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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6242641">I will posit that: because the illusionist does little more than create illusions, he is reliant on his comrades and surroundings.  Combat with an illusionist in an open field will probably leave the poor illusionist out of spells and the guy he was illuioning quite unharmed.  Fighting an illusionist on the edge of a mountain, well that's a different story.  An illusionist still needs a way to defeat his enemy, not simply make him blunder around for a bit, so really an illusionist with nothing else(allies, environment, etc..) is probably going to only use their spells long enough to confuse their foe and run away.Now, perhaps an illusionists powers go a little further than simply creating illusions, perhaps they can create very very specific illusions, like an illusion of your most terrifying nightmare inflicting "psychic" damage.  Now our illusionist is a lot less situational and not wishing there was a cliff nearby, sure, he may still hope for it, but what fighter who ever bull-rushed their opponent doesn't want a nice handy cliff too?Pretty darn "sensational" if he happens to be on a cliff, against a foe intelligent enough to be mislead by his illusions.  Lets hope he doesn't fight any zombies, oozes or any other infinite number of mindless creatures.  Lets also hope he doesn't fight anything blind...unless he can create illusions to mask his scent/sounds as well.Effective in a highly situational, most likely very limited combat situation.  That's not what I'd call "effective at combat".  That's what I'd call "highly situational".</blockquote>

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