Council of mages

lama · Post by **lama** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 10:42 am

my most favorite/ most used spells

chaos
armor of faith
mefs minor meteors (hits every thing great for spelldisruption)
mirror image
stone skin
sunfire (all my party members are spellcasters and attack the enemy from a save distance while my fighter/ilisionst attacks enemys at close range. a npc with more than 100 fire protection wordls nice too.)

lately I trying emotion hopeless, and I like this spell till now.

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kopywrite · Post by **kopywrite** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 11:08 am

Originally posted by Edwin:
OK mages return to a serious debate.
I think one of the most powerful spell (maybe in ToB)would be a massive lower resistance. When i went solo with my sorcerer the main problem were those hateful drow.....always come in groups....
What do you think???

very handy... there's so many nasties with high MR and there's bound to be even more in ToB. What I'd like to see would be the return of mindblank (8th lvl mage spell in IWD) - it works like chaotic commands but it lasts ALL DAY (bliss).

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Kovi · Post by **Kovi** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 11:37 am

I totally agree with Edwin on the skull-trap + sunfire for solo. Just add some strong summon (like animate dead, summon earth elemntal or mordenkainen sword) against magic-resistant opponents.

Ghaleon the Mage · Post by **Ghaleon the Mage** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 6:13 pm

I think the best spell would be Time Stop or Mordenkain's Sword (or both)

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Ghaleon, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of "The GrimReaper"

Ghaleon the Mage · Post by **Ghaleon the Mage** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 6:19 pm

originally posted by Gomez

You guys all prefer the high-level spells. They're all powerful, but I don't get them until late in the game, and some I can't at all (I'm sorcerer)

That's true remember that we have Chromatic Orb

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Ghaleon, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of "The GrimReaper"

Ghaleon the Mage · Post by **Ghaleon the Mage** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 7:28 pm

A good method to cause death to one enemy would be to cast Time Stop then while your still in the duration of the spell you cast lower resistence (the amount of times you cast it depends on the amount of resistence you take away) then Finger of Death. The enemy you did this to should be dead.

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Ghaleon, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of "The GrimReaper"

Ghaleon the Mage · Post by **Ghaleon the Mage** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 7:32 pm

How the %&$# do you make a message bold

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Ghaleon, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of "The GrimReaper"

Stryfe the Sorcerer · Post by **Stryfe the Sorcerer** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 9:39 pm

Hm... count me in 2.

Stryfe the Sorcerer · Mon Mar 26, 2001 10:00 pm

Favorite spells huh?

I really like those lower level spells, it gets the job done too!

Magic Missiles - gets even better when ur a high level
Melf's Acid Arrows - great for trolls and for disrupting spellcasting!

Fireball - great for killing annoying bands of goblins

Stoneskin - don't leave home without it!

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Stryfe, mighty (kickass) member of the Council of Mages

GrimReaper · Post by **GrimReaper** » Mon Mar 26, 2001 10:34 pm

I think that Edwin has a good point, our spell picks will probably be different for solo or a party. In that case my favorite spells overall are Abi-Dalzim and Stoneskin. Useful for solo and party. Problem is that Abi-Dalzim at least is to high a level spell and you get it late so actually for a solo mage in the beginning, I like a web and spider spawn combonation. Very nice for killing the early enemies. With a party I like Melf's Acid Arrow early on. Also, for a single classed mage, Melf's Minute Meteors is always useful.

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Lars the GrimReaper, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of Ghaleon the Mage

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 11:24 am

Melf's Acid Arrow is very useful....if you store two of them with a sequencer and hit a mage, you've half the job done (for the spll disruption and the damage). For the spell disruption they're also useful vs djinni.....

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Edwin, mighty founder of the Council of Mages

The_Pope · Post by **The_Pope** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 11:48 am

Originally posted by Ghaleon the Mage:
How the %&$# do you make a message bold

Click "edit" above my message and check out my signature.

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Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 12:27 pm

Originally posted by Ghaleon the Mage:
How the %&$# do you make a message bold

You could of course simply check the following link:
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Dúnadan · Post by **Dúnadan** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 2:27 pm

One of the best spells was Dimension Door from BG I, but the knucklehead programers took it out for some unfathomable reason. I love those instant death spells, and also anything that turns the victim to stone.

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Ro´Jadre · Post by **Ro´Jadre** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 2:30 pm

Dimension Door? It's in there, it teleports you anywhere within your own LOS, there're just no scrolls (can't get it with a Sorc. either) for it.

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Ro´Jadre - Mighty Kensai/Mage of the Council of Mages

Dúnadan · Post by **Dúnadan** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 3:17 pm

Dimension Door is no longer in the game, unless you use Shadowkeeper to acquire it. Hence the reason it is not available to sorcerors. It's a shame... It would have been put to great use by my Assassin/Mage.

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Ro´Jadre · Post by **Ro´Jadre** » Tue Mar 27, 2001 3:27 pm

Why? What's so good with it? And what's the casting time?

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Ro´Jadre - Mighty Kensai/Mage of the Council of Mages

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Wed Mar 28, 2001 7:17 am

Never used dimension door in BGI. Isn't invisibility almost the same????? I mean, when invisible, you can walk to another point of the area......Moreover invisibility is of a lower lvl...

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Edwin, mighty founder of the Council of Mages

Ghaleon the Mage · Post by **Ghaleon the Mage** » Wed Mar 28, 2001 6:24 pm

If I ever try and using Dimension Door it stops my game

, and the only time I use Shadow Keeper is when I'm curious about somethings.

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Ghaleon, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of "The GrimReaper"

Ghaleon the Mage · Post by **Ghaleon the Mage** » Wed Mar 28, 2001 6:44 pm

Wail of the Banshee sucks ya sure the description makes it sound good but it isn't

I think it should at most be a level 8 spell (maybe even level 7) not a level 9 spell

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Ghaleon, mighty member of the Council of Mages and brother of "The GrimReaper"