Weakest magic?

[martwica]

I played aryn campaign long time ago and i made it with a heavy warrior so i want to repeat that but with weakest class to make it a little bit challenging, so i was thinking about white or mind magic but cant decide
So which class is worst in your opinion?

[distantdream]

Mind Magic in my opinion. It effectively has just 1 damage spell. If you don't have the 'Dominate' or 'Charm' spells, you may find it somewhat difficult in some maps to neutralise the initial enemy scouts which appear before you have time to create an army.

[FireDogy]

Definitely offensive mind magic. in SOTP you are lucky if you manage to hit enemies, even then you deal maybe 20 damage to them. Going elemental & spamming fire elemental with a ♥♥♥♥ ton of a mana is fun tho. & Necromancy rocks, everything else is kinda meh really.

-Still think a all-out one or two handed blunt build is the most op. You'll end up hitting for 300-500 each hit lol

[Ailon]

Clear winner

Black Magic - Curse:
- Some not so great weakening auras ( Aura of Suffocation - best weakening aura belongs to Death Magic ... )
- Poison deals low damage,
- Dispel and Remediless have almost no use in campaign ( not enough enemies with healing and white auras )
- Dark Banishing and Mutation have niche usage ( you need Necromancy or Death Magic to make them any usefull ).

Somewhat difficult to play

Mind Magic - Enchantment:
- if your charms works, you will have easy time.
- if your charms don't work, you can start to hit enemies with your staff ...

Mind Magic - Offensive:
- same as Enchantment excluding Shock Spells
- Shock spells damage depends on target intelligence ( guess who in campaign has biggest Intelligence )

If playing as solo pure mage

White Magic - Life:
- no offensive spells - better find good hitting staff

White Magic - Boons:
- if you are fighting undeads, you are killing machine
- if you are fighting anything else ... you will do slightly beter than option above ( you have buffing auras... )

Honorable mentions

Elemental Magic - Earth:
- before Shadow o Phoenix not as good as Fire or Ice Magic

[martwica]

I started normal campaign to start how mind magic does
it does..
it doesnt
so probably ill play black/elemental magic + something because i wont be playing Earth and curse

[Ailon]

Originally posted by martwica:

I started normal campaign to start how mind magic does
it does..
it doesnt
so probably ill play black/elemental magic + something because i wont be playing Earth and curse

I see that your "weakest magic" challenge run ended quite fast :D.

[FireDogy]

Originally posted by martwica:

I started normal campaign to start how mind magic does
it does..
it doesnt
so probably ill play black/elemental magic + something because i wont be playing Earth and curse

Pretty good summary of my first run too. XD

[Ailon]

Originally posted by FireDogy:

Originally posted by martwica:

I started normal campaign to start how mind magic does
it does..
it doesnt
so probably ill play black/elemental magic + something because i wont be playing Earth and curse

Pretty good summary of my first run too. XD

Mind magic is not that bad. It's just not good to deal with enemies in direct way.
At the same time it can disturb enemies quite well ( If Hypnosis, Charms etc. are working ). Also possibility of having "infinite" mana is also worth investing.