Baldur's Gate Arcane Spell Guide Level 2
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Hi this is part 2 of 10 videos going over every arcane spell in the baldur's gate series.
I play the enhanced edition with SCS on insane difficulty so this video is focused on that, but most of what I say applies to core rules unmodded as well.
If you are curious about a particular spell I have them ordered here by tier alphabetically.
S Tier spells
Blur 2:24
Mirror Image 5:04
Web 8:55
A Tier Spells
Detect Invisibility 12:51
Glitterdust 16:06
Invisibility 18:03
Resist Fear 21:45
Strength 24:00
Vocalize 27:46
B Bier Spells
Horror 30:01
Melf's Acid Arrow 32:33
Deafness 35:21
C Tier Spells
Agannazar's Scorcher 37:51
Knock 41:13
Power Word, Sleep 43:15
Stinking Cloud 45:27
Ray of Enfeeblement 55:35
RP Tier Spells
Detect Evil 48:35
Ghoul Touch 49:45
Know Alignment 52:02
Luck 52:52
If you would like to see me play live, my twitch stream can be found here / davaeorn I stream daily starting at 10 am EST.
Dude you actually put timestamps for all the spells. You're a legend.
Hey you're the legend for watching buddy God bless!
I can only agree to this! Starting a playthrough again after years with some friends, and this is super awesome when waiting for our first session and planning a character. Great videos!
Actual legend.
S Tier
Blur 2:20 - combine with spirit armour and greater invisbility
Mirror Image 5:00
Web 8:50 - fighter w free action
A
Detect Invis 13:00
Glitterdust 17:00
Invisibility 18:00
Resist Fear 21:40 only use if you have no cleric
Strength 23:50
Vocalize 27:50
Wow, you are a freaking Baldur’s Gate Encyclopedia... great work!
Thanks for watching friend!
I found a use for detect evil!!! In TOB, cast detect evil in an area to read the messages on the display. Find out how many enemies are still left, and find out how many have significant magic Resistance, because they will resist.🥳
Nice, thanks for commenting friend!
@@Davaeornlol Update…EE nerfed range (40 feet) and “in TOB enemies will agro at being scanned.” Not sure if it applies to before TOB, in BG2, but now almost worthless.
As someone who's clearly worse at playing BG than you are, I keep coming back to this guide every time a start a new playthrough. Thank you so much for all the effort!
thanks bro passing the knowledge to the next generation
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Korax the ghoul. What a legend. Not only is he a hero for anyone doing no reload runs to grab some levels but he's also hilarious.. "korax thinks you look tasty todayyyy".. haha
right, I wish I had someone that supportive in my life. Tfw no koraxgf to wake up next to you and tell you how tasty you look that day.
@@Davaeornlol You didn’t have to hit us that hard, man...
I've always wanted an in depth analysis for every spell in this game. Great job and keep it up! Subbed!
Thanks a lot!
I really like having your stuff run as second screen background noise, brings back a lot of memories ... memories of cheesing the AI with web+clouds+closeable doors xD
These are very informative, especially for someone brand new to the series like myself, thanks
Thanks for watching and commenting !
ty sooo much! im trying my first mage class =10yrs playing this game..never done a mage= the spells are very confusing. ive been binge watching these videos and its helping. ty!
I'm glad you're enjoying them friend good luck in your playthrough! Sorry for respondin so late, thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Just found out about this series and am absolutely loving it!
Regarding stinking cloud though, I usually have 2-3 skeletons up before casting stinking cloud. Undead are immune to it, and having your skellies just whale away at everyone who get knocked out often in BG1 is just amazing!
I don't know about SCS, but in Vanilla, I could take down almost all the outdoor enemy parties with just that strategy. Worst come worst, the enemy party is atleast severly injured and are ripe for a fireball finisher.
Glad you're enjoying it friend thanks for watching and commenting!
Dope strat
Will try
I've watched several of your guides. You are the best BG1 and 2 commentator. Hands down.
Baulders gate is so big I’m glad to see the guides like this. Bruce was the first run I saw and I fell in love with the game. Actual legend
I'm glad you enjoyed it friend!
