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>>17290104
I haven't seen absolute pierce work on a ranged weapon in the shoot slot. If you equip the ranged weapon that has absolute pierce in the melee slot and pistol whip a monster for instance you'll see vorpal pop up every now and then though. Most likely you don't care about that but just explaining how it works. Having said that, range users still get access to normal pierce through special ammo and some ranged weapons already come with built in pierce. In fact, their special ammo pierce is 100% pierce.

>>17293648
Just need to raise the crafting skills high enough to succeed in crafting whatever it is you're aiming for. I don't feel like higher crafting skill levels necessarily means better gear crafted though just success in crafting stuff. Instead, luck attribute can play a part in the quality of the stuff you create as well as rl luck with the RNG.

As for your spells, all wizards should ditch magic dart for something stronger when their casting skill and resources allow for it. Magic dart just doesn't scale well later on and you're seeing that yourself it seems. All the line spells such as ice bolt, fire bolt, lightning bolt, etc do more damage and the ball spells such as ice ball, fireball, magic storm/magic ball do even more damage than line spells. My personal bread and butter damage spells are the elemental ball spells, magic storm, and for special occasions meteor. That's me though. If you want to go with something like nether wave, chaos ball, or raging roar, and using line spells to conserve MP you'll do well doing that too.

I personally never used bonus points on spells. Only used bonus points on casting near the end of me capping it so I could cast wish at 100% success rate. Magic schools and just leveling spells on the field I found good enough but since you need a spell to replace magic dart in a hurry I can see spending some on getting a spell that scales better of your choosing up to speed.

I'd be careful about leveling meteor though. Remember that the spell damages everything on the screen including pets and your character. It's possible to level up the spell too much earlier on and not have the HP and resists to avoid getting killed by your own meteor. Be careful of anyone that puts you in rage status and then casting meteor as well.