Do people underuse mages?

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect

-If you are one of the rare nations able to cast the spell, far strike is actually a really good non-evocation evocation spell. Compare it to any early game elemental damage spell and you'll see that it wins every time. It does more damage, with greater accuracy, with greater base range, can't be blocked by shields or air shield, and can't be ignored with any form of resistance. Also, you can cast it all day long as it costs only 5 fatigue.

Are you sure you're not thinking of the CBM version? The vanilla Farstrike has only Prec 5 IIRC, and I think only Prec 100 spells ignore shields.

-Max