First time playing Baldur's Gate series. This whole series was amazingly helpful! You strike a nice balance between what is useful at low level and what you can carry with you to the end. I'm trying a sorcerer, so that is very much appreciated!
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Thank you so much for making these. It's taught me so much already about the spellcasters in my party and I've only just started this second video
Thanks for watching!
Incredible! Watching this over and over is very informative for different reasons other than playing but also applying the transformative creativity in other games.
Glitterdust is really, really nice crowd control in certain fights. Fight starts, throw up a Glitterdust, Chaos and Slow with 3 different mages and that fight is usually handled. Certain really annoying monsters in BG1 are also not immune to Blind, despite being immune to Fear and other ailments.
thank you so much for this content!! this game was always on my backburner, cause i never had the time i have now to invest in it. Im not what you would call a gamer but Arcanum is my favorite and I have fond memories of beloved friends tralking about this one and playing it. I´m super glad to be playing it finally, bought enhanced edition and I´m doing a first blind playthrough (with a skald for whatever reason). Your content aids me so much. Thanks pal!
Thanks for that amazing series of videos! Sometimes it feels overwhelming when learning about tje rules, but you somehow manage to keep it very easy to follow while giving a good impression on the effects of the spells.
I just started getting into Baldurs Gate and your videos are fun and helpful!
I'm glad you're enjoying it thanks for watching friend!
YT for some reason decided to recommend me your content. I really can't say enough good things about it.
Well Met, Davaeorn, these are so sick. Learning a ton!
I actually use Strength on Mordenkainen's Sword to buff up the summoned sword.
Another great video, gotta get more tips and tricks while I'm working on my run. I finally had my first death at Bodhi for this attempt, but I shall venture forth for practice, and attempt the No Reloads run after I do a full SCS/Ascension completion.
On the topic of your Big Three, which I love, I also like to take advantage of the Fighter/Mage armor possibilities especially in BG1. If you pre-buff, you can equip a Full Plate Mail, running Blur, Improved Invisibility, Stoneskin, AND Mirror Image at level cap - it's absolutely hilarious because not a damn thing can touch you for that duration. In BG2, I find Barkskin/Armor options and spell options make this less desirable.
I'm a fan of Minor Sequencer -> Double Glitterdust after Greater Malison. That penalty plus two chances almost guarantees numerous successes. Add Slow, and goddamn, enemy groups are just done.
I always have Invisibility memorized and taken as a Sorceror to protect a target. I've saved characters numerous times by quickly casting an Invisibility on a Held target, and it's saved CHARNAME a few times for me on a No Reloads.
With Stinking Cloud, I would put it at B for the fact that you can throw it at enemies and follow up with Animate Dead to be immune to it. Not a bad combo there.
Thanks for watching friend and good points! Invisibility especially has a lot of useful utility. God bless!
Stinking Cloud trap:
1) Create skeleton army with multiple Animate Dead spells. They last for 8hrs.
2) Wander around map. See enemy. Cast Stinking Cloud.
3) Send in poison-immune skeleton army. Otherwise attack at range.
4) Clear map. Profit!
I know one particular walkthrough writer that swears by this method.
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I used to use that a lot too back in the day. Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Very efficiently explained with great examples
Finally! Legit BG info. I been playing this game for a while but I still suck. Been looking for a comprehensive source of info. Subbed
Glad you're enjoying it friend thanks for watching and commenting!
I've been playing for years BG and IWD and still discovering new ways to play. Love these vids. Yesterday I used Aganazars scorcher the best way ever: on a bridge had a horde of zombies walk into it, wasted so many, they kept walking into it. So sweet.
Nice! Sounds awesome thanks for watching and commenting friend!
I disagree on Knock being so low especially if you are playing solo without a thief. There are ways to protect yourself from traps but you just can not open some things and it makes life easier not having to jump through hoops opening some objects. There are also enough locked objects that using scrolls might not be enough where in other cases scrolls suffice for the more situational fights if you are playing a Sorcerer for example.
