Mages casting weak spells

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Agrajag said:
My guess: Fire Flies and Fire Darts both target "one person" and have 6/3+ effects. Fire Blast, for example has AOE 1.
When fighting against Niefel Giants, there should only be 1 giant per square, so while Fire Blast will deal 26+ AP damage to one giant, Fire Flies will deal 6 AP damage to 6 giants, and Fire Darts will deal 10 AP damage to 3+ giants. It is therefore possible that the AI considers this a better deal. Though in the case of Fire Blast it is more probably because it is range 5.
Fireball has a usable range, but is AOE1, 14+ AP damage, which again would target just one giant for 14+ AP damage, Fire Cloud would hit 5+ targets for 8 AP damage. The first could be considered weaker than both FF and FD, and the second is probably considered "not worth an extra gem over FF or FD".

That makes sense. Thank you!