A3: Poor mages!

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Zeviz
Nuke and Pave
Member # 24
 written Wednesday, April 19 2006 08:21 Profile Homepage #25
quote:
Originally written by rantalot:

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Useful priest spells: heal, healgroup, dispell undead.

Useful mage spells: dispell barier, haste, fireblast, ice lances, arcane summon, arcane shield (i am not sure about arcane blow)
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Don't forget the most damaging priest spell: Bless (Battle Rage in Avernum series). By the amount of extra damage dealt per point of manna spent, this spell is stronger than anything in Mage's or Priest's arsenal. (Especially when you run into monsters with a lot of resistances and immunities.) The blessing spells are even stronger in the dungeons, where blessed fighters can just go from encounter to encounter, clearing large areas with the help of only a couple castings of these cheap spells.

PS About area of effect spells in A4, I was disappointed that they don't cause friendly fire. Positioning your fighters to avoid getting fried by your own fireballs is an important tactical decision in Exile combat.

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Mivayan
Warrior
Member # 6632
 written Wednesday, April 19 2006 11:06 Profile #26
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As you can see, Divine Retribution is generally better than Arcane Blow, and Lightning Spray is generally better than Fireblast. This changes only at very high levels, when the caster has a spell bonus of 45 or more. I doubt that anyone will get that skilled during the course of an ordinary game.
(regarding A3)

Divine retribution is almost useless compared to divine fire. It doesn't work on demons, or undead, or golems, possibly some other exceptions too.

Divine fire on the other hand has about twice as many targets (manual is off) and works on undead and (non-fire) golems.

If you want to blast demons before you get to the distant repel spirit L3 book, lightning spray seems like the best choice.
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Garrison
Agent
Member # 2820
 written Wednesday, April 19 2006 12:27 Profile #27
Delete your priests for testing purposes. Remove invulnerability potions from your fighters. Then enter a scenario that would have been only mildly challenging for your full party. You'll probably either find yourself guzzling down plenty of potions or gratuitously using Capture Mind, Simulacrum, and Arcane Summon.

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Mimir
Apprentice
Member # 7037
 written Wednesday, April 19 2006 13:22 Profile #28
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Divine retribution is almost useless compared to divine fire. It doesn't work on demons, or undead, or golems, possibly some other exceptions too.
Ah, so it only affects living creatures, then. That's good; it balances things a bit more.
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