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Re: Improving poison magic
TwilightPhoenix wrote:When did you play a Transmuter to cast Sandblast, LRD, Stoneskin, or Shatter? You typically play an Earth Elementalist. The other spells, Passwall, Dig, Alistair's, Condensation Shield, and Ignite Poison, are certainly not ones a Transmuter focuses on using (though they're always nice to have).
Sandblast, LRD, and Shatter are Earth only as of 0.8, or maybe even 0.7.
Stoneskin has bonuses with Statue form, though it doesn't work at all with other forms. The AC is nice when are going toe-to-toe in melee with blade hands. Stoneskin fits pretty well as a transmuter spell.
Passwall and Dig, I'll grant, aren't more used by transmuters than other builds. Using Alistairs before stabbing with blade hands works pretty well, but I guess that works with weapon, too, so maybe it isn't really transmuter specific.
Form users who can't wear a shield need Condensation Shield more than other builds do. Ignite Poison is great against hydras, but most other builds have another good method for dealing with those. It might be nice to add the poison school to ignite poison to make it easier for Venom Mages to cast it.
But the point is that the transmution spells are useful for transmuters, and don't need to be moved to Alchemy/Poison. New spells are a better way to strengthen Poison.