Best high elf magi?

[GUTS-CHAN]

High and Life?

or not? why

[Zane87]

Fire cause Dragon.

[Edifier]

Life if you plan to do Single Entity Doomstack.

Otherwise Fire or Heaven are the best due to their spells.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

Life because Dragon

[BlondNinjaPig]

Plague because why play HE when you can play Skaven. For the Horned Rat yes-yes

[Larus]

Most popular choices are life, light, fire and occasionally heaven. Life goes best with dragons, light goes well with lots of archers and fire heaven goes well against anything that needs to be killed.

[Zane87]

Still, are we talking the Arch Mage lord variant or the Mage hero variant. Cause the lore of fire heroes can get a dragon mount, all other heroes cannot.

[Fendelphi]

I prefer metal now. It is a very versatile lore. Fire is good for mage heroes, if you go for the Incendiary combo.

Life is great if you plan to use a lot of high health models(chariots, monsters, heroes) but is mostly a reactive force rather than proactive(so best used for an Archmage, since they can get an offensive mount and the Chainlightning active ability to compensate).

High Magic has a little bit of everything, so if in doubt, take that(you will always have a useful tool). Also, it is superb against fliers and enemy casters.

Shadow and Beast were both nerfed in the recent patch, and while still good at what they do, they are less prominent.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

Originally posted by Zane87:

Still, are we talking the Arch Mage lord variant or the Mage hero variant. Cause the lore of fire heroes can get a dragon mount, all other heroes cannot.

Ah, so that's what you meant :)

[yuzhonglu]

Pit of Shades. Shadow. Best Vortex spell in game.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Pit of Shades. Shadow. Best Vortex spell in game.

nope, but it is a very good spell

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by Edifier:

Life if you plan to do Single Entity Doomstack.

Otherwise Fire or Heaven are the best due to their spells.

Or Light if you're using mass Sisters of Avelorn.

OP, high magic sucks.

[Koveras]

High Magic does not suck. There really isn't a best mage hero in my view. What works best depends on your enemy and your army.

[BIG E.]

Fire has the most damage, Beast is completely useless.

End of stroy.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by Fendelphi:

I prefer metal now. It is a very versatile lore.

So rare to see another person who appreciates the Lore of Metal. Still wish the Empire would get generic Gold Wizards already.

[yuzhonglu]

Originally posted by Lord Holland of Wessex:

Originally posted by yuzhonglu:

Pit of Shades. Shadow. Best Vortex spell in game.

nope, but it is a very good spell

All the other vortex spells veer off in the direction you don't want them to, and then float around the map doing nothing, laughing at your stupidity for casting it in the first place. They average like 50 kills per cast, whereas pit of shades averages 100+ BECAUSE IT GOES WHERE IT'S DIRECTED AND IT DOESN'T MOVE.