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<blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4450542" data-attributes="member: 72317">And why are you using direct damage, possibly the most inefficient option available to casters?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Your dual-caster can blast all he wants. My single-classed caster is content with his array of &quot;I-win&quot; spells like gate and disjunction. You will notice that the best spells available to a caster (eg: grease, sleep, colour spray, web, glitterdust, stinking cloud, summon monster, haste, fog spells, evard's tentacles, teleport, shadow evoc/conj, wall of X, forcecage, maze, most 9th lv spells etc just to name a few) are actually not very reliant on caster lv (except to penetrate sr, and even then, many of them actually ignore sr altogether). And with the focused specialist variant from complete mage, I have as many slots as a sorc (and actually more at lower lvs).Ultimately, it is when you can access the aforementioned spells which is all that really matters, and the sooner the better. And why it is generally such a bad idea to lose a spellcaster lv (or more), much less 3 to enter mystic theurge. You just won't face enough fights to justify having so many slots.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Runestar, post: 4450542, member: 72317"] And why are you using direct damage, possibly the most inefficient option available to casters?:confused: Your dual-caster can blast all he wants. My single-classed caster is content with his array of "I-win" spells like gate and disjunction. You will notice that the best spells available to a caster (eg: grease, sleep, colour spray, web, glitterdust, stinking cloud, summon monster, haste, fog spells, evard's tentacles, teleport, shadow evoc/conj, wall of X, forcecage, maze, most 9th lv spells etc just to name a few) are actually not very reliant on caster lv (except to penetrate sr, and even then, many of them actually ignore sr altogether). And with the focused specialist variant from complete mage, I have as many slots as a sorc (and actually more at lower lvs). Ultimately, it is when you can access the aforementioned spells which is all that really matters, and the sooner the better. And why it is generally such a bad idea to lose a spellcaster lv (or more), much less 3 to enter mystic theurge. You just won't face enough fights to justify having so many slots. [/QUOTE]

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