[armakh]

IMHO, except for the sammy with bloodlust and the ninja with CoC, I put all of my constant buff spells with my bishop, because it's more important to develop his magic than your hybrids. With the faerie ninja in the group, it makes it very easy for your bishop to concentrate on wizardry, psionics, and divinity without having to worry about alchemy until all your other slots are suitably buffed.

Right now, I'm running a 4-member party with only hybrids, and I am not satisfied with their magic capabilities since I'm used to the bishop. I'm fizzling spells in the umpani and t'rang areas that I only fizzled on arnika road before.

I've found that my hybrids make decent supplemental spellcasters for things like element shield, soul shield, and stuff, but I won't count on them for any sort of magical damage.

The only realm skill I ever build up is mental for my monk so that he can do things like ego whip and stuff. His mental spells do more damage than throwing does. I'm still struggling with exactly how to deal with ranged combat for monks. I'm not impressed with his throwing, and I used the z-bo as a secondary once, but I won't give up the fists of fury.