Thanks for commenting friend! In my experience I have run out of boxes I wish to open before I run out of knock scrolls, if you are trying to loot every box in the game, you are going to run into trouble, but if not, it won't be an issue. If you are the kind of person that desires the contents of all chests, knock is definitely a spell for you, if not though, you can definitely go without. At the end of the day play style is key.
if only you could bash and directly damage locked containers to make them unlocked like in NWN haha. The game really forces you to either use Knock once your mage is level 3 or put ALL your thief points into Open Locks and maybe spare 20 or so for detect traps just for those few in the Nashkel mines early on in the game
Agreed, was essential for my solo sorc run
34:40 Getting 100% acid resistance to try and make Melf's not only requires Protection from Acid scrolls but there are so few sources of Acid Resistance that you may as well use the spell slot on Aganazzar's Scorcher if you're gonna do elemental healing since Fire Resistance is so much more common.
This is beautiful
You're beautiful buddy thx for watching
haha i thought i knew a lot about this game; you have utterly put my knowledge to shame! thanks for the in depth guide, this is really helpful for managing my party's spells.
Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Resist fear is so useful, not just for dragons but anyone casting horror early on.
Dig the videos! Finally trying a play through with Edwin. I never take him!
Good one, i recommend 1.25 playback speed for this one, boys.
It never occured to me to target enemies with the strength spell actually lower their strength.
You learn something new every day.
Thanks for watching friend! A lot of cleric spells do the same, quite nasty if you can get them off. God bless!
Good advice.
if you're using an elven warrior/mage with 2 weapons with belm in offhand, ghoul touch is very useful. You'll have 7/2 attacks. If you buff yourself with improve celerity you'll have a decent amount of attacks per round with a save vs spell or hold target (i think is 5 + 2 belm attacks, correct me if i'm wrong please.). That's very usefull against mages, since they usually not have freedom of action also you dont need to do damage to make the hold effect.Very usefull against another melee too. With that spell you can use your pre buffed warrior mage to tank and disable all your enemies (or most of them) while the rest of your party just kill them with ranged weapons.
Basically with spells you have to know what enemy you facing change up you spells for that enemy.This game only gets harder the further you progress multiple saves is a must you can get a really good sword in the temple district as well.For people that are beginners you'll find out one way or another what will work.
This video quality looks like some cast Blur on it. Still S tier video.
Weird shit it should be fine.
Awesome vid! Can't wait for the rest. Thanks!
Thanks buddy! I'm sad to say 2 are a bit boring but three are pretty fun!
26:03 "stinking cloud" I found a use for this with web you mobilize, sleeping targets have no defense (or so i experienced it) I use archers :D it helps them do damage faster
Going through these slower than I like but they are really helpful.
Thanks for watching I'm glad you're enjoying them
Strength=carry a bunch of ankeg shells to beregost. S tier all the way. You can make almost as much money as when you spam goodberries.
It has happened. I did take knock spell in my book in my most recent run. But just because my only thief is Nalia and she failes at least once per dungeon to open a container.
Very chill and informative.
Glad you enjoy it friend, thanks for watching and commenting!
Powerword Sleep seems like it's OP in pokemon.
Stinking Cloud and later Web makes so many tough fights in BG1 cakewalk. Disable enemy party and kill them with arrows or wand of fire. Later when you have ring of free action and spidersbane sword you can even melee
41:22 Look. Try to look this lock spell called knock from a different way, lv2 spells are kinda stinkers. your wizard can have this as a side, the potential is infinite, to me when i saw this spell this first time i was stunned :D that it exists. 2 things one you don't need rouge any more, you just endure traps (if you can and out heal them). Second you can have rouge/Priest ork, that heals and dos traps. 3th If you need a rouge badly you can save up 250 points of skill by having 1 simple sleep in your book or sacrifice one lv2 spell on your sorceress THAT I do because that is how bad lv2 sleeps are. (m y rouge can have maxed pick pocket more early on :D) This spell give 250 ponts of lock pick not spent to your rouge, for the price of if wizard nothing, if sorceress she will still have web :D i take on my sorceress Luck and lock :D both all of them never with regrets, (and invisibility because it ave 250 points to my rouge again).
