Talk:Mage Stronghold/@comment-38186748-20190203040936

As for the apprentices quest, most of the items aren't particularly useful so I think none of them are worth more than a (even fictional) character's life and the 50k exp. The Ring of Wizardry is an exception, it is indeed the Reaching Ring that is pretty good for spellcasters but you can get it from Galvarey(Jaheira's companion questline) and you HATE that guy so you have to do that questline...

The Robe of the Apprenti is a pure cloth armor that has 2 better AC than robe of the archmagi but no other bonuses. The staff is pretty good but you can probably replace it with the Staff of the Magi from the Twisted Rune in the bridge district... in fact the SoM looks better, although the lich Shangalar is quite a difficult fight. The Wand of the Apprenti is an interesting item that allows you to cast Fireball, Cone of Cold or Lightning randomly, and comes with 50 charges filled up. I don't use lightning bolts as their bouncing arc very often kills friendly units indoors in the harder difficulties, so I assume this alone limits its use in dungeons.

I'm not sure about the success rate of the individual items, but I was able to get the wand of the apprenti in one try and the apprentices sounded quite comfortable with it, the Robe of the Apprenti took 6 reloads, the Staff I got outright but the apprentices were decimated...