[Cainehill]

But are any of those suggestions better than D3 mages casting Wither Bones? I mean - big area of effect; decent damage; unresisted by armor or MR.

Sure, it's a high research spell - but within the ... 6-9 range he has researched in everything but blood.

Not that hard to get D3 mages either with that research - obviously death magic will do the trick, but so will nature. (Lamia Queens start with D2 I think, and easily get D3. And the first LQ can create staff of skulls to get to D3.) Then there's national / thematic mages, in addition to death / nature.

Although ... It does eventually start to seem like _every_ nation needs nature magic, given that the Chalice and GoH are the only things that heal wounds on all pretenders, and both require nature.

Anything other than Nature and Death give decent death mages as a summonable?