- Bottom line is rouge is = knock, spell, invisibility,..the only thing rouge cant be replaced on is find traps and steal (latter is something you can give up). There is backstab not my cup of tea :D
Love rocking Rey of enfeeb on giants
34:40
It's actually funny that you mention this stretch use-case for Melf's, because I used something similar to carry my dogshit-tier elementalist wizard through Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous on Core. Basically, I equipped an item that buffed your elemental attacks whenever you took elemental damage, then upped my resistance to ice. I'd convert Melf's Ass Arrow to ice, shoot myself with it, take around a point or two of cold damage every turn, and power up all of my ice spells to insane levels damage. Fun stuff. Also INCREDIBLY stupid in retrospect.
So yeah, I've basically used Melf's like that to """"real""" effect.
I learnt today that the chant actually gives the same luck bonus the luck spell gives, meaning they don't stack with each other.
Dava!!
Glad to see these uploads man. I'm having a bit "packed" month, lots of holidays/work/stuff to to take cre of... So I'm afraid I'm missing the recent streams :| But I'll try to catch on them all.
I wish you the best man, cheers to you.
Cheers to you too friend, god bless!
Great Video! I literally just used Ray of Enfeeblement on Firkraag in the base game...it was hilarious :)
Haha thanks for watching friend god bless!
@@Davaeornlol ray is def a top tier if paired with contagion. i killed all dragons except abizgal using this combo...1ray 2-3 contagion, dead. or a 5 str dragon is nice even without it..
@@vernadithsedillo5126 You can use it with Archer's Called Shot as well. The only issue is that killing by attribute drain doesn't provide experience. No reputation loss either though, and there's potential in that.
Also you want to cast spells protection and everything if you played this game before you know when you need to get you party ready for a fight,which I've learned tha through seeing my dad play it then playing it myself not doing nearly as well mind you,but playing this game so much you know what's coming but that doesn't mean you'll survive this game is about learning and finding out.
Aw yiss second spell guide
Thanks for watching friend!
Minsc is all the strength I need!
Hell yeah
It important to keep you reputation up till you get ready to go to spellhold,either by paying the gold to the dude if your a good character or if your evil helping the vampires if your evil like me lol.
I love using web and then summoning spiders to fight the tangled enemies.
Detect evil is useful once in BG2, only the skinstealer quest, to be able to save the human female npc in Trademeet. But that's about it. Since it obviously doesn't measure trustworthiness.
Trolls you need posion,undead cleric needs magical equipment to protect against level drain,death ward is also good facing against vampires you'll also need stakes to kill in coffin,this is a fun game,trust me you can get all the advice you want but what I can tell you play it and find out this is a learning game,playcthe game how you want to and learn play this game multiple time you get better.
Good list. Didn't realize you could use Strength as an attack spell. About Knock, I wouldn't take it on a sorc, but if you only get your thief's, or say, Montaron's or Coran's lock picking to 70 or 80 to save points for detect illusion or set traps, then having a mage have one knock spell memorized for those occasional hard locks can be useful.
Thanks for watching and commenting buddy!
Glitterdust and invisibility are S tier to me! Play since 1998. I don't know. I agree 99% of what you say. But these 2 spells are very strong.
Aoe invisbility is just so much better but invis is good for backstabs too for sure.
I cant beleive im actually chiming in on one of these but knock is a B teir not c.
its very rarely needed as you say but if you are dual classing FROM a thief in BG2 then you may not want a theif with you while you wait for them to hit the dual class target level but also.
it doesnt just unlock but it opens the door so if you want to be in stealth mode and walk through a door without losing stealth then its pretty useful for that.
lastly it allows you to use a limited theif levels to not even put points into a pick locks so you can have much better other skills.
I think you should do a Gorax the Ghoul appreciation day video. Full stop.
Correct me if I am wrong but in classic bg2(not EE), I recall there was a bug where if you cast a luck spell on a character who has weapon proficiency of 5(5 *), the character will have reduced proficiency to no proficiency or one *(1*).
I recall this is something like what Rod of Terror glitch does but in the opposite way, so like....Rod of terror causes a game to create data overflow if the user has lesser then 0 Charisma it will set the user's Charisma to 25 (The ring of human influence is required for this)
So what this could do is that if you cast it on sarevok who supposed to have proficiency in two-handed sword, it will reduce his proficiency to 0, giving him a massive penalty on his APR and Thac0 and Damage and this bug is supposed to be permanent.
