[Jazzepi]

I'm putting quills to good use in one of my games. I have a good air gem income, and air gems, to be honest, aren't really useful for gearing up SCs. Generally you want earth, fire, water, and nature gems for that, with some astral thrown in for MR amulets, and starshin skullcaps.

With that in mind, what /do/ you use air gems for?

1. Battle magic (fog warriors, etc)
2. Summoning air queens
3. Forging items like staff of storms

Outside of the above three applications, I don't see a ton of use for air gems. That said, 3 can be extremely expensive. Air boosters are 25 a pop, and a staff of storms will run you the same amount. Though, generally you only need two air boosters, and maybe one or two staves.

With that in mind, I'm having great success using quills to push my research up and above by forging them with hammers. They're upkeep free, and you'll have them until the end of the game, which is really nice.

I really think air quills could use a research boost to 4 instead of 3. That would bring them closer to lightless lanterns, but TBH, air magic is already really good. I don't think it needs to be able to forge great researching items as well.

Jazzepi