Mage Tree Skill Order?

[amberoid]

Try running around with a single stack of black dragons to skill up the "fire" medal. It's also a great way to skill up battle alchemy and the trap medal.

Use Fire Arrow and Poison Skull to do most of the killing for you. On large stacks the burning und poisoning after effects work great.

Just try to get those archers/shaman units down really fast. Against other dragons use traps to decimate them.

[Razorflame]

i think you should first think what sort of mage you want to be?

you got an offensive mage(e.a CHAOS)
these mages require alot of intellect to do the damage for them.

or defensive mage(distortion)
these mages will slow debuff the enemy before they can reach your troops. or soften em up so that your units can kill them in 1 hit

both use very different builds

since the chaos mage will rush for high intel and higher magic

and defensive mage would stall it and get more mana first or a level 2 dist run