Which sphere of magic do you always want a few picks in?

[aldin]

I'm still trying to get a feel for good 'utility' magic, the stuff you can always use no matter which pretender/nation combo you have:

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm I thought it would be along the line of Enchantment or Construction.

This was difficult. You can always fill these in later in the game so mostly its early game bonuses. Fire adds nice items to add firepower to an army (bad pun), nature allows items to allow feeding large armys, astral for scrying though you never take a few in that, blood because its one of the harder ones to fill in and allows for useful summonings.

[Teraswaerto]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
astral for scrying though you never take a few in that

For a rainbow mage who's never to see combat a few in astral work quite well.

[Endoperez]

Air as something that comes form Dom1... But still, I might not take it as a Caelum. Mistform would be good for a SC, and air has nice spells for mages... So it propably is air.

[Keir Maxwell]

Sorry Aldin but I can't answer your poll as you left out my choice. There is no path I think you need to have access to. Sure in Dom1 you could argue that not having access to air was too big a risk to take but in Dom2 I don't think there is a path of magic I would always take - as it should be.

Cheers

Keir

[PvK]

I agree with Keir on this.

PvK