Shoals Surfer
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Joined: Thursday, 9th June 2011, 19:12
Help with the demonic horde
However, after getting untold high elves splatted I decided to give the slightly tougher demonspawn a shot. Everything is going well, I have air magic up to level 9 via clouds and orc 4 yielded a bookstore with spells of tornado, airstrike, swiftness, haste, flight, and deflect missiles. I also have about every ice spell out there, since there was an ice cave that dropped 4 books of magic. Between this and Vehemut’s gifts I am feeling pretty good.
I am feeling even better when I my second body mutation turns out to be demonic guardian, and it is already to level 3! (The first one is resist cold, and has been hanging out at that level).
As I keep killing stuff the following thoughts finally percolate through my brain:
1) Friendly summons turn hostile when you hit them with a spell.
2) Tornado hits everything in LOS.
3) If I am in a ‘stressful’ enough situation that I would want to cast tornado, I will also probably have executioners pop in next to me, only to get hit by tornado.
4) It would probably be bad to have these now hostile executioners standing next to me every time I am in a stressful situation.
So……
I picked up berserkities as a mutation so melee is pretty much out.
I have pretty good spell casting (14) air (9) and conjurations (10, and disabled atm). My summoning, poison, translocations skills are 4-5.
I have no ranks in necromancy, transformations, ice, fire, earth, charms, or hexes.
In fact, I have found basically no fire, earth, or necromantic (read, no sublimation of blood, regeneration, or low level necro spells), spells at all.
I do however have rings of magical power and wizardry, and a staff of wizardry that I am using.
My (only) other options are rings of ice or sustain abilities, but I do have 6(!) scrolls of amnesia.
Yes, this would be easier to do with a character dump, but I do not have access to that right now.
Current strategy:
I have been using mephitic and poison cloud for AoE, and mystic blast/OOD for single target fun.
Path ahead:
?????????
These are the options I see, but TBH I feel like I am not picking up on everything so please help me out.
a) Full summoner: I dump mystic blast and pick up airstrike so I can smite past summons. Vehemut has gifted me the usual set of summoning spells.
b) Ice Elementalist: With a ring of ice and the full set of ice spells I can run refrigeration, frozen cloud, and ice bolt/throw icicle. This will also give a nice buff with Oz’s armor.
c) Some other combination that I have not thought about.
I would really like to hear your thoughts and philosophies about where to go since atm I really only have experience with berserkers, generic hybrids, and blasty mages.