Spell Spamming !!

[Atreidi]

What spell do you most often over use? (Any type of spell, summon, ritual, etc. *Other than the obvious blessing*)

What spell do you end up using the most in any givien game?

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[Endoperez]

Summon Earthpower. It's always useful.

[Edratman]

Paralyze and soul slay.

[Cor2]

Blink! the best spell ever.

[Atreidi]

Cor2 said:
Blink! the best spell ever.



mmm... you spam Blink?

[MaxWilson]

Summon Earthpower, Blessing, or Cloud of Death. Probably Blessing gets the plurality.

-Max

[Taqwus]

Cloud of Death is very nice for a gem-free spell.

Summon Earthpower... needs to be scripted, AFAICT. Pity. As an easy, gem-free booster that also gives regeneration, this seems much more obvious for an E2 mage than, say, Astral Shield is for an astral mage.

Edit -- Reinvigoration, not regeneration. Need more sleep.

[Ironhawk]

I always have a script or two of common battle spells for my national mages to spam. But I have to say that Paralyze is probably my most spammed spell of all time. Its relatively easy to get astral mages for any nation and Paralyze is a cheap, easy to cast anti-SC spell.

[Tyrant]

Raise skeltons

[HoneyBadger]

red skeltons?

[MaxWilson]

Hmmm. I'm fairly sure I have seen unscripted mages occasionally cast Summon Earthpower.

-Max

[K]

Drain Life. One of the few spells you can spam for 50 turns without fatigue knocking you out at some point.

[Saxon]

Body Ethereal and luck.

[QXel]

Fireball, Falling Fire, Fire cloud, Astral Fire, Fire-anything!

Also Lighting-anything ...

I like the USSR-army-like method: two days of heavy artillery bombing followed by a huge infantry swarm covered by an heaviest mass of tanks.

All in subtlety & shrewdness. Yes.

[MaxWilson]

K said:
Drain Life. One of the few spells you can spam for 50 turns without fatigue knocking you out at some point.



But can you? You can spam it for 5 turns and then you're at the mercy of the spellcasting AI, which will probably cast Raise Skeletons. Unless you have researched nothing but Alteration.

-Max

[K]

MaxWilson said:

K said:
Drain Life. One of the few spells you can spam for 50 turns without fatigue knocking you out at some point.



But can you? You can spam it for 5 turns and then you're at the mercy of the spellcasting AI, which will probably cast Raise Skeletons. Unless you have researched nothing but Alteration.



Sure. Put a Standard of the Damned on a non-caster.

[MaxWilson]

Ah. Well then in that case, you can spam Raise Skeletons ad nauseum too, with Skullface + Amulet of Resilience. In fact you can spam lots of things ad nauseum, from Acid Bolt to Falling Frost. I thought you meant "spam unequipped."

-Max

[Atreidi]

Ahh, this brings up a question... Can you equip a commander with lets say Acid Bolt then convert that commander to a unit. Will it still have the equiped item as a unit? and will it still fire Acid Bolts? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[sum1lost]

Atreidi said:
Ahh, this brings up a question... Can you equip a commander with lets say Acid Bolt then convert that commander to a unit. Will it still have the equiped item as a unit? and will it still fire Acid Bolts? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif


No, it will not, and so it won't be able to.

[MaxWilson]

Although I keep wondering whether, if you Enslave a Theurg Communicant, he still participates in Communions. Would be a handy thing for Astral Travel/Gateway.

-Max

[Cor2]

Atreidi said:

Cor2 said:
Blink! the best spell ever.



mmm... you spam Blink?



Just trying to live up to my icon....

[K]

MaxWilson said:
Although I keep wondering whether, if you Enslave a Theurg Communicant, he still participates in Communions. Would be a handy thing for Astral Travel/Gateway.

-Max



That's a fascinating and weird idea.

[Wick]

Theurg Communicant troops charge forward but are effected when a master casts twist fate so I'd say they are fully in the communion.