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Originally posted by Gheital:
I've been wondering that what makes a sorcerer better than normal a mage. Could someone tell me?
The behavior of the spell
Project Image. Once your Sorcerer gets it, you become more powerful than an army of mages. Literally.
What
Project Image allows you to do is create a copy of yourself. Your copy cannot attack, but can cast spells. Here's the powerful part: when your copy casts a spell, it is not deleted from your memory, just the copy's memory. Better still, your copy can cast Project Image itself.
Now add in Time Stop and Improved Alacrity. The latter removes the casting delay between spells, while the former gives you three rounds to cast as much as you'd like. In combination, and conjunction with the Robe of Vecna and the Amulet of Power, you can pretty much empty a mage of magic (i.e. cast every spell in memory) before the time stop runs out. If not, cast another Time Stop ... the Image isn't saving its magic for any other fights.
When your 2nd Image runs out of magic, it can strike itself with the staff of the Magi, dispelling itself, and your first Image can create another, and unload it within another Time Stop or two.
Total cost of fight to original Sorcerer: one 7th level spell.
A normal Mage could do this by memorizing two Project Images, but he'd have to sleep after the fight. A Sorcerer can do this eight times a day ... and that's not counting the fights he could win using other tactics, like summoning a Planetar, going invisible and letting the super smurf handle the action.
-- Nifft