Best Spells?

[Morkilus]

I've seen an AI Lich do pretty good as an SC, but I seriously doubt the AI decked out a pretender in all the gear necessary to be really lethal and then got killed by an Arrow. What kind of pretender did you kill with it? If it was a Wyrm or dragon, I'm impressed

As far as good early-game non-battlefield spells are concerned, I'm usually partial to site-searching (Dark Knowledge, Voice of Aspu, the Thaummaturgy 2 ones). Not flashy I know, but it gets you a boost in your gem economy for the big enchantments and emergency summons.

[GamerMan12]

It was a Manticore pretender. I think the Ai was using a modified SC strategy with a hero doing most of the fighting backed up by the pretender. However both were on the top ten heroes list, the hero was top and had the death arena trident.

GM12

[Nerfix]

Okay, a Manticore shouldn't die from the Arrow.

[Endoperez]

Morkilus made a good point. He meant Thaumaturgy, though, not Transmutation. The astral site-searching spell, Arcane Probing, is Evocation, and Death and some odd underwater site-searching spells are in Conjuration.

EDIT:
It might be that your arrow hit the Manticore, perhaps even to the heart. However, it wasn't necessarily enough to kill the beast. He will boast a chest wound, though. Most human heroes die after an Arrow, though. Is there a cross (indicating Death) next to the hero's name in the list of heroes?

[st.patrik]

Manticore could have been in strong adverse dominion, therefore perhaps had very few HP ?

[GamerMan12]

No he was in his own dominion or at least neutral

GM12

[Teraswaerto]

I always liked Manifestation. Assassination spells are powerful when used at the right time, and the ashen angel can take out most commanders even if they have bodyguards (and she's kind of cute).

[Shovah32]

That LA atlantis assasination spell tupilak or whatever its called is nasty. The MA agartha spells from sentinal and upwards are very good (and with weapons of sharpness later on..) and, from the limited use ive made of it the blood 9 horror seed spell is quite good.

[Nerfix]

Dreams of R'lyeh sounds wicked, but I have yet to use it.