Spellfail

Spellfail is the chance to fail your spells. If you have negative spell fail, it means you are less likely to fail your spells, which is usually a good thing. +5 spellfail is bad, -5 spellfail is good. Many thing affect your change to cast your spells.\ Spell casting skill is never perfect (unless you are a specialized mage) so there is always some spellfail intrinsic to your spell. If you are superb at your spell, the chance you will fail is small. However if you are a dual class character skills or spells may only get to 87%, and if you are a tri- class they can only get to 80%, so you will have at least 13% or 20% spellfail chance, respectively, before equipment modifications. If you are in battle you have a higher chance to fail spells. If you are wearing EQ normally not allowed to your casting class (such as a mage/warrior wearing plate mail) you will have a higher chance to fail spells.\ There is quite a bit of equipment in the game that changes your chance to fail spells. If you identify an item, any magical spellfail effects will be listed.

See also: IDENTIFY, ARMOR