10-25-2008, 12:35 AM
You sure it wasn't just renamed to Vortex?
My dude has Raise Dead a rank 3. At rank 4 the ghosts are totally immune to damage and flourishes (right now I think they're just immune to flourishes). They do okay damage, even if they're pretty non-aggressive in their fighting. The main drawback to it is that the amount of Will experience they generate on hit is incredibly small. I didn't really start getting exp till I switched out my Level 1 raise dead for Lightning and ran into the middle of the enemy group to spam it, doing small damage and (more importantly) stunning the enemy for my minions to rape. It's only when you start comboing Raise Dead with other magic that it really starts to get good experience returns. Oh, and the guys seem to have like a Taunt aura or something, because regardless of how close they are to the ghosts, enemies immediately switch to them. Honestly, Raise Dead isn't as bad as all that, but it's not something you can rely on exclusively, which is what I was going for. Level 4 doesn't give me a +1 to minions, but I hope level 5 does... Or at least gives me something else suitably awesome.
Right now I still have a shitty sword becuz I'm stubborn and don't want to cave to non-magical attacks, but I'm pretty much doing EVERYTHING right now anyway. 1-2-3 combo with the sword, whip out the pistol to shoot them in the face, then lightning spam. It's great fun. Just not... magey.
@Dehan - Force Push is awesome and should not be passed up. It's AoE gets BIG, it does good damage, and tosses people around for lulz. Nothing beats knocking a guy over with a Force Push and then executing him for nice, BIG experience.
My dude has Raise Dead a rank 3. At rank 4 the ghosts are totally immune to damage and flourishes (right now I think they're just immune to flourishes). They do okay damage, even if they're pretty non-aggressive in their fighting. The main drawback to it is that the amount of Will experience they generate on hit is incredibly small. I didn't really start getting exp till I switched out my Level 1 raise dead for Lightning and ran into the middle of the enemy group to spam it, doing small damage and (more importantly) stunning the enemy for my minions to rape. It's only when you start comboing Raise Dead with other magic that it really starts to get good experience returns. Oh, and the guys seem to have like a Taunt aura or something, because regardless of how close they are to the ghosts, enemies immediately switch to them. Honestly, Raise Dead isn't as bad as all that, but it's not something you can rely on exclusively, which is what I was going for. Level 4 doesn't give me a +1 to minions, but I hope level 5 does... Or at least gives me something else suitably awesome.
Right now I still have a shitty sword becuz I'm stubborn and don't want to cave to non-magical attacks, but I'm pretty much doing EVERYTHING right now anyway. 1-2-3 combo with the sword, whip out the pistol to shoot them in the face, then lightning spam. It's great fun. Just not... magey.
@Dehan - Force Push is awesome and should not be passed up. It's AoE gets BIG, it does good damage, and tosses people around for lulz. Nothing beats knocking a guy over with a Force Push and then executing him for nice, BIG experience.
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