Fireball fireball fireball.....

[Thurak]

If you have a 200 griffin stack with stone skin/magic spring and bless that is attacked by enemies... well then you don´t need a fireball any more

Later in my mage game I really used tons of direct damage inflicting spells (fire rain, lightning, pole axes and so on), but those "troop enhancement" spells can deal (much) more damage in certain situations so I used them quiet often.

And if you are not a mage, low mana can prevent you from firing one fireball each round.

[billythegreat]

Originally Posted by Eldritch

Damn, lvl 3 slow isn't mass? Never upgraded to lvl 3 but it required tons of crystals to upgrade and actually had some russian "M.........." cyrillic note on its decription which I thought was an untranslated "mass" in russian. Made sense since it required ridiculous amounts of crystals. Wonder what that "M......." means. I got atari's us version 1.6b7. I was just giving it as a general example for possibly useful debuffs among others and the infamous mass slow from heroes just came to mind. It should be mass though, what am I payin' so many crystals for? What does this "M..........." mean? What's the meaning of life, universe and everything?


*in b4 42*

are you sure you don't mix them up with weakness? slow as a distorsion spell is not a mass spell on 3rd level. On chaos weakness on the other hand i noticed that the info tip b4 upgrading is a russian word m........, i suppose is mass, cuz weakness is mass spell on 3rd level.

PS. For slow I modified the spell.txt into a mass spell by replacing one,one,one with one,one,all

[Stepsongrapes]

Originally Posted by Dorkus

I like to leave fireball at a lower level because it costs less mana, and is useful for winnowing down stacks that you're planning to keep hanging around, near the end of fights, so you can gather mana/rage and resurrect all of your losses.

Sounds like you don't know that you can always cast a spell at lower level, using the "shift" and "ctrl" keys.

No need to "leave fireball at a lower level" to save mana.

[alon]

Originally Posted by Dorkus

Fireball is always good. It's just that fire rain is even better, so fireball loses its relevance. I like to leave fireball at a lower level because it costs less mana, and is useful for winnowing down stacks that you're planning to keep hanging around, near the end of fights, so you can gather mana/rage and resurrect all of your losses.

Simply hold down Ctrl or Alt to cast a Lower Level spell - any spell. This is one feature of the game I only dreamed of having and this is the first game I see such a genius option available. (especially useful when you want to use Sacrifice Level 1 instead of Level 3 or 2 so you don't go over your leadership...)