Soothsayer build

[Bhruic]

Originally Posted by Razorflame

Hmm my safest bet would be investing in lvl 3 order magic before runic magic

since most of your beginning enemies will be undead

and personally i didn't find runic magic do be that good anyway and not alot of randomness on first island

I'd have to disagree. If you get Heal, then yes, Order magic can be quite useful, but only to a point. Most of your units won't have that much health at that point, so the actual healing side tends to be overkill. The spell does do a decent amount of damage to Undead, but at level 3 it does less damage than a level 3 Magic Missile spell. The only advantage it has is the ridiculously low mana cost - but if you're playing a Soothsayer, you likely have a decent amount of mana to work with. Throw in the damage from a level 3 Winter Dance spell, and Runic magic wins, imo.

[Nevar]

Rune magic has a 50,000 gold scroll called Blizzard. The damage seems pretty good and it hits a lot of targets, but I can't really say as I'm not a soothsayer.

[MoonLite22]

Originally Posted by Nevar

Rune magic has a 50,000 gold scroll called Blizzard. The damage seems pretty good and it hits a lot of targets, but I can't really say as I'm not a soothsayer.

I'm using Blizzard for some time now and at least in the midgame legend areas after spider boss it is really strong. It can hit all the enemy units turn1 if you aim it right, dealing a lot of damage with an 83% chance of freeze. My favourite damage spell in the game so far.

[namad]

invest in high level magic for a class of spells only after you find a scroll that makes you want to do it, and just float ~1-2 upgrades worth of runes whenever you can, so that if you find an amazing scroll you can instantly use it, be flexible scroll finds are highly random, but yeah... even just level 2 heal, or even better level 3 OWNS on the first 3islands for sure

[Razorflame]

Originally Posted by Bhruic

I'd have to disagree. If you get Heal, then yes, Order magic can be quite useful, but only to a point. Most of your units won't have that much health at that point, so the actual healing side tends to be overkill. The spell does do a decent amount of damage to Undead, but at level 3 it does less damage than a level 3 Magic Missile spell. The only advantage it has is the ridiculously low mana cost - but if you're playing a Soothsayer, you likely have a decent amount of mana to work with. Throw in the damage from a level 3 Winter Dance spell, and Runic magic wins, imo.

i wonder how?

i have level 2 runic magic it dead 145-175 damage with a mana cost of 15
i got like 38 mana so that would mean a damage of 290-350
and yes u can hit multiple targets for more damage but u ussualy want to take out the archers and stuff

while for a mana cost of 2 with 70 damage or healing

u could potentionaly do alot more damage+ healing

15 mana cost is way to expensive in beginning imho

[Bhruic]

Sure, the Winter Dance spell takes a lot of mana - you only want to use it when you're going to hit 3+ units (or multiple ranged units if you want to take them down fast). But the Magic Missile spell only takes 5 mana regardless of the level, so you can cast quite a few of them, and they do more damage at each level than Heal does at the corresponding level.