Boosting Fire.

[Saxon]

Well, let me re-phrase the question. I am having a hard time boosting fire, particularly outside of battle. I also have a hard time with air. I can see the design reason for air, it is a strong path, particularly in battle and boosting it easily could make air too strong.

Is fire seen as being equally powerful, so that it needs some tempering? Astral is very strong, but certainly has weaknesses. Nature is, in my opinion, easy to boost, but not as strong as some others. Is limiting boosting the way fire is kept under control? Or is there something else?

[Lingchih]

You will just have to empower to boost Fire. Air boost is virtually unimportant.

[Endoperez]

In multiplayer, you can always trade for Flaming Skulls. They're cheap to make, if you have the mages for them, and with luck a single Flaming Skull is enough to get you up to the Flaming Helmets.

[Agema]

My general experience is that fire gems are relatively less used.

On the battlefield, most fire spells to rain damage down are fairly low fatigue and low-middle level in skill required. The summons are unspectacular, until maybe Conj 8 and the elemental lords. There aren't more magic fire items to make than other paths.

Consequently, I usually assume it's not tough building up a pile of fire gems that can be used for empowerment.