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A true side by side comparison: VM vs AE
Shock: God tier, bounce hits 4 times killing everything, range is entire los, everything you could want in a lvl 1 spell and more
RMsl: God tier, always active, easy to use, nullifies centaurs, orcs with projectiles, blowguns, lots of other common early game deaths for no cost
Swiftness: God tier, escape from anything, just stay moderately close to a stair and you will never die
Meph cloud: God tier, can basically auto clear d1-12 or so and orc1-2 and stays handy even through lair/elf. You probably won't find it in time as an AE though.
Static discharge: Solid spell, good for focusing down high HP single target, becomes high tier with rElec
Airstrike: God tier, possibly broken spell that easily dispatches anything flying, summoners, smiters, casters. Unobstructed LoS no longer matters.
Lightning spire: God tier, way too good for a level 4 spell, can solo entire packs while you kite near it, huge DPS.
Lightning bolt: god tier, bounce hits 4 times killing everything, can get you to 3 runes all by itself
Silence: God tier, gives free win vs elf:1-3, tomb:1-3, lich/ancient lich, any of the caster uniques
Conjure ball lightning: Ok ok this is a bad spell lol, don't use even with rElec.
DMsL: God tier, even better than rMsl, always on, no effective MP cost and nullifies yaktaurs, boulder throwers, centaur warrior, elven archer/master archer, other sources of midgame deaths
Poison Cloud: Somewhat worse version of Freezing Cloud, mostly shitty because it involves poison magic (more on this later)
Freezing Cloud: SUPER god tier, sick AoE that almost nothing dangerous resists, MP efficient as all get out, can basically single handedly win you a 3 rune game. Almost never a reason to use any other spell.
Chain Lightning: God tier, can 1-shot an ancient lich. Hilarious borderline OP DPS that probably shouldn't even be in the game.
Tornado: LOL too funny. God tier defense and offense, free win button, if you have this spell go collect your 15 runes and GG.
Synopsis: God tier, would be the default go to class if not for FE and IE and Cj and Wz and basically every other non VM offensive magic start being so damned good.
Now for VM:
Sting: Shit tier spell that doesnt do anything vs phantoms, zombies, player ghosts and requires kiting even when it works. One of the most tedium inducing spells in the game.
Ignite Poison: LOL pretty good if you can find it, makes you almost as good as an FE who can make fire in 1 steps instead of 2. Good luck on that scavenger hunt!
Meph Cloud: God tier early game spell, the only reason to go VM, too bad wizards also get it and 3 other useful spells.
Spider Form: Sucks if you are not a dedicated transmuter, which being a VM, you aren't
OTR: Also known as that spell which also kills you, doesn't do anything which Meph Cloud couldn't have done with less risk. Have i mentioned it doesn't do jack to demons, undead, poisonous monsters?
Alistair's: Another spell which weakens you in order to weaken monsters, when spells from other schools would be outright killing them. Hooray if you like avoidable deaths I guess. Have i mentioned it doesn't do jack to demons, undead, poisonous monsters?
Venom Bolt: On average, less damage, less range than lightning bolt and doesn't bounce. I mean I guess it's good if you enjoy poisoning things and watching their HP bars slowly diminish as they inflict avoidable deaths on you... Have i mentioned it doesn't do jack to demons, undead, poisonous monsters?
PArrow: Really good DPS if you can find something that isn't a demon or undead or abomination or nonliving in the late game! Nice work, you will definitely prove all the VM naysayers wrong if you can just avoid the 40 other monsters on the floor that aren't effected by your best spell. Sometimes you might even find a non rPois enemy if you look really hard!!! You might get a dozen, hell, even two dozen MP efficient attacks in in the late game if you are really lucky!!! Don't forget kiting though.
Poison Cloud: Highest overall spell in the school and it's like... the 6th or 7th best spell in Air Magic, lmfao. Picture your character's existential despair: "Is... is this it? Is this really all I get? I only get 9 spells? And where is the lvl 7,8,9 spells? Why did I endure running from half the enemies in the dungeon and kiting and damaging myself??? Just for this??? Why did the gods create this shitty school?? I should've listened to me mum and been a doctor!! Fuck this Orb shit, I am done!"
Verdict: Terrible school, it looks like something a dev half heartedly created and was like "sigh, what a waste of my time,look at all the immune monsters and even when it works you have to kite, this is just dumb. This will never get approved, so I won't even bother trying to come up with lvl 7+ spells." Then someone tripped onto the keyboard and accidentally put the commit into the game. That's legitimately how this looks.
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