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In article <332647...@penning.lanl.gov>, Russell Glasser
<rgla...@penning.lanl.gov> writes
>Linsel Greene wrote:
>> 
>>         Is it just me, or are the higher level spells relatively useless
>> when compared with the lower level spells and better rankings?  For
>> example, a solid lightning bolt at a level 7 ot 8 is usually sufficient
>> for 6 mana to take out most things, or a couple anyway, rather than
>> casting fireball for 26 mana, and making certain to kill it (ifitisn't
>> moving).
>>         Bone Spirit??  Lousy!
>>         Elemental??  Pretty useless.
>>         I don't know, but Fire Wall and Flame Wave are my babies.
>> 
>> --
>> 
>>          ...and the sky turned the color of Pepto Bismol....
>>                                 Love Always,
>>                                         Linsel Greene
>
>       Fireball will become your best friend once you've read several 
>books.  At high levels, fireball only takes six mana and does massively 
>more damage than lightning.  And, of course, it's works on monsters 
>which are immune to lightning.
>
Agreed, at a decent level it's superb for taking out the Counselors at a
distance and I've even flattened two or three Hell Spawn at a time with
one fireball. In Lazarus' Lair I drop a couple of flame walls into the
witch pens before teleporting in then mop them up with fireball.

-- 
Robin F. Knight - The Yellow Jester does not play, but gently pulls the 
                  strings; and smiles as the puppets dance, in the Court
                  of the Crimson King