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Originally posted by aun1:
i didnt clarify my choice of magic user that i stated were not good , i was just pointing the mages
Even using mage spells alone, you've got quite a number that I've had no problems with getting lots of effect out of.
In addition to the buff/protection spells, there's Web, Shrill Sound, Fireball, Freeze Flesh/All, Whipping Rocks, Noxious Fumes (I got a -lot- of use out of this one), Iceball, Blizzard, Firestorm, Banish and Turncoat, not to mention Asphixiation and Nuclear Blast (I had those thru gadgets/instruments).
Most of the time it's just a matter of judicious use of the correct spells vs. the correct enemies. In my biggest battle (against the Rapax on Ascension Peak), I used Asphxiation via the NegatAir gadget to clear out about 1/4 of the enemies against me in the first round and that was with a Lvl 5 version of the spell. Without that spell, I would have been toast. As it was, I still had to resurrect 3 characters, one twice. I also used Freeze All and Noxious Fumes in that first round to incapacitate quite a few others and those three spells alone gave me a big boost towards winning. In the 2nd-10th rounds I cast some AoE and cone damage spells to soften up the opponents while my ranged fighters took out a few opponents with arrows and then in the 11th round I started wading into melee with what was left. It took me a combination of meleeing and a few more AoE/cone damage spells alternating with heal all/rest all to whittle them down to something where I didn't need the spells any more (about round 18 as I recall) and I finished the fight in 23 rounds (it took about 90 minutes because of all of the opponents' movements, especially at the beginning).
[ 02-01-2002: Message edited by: Jem ]