09-10-2006, 07:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2006, 08:05 AM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Quote:I think I've made a pretty decent one. I call mine "Archmage's Fury" since I liked Wizard's Fury, and then I made it once I got to be the Archmage. It costs 57 mana and it does 10 damage health over 3 secs, 10 fire damage over 3 secs, 10 frost damage over 3 secs, and 10 shock dmg over 3 secs. At level 25+ most things die with a fews shots of it. And in combo with Archery master it makes for great ranged combo's.One of the fun things I found out in the world of spellcrafting is that, if you tack on a really high-level Paralyze spell on top of Drain Health 100/1 second and some elemental damage to boot, this highly-lethal spell gets treated as an Illusion spell: cast with Illusion's characteristic green bolt.
I named one such incarnation of this spell "Avada Kedavra".;)May not be a 1-hit kill for the higher-end creatures, but it's close.
On the other hand, I've named Fireball spells "Disco Inferno" and Healing spells "Staying Alive". Still trying to figure what effects I can impart with "Night Fever", though.
A low-yield, wide-area Fireball spell designed specifically to kill a close-knit trio of deer in one shot picked up the name of "Bambi Bomb", and a 3-second 100-point Charm spell (you only need 3 seconds since time stops when you converse with an NPC, which is the only time you ever need a Charm spell) gets named the "Jedi Mind Trick".
And there was a certain quirk of irony when I created a Journeyman-level Absorb Health spell named "Blood Draw"— I used it (in combination with my Mages' Staff of Paralyze) to despatch a certain murderer who had made his rounds through Bruma. There's nothing more supremely satisfying in the pursuit of justice than watching a killer impersonating a vampire hunter suffer final justice at the hands of a mortal mage doing his best imitation of a vampire.
And when it came to a certain bona fide vampire you encounter in the game, my mage could not help but laugh at the predicament: "Oooh! I'm a big, bad High Elf vampire! Blah! Blah! I'm bloodthirsty! I'm evil! I have a 75% weakness to fire-based attacks— oh, #^$%!"
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