Many people used to regard Protection from Petrification as a miracle when you fighted baslisk with stone gazes in BG1 (anyone remember?). Now it is utterting useless. That was gone from being overrated, to totally obsolete.
For BG2 I think that most people considered the 2nd level priest spells as totally crap. Although, I must think that people under rate the "Flame Blade" spell.
Where would you be in Nalia's Keep without it? (at low levels?)
Later - you say PFEH! because you have a level 17 mage with tons of melf's acid arrows ar your disposal.........
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