How does direct damage mage hold up on impossible?

[john_crapper]

Originally Posted by Fatt_Shade

@john_crapper You didnt mentioned what else spells you have at disposal. Death star is great if you have 1 lvl of tactics to arrange your units in first turn, after that piranha shoal is also great spell for it`s mana cost, fire rain as you already siad. But all this doesnt mean much with your 14 intellect (or was this number wrong?). For mage trying to go on impossible with just troops i`m not sure is that what you trying to achieve, or just didnt find enough +int items. Mage is best high int spells dmg, or support build for high resistances and other beneficial spells in my opinion. If you want to go mage army build, i think you`r in for a fun time Because she simply doesnt have enough lds or att/crit% to do some serious dmg with just units.

Basically only thing i have is poison, fire arrow firestorm and rarely trap when i need to cancel a turn of an enemy unit. Shoal is 20 mana level 2 and does less damage than the 12 mana fiestorm. And if firestorm dmg doesnt hold up effectively as i said, shoal will be even less efficient. And i cant get more int, due to the fact that i have only access to low level items and i cant afford to fight the battles to upgrade them.