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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 9351487" data-attributes="member: 15538">You didn't have a lot of direct damage dealing ability until high level, but then again, it wasn't common to rely on magic-users to regularly expend fireballs, either. You had a few basic jobs. First, you could do creative things with illusions. An illusion of a spectre, for instance, would be enough to scare off some goblins. Second, you have some spells that directly affected the mind or senses, like fear, confusion, and paralysis, so you were very effective against humanoid opponents and NPCs. Third, you had a lot of buffing capability, especially through the use of invisibility and so forth. Then in the lower mid levels, you began summoning semi-real monsters and using shadow magic, and you became a weird, but fully featured, wizard type character.</blockquote>