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So what do you do when you encounter the empathic manifestation if you want to solo a mage? My Bhaal powers do not include the spell I would need and I can't use priest scrolls. Do you simply have to go grab the appropriate character for this encounter and then get rid of them? That isn't exactly soloing now, is it.

I wouldn't suggest 'hiring' an NPC for the job.
It would break the true feeling of soloing.

Minor ToB High Level Abilities spoiler ahead.
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Do you have ToB installed?
If so, choose Summon Planetar as a HLA pick.
The Planetar can cast Heal.

If not - don't worry.
The Unseeing Eye quest isn't too hot on Mage items, to say the least. ;)

Hey, thanks for the info. No, I don't have ToB. Unfortunately I am one of the forgotten Macintosh users who will probably NEVER get to play ToB. So I went and borrowed Keldorn, and dropped him immediately thereafter. Oh well, guess I can't say I soloed [img]smile.gif[/img]

their are also a few items that allow you to cast heal spells, i'd have to look them up though, maybe somebody else knows

The only items with Healing abilities that i can think of right now are in ToB, which Lewzbel does not have. ;)
Correct me if i'm wrong.

Well, there are the gloves of healing, but I think they are only useable by paladins and clerics (maybe druids), and there is also a staff of healing, I think...hmmmm....maybe that is usable by a mage.

i think the staff of healling is usable by mages

Try the staff of curing, found in one of the tombs in the Graveyard district.

I don't know how, or why, but this works:
1) Meet the Manifestation
2) Leave the Manifestation
3) Return at some later time
4) Manifestation will die upon entry

-Lem

Aren't there some scrolls of Cure serious Wounds lying around the game that mages can use, but not learn? I seem to remember finding those and remembering it b/c I had never seen a cleric spell on a scroll before. It is also possible that only priests can use them.