[karlosovic]

I'm not taking an NPC I can't stand just for insect plague. As someone said, it is stopped by magic resistence, and the only mages I have trouble with have REALLY high MR, so what's the point ?

take jaheira cause she can summon fire elementals ???
any mage will be summoning them by the dozen, decades before jaheira ever can.
and Lightning bolt has never worked indoors for me so I dunno what you have installed.

lots of people shun healing spells in favour of potions. fine, everyone has different styles of play. I like clerics. And who said Anomen is no good ? after returning from spellhold I went to Bhodis lair, turned on Turn undead and ran him into the middle of the room. 90% of all enemies simply exploded. the other 2 ran away and were hunted down and slaughtered by my fighter with FoA.
That quest has never been easier... this is the first time I've used Anomen for more than 10 minutes (cause yeh ok... he IS very annoying), but I must say I have been mightily impressed by his actual skills.

and another thing... is it his 2 extra spells per level that everyone likes about Edwin, cause everything else about him is really bad. he has a stat total of 74 for gods sake and no divination. I'm giving him a go at the moment though cause one of my games is an evil party. haven't tried this before so...