This also should work on some dragons you mentioned with strength spell(Adalon or firkrag), So with a conjunction of strength and luck casted on the target, this may make some fights easier.
Again this is very old memory heard over the "rumor" that it does so. So I am not so sure
I don't think dragons have any proficiency points they should have a claw weapon equipped that sets their stats and attacks automatically. Not sure though, thanks for commenting friend!
Thanks broski
56:59 I like this spell :D because unless you fight mages you need 1-2 web, or you have sorceress and a wizard and web is out doing its thing, so what will you put in your remaining slots? I say it Lv2 spels are so bad that a smaller blind (Ray of Enf) is the best thing you can put in your slots :D
Just a little correction on Luck. The way it works is not the same as chant. Chant, and other spells like it, give a +1 bonus to rolls, Luck ADJUSTS rolls by 1. This distinction means that you crit on a 19-20, and can never critically miss an attack or saving throw. That being said, 3 rounds is incredibly short, but if it were 1 turn per level, or even 1 round per level, it would be much higher than B tier, possibly S tier. I know there's an item that gives a luck bonus, but I cannot remember if it is in IWD or BG, but that item is godlike.
I'm 100% positive luck does not work that way because aloras rabbit foot literally gives 2 luck and she absolutely critically misses all the time. I'm fairly certain the die is cast and luck is applied AFTER but it won't knock crit / misses off the table completely. If you are referring to how it works in IWD you may indeed be correct, my knowledge of IWD is nothing compared to bg, but I am 100% sure that's not how it works in BG.
Thanks for your help man!
Thanks for watching and commenting friend.
You dont have to have certain companion unless your going in the sphere quest.
Used Stinking Cloud + Web combo so many times in BG1
I appreciate your reasoning about the Wand of Fire, i think it’s a bit contrived to rank fire spells low tier due to meta knowledge. I think it would’ve been clearer to rank it as a spell then state that you don’t need to memorise it. Just my take :)
Even as a spell it's fairly lackluster and risky tbh, I should have worded it differently though you're right. Generally speaking mage spells are frustrating in the sense certain spells are just so much damn better than others :( .Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
57:26 that must be a bug for you I've cast it on Sarevok on a couple of occasions and the guy was rooted to the spot.
This is fantastic!!! I also love your “No Mans Sky” ranking system.
Thanks for watching :)
But Davaeorn! If you're playing a Level 21 Fighter-->Mage then once you get your Fighter levels back, your THACO will be 0! You can have another mage cast Greater Malison and then have your Cleric hit one enemy with Doom while your Fighter-->Mage follows up with a Ghoul Touch and repeat the process with every enemy affected by Greater Malison...Cleric comes in with Doom then Fighter-->Mage comes in with Ghoul Touch! And then you can use Wish and savescum 'till you get all your spells back and repeat the process! S-class combo, for realz! LOL! I even posted on this video before but I couldn't resist! I've seen the light with Ghoul Touch!
REEE
53:08 why is Luck good, it IS cumulative with chant (- Lv2 Luck Spell short duration 7 shots BUT its commutative with chant (chant better) (save from -1 to -3)) for that 7 shot you want to snipe that wizard in the enemy to hit them and you don't rally have anything else to pick from Its literally after web and stink, its enfeeblement and luck not from this 4 only luck dos something vs bosses, and what it dos is more damage. (there was a number difference on stats so chant wont cancel luck) would be nice to know for sure but thing is vs boss fight this is the only offensive thing that dos something
Slow is really good spell for fast enemy you want haste it's a must for quickly dispatching enemy.I literally got back in this game today dont do what I did wasted alot of coin getting reputation up,you have to have cleric in you party it's a must for raising the dead and the lesser drain something that gets rid of energy drain and you have to have a thief to disarm traps and find traps,I wouldnt recommend using invisibility defeat the enemy get xp on core rules trust me you'll need it when you face John Iranicus in hell,he will cast death speaks and if you dont know what your doing you'll die he is the hardest boss in all games I've ever played yes it boring having to do everything but trust me it pays off,you need in your part cleric,thief fighter,trust me experiment find out what your doing I love this game but it you'll hate it if you dont know much about this game.Chatacter creation reroll till you get 90 or more I got 94 as a mage,also if your playing as chaotic evil dont get character that are good they will fight you and dislike you real bad,dragons are horrible especially the one at the end of the game get magic that can resist mind control when you get to mind player or you'll die easily.If your new trust expect to die slot till you get better equipment and spells create multiple saves.
