Spells knowledge points

Wearing a lot of armor or very heavy armor to fight in darkfall online is with a penalty to your damage output with magic. You will suffer from high chance of misfiring your spell. Raising your armored magic skill can offset high chances of misfiring.
New schools and new spells are available for you when you raise your skill in Lesser magic.
Casting more advanced spells needs reagents. Having large amount of reagents can help you t\be good at magic. Your efforts on making reagents are worthy since a powerful mage can influence a battle in an impressive way, healing and buffing allies, damaging and debuffing enemies.
In order to be good at a spell, you need to practice it a lot. The more you cast a spell, the better you will become with it.