Spider Stomper
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Re: Pure caster advice
duvessa wrote:Interesting that you include your god but not your spellpower...VeryAngryFelid wrote:It takes too much time and effort to kill orbs of fire with fire storm in my experience (read: 60 MP as DE of Vehumet wasn't enough).
IMO fire storm is the best spell in the game against orbs of fire. Yes, it takes more casts than Glaciate to kill them, but it still does a lot of damage, it has twice the range, and orbs of fire are completely incapable of damaging fire vortices, so they shield you from fireballs and polymorph.
And shatter does literally no damage to orbs of fire. They're insubstantial.
What do you mean by that it has twice the range? Glaciate has range 6, whilst firestorm has range 5 +2 for area. It's a difference, but not anywhere close to twice the range.
In my experience it takes an average of 3/4 glaciates and 5 for a fire storm to kill an orb of fire. There is a chance that you will run out of MP to kill an Orb of Fire whilst for Glaciate it is unlikely. I do suppose that the abilty to shield from fireballs and polymorph can make it the best spell, but if you care so much about that then surely summon spells would be far better.