Mythical paths for mages

[Mikkoy]

So, which mythical path is better for a wizard/sorcerer?
Are there any other interesting options for increasing spell damage besides the lich path?

[Soft Lockpick]

What kind?

It plays a role, Are you just a blaster?

[Mikkoy]

Yeap, now sorc/magic trickster.

[Naked Granny]

Why would you ever waste an arcane caster just to do damage. That's what I wanna know.

[Kasa]

I think only the lich path combines with the wizard/sorcerer, but other then that the angle path might be good because it gives you access to a lot of cleric spells.

The walking swarm is a large defence buff if you feel like watching the world burn.
The Trickster plays very well with Wizard/Sorcerer arcane tricksters or even just pure wizard/sorcerer.

Gold dragon is gold dragon so expect it to work with just about everything.

[Soft Lockpick]

Blasters are not the "best" role for a caster. But if you can get the ability to ignore elemental resists there you go.

[lilheartless]

azata is pretty good for casters or at least they have some pretty decent caster superpowers

they basically get 5e (dnd) advantage spell penetration and vs saves checks for all their spells making it much more likely for your ccs to stick and then there is another one (zippy magic) that makes all your single target spells effect a second character (hostile magic effects another enemy within x range and positive magic effects another friendly character within x range)

[Soft Lockpick]

Originally posted by lilheartless:

azata is pretty good for casters or at least they have some pretty decent caster superpowers

they basically get 5e (dnd) advantage spell penetration and vs saves checks for all their spells making it much more likely for your ccs to stick and then there is another one (zippy magic) that makes all your single target spells effect a second character (hostile magic effects another enemy within x range and positive magic effects another friendly character within x range)

Of note. An enchantment focused character with Best Jokes + Zippy Magic is pretty entertaining to play. You start up 2 "chains" of hideous laughter that sweep through any susceptible foes every time you cast it. Makes a 2nd level spell a 9th level spell IMO.

[Asherzen]

Legend works pretty good for casters, since you can go 40 levels of 2 different 20 level casters, tho Aeon is also pretty good with its gazes, summons and the rather large list of immunities alongside other abilities it gives that just synergizes well

[StarGazer]

Depends on the difficulty. But yea probably lich. Spamming all the buffs in the game and having the best debuffs makes it op. slap in a second bloodline as a mythic power and congrats you can beat the game solo whilst being a lich dragon. *literally* since you can cast spells as a dragon and its funny. Tho there is a bug atm with size bonus or im missing something but it shouldnt matter, exangiunate is op with false life too so you can reach 300 hp easy now combine that with 47+ ac and insane dex and you got a min max gamer god char.

[StarGazer]

Oh and immunity to all damage types with penetrating dmg through any immunity a boss might have thanks to lich also converting all dmg to negative. Cant beat lich i think if ur a min maxer.

[StarGazer]

I havent seen a single enemy deal good alignment dmg but maybe thats still coming tho. Lich's ability to deal with immunity's thanks to its lich mythic power and the insane amount of spells + buffs makes it in my opinion probably the strongest char in the game. Gold dragon might deal more consistent dmg each round but when its possible to drain fortitude to 0 or con its insta kill. Depends on what your aim is anyway. Even has litteral one shot spells that kill mobs below a certain hp pool. And if thats not enough you can always add disintegrate and spam that 40xd8 + ??? max dmg? yea..... again pesky fortitude checks tho all u gotta worry about.

[Gilgamesh]

Lich suppose to get sorc cha as hp which makes you a nutty spell caster + tank.

[Mikkoy]

One more question. Does the dragon's passive ability to convert all damage to holy damage works for spells too? Can I turn it off?

[DarkFenix]

With how pumped up enemy saves are in this game, you're never going to get the best damage out of a spellcaster. Combined spellbooks let you deal with SR easily, you can ignore elemental resistances, but that reflex save for half damage is going to keep coming back every round to bite you in the ass.

And spells that go against fort save are a waste of time, fort saves are traditionally a monster's highest. Sure, you get instant death effects and the like, but save or suck is only viable when the save to suck ratio is actually good.

If you want to be breaching enemy defences well, go azata. You get a reroll to get past both saves and SR. Not sure how the reroll on SR compares statistically with a single better roll, but on the saves along it's well worth it.

Blasting just isn't all that good in WotR, the most common enemy types are extremely resistant to it and you're going to have to spend half your build just compensating for that.

[Insanity_184]

All mythic paths have options to play caster with well ok all but one

Lich is everyone’s go to. Combines with arcane spell book and is a powerful caster (granted it makes an awesome death knight to)

Angel combines divine spell book and has decent magic ability’s

Aeon may not combine but synergies well with a CC/buff/debuff style mage.

Trickster goes with everything

Demon eh of all the ones you have mage ability’s this seems the weakest it has some but it’s biggest pull is transformation so if that’s what your mage does ok then.

Azata and superpowers work for any class mage to.

Swarm works with everything but the way it works fundamentally changes fighting. Class is irrelevant.

Legend is 40 levels so ya it’s awesome. I mean why not be a 20 level wizard/20 level cleric or some insane multi class

Gold dragon….be melee ya they don’t get anything that helps wizards.

Devil I mean you have to be aeon or Azata for most of the game and they get awesome mage utility. But devil is good for cc