Soothsayer Skills

[Boozie]

Hi Seth. I just hit my 100 crystals, so now I am going to go on a scrolling spree as I had learned only 3-4 R1 spells before now. (I've got R1 all 4 schools and R2 higher magic atm as I said in other thread).

The more I've read up, the less I'm worried about the spider boss, but I still need to determine how to spend all these runes I've been hoarding.

[sethmage]

Hi there

IMHO I think the spider is the most difficult fight in the entire game mostly because of the restrictions on selection of the units.
(no scratch that, the most difficult fight I had was with that elven princess, instead bringing her antidote I insisted that she should rest out, boy the army she assembled, just skeleton archers 42k+!! 5 stacks of 8k each plus regular infantry.)

Anyhow, see what spells you have and then increase your magic school accordingly. One good damaging spell of the 2nd level will do nicely. I don’t remember how many hp he has on normal, my guess around 18k so you should have him down in less that 15 rounds for the achievement.

Myself I’m at the end with my no loss imp. 6 fights to go, it would be a breeze if I didn’t have to use the allies with their limited spells assortment, no dispel, no res for some, no gift, this feels like boxing match with Mike Tyson but you can use only one hand and no biting so better make it count.

[n1x0r]

As some other people said, alchemy if you want to use the crow alot.
Eg. roll a Ancient Knowledge scroll on vestlig and duplicate the **** out of it

As for the other skills
Concentration I find a must
Transmute is good, especially for spider
Higher magic obviously
Runic > Dis > Order > Chaos (depends what spells you roll ofcourse)