Casting time of luck is 2, casting time of chant is 9
Two legit reasons to use Stinking Cloud over Web:
1) Unlike Web, Stinking Cloud isn't stopped by freedom of movement.
2) You might find Stinking Cloud way sooner than Web, especially in BG1.
You do get SC earlier but I can't think of any fight's I'd want it over web tbh XD Thanks for watching and commenting friend!
Have been using Web/Entangle combo has worked well so far . Using original BG1.
Yeah original BG entangle was much better imo. Thanks for watching and commenting sorry I didn't respond to your comment on time!
Web is why all my fighters carry slings and crossbows...instead of risking forgetting to drink a potion of freedom or putting on a ring, I just shoot the enemies to death! :-p
Right lol
I just found out that if you found a trap you can't disarm there is no way to pick the lock with a thief but you can use Knock to open the stash. S TIER SPELL!! :P
YUGE
you can also cast globe of blades and than lv 2 invisibility or sanctuary and walk uninterrupted doing 10d10 dmg turning enemies to chunks for free.
Yeah it just never works for me for some damn reason :(
Mirror Image used to be even better in original Baldur's Gate (by the way, it's 1998, 2000 is the sequel's release date) -- there was no dice roll involved, images were always hit before the mage.
I couldn't remember exactly when it was officially released I remember buying it late 90s or 2000 ish, my memory on the original is pretty fuzzy I can't even remember half the raiding I did in wow (which was much more recent) but I do remember mirror image being very strong. Thanks for commenting and watching friend.
26:03 i do this with wish its fun to pick all stats are 18 including enemy than pop another wish to ask 25 stats for you :D
You gave strength A tier because it can be used to reduce enemy strength to 18 and that is very useful when fighting high strength enemies. Doesn't ray of enfeeblement do the same thing but a lot better, reducing enemy strength to 5? But is C tier? Am I missing something here?
P.S: love your videos. They even inspired me to make similar videos for Dragon Age games in my own channel. Though I only have one shitty video so far 😂
When you get to the keep switch to poison spell to deal with trolls and,gett magical equipment to deal with energy drain in the graveyard district,haste is best spell to make fighting faster to deal with enemy,there slot I could say this game is harder then dark souls,you have to think alot during this game,against spiders you want remove poison spells healing spell work after.There a dragon in a keep you have to use cloud kill witch works mind players are the worst the underdark is a pain,point being you have to do every single quest you can before going to spellhold,you want to be well over or close to level 30 before you go.Point being haveing seen and played this game several time you have to constantly think about everything you do it can can have dire consequence,you want to be pretty level up before going to the sphere there demons and iron golems which will give you trouble.
Not at all "meaningful" when it comes to the grand scope of the saga, but in BG:EE, as soon as you get your 2 slots for Strength, you can cart an extra 2 Ankheg Plates back to Beregost if you fast travel to the Temple to the east of it, since it places you close enough to the travel border that even though it wears off in-transit, you can cross the border and drop the plates right outside the smithy. Not a big deal at all, really, but if you're strapped for cash early and selling them, carrying an extra 2 per trip is worth the slots, imo~!
(2 uses ensures you don't have to drop any if you get an encounter on the way, otherwise you could either do another character / skip the dropping-on-ground part.)
We still need that companion guide!
soon.tm
Where's Snilloc's Snowball Swarm? Thought you played with IWD spells via SCS
Man, you sound kinda like Randall from Clerks, that's a good thing ;)
Man I haven't seen that in a long time. Thanks for watching and commenting buddy
I remember having my spell book filled with luck and melf's acid arrow. :(
I got really excited when you were talking about the wand of fire, and then I realized you were saying Wand of Fire and not Wonkafier.
WHOOPS
@Davaeorn good videos, think you're gonna add the full list in description with timestamps like you did with Part 1 soon?
