flamebeau and devils

[Arryn]

rabelais said:
So the holy pyre spell mari starts with is useless against devils?

That's silly, IMHO. Arguably a bug.

As I said in an earlier thread on this same topic, the only thing wrong with this spell is its name. The spell's description very clearly states its effects (fire), which is not holy and thus not effective versus devils.

It would be a trivial thing for the devs to change the spell's name and thus end, once and for all, the arguments regarding this spell and its use against devils. It was first reported quite a while ago, and several patches have come and gone and we've not seen any inclination on the part of IW to do anything about this misleadingly-named spell.