I disagree. Emotion is not a fun spell. Leaving your enemies on the ground aint no fun at all.
Now, casting Emotion and then gating in a pit fiend to rip the sleeping idiots into bits of bite sized fish bait, now that's great fun!
Or, cast Emotion and Insect Plague. Worst nights sleep they ever had in their lives. Slowly nibbled down by swarms of bugs. Or Creeping Doom for that matter. You see, a Mage has more options then just nuking his enemies into non existance. He can TORTURE them first making the whole experience so much more pleasurable. Did you know that Emotion is a GREAT spell for Mage/Thieves? I will give you a few minutes to figure out why.
Emotion and Stinking Cloud. Nothing like pinning your enemies down and forcing them to smell the worst flatulent feculent foul smelling fart like cloud you could imagine.
You fools, casting Emotion is only half of the fun. Come on, get with the program, be EVIL!!