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Fire Rain - basic spell for massed forces. 2 per turn for 3 turns with Higher Magic x 3. 120 mana needed or even less if you have the mana regeneration thingy. Ice Snake - for lone enemies or those resistant to fire (demons, dragons). Very useful spell. Armageddon - especially against somewhat weaker stacks, but lots of them (say 8-10 stacks) and especially against large groups of Black and Red Dragons. Ghost Blade - later in the fight or against creatures with good resistance (eg Cyclops). Only costs 10 mana. I would rate all of these above Kamikaze. EDIT: and I am wondering just how useful dragons are, especially Bone (useless) and Green (not the best). I think a Mage can use hordes of cheap stacks more efficiently. In the land of the dead, I had big stacks of undead spiders, skeleton soldiers and ghouls. I just spammed Armageddon and Fire Rain and cheaply filled up my stacks after the fight. You can't use Armageddon if you have expensive units like dragons. Last edited by Zhuangzi; 10-14-2008 at 02:00 PM. |
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I'm level 23 mage, in elven lands, and still no Phantom... so can't even use kamikaze this way.
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Well, at best I guess it is a situational spell. It's a shame because it does the greatest damage. I had a battle with a "impossible" opponent which had a stack of 4 Black Dragons and 5 Black Dragons which I wiped out with one Kamikaze (Black Dragons which are Immune to magic.) Situational though, because when you hover you cursor over an opponent after selecting a spell, the pop-up box shows exactly how much damage and units you will kill. If I am able to kill a unit with 1 Fire Rain spell, I will cast kamikaze before doing so. In my example, I cast Kamikaze on Thorns which was in the cell right next to the dragons. Then I cast Fire Rain, watched it die, watched it explode, watched 2 adjacent stacks of Black Dragons die.
The reason I don't like to use Phantom is because it's a spell, and therefore a waste of a cast. Summoning may be an option, but I can only summon plants which are slow as hell. I've used the necromancer to raise units from the dead and cast kamikaze then, which seems ok, but again too random - and besides, I ideally want to do the damage before they move, not after I've killed some units. Griffins still seem like a good option, but splitting a stack of 100 griffins makes 2 stacks of 50. You cannot just pull one griffin out of the stack to be your suicide squad. Like the OP says, you need to bring a stack of like 2 griffins which is too much hassle. Zhuangzi, like you said, it's just more staightforward to use Fire Rain and I will only use Kamikaze when the situation deems it and will give up on creating some strategy to force its use. By the way, I hate Bone Dragons, but Green Dragons are awesome IMO. Since they do melee damage, have high init, high speed, good amount of hit points, mana leech, 2-cell attack, they are my dragon killers. Red and Black are kinda useless when fighting demons and their fire resists, but green dragons still have their uses. |
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Exactly. Once you can cast two spells per turn, it gets even better.
Someone suggested just fireballing; but I've found that the same things get boring over and over. I like variety; I personally don't think Trap is very good (it's very situational, and almost any damage spell is better) but I use it just for fun. I put a lot of scrolls in my spellbook and upgrade generously just for variety, and maybe that'll hurt me later on when I run out of crystals, but meh I'll just *cheat* for crystals and I'll still be able to sleep at night |
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I played around with this tactic in the Dwarven lands as a Paladin and it is just lovely.
Turn 1 - Phantom on Griffins, at level 3 I get about 40 of them. Send them into the fray Turn 2 - cast Magic Spring on summoned Griffins, I am usually back to full mana by the end of the turn Turn 3 - cast Kamakaze and kablam. Now I just need higher Chaos magic to upgrade that spell. |
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Yep that looks very nice. Griffins really are the best shock troop in the game with the possible exception of Horsemen. And Magic Spring is a fantastic spell - much more useful that Stone Skin.
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I think the Kamikaze spell is very "un PC" will all the terrorist attacks going on!
Cheeky buggers the game devs weren't they ha ha goodnight |
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