What use is death magic?

[Nerfix]

Banes. Or then a skull staff and then Bane Lords. Hmmm, I don't play death nations that much but Death magic is considered powerful last time I checked it.

[dirtywick]

What you could do is summon other death mages to expediate the process of building an undead army. Another thing is death probably has the most stealthy unit summons of any path, so you could build a respectable raiding army that can handle PD.

Or, empower your pretender to be able to cast the more powerful death spells. Can't go wrong with a Wraith Lord or Tartarian.

[Ballbarian]

I can be rolling in piles of different gem types, but always seem to be running short on death gems. I spend them almost as quick as they come in. I also tend to (almost) always have at least 3 levels of death magic on my pretender regardless of the nation that I am playing.

I typically summon mound fiends to help with spending the death gems. Skull Face, Skull Staff, Standard of the Damned, Wraith Sword, Horror Helmet, Skull Mentors, to name a few items. If there are any gems left over they go to summons.

[KissBlade]

There's too many uses for death gems, I can tell you what are some things you shouldnt' cast with them (at your stage of the game). Any summonables below level 5 research. If you cant' decide how to spend your death gems just pick random spells from level 5 or higher. It's almost impossible to go wrong.

[Cainehill]

The skull mentors are always _very_ handy, especially considering the increased research difficulty.