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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.
	Bone spirit's useless as far as I can tell, though some people 
have told me it's very nice for killing careless cheaters with a million 
hit points.  Zap them and they lose hundreds of thousands at a time.
-- 
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man."
                                -- George Bernard Shaw

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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.
-

Actually Fireball is one of the MOST useful spells in the game - does a
great deal of damage at high levels, has an area of effect, and once you
have a few spell levels, has a nominal mana fee (10).  But I totally
agree with your comments on Bone Spirit and Elemental (although it looks
cool).  I never use Flame Wave though...  

Golem, Apocalypse, Nova and Teleport are all very useful 4th level
spells.  One of the best things about this game is the fact that the
spells are really quite different - not just 7 or 8 "mass damage" type
spells which do varying degrees of damage, like some old D&D type games.

Desslock

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