Slime Squisher
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Joined: Monday, 15th August 2011, 16:31
Location: Frankfurt
How to play AE?
I get Shock now, and I think I understand how to get to Lair with it. But I still don't get Static Discharge. By early Lair, way too many enemies are too strong for Shock (and the Lair terrain is unfavourable for it). But even if I concentrate in skill progression on powering Static Discharge up (and this is with a Tengu!), its damage to cost (MP, hunger, self damage) ratio is AFAICS not good enough to rely on it as a main damage spell. And Lightening Bolt is overkill except against big threats like hydrae and hill giants. In short, while I can kill with Static Discharge, I have to rest way too much for HP and MP regeneration and I'm burning through food like mad.
So, my problem is efficiency. But maybe I'm using Static Discharge wrong? By habit, I'm luring enemies and take them on mostly one on one. Is it more cost efficient against multiple adjacent enemies? I admit, it's been a life-saver against killer bees.
Or is my expectation wrong? With FE, Sticky Flame can get me through most of Lair. With IE, the same is true for the combination of Freeze and Throw Icicle (or Ice Beast). My expectation is that by Lair I'm mostly off the ground and that for AE the goto-damage spell is supposed to be Static Discharge, with the expection of popcorn and major threads like hydrae.
But maybe with AE I'm supposed to have found another means of dishing out damage by Lair? (Like I, think, with wizards. But I have little experience with wizards.)