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Originally Posted by Zhuangzi
Using Rage as a Mage is not that important, IMO. I know Dorkus disagrees.  I agree that Time Back and Soul Drain are very important, but I don't think I picked Rage as a level up choice in the entire game and I still had 55 rage by the end, which was quite enough.
Laffwis, with soul drain it depends how much rage you have and how many other rage spells you like to use. I settled on 30% drain for 25 mana (I think) because 40% needed 50 mana, which was a little too much for me. But 40& would be nice.
And I disagree that Leadership isn't important too. I think it is very important to work on throughout the game, especially on Impossible, as the enemy stacks are already much bigger than your own. I worked on Leadership whenever I could and was able to raise it to 20,000 by the end.
Basically, Leadership (20,000), Intellect (33) and Mana (140) are your most important things as a Mage. Attack, Defense and Rage are less important. You will get all three of those from Targets/Training Dummy/Shrine of Rage anyway, Rage especially if you visit Demonis early. I would like to have raised my Attack higher that the measly 15 I had at the end, but I found a LOT of Training Dummies throughout the game, and had over 25 Defence. |
There are plenty of rage fountains. But no rage statues that I can recall. If you have 40 max rage, you're not even going to be able to get a black hole off to start a fight, much less pull a black hole then continue spamming rage abilities for the first few turns.
I played one impossible game with 60 max rage at the end, and another with around 100 (with a +10 rage kid, 7 roasted rats, and a little luck with rage statues), and it was a big difference. Being able to cast max black hole (80 rage) to start off every fight is incredibly nice. Being able to cast black hole, then spam diversion abilities before the opponent can even get a strke in, is even better. Once your opponent is down to the last stack, moreover, with a strong enough ice ball you can simply leave the last stack alive and use chargers and the fury gathering ability until your mana and rage are back to max for the next fight.
Also, I did not say leadership was unimportant. I said it was unimportant in the early stage. The difference between 20,000 leadership and 19,000 leadership is not significant. The difference between 40 rage and 80 rage is.