Add in the directed teleport to keep distance while they die and your set for just about anything. My drake was doing just fine - even on deeper floors - tanking aggro while I got Golden Ratio or Recursive on everyone. Not that big a problem though, so long as you have a pet. Whereas prenerf fireball was a castable mini bolt of destruction. Mathemagic has the problem of being a single target tree though. It allows you to craft a lot of great early gear, like Stellar Orbs and the Fruitful Staff, and keeps you supplied in Health, Mana, and Replenishment potions for the entire game. I would sink points into whatever bread and butter skill that I needed, then sink everything else into Alchemy. After I got Digging Ray, I never had to kick a locked door or take a long and dangerous detour ever again.Īlchemy, even with the most recent nerfs, is something I consider almost essential for playing an effective Mage. The Digging Ray is the best thing since sliced bread. Invive Thaumite Swarm was a great boss killer and great Monster Zoo cleaner (since it basically never goes away due to the close proximity of enemies). The Mustache, followed by the Robot, were both effective pets, with the Mustache clearing out floors 1-3 and the Robot handling things (with support) on all floors afterwards. It also allows you to get out-of-reach items by displacing them, moving them to a reachable square. Unliving Wall creates effective barricades (and can be used as direct damage in a pinch).
Golem, on the other hand, was awesome throughout. I easily could have substituted pretty much any other direct damage spell school, since Fleshbore is duplicated as a similar spell in most of the other schools. I never used the self-heal or meatshield, and really only got use out of Fleshbore (which is a pretty useful DoT that kills most things in one or two castings all the way up to Floor 8) and Miasmatic Putrefaction (which was only used for Monster Zoos, and didn't help all that much because it doesn't do damage unless an enemy moves in it). I beat Normal/Permadeath with Golem/Flesh.
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