Newbie Game EA (Running)

[Ironhawk]

Gem usage is a complicated affair. In your particular case my first instinct is that you have been bitten by the rule where a mage cannot use more gems per spell than he has natural (unbuffed) skill in that path. So say you had a 2E mage, he would need to use a gem just to cast the spell and then perhaps another for fatigue. But even with this, he will still get 40 fatigue per shot. And that adds up fast.