All this hate VM are getting finally made me try one. I think they're rather good. Getting some weapon after MephCloud is at ~30% and you're essentially playing an Assassin with MephCloud and unlimited ammo. Nothing to sneeze at.
"Hit with Weapon" is a great level 0 spell. It's dual school and short range, but it's a guaranteed find, few things effectively resist it, its spell power scales very well and it doesn't cost any mana.
Lasty wrote:My feeling was that pcloud wasn't in a particularly good place and felt really unnecessary when OTR basically did the same thing but better.
I think that pcloud was attractive to characters who came to it by the air route. OTR never stuck out to me as something a non-VM would want; it's only level 4, though, so maybe I should give it a try?