Favourite Spells

Hi everybody, I know I've posted this thread before and got many weird (and great)answers. But it's also 4am in the morning and I can't seem to get any sleep, so I'm bored to death.

Holy Mage Wah: bored
Holy Mage Wah: death

Heh heh, so just take a couple of secs to jot down ya favourite spell so that I can see what different strategies you guys have. YES, the spell you choose to memorise most determines your strategy so I hope you didn't memorise any old spells!!!!

Also I have noticed many new people are joining this forum so it gives them a chance to say something that is nice and simple.

My Spell:

LV 1 - magic missile
LV 2 - Mirror Image
LV 3 - Melf's Minute Meteors
LV 4 - Stone Skin
LV 5 - Monster Summoning 3
LV 6 - Chain Lightning
LV 7 - Fingers Of Death
LV 8 - Abi Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
LV 9 - TIME STOP (love it!!)

Im bored too so I'll join you.
Mine are:
1 - Magic Missiles of course
2 - Mirror Images
3 - Haste
4 - Stoneskin
5 - Chaos
6 - Invisible Stalker
7 - Spell Sequenser(3 x magic missiles)
8 - Simulacrum
9 - Time Stop

This is from my fighter/mage's perspective.
1 - Magic Missile
2 - Mirror Image
3 - Haste
4 - Stoneskin
5 - Chaos
6 - Death Spell
7 - Power Word, Stun

And if I could use them:
8 - Maze
9 - Spell Trap

[Accord]

For any of my mages (single or duel class):
lvl 1 - magic missiles
lvl 2 - knock
lvl 3 - flame arrow
lvl 4 - spider spawn
lvl 5 - lower resistance
lvl 6 - true seeing
lvl 7 - spell sequencer
lvl 8 - abi-dalzim's horrid wilting
lvl 9 - spell strike

just to be different

1-protection from evil-i like pit fiends
2-web
3-fireball
4-stoneskin-duh!/spiderspawn
5-animate dead
6-power word silence
7-finger of death
8-incindeary cloud
9-time stop

I guess i play as a sub-type of sorceror, the subtype "summoner"
I like to use my mage to summon monster guears to walk with me and take the monster's attention from me while my npcs snipe away from range. my other fav tactic, in close enviro, where sniping is not so hot, is to cast a web, which is a fast spell, let the creatures get stuck, then use combo of cloud kill and incindeary cloud to kill them off.

[Melusine]

Mage Spells:
LV1 - Magic Missile...booooring. Chromatic orb's a favorite too but only on enemies with no items >> Petrification
LV2 - Mirror Image and Stinking Cloud (unconscious opponents tend to not fight back!)
LV3 - Spell Thrust and Fireball
LV4 - Greater Malison and Wizard Eye
LV5 - Breach, Chaos, Cloudkill
LV6 - Chain Lightning, Contingency, Death Spell
LV7 - Prismatic Spray, Limited Wish , Spell Sequencer
LV8 - Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting, Maze
LV9 - Time Stop, Imprisonment, Chain Contingency

Priest Spells:
LV1 - Doom, Armour of Faith (for high level priests only)
LV2 - Draw Upon Holy Might, Barkskin
LV3 - Holy Smite
LV4 - Negative Plane Protection ~sigh~, Call Woodland Beings
LV5 - Insect Plague, Righteous Magic, Iron Skins
LV6 - Bolt Of Glory, Wondrous Recall
LV7 - Creeping Doom, Gate, Holy Word

I've never casted a limited wish before melusine. What do you get and what happens if you fail the spell?

[Melusine]

When you cast the spell, a djinni appears and you may do a limited wish. As you know, there is always a chance that the wish is somehow used against you. For example if you ask that some monsters won't be able to kill you, the spell just kills you (so the monsters can't do that anymore). The outcome depends on the caster's wisdom. Therefore, you should only use this spell if you have Aerie (or if your own char. is a mage with high wisdom), since she is the only one with high enough wisdom to pull it off. OK so now the djinni will ask you if you want a one-time wish or a repeatable wish. Repeatable means that if you cast another LW you can ask for the same thing, if you choose one-time, you can never ask that same wish again.
I suggest you try it out for yourself; just reload after every option and choose another one (or just cheat a whole scrollcase full of LW heh). Some of the options are: to heal your party, kill your enemies (who are present at the time, if any), you can get a nice set of armour, some gems and gold, you can ask to become more experienced, you can get a chain contingency....etc. It's great fun to try out!

[Melusine]

I just remembered I think there was a post on limited wish before and some one listed all the possibilities
Try the search option

(1) Charm person our mamal
(2) Mirror Image
(3) Dire Charm
(4) Ice Storm
(5) Cone of Cold
(6) Flesh to Stone
(7) Prismatic Spray
( Simulacrum
(9) Time Stop