[spirokeat]

I'm a SP mainly. But I can certainly say that magic on the battlefield is absolutely required to make a good impact.

All the paths pretty much have a basic at about lvl 1 or 2 and then more advanced attack which can be gained at about lvl 4 or so. off the top of my head.


Fire - Fire Flies, Fire Darts, Flame bolt, Fireball
Earth - flying Shards, Blade wind, far strike
Blood - Blood boil, Hellfire, Bleed, Agony
Water - Cold Bolt, Sailors Death
Astral - Star fires, Solar rays, Stellar Cascades, Mind Burn, Soul Slay
Death - Shadow Bolt, Shadow Blast
Nature, Vine Arrow, Sleep

And thats not even mentioning the multipath stuff like nether bolts, or acid rain etc.

usually you can research an attack spell for a mage within a turn or two of starting that he can cast right out of the box with no gem cost. use that as your starting point.

Spiro