| Actually there is a way to find out about the # of charges in magic items within the game.
When at a shop just look at the price the shopkeeper would pay for the staff/wand. The price is totally based upon the # of charges. In my experience Magic Missile Wands would get me 10 gold per charge, so if a merchant offered me 50 gold for a wand it had 5 charges.
My costchart (per charge):
Magic Missile 10
Fear 20
Frost 30
Para 25
Fire 44
Monster Summon 100
Lightning 40
Wand of Heavens 30
I'm not sure if these values are shopkeeper, Charisma, Reputation dependent, so take them with a GRAIN of salt.
Other (easier) way to check the charges is to save and then unload the wand counting down as ya go!
Hope that helped! |