What Spells To Pick?

[The Infinity Sock]

I am having a hard time picking witch spells to pick for my sorcerer can you lot help me out

[changtau2005]

You can buy diamond dust from the cleric - not Jhod, the Aasimar one - starting from Chapter 2 in your capital for I think 50g each? I think she has 1k of them for sale.

I also second Antoniius on Dragon's Breath. What more could you ask for, from a single level 4 spell? It's like a poor-man's fireball, cone of cold, acid spray, lightning bolt, and who knows what else all rolled into one spell - especially useful if you're building a control sorcerer, but also want pack some serious firepower.

[fastello]

I come from a long history of tabletop gaming where the spells are so much easier to use so for this it is way more difficult at least for me also 3-5 enemies with a fireball is not that good normally you try to hit all of them :)

[The Infinity Sock]

Originally posted by fastello:

I come from a long history of tabletop gaming where the spells are so much easier to use so for this it is way more difficult at least for me also 3-5 enemies with a fireball is not that good normally you try to hit all of them :)

I have never played tabletop games but i have a soft spot for adventure games like neverwinter nights one and two

[Babbles]

Haste- haste is, like BG2, the most force multiplying spell in the game.

In fact, it kind of ruins things.

[palaeologi]

Magic missle, burning hands, glitterdust, haste, mirror image, any spell armors are good also displacment, lighning and fireball help alot.

[Damedius]

Haste, Scorching Ray, Stoneskin Communal, Acid Arrow, Chain Lightning.

[Gabs]

does chain lighting hit party members?

[corisai]

Originally posted by Gabriel Tiraboschi:

does chain lighting hit party members?

No, it's ignoring friendlies (this why everyone so love it).

[Winterclaw42]

My first two spells for each spell level would be 2 different types of damage (fire, lightning, ice, acid). After that whatever defence, extra damage, or utility I think I'd need.

Generally speaking you get the fewest spells so you either need the best spells for a single task (usually blowing stuff up), or spells that are useful in the most situations possible.

[OnlyOffensive]

it depends on what you plan to do. First level safest bet is color spray + magic missile. Can get evocation spell focus and spell specialization magic missile to fire 3 of them at level 1

[Kain Yusanagi]

Guys, Resist Energy, Communal: Fire, Fireball. Melee doesn't care about your fire damage then, because they have resistance that scales to your level (20 at 7, 30 at 11, IIRC).

[dolby]

0r just roll a wizard you will have to rest the same time as your cleric anyway

[Cloudhunter]

By the way: Does anybody know about this elementar sorcerer they are talking about in the beta 1.1?

[Owl]

Originally posted by The Infinity Sock:

I am having a hard time picking witch spells to pick for my sorcerer can you lot help me out

Fastello's advice is superb. I would add DON'T get anything that is HD-maxed. Example : puts to sleep up to 6 HD of opponents. These tend to become unuseful quickly.

[Erklig]

I played as sage sorcerer. My play style was direct damage and illusions. Also used metamagic. I prefer control+damage as offensive and mobilty+miss chance as defensive.
So I would suggest (marked ones are my favorites and mostly used ones);

*Lvl1-Magic missile: Certain damage
Lvl1-Mage armor: Early AC boost, not bypassable
Lvl1-Color Spray: Easy victory if successful

Lvl2-Burning Arc: Good damage at early
Lvl2-Mirror Image: Selfsuffiency
*Lvl2-Blur: Good defensive

Lvl3-Resist Energy, Communal: Scales
Lvl3-See Invis, Communal: Never bad to see invisibles, long duration
Lvl3-Fireball: Effective on bulk enemies to avoid being overrun
*Lvl3-Haste: Multiple attacks to melees
*Lvl3-Displacement: Short but effective

*Lvl4-Dimension Door: Very useful in or outside of battle
Lvl4-Volcanic Storm: Damage + Slow, useful in many situations
Lvl4-Obsidian Flow: Same as above
Lvl4-Grater Invis: Same as displacement, also not lose invis when attack

*Lvl5-Cloudkill: I use it with sirroco combo
Lvl5-Fire Snake: Avoid friendly fire

Lvl6-True Seeing: there are a lot of enemies with illusion effects
Lvl6-Chain Ligthing: Good damage againts tanks
*Lvl6-Sirocco: Fortitute save to knock down enemies(like wildhunts), my favorite so far
Lvl6-Hellfire: Fire+Unholy, semi unresistable, serious damage

*Lvl7-Prismatic Spray: :D for fun
Lvl7-Firebrand: resist + damage buff

Lvl8-Shout-Greater: same as sirocco
Lvl8-Stormbolts: defensive when you get ambushed

Lvl9-Tsunami: Yes i like knocking people down