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mage summoning spells -- the best?

Discussion in 'BG2: Shadows of Amn (Classic)' started by Devlish, Jan 14, 2001.

  1. Devlish Gems: 2/31
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    I have a question for the experienced mages in BG2. In terms of the higher level summoning spells (6 and up), how do they compare? I assume that the ones with the longer durations tend to be weaker?

    I am wondering how good are:

    Invisible stalker (9 hours) compared to air or fire elementals (9 hours)?

    Wyvern (1r/l) vs. Carrion Summons (7r+1r/l)?

    Mordenk's Sword (1r/l)?

    Efreeti (8r +1r/l) vs. Djinni (1r/l)?

    Fiend (15r) vs. Gate (33r)?

    Thanks,


    Devlish
     
    Devlish, Jan 14, 2001
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    I'll go by your numbers:

    1.) Stalker seems to die a bit faster than fire elemental
    2.) Wyvern for punch and size, carrion crawler to disable people. Your choice.
    3.) Just plain nice
    4.) More or less the same except that they come from different planes. Probably a difference in spells they have
    5.) Gate rocks. Better. Though know that powerful mages tend to kill Pit Fiends pretty easy. I remember walking in with one into the sphere where Tolgerias was at, thinking it a done fight. Boy was I wrong. He cast one spell and it dropped dead!
    DOH.
    Otherwise it works nicely on any less powerful creatures, especially fighters & vampires. Rips em to pieces. ;)

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    Taluntain, Jan 14, 2001
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    Doesn't animate dead give you a skeleton warrior after you are lvl 14 mage?
     
    Lukki, Jan 14, 2001
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    Yup. Quite handy.
     
    Taluntain, Jan 14, 2001
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    The only upper level summoning spells I use reguarly are the Nisharuu/Hackashar summons. Those are sweet, without a doubt. Talk about wreaking havok on mages. Just make sure your own mages don't get dominated, or you are SOL. My Kensai/Mage got dominated while fighting Kangaxx(first form), and my own Hackashar started attacking me. Of course I didn't notice it at the time. Later I find out it started sucking charges out of my rods of ressurection. Not cool.

    I call on Skeleton Warriors all the time. Very effective spell. Wyvern Call is also nice. Hate the elemental summoning because of the time needed to take control of them. The Druid spell is so much better in this regard. I tend to never summon efreeti/djinn. Same goes for the demons, though I should use such spells more often.
     
    Crawl, Jan 14, 2001
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