Nominate your "Tiny Tim" spell here!

[BigJMoney]

I've seen blink funtion in another way. I've seen mages get attacked in melee then blink to safety to cast other spells. It never kept them alive very long, but there's something. I am curious how that spell is chosen by the AI, since it's not a spell you'd likely script.

Blink has been taken off the list for now unless someone still feels its the weakest spell compared to all the others.

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PS -- When time comes to vote on most useless I have a pretty strong argument against Dragon Master, I think.

[Ubercat]

Interesting negative takes on dragonmaster. I'm a pretty inexperienced player and had the good fortune to make good use of it in a couple of my earliest games.

I was playing a rainbow archmage, though, and on a big map. By early lategame I had 3-5 rampaging armies of 60+ fire drakes, barbecuing one enemy force after another.

Early on, my pretender site searched and laid the foundation for the gem income which enabled me to set up 2-3 summoning squads. Each with 2-3 mages snagging 6-9 drakes per turn.

After a couple games of this strategy I didn't use it again since it was too easy. I didn't realise at the time that it was only a rainbow pretender which made it possible and practical.

[Manuk]

blink is not good mainly for the same reason berserk is. If a mage its not scripted or scripted to do something he cant.
he will cast this spells that do a lot more harm than if he didnt do nothing.
ex. turn one blink by a guru right next to enemy meleers. no armor, fatigued, alone. why did he do that?

[SlipperyJim]

I just want to echo the gripe about Touch of Madness. Silly Nature mages keep casting it on my missile troops....

(mumbles something about "Why do Mothers of Avalon hate my Longbowmen so much?")

[MaxWilson]

Ubercat said:
Early on, my pretender site searched and laid the foundation for the gem income which enabled me to set up 2-3 summoning squads. Each with 2-3 mages snagging 6-9 drakes per turn.

After a couple games of this strategy I didn't use it again since it was too easy. I didn't realise at the time that it was only a rainbow pretender which made it possible and practical.

Actually, I think the hard part is having national mages with access to both high nature paths and an elemental path. What nation were you playing?

-Max

[Ubercat]

MaxWilson said:

Actually, I think the hard part is having national mages with access to both high nature paths and an elemental path. What nation were you playing?

-Max

Marignon. My archmage had about 6 paths at level 4. He got me such an income that I was able to empower 9-12 of my mages to N3 for dragonmaster. Come to think of it, I believe I found a site that made druids recruitable at one point so I was able to make even more N3 mages.

This was before dragonmaster got patched too, so it would randomly vanish sometimes and I'd have to recast. I didn't realise it was a bug and was trying to figure out what I was doing that invalidated the spell!

[Sombre]

Well if you put such a huge amount of effort and gems into it any spell can be used to win the game, pretty much. That doesn't make it useful or cost effective. You could have won much more easily with the gems you burned empowering, casting DM and summoning drakes.

Another problem with DM - the AI loves to cast it (when playing MA Oceania for instance), but the AI doesn't love to summon drakes. There's nothing linking the two spells in the AI.