yeah that lord with his etherpplz I wanted to mention too.. not very cost effective I think. But if you want the highest astral power (and the put items on him) to cast high level spells he might be it.
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I don´t think that 90 gems are enough to empower anyone near as the first level is 50 gems (I think) and you get only 40 more gems to more levels so the best you can get is S2 by empower.
No no, I meant you could (not that you should) empower an already low-level astral mage. For example lizard shamans are fairly easy to find and they are S1N1, so empowering him to S3 would cost 75 astral gems, which is 15 gems under the ether lord price.
There is also one arch devil(i think, might be wrong) and one Ice devil with astral 3. And a few other blood summons I think. Maybe one of the Heliophagi has astral?
Then I beleive there is one death summon with astral randoms. Cant remember which.
I also beleive one or more of the elemental kings have astral.
thanks everyone. I'm actually looking for something to forge spell focus' and the like so my pretender doesn't have to do the menial work. looks like spectres are going to be my best bet. the other option will be to earth empower the pretender and use golems....