Best magic to go with Dark Elves

[Tj Max]

Just playing Dark Elves Har Garneth Vortex Campaign. Plan to hire a Sorceress as a second Lord now. What do you think is the best Magic to go? I find Beast very attractive so far, at least the early skills seem very usefull to me.

[an entire Roman legion]

fire if you plan to fight against a lot of undead and/or skaven

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by Albob:

fire if you plan to fight against a lot of undead and/or skaven

1+ burning mice is fun, exspecially full garison+ full stack of clanrats. Firepyre ore skull and your lady kills easy more than 600 ore 700.

[Guts]

Burning Head > entire under-empire

[Chillum]

Beast isnt that great.

I'd go with fire myself. So many undead now, it'll always be handy.

[play midnight suns]

Beast got nerfed pretty hard. Shadows is my personal preference just for pit of shades, cronches those Chosen boys.

[Tj Max]

Originally posted by Albob:

fire if you plan to fight against a lot of undead and/or skaven

I´m already done with Tretch Craventail. He didn´t put up much of a fight, just removed his faction from the map :)

I´m not sure if I wanna mess with the Undead Factions yet. So far both Pirates and Tombkings are friendly to my faction.

What I need to do next is to take out Morathi for my Quest and get her capitol for my buff and then I´m going for Ulthuan I guess.

So I need magic that is effective against Dark Elves and High Elves units I suppose.

The difficulty is Very Hard so they will throw some stuff at me I think.

Front Line units haven´t been a problem for me so far, I´m having most trouble with ranged and mobile units.

[Tj Max]

Originally posted by a turd:

Beast got nerfed pretty hard. Shadows is my personal preference just for pit of shades, cronches those Chosen boys.

Has it? Wasn´t aware of it. Shadows sounds interesting. Need to fight Chaos as well for sure. So AP would be nice.

[Kaaz]

BURN THE HERETIC!!

(no not your own heretics...)

[Pönnukaka]

In DE Fire rules. Not only it gives great buffs, but above all it's passive skill makes enemy take more damage from fire, and you have incredly potent damaging fire spells, Vortex, Bombardment or just good old Burning Head. What's important to point out - it's vortex spell is not only cost effective, but has high armor penetration, especially overcasted. So it works whole game even when you go against dwarfes or chaos. Create good situation and make enemy cluster on you or your lord and go all out.

Don't get me wrong, it's purely offensive school tho. Not for nerfing, but for buffing your units and killing only.

Usually leveled up Malekith, geared and on dragon casting Soulstealer or healing via other means+Fire Sorceress can solo entire armies by themselfes while rest of army watches.

I play on Very hard + Very hard.

Shadow - second best in my opinion, decent damage, targeted slow and damage and great nerf spells, but lacks the penetration, also some spells are quite price'y. A bit useless passive skill, but spells make up for it.

Dark third best, isn't so good, since you can't utilize the great usefulness of Soulstealer to heal your character that is fighting in meele(sorceresses aren't good for this). Great and cheap wind spell if you cast it properly. Not fan of Word of Pain. Spiteful Conjuration awsome. Blade Wind not so good, lacks penetration a lot for the cost. Doombolt is decent.

Death - 4-th best, great single target spell and targeted spell, but overall I find lackluster.

I find Beasts most useless of all lores. Nerfed to the ground, basically you get summon and no damaging/unreliable spells.

[brothir]

Fire is generally strongest. Shadows is easier to use, but can't perform miracles like a good flamestorm can.

[Ashantai]

Fire is exceptionally good, especially in sieges which you will have a lot of.

[THE_RaBiD_CanuK]

Apparently necromancy is the best lore.