Wednesday, 17th December 2014, 03:47 by Bloax
Spider form is basically +2 unarmed with a poison brand,
Ice form is +9 with a freeze brand, (edit: it's +9, not +6 god damn it)
Blade hands is +5+(str+dex)/3 [+15 @ 15 str/dex],
Hydra form is -1 + 3*Heads + !!Cleaving!! [+1.5*Heads for extra heads past 10, but getting >100 spellpower on this spell is extraordinarily hard.]
Statue form is about +9%*str effective damage at 12 unarmed, +7.8%*str at 27 unarmed
Dragon form is +15+(10+str)*(2/3) [actually more than +15 actual unarmed skill at 19 str and 12 unarmed]
Spider form is a level 3 dual-school spell,
Ice form is a level 4 dual-school spell,
Blade hands is a level 5 single-school spell,
Hydra form is a level 6 single-school spell (and the only one that is really expensive in terms of investment for it to be useful),
Statue form is a level 6 dual-school spell,
Dragon form is a level 7 single-school spell.
Now, what do you think would be more expensive in terms of exp investment: Getting unarmed from 12->22, or getting enough transmutations to cast blade hands?
Because they're about equal in terms of how much more damage you do at 19 str/dex (which I happened to be testing with)!
Personally then I like statue form, but I've pretty much mastered the whole "who needs running" playstyle and the Hp/AC/EV you get is certainly impressive at times.
It's pretty worthless against blade hands if you have plenty of AC/EV without it, and at that point it's reduced to a torment-shield if you're stronk enough.
Hydra form is the only spell on this list that is exceptionally expensive on the investment side, requiring 17 transmutations/12 spellcasting at 17 int to breach 6 heads - and thus +17 damage + cleaving.
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Bloax on Wednesday, 17th December 2014, 18:44, edited 1 time in total.
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