchase them, and that they pay 10x more than what i can sell
to vendor, id say they are geting some noticeable benefit. my cleric can
specialize in 6 areas, i assume one per spell type. research skill is used
to scribe and read the words using the runes <gets scetchy here, hehe> this
is from what i have asked when selling the items. when you build research,
you can better specialize. if you pick conjuration to specialize in, then
the spells that require conjuration cast with less mana, more potency, and
faster. thats what i heard, hope it helps. Sort of makes sense, a mage
that specializes in evocation could more readiliy and more efficiently use
his/her mana to cast the spell. Hell, would be cool to specialize in
divination and cast invis on everyone in a room :-) in one shot--

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