Guaranteed/Possible Spell Locations

[blueshrike]

I'm in the same boat right now as you, only further. As a 17 mage I'm clearing out the mines and peaks (just cleared out the upper and lower dwarven lands). I only just found a small stack (80) of Evil Beholders and larger stack of Polar Bears... but I've found Giants in abundance and cyclopses.

However with spells, not so lucky. I have yet to find the Ice Snake or Fire Rain, and the best I have like you, is Fireball, Geyser, and Phantom... I do have Kamikaze which can be good, but I do NOT have Hypnosis either. So, basically we're in the same boat.

My stack right now is 4 giants, roughly 36 cannoneers, 41 shamans, about 93 griffins (useful for phantom), and about 124 Royal Snakes with Cyclopses and Griffins (for sacrifice) in reserve. I'm just about at the point where I'm going to take over the castle but there's a demoness walking around that's overpowering and I dislike losing too many troops... the castle seems doable though. Chaos(3), Distortion (3), Higher Magic (1), Destruction (1) because any more takes more than 1 giant to use Sacrifice... at least now I can Sacrifice for free and get usually 7 or so Royal Snakes back from less than a Giant.

[Eldritch]

Mang, I'm lvl 16 right now and cleaned the entire freedom isles, upper/lower hadar includin' the spider queen and WAS on the progress of grindin' the ardan peaks/t. mines until I realized my greater druids staff has an incredibly hippy habit of slowly deteriorating its morale the more I defeat creatures. The more you kick ass the less it likes you, how gay is that? Anyway, reminding myself of the battle where I first suppressed and upgraded the item, I thought I could manage such a reasonable fight until I found out that this time... the peace lovin' staff has GINORMOUS legions of not so "peaceful" forest creatures and lots of gremlins with like 6500 hit points as keepers... All I had to say was, well... F**k. with lots of ***'s.

Well I'm off to Arlania now, to finally face that ridiculously powerful staff of destruction in hopes of getting the staff itself or some other magic related reward. I think I read the ungrateful s.o.b. that is the archmage doesn't actually give you the staff stating you're not strong enough and gives you another intelligence boosting staff similar to the druids staff (archmages staff iirc) which is better than nothing I guess. Either way it sure beats having to suppress THAT army of tree hugging doom. I got a recent save with the staffs morale just about to go zero, so I'm gonna use it to get the replacement, heh.

Btw at lvl 16 I got Chaos(3), Distortion(2), HigherMagic(3), Destroyer(3) with a whopping 27(!) intelligence with the g. druids staff. One more level and I got Distortion (3) which means spamming geysers with like 2500dmg twice a turn for 3 turns until I run out of mana. I think the demons won't like it.

Also I think I got shamans(42), evil beholders(42), horsemen(42), cannoneers(36), archmages(42), knights(42), alchemists(30) including reserves and yes, apparently I have sacrifice too. I usually use it to either create full stacks of scarce new units like I did with the knights and the horsemen or to replenish heavy losses (never had to/last resort) always by sacrificing infinite "horde" stacks. I even kept a few weak mobs alive here and there should I need an easy battle to do that... *controlled environment* I think I can access hypnosis by supressing an artifact I have, never bothered to do it before buy maybe I should... What school is it anyway?

[Eldritch]

Originally Posted by Eldritch

I think I can access hypnosis by supressing an artifact I have, never bothered to do it before buy maybe I should... What school is it anyway?

OK, I just read in another thread that you can actually sacrifice hypnotized enemy stacks and with higher magic you can do the whole thing in one turn, so... I think I really should get that now. . I thought it kinda worked like the beholders thing but apparently it doesn't.

[ender]

sacrifice spell is common in game? first game as mage (normal) i found it early.

as a paladin (impossible) I don't found it and is hard to get good troops without it.

[Infiltrator]

I am in elven lands and still no fire rain.. anyone know if it is guaranteed to be found somewhere?

[Zhuangzi]

Fire Rain was a big problem in my third game too. I don't think there's any guaranteed location. I thought Demonis would have it but it didn't this time. But you can get spells by trading in the map of Endoria at the Mage's Tower in Verlon Forest. I got Fire Rain this way.

[Infiltrator]

It's a good thing I saved in front of it.. I traded the map like you said and they had no spells. Reloaded, bought all scrolls from them and traded, nothing again. Sigh.

[laffwis]

Originally Posted by Infiltrator

It's a good thing I saved in front of it.. I traded the map like you said and they had no spells. Reloaded, bought all scrolls from them and traded, nothing again. Sigh.

i think the game creates all the parameters at the beginning of a new game, so no matter how often you reload, you still get the same result for randomized things like altars, shrines, etc.

[Infiltrator]

I know, what I meant was - it's good I saved and then traded because I didn't get anything worthy for it so I reloaded. I found fire rain anyway, it was on one of the platforms in hell.

[Smiley]

Originally Posted by Eldritch

Dude, I just found the friggin Armageddon spell ........I'd better try out this Armageddon for some cheese tactics too. Just got to find some fire resistant/immune creatures... or creatures fom infinite "horde" stacks could be viable maybe... Any suggestions?

there is a "description bug" there. Armageddon is actually Astral Damage, not Fire Damage. and there is no resistant/immune creature to this kind of damage.