I'm having a hard time having a feel of my gear.

[Amnekian]

I'm playing mage for the first time in months and I'm noticing that my character will not have a feeling for items. Is that wisdom related?

[kaypy]

Mostly its playing-a-mage related. You get practically no pseudo-id but the good news is that you get actual-id-spell-id earlier than other classes.

[Amnekian]

Yes, I was aware of my early ID potential. Still, I thought it couldn't asking you guys!

Thanks for the quick reply, by the way.

[fizzix]

Presuming you're playing 3.5. In this new version there are no sticky curses except on artifacts which get auto-id'd, so you can test wield any weapon or armor safely. Finding pluses and minuses only matter in combat. But you're a mage, so you don't really want to be in combat. All you should really be worrying about are resists and the +/- of the best launcher you can find. A lot of that shows up on wield.