Which spells do folks consider worth learning or upgrading ?

[Gatts]

God's armor is stuck on max resistance, so only good about it is that it provide resistance agains all types of damage (but astral )

Target is great, but it has limits on: mind immune enemy, level 5 enemy units... than Phantom works fine... that is why I use Phantom, sooner I get used to Phantom tactics better later on... so even if phantom tactics may seem too difficult and expensive early on, you will adopt the "way of phantom" and will be excellent player till the bittern end of this game, but using target spell instead will leave you blindfooted against cyclops, dragons, archdemons etc...

[Amiable]

Originally Posted by Gatts

God's armor is stuck on max resistance, so only good about it is that it provide resistance agains all types of damage (but astral )

Target is great, but it has limits on: mind immune enemy, level 5 enemy units... than Phantom works fine... that is why I use Phantom, sooner I get used to Phantom tactics better later on... so even if phantom tactics may seem too difficult and expensive early on, you will adopt the "way of phantom" and will be excellent player till the bittern end of this game, but using target spell instead will leave you blindfooted against cyclops, dragons, archdemons etc...

Yeah I agree, late game phantom sees a lot more use (when you have higher level stacks and more of them), but early game I prefer target. But I find if you are clever about your tanking unit you can usually get higher level folks to focus on them. (Im having fun now running a dryad unit up front and having her cast her summon thorns ability, for some reason the high level mobs LOVE to attack her and/or the thorns - thorns are like sweet delicious cake to dragons).

I'm a bit lazy though, I like to end battle battles at near full mana/rage and I find if I use phantom I end up spending a lot more time rebuilding one I get combat under control...

[Gatts]

Enemy AI units go mostly for:
1.) your most dangerous unit (your unit dealing type of damage AI is vulnerable to, or is strong shooter, or both)

2.) is weak against the type of damage AI is dealing (Dragons with Fire damage, will most likely attack your thorns as they will deliver much more damage/kills than if the would attack any other unit... +100% damage)

Also sometimes AI goes just for the nearest (this turn I can hit this summoned loser or noone... hmm I take the loser...)

The base logic I see behind AI logic is to deliver damage ASAP, not huge planning or strategy... so you can go for BAIT strategy using any spell or even w/o spells... AI is basically looking on type of resistance/damage and HP, it can't calculate well with it's own skills/abilities and not at all with yours...

So AI brainlessly uses up all its abilities and totally does not try to hinder you from using yours... the max we may await from AI is to try to hinder your shooters... but even this can be avoided by BAIT strategy , so at the end, phantom or target... AI has many logic holes that players who are not first time in strategy world can reveal very fast and so sadly spoil the game little bit (not me, first I am not good stretegyst, that is also the reason for second point, which is : I love to rock'n'roll on bodies of my fallen enemies... )