what spell carried you?

[Private Pyle]

i was wondering what spells people are finding most effective. Maybe mention your level and if youre early mid or late game if possible.


Lvl 4 (shadow bae and gale)
scorching ray
hold person
command
aid
false life

and of course the most op spell in the game guidance. heheh. i use others but these are probably my go to.

[Zoid13]

not using "spells"
my team is ranger, rogue, fighter, barb lol

[Dr. Sinclair]

Publicado originalmente por Zoid13:

not using "spells"
my team is ranger, rogue, fighter, barb lol

ranger uses spells

[Lily]

I'm playing in tactician mode so my list might be a bit different. Depending on the part of the game the spells that really carried me varied.

The strongest two spells consistently though I've found are Haste and Slow. Haste turns long fights into short fights and Slow turns tough fights into fights that are as easy as fighting goblins.

I'm also a big fan of control spells. Plantgrowth is a strong one that has won me a few fights especially since its concentration free so I can drop it down and concentrate on another spell. Either lock foes in the plants with hunger of Hadar or something else.

I run full ranged parties most the time, but I'll get into melee because its fun. not because its optimal, because it most certainly is not. If you're wondering about range being frail in melee. Don't be. My lowest AC character PC is my warlock at 19 AC and she's Fey pact so if she gets hit she vanishes plus I have Armor of Agathys so most enemies that get to her are dead or die shortly after hitting her.

Eldritch blast is cracked. With the armor I have once I have lighting charges its 1d10+6+6+7+6 per beam. Add Haste in the mix thanks to Pact of the Tome and enemies with 120 health are almost certain to die. She can Nova pretty hard but someone else has to give her haste to do that.

Any spell that adds bodies has been really helpful. Less so in Act 3 since I'm mostly fighting small groups that crumble to my Warlock and Ranger/Rogue. With my Druid giving haste through spores as well and providing support. Late game gets pretty wild with what you can do.

Another spell I keep coming back to is moon beam. Works especially well with haste. Similarly, Cloud Kill has been surprisingly good.

[Ryzilynt]

Publicado originalmente por Dr. Sinclair:

Publicado originalmente por Zoid13:

not using "spells"
my team is ranger, rogue, fighter, barb lol

ranger uses spells

lol

[Harukage]

I always take Gale with me. Pretty much the only spells i use with him are: fireball, magic missiles, misty step and haste. The dificulty is Tactician, and i am just blasting through. Literally.
I mean, there are also Shield and Mage Armor. But you are playing your caster wrong if you do not have them.

[SnowVix]

Guidance & Sleep. So many times that 1d4 has been the difference between a successful check and failed check.

Publicado originalmente por Dr. Sinclair:

Publicado originalmente por Zoid13:

not using "spells"
my team is ranger, rogue, fighter, barb lol

ranger uses spells

as can rogue (Arcane Trickster) and fighter (Eldritch Knight) if so chosen.

[Dr. Sinclair]

Publicado originalmente por SnowVix:

Guidance & Sleep. So many times that 1d4 has been the difference between a successful check and failed check.

Publicado originalmente por Dr. Sinclair:

ranger uses spells

as can rogue (Arcane Trickster) and fighter (Eldritch Knight) if so chosen.

I know. Point was that ranger has them naturally.

[Alex]

Explosive Satchel. And no it's not a spell cause it works better than one. I suggest you stop reading if you don't want to know how to make fights really easy. Basically you take a bag, fill it with those explosive bottles and when you got an enemy that's too tough you just toss the bag at it. The bag will break on impact, provided you threw it right and all the contents inside will spill out. Light them up with a fire spell and observe the fireworks.

[Sir Robin]

spirt weapon
spirt guardians (im a cleric and i also have shadowheart so double cleric action going on)
recently owl bear
fae summon
firebolt

[The Vagrant Knight]

Publicado originalmente por Alex:

Explosive Satchel. And no it's not a spell cause it works better than one. I suggest you stop reading if you don't want to know how to make fights really easy. Basically you take a bag, fill it with those explosive bottles and when you got an enemy that's too tough you just toss the bag at it. The bag will break on impact, provided you threw it right and all the contents inside will spill out. Light them up with a fire spell and observe the fireworks.

the name "explosive satchel" gave me baldur's gate dark alliance 2 flashbacks.
This is basically how I managed to kill the demon in the shar temple on round 1. (inspired by
his own tactics lol)

[Dragon Master]

Call Lightning and a Potion of Speed really causes a LOT of damage for druids.

[Quillithe]

Publicado originalmente por Brian Sirith:

Sleep. I love it. It’s probably what Gale casts 90% of the time.

Sleep having a 100% success chance on valid targets is pretty amazing

Personally, I've been using a lot of Enhance Jump and Feather Fall, and Guidance. And of course Detect thoughts.

Bless, bless is always very strong

For awhile I was loving ray of frost with some of the stacking benefits to using frost damage.

Maybe overkill (and...kinda wrong for her) but I've been having Shadowheart cast Daylight on someone regularly which has been actually helpful and made seeing objects in dark dungeons easier.

Honestly I'm playing as Gale and I have so many ritual spells and long lasting buffs I don't have much room for combat spells.

[CXXXV]

Hold monster - trivialize big bosses such as raphael

Haste - seeing the big damage boost on level 5 cause of this

scorching ray - really good to cut through unstoppable stacks

[Zoid13]

Publicado originalmente por Ryzilynt:

Publicado originalmente por Dr. Sinclair:

ranger uses spells

lol

thats why "spells" was in quotation marks. my gloomstalker just shoot arrows.

Publicado originalmente por Dr. Sinclair:

I know. Point was that ranger has them naturally.

having them and using them is different :P
pretty much the only "spell" i use is true strike and that's a cantrip. doesn't use any of my spell points.
i have entangling shot but i haven't used it once in my 80hours so far lol
also only long rested 3 items so far and im in the shadow cursed lands. tactician isnt hard enough.

also my rogues an assasin not a trickster so i have no spells lol (level 6)

[Nordil(Hun)]

Publicado originalmente por Quillithe:

Publicado originalmente por Brian Sirith:

Sleep. I love it. It’s probably what Gale casts 90% of the time.

Sleep having a 100% success chance on valid targets is pretty amazing

Personally, I've been using a lot of Enhance Jump and Feather Fall, and Guidance. And of course Detect thoughts.

Bless, bless is always very strong

For awhile I was loving ray of frost with some of the stacking benefits to using frost damage.

Maybe overkill (and...kinda wrong for her) but I've been having Shadowheart cast Daylight on someone regularly which has been actually helpful and made seeing objects in dark dungeons easier.

Honestly I'm playing as Gale and I have so many ritual spells and long lasting buffs I don't have much room for combat spells.

I have NEVER used bless so far in the game:D
I did a few times in early access, but since everyone went for Shadowheart and she lost conci all the time i did not bother:) And made plans without bless:D