Asphyxiation looks great, but it hardly ever worked for me with a mage with reasonbly high air skill and good power cast. Death cloud is great but it doesn't seem to work after the first couple of rounds (do they get immune or something?). Magic missiles is a super duper spell, especially for early on when most monsters have some earth/fire/water/air resistance but hardly ever divine, but even later on it's good against lots of enemies like Rapax. Slow is awful, the battles are long enough with lots of enemies without slowing them down. Unless you had to take a phone call or something in the middle
. I used tsunami and blizzard a lot, they're good against rapax. But the two most important spells, (that I never cast) are pandemonium and freeze flesh - the instruments that have them are the most invaluable in the game IMHO [img]smile.gif[/img]