Yeah I'm behind on my youtubin, all vids should have spell lists by tomorrows end, thanks for watching and commenting!
Dude you’re a fucking wizard ty. I love this game. Can’t believe im just now getting into it. I had it as a kid but I never could get far then lol. Diablo was a much easier game.
for sure thanks for watching and commenting friend!
22:40 ohh so there is spell for wizard's to resist fear for the party :D in LV 2 how nice haha-ha.....yep without fear immunity dragon and Lich fight sure get hard ha-ha...you stay out of line of sight simular crome and the crome simulars and you send an army of Efreets (mostly under time stop) to make the lich use u pp al of its sleps so when all tis spells are gone and out of enchantments you kil it haa-haa...just how i always did it 5 minutes ago :D
its nice i know about this spell....yep :D
did you know fear is disenchantable :D and if you character dies, its off from them :D....haa.....read all 600 spells in the game when you make you first character the wizard hahhaa....
thank you for this wide (its not like i need it i cleared black pits I-II straight without this one but i may add it to my tool kit :D)
amazing vids
Glad you like them!
I think you're underestimating melf's acid arrows. at every stage of the game, melf does more damage than magic missiles (from lvl 1-9 it does marginally more) . in the mid-late game it does substantially greater damage (1.5x-2.5x that of magic missiles) and it stacks with itself... so a minor sequencer with 2x melfs do an *average* of 80 dmg throughout the duration not too shabby. a sequenced missiles is only gonna do 17.5*2=35 dmg on average, i admit the frontloaded damage is often great but there are scenarios where the better damage output/aura is superior to the frontloaded damage. i highly disagree with your assessment that the nature of a DoT makes it worse. how many *seriously* threatening fights end in 2-3 rounds anyways?
anyways loved the spellbook content here. very thoughtful. FWIW i play my SCS no reloads on hardcore, not insane so if there is a significant uptick in enemies that just cast Heal on themselves then fair enough... but id still consider it far superior to the rest of A tier.
Me personally mages stopped being damage dealers and became utility/ cc bots / tanks. Even in the case of multiple mages when I want to do damage acid arrow just isn't what I turn to. The only fights you have that are gonna last long enough to get good use out of this spell are against enemies who are probably immune to it like undead or high level mages, 99% of which are going to have spell turning or minor globe (or both) up rendering it moot, and if you are able to break their defences, just cast breach, and now they're butt naked. Korgan or another fighter with a haste spell is gonna tear their ass open in 2 seconds because a mage without buffs is a dead mage. Typically If i have multiple mages their damage spell of choice is MMM, it's low level, and if you're imp hasted, it will do in ONE round what it takes MAA to do in TEN. For 90% of the fights in this game, they're over quick as shit, for the ones that take longer, melfs acid arrows just isn't what I'd turn to. I used it ALL the time unmodded way back in the day, but after trying out all the spells and different ways to play, it just fell flat hard for me, but if thats your playstyle power to you friend, thanks for watching and commenting!
"how many seriously threatening fights end in 2-3 rounds anyways?"
The damage dealing phase ends in 2-3 rounds of most fights. Fights that drag out tend to be because the enemy has loads of protections on them. If an enemy lasts longer than 3 rounds, it isn't because you aren't doing enough damage. And, in fights with multiple enemies, you normally would focus down an enemy to finish them off. I can't think of any enemy that survives long once their protections are removed, not even dragons.
Another thing to consider is that a mage's single target damage is vastly inferior to a fighter's, outside of Improved Alacrity. If you are casting acid arrows with you mage, you would be better off with a fighter of some sort. With Improved Alacrity it doesn't really matter what you use.
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Agreed
Luck has a very small niche as a prebuff on a thief before a backstab attempt.
Fair point, thanks for commenting and watching friend!
What I really need to know is what spells I should take on my sorcerer and which ones I should leave for my mage.
It really depends on your party tbh, solo vs group play and how many mages you're taking are gonna make the spells you take entirely different. I might be doing a sorc video at some point and what I usually take but it's gonna have to be taken with big grains of salt because of that. Sorry it took so long to respond friend, God bless!