Arcane Highs and Divine Woes, Worst Level selection? Cleric anyone? Options

[Frazurblu]

I love Arcane casters and every level has great choices except Level 8 which has virtually nothing I care for or ever use (Okay ADHW - one Spell) . What Spells does anyone find useful? Pierce Shield is not much better than Pierce Magic , PW Blind is pointless , I don't find much use for Maze (if you can Maze it , its easier to kill it).
Does anyone agree? What Spells does anyone find useful?
Also I love the 7th Level Spell Khelben's Warding Whip - a pity that it has no real place in IA. What if it materialised as a spectral whip (use the Greater Command animation) and thus became a conjuration spell? Now its a nasty 9th level spell.
I know it has been stated here many times before but the 9th level Spellstrike should have more Power. Perhaps the Spell Description could be changed to allow it to dispel Magical and Combat protections. Then move it down to 8th level.


Also does anyone think that Clerics should have access to a Spell to block summary dispelling? One Dispel/Remove Magic wipes out layers of CC , AoF , BB , RM , DW , etc. Maybe allowing Clerics to have an Arcane Barrier (6th Level Spell) of some sort that gets more powerful by level. At 12th level you need at least Pierce Magic to bring it down , at 14th you need Ruby Ray or Khelben , at 16th Pierce Shield at 18th you need Spellstrike. It is not an absorber like Shield of the Archons - simply a barrier to incoming dispelling magics (i.e. Remove/Dispel Magic will never work on a Cleric while Arcane Barrier is active). Too often the Cleric is in the midst of a major encounter and one high powered dispel renders him instantly weak and fleeing slowly for the fringes of battle to become a passive healer. This spell would not IMO make him over powerful , it simply makes an enemy specifically target him for debuffing.

This post has been edited by Frazurblu: Jun 13 2009, 04:05 AM

[Frazurblu]

Incidentely , when confronted by an adversary who has Spell Shield active + other magical protections like Spell Turning , Globe of Invulnerability (but not any S.I) will one Spellstrike do the trick? Or are 2 reqiured to strip all magical protections?
What about limiting the amount of Spellstrike scrolls in the game a la Spell Shield?

This post has been edited by Frazurblu: Jun 14 2009, 05:50 PM

[Sikret]

Incidentely , when confronted by an adversary who has Spell Shield active + other magical protections like Spell Turning , Globe of Invulnerability (but not any S.I) will one Spellstrike do the trick? Or are 2 reqiured to strip all magical protections?

Only one spellstrike is enough. The spell shield's description is also changed to show the information that it cannot block spellstrike.

What about limiting the amount of Spellstrike scrolls in the game a la Spell Shield?

Even if it was a good idea, it's not practically feasible, because some enemy spellcasters also hold spellstrike scrolls for occasions on which they detect a mage in the party who's not running SI:abj. The number of spellstrike scrolls a player can find in the game varies depending on the number of scrolls the enemies use or drop.