Low Cost Tactics

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Originally Posted by vfb

Dragonmaster is a 30-gem nature ritual (Enchant-8). Makes your drake spells summon 3 instead of 1. Hopefully you've got something better to do with your god than summon drakes. Maybe with a 50%-off enchantment site and national N+(F/E/W) mages you could pull off some sort of drake surprise.

I wouldn't say it's a low-cost tactic though.

Originally Posted by Meursy

In CBM Dragonmaster is a Enchantment level 3 ritual that costs 5 nature gems, making it slightly more cost effective!

Ah, yes, I was referring to the CBM version. Without CBM, dragonmaster is utterly worthless. I also used the pretender for site searching, casting mother oak, and casting gift of health. And the mother oak was later used to empower one of my fire mages to take over the fire drake summoning job.
The fire drakes are range 10, area of effect 1, damage 15 (armor piercing), with 5 ammunition. They're 48 hitpoints, 12 protection so they have decent survivability from enemy archers and accidentally ending up in melee. It's easier to get this to work with frost drakes, but they lack the armor piercing, so aren't as interesting.