Newbie guide to SCs?

[Blitz]

One final thing. When playing Acroscephale it's sometimes difficult to get 2 levels of death magic for the wraith sword without taking it on your pretender. There are a few ways around this, but often I will simply empower my first philosopher with death magic up to level 2. This means your wraith sword costs 40 death gems (or maybe even 80 astral pearls), but it's very difficult to get around that while using either the Nataraja or Virtue.

One way to do it is to take death level 3 instead of water level 3. Then you can use boots of quickness (or jade armor) instead of quickness, and soul vortex instead of breath of winter. Of course this solution makes the wraith sword somewhat redundant, but I digress.