The mage gameplay in the very first game was about the destruction. Which made the gameplay kinda boring - blast, blast, blast... end of the battle. Then the devs nerfed the AOE destruction spells and thus changed the mage style of play - it became about summoning and buffing. The trap spell also helps.

Drop Soothsayers, Yotuns and Axethrowers. If you want no loss battle, check other topics for strategies. I did the spider on impossible with many loses without trolls, just using Jarls, Bears and snake's special attack on boss, while cleaning spiders. I also recommend getting frenzy skill, as it helps in longer battle.

Lol i don't understand why the boss needs all this stuff, counter ranged, counter several times per turn etc. The only thing this design does is making players use some abusive tactic.

Also no rage in the boss battles means people who spend all point in rage are pretty fucked. Or as me semi mage/rage, with no good spells its really lol.

But with skills like frenzy im guessing the battle is very easy. Bad design imo.

Make the "normal" battles harder and the bosses hard but not like this.

I wouldn't say mages suck without luck. They'll have a hard time no-lossing impossible if they get no good spells at all, but they can certainly beat the game. Once you get off the first 4 islands you'll have the majority of spells in the game at your fingertips.

And I take it by "check other topics for strategies" you want to say "just use trolls". :D Because there is no other strategy vs the spider.

I beat the spider without trolls on normal as a mage, although I did have loses.... yeah... I hadn't realized trolls were in the game because the store that sells trolls didn't appear on my map and I wasn't away kb games could have hidden stores and I hadn't been to the forums yet....


Jarls are really good at clearing away spiders, royal snakes and berzerkers are both quite good in the fight I found too, at least if you're willing to have loses, if you wanna go no loss then warrior maidens would be good (except my game spawned no warrior maidens, literally 1 and no sacrifice scroll so yeah 1 was unusable)

Call of nature in this game is utter garbage check out the tread on how to best spider. Ice spikes if you got em to cover the whole screen makes it so spiders cant fall pretty easy that way. No loss impossible feels not so impressive after doing it need mod to make game harder

Neat trick with the ice spikes. Post heavies at either edge of the screen and block off the middle with spikes. Nice. That being said, Im up to level 28 now, still no AoE or summon spells. Wish i would have made a skald at this point...

After beating no loss impossible with soothsayer then playing a skald all I can say is appreciate the somewhat difficult challenges the soothsayer gives you. There skald is fall asleep joke to play :]