Who is your favorite indy mage?

[Evilhomer]

There is also several good blood sites. One is giving a 60% discount on all your blood rituals, basically brokenly good for a blood nation.

[Shovah32]

The 60% discount blood site and 50% discount conjuration site are insanely good. I think there's also a fairly powerful construction site(better than steel ovens anyway) but I could be wrong.

I absolutely love the ultimate gateway, and unless I was a blood nation or in a very special situation I would take it over almost any other site.
Tartarians for 5 gems, ghost riders for 3, manifestation for 2 and various cheaper mages(lamias, troll/sea kings, fairy queens ect) make the ultimate gateway good.
If a nation with good national summons in conjuration gets the ultimate gateway theres a very high chance they will win the game.
Can you imagine Pythium or Marignon getting 50% off of Seraphs and other angels or the Monkey mages getting summons like Rudras for less than 30 pearls?

This is madness!(waiting for the 300 reference)

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I was really hoping to be able to recruit some blood mages. Playing Oni, I hoped to cast that demon strengthening spell in addition to strength of giants.

[Rytek]

High Magus. 3 randoms and 13 research.

[Lingchih]

Wizards indeed. Lots of magic paths, and incredible research. And you get that Wizard Knight.

[DigitalSin]

THIS
IS
SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Theres your 300 reference, Shovah

[thejeff]

Anyone who has paths my nation doesn't have. It's really variable.

The Garnet amazons are enough to bootstrap any nation into blood. Anyone with good randoms is great.

If my nation lacks nature, I'll often put some on the pretender so he can make thistle maces and use the crummy little shamans to start searching.

[Edratman]

Recruitable blood mage sites are also very uncommon. I always play 75% sites and very seldom get one.

[Nikolai]

Adepts. Silver are best, but the rest very good as well.

[Baalz]

Lore masters are pretty good for magic diversity to. Plus with 3 full random picks you can bootstrap a blood economy pretty soon as about 1/3 will have a blood pick.