Touch Spells - how can you even cast them?

[Tarrax]

I always thought touch spells are useless in general. Usually if you "need" to cast them, it means you are so weak you shouldn't be in the melee range anyway. If you are a unit that is normally in melee range that means you usually can take a beating and you almost always have a better attack (in terms of power and/or cost). Do people use them at all? There are many of them yet I don't know why they are in the game.

What are some cases you regularly use them?

[rdonj]

One of the best cases for touch spells imo is Yomi's Oni General. They're tough enough to frontline melee even without a bless or items, and have a good mix of paths for it. D2 guys get hand of death with alteration 1. F1 guys get burning hands with evo 1. The earth guys can do fists of iron.