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You normally won't see it until the mid-late game, right around when Demons and dragons are becoming a regular problem and significant Physical resistance is relatively rare. Somewhat counter-intuitively, Geyser doing Physical damage is one of its positives. This also means Keeper fights are one of the main cases Level 3 Geyser is a substantive improvement -there's often eight or more targets in those. In such a situation, it's worth considering if you can finish off the Gremlin some other way before casting Geyser. This is usually useful, since the Gremlins are genuinely the most problematic thing on the field 99% of the time, but it's worth keeping in mind in edge cases where it's annoying, such as when one Gremlin is very nearly dead and wasting a geyser on it is inefficient. I don't fully understand Geyser's targeting preferences, but one thing I do know is that it will always prioritize Gremlins in Keeper fights. As far as I'm aware, this is purely for aesthetic consistency I used to worry it could potentially hit one of my units, but I've used Geyser tons and never seen that happen. Admittedly the Mage can afford to be pretty spendy with Crystals, but it's certainly something you should probably consider low priority, even if you do eventually make that jump.Īnimation-wise, Geysers that are over the enemy unit count go into random unoccupied tiles. just 50% more damage, for a 33% increase in Mana cost, an outrageous Crystal cost, and the additional Geysers won't matter in the majority of fights. Going from 1 to 2 doubles the damage output (On any given target, to be clear) for a 50% increase in the Mana cost and means that against most encounters you'll now hit every unit on the field, even if one of them summons something before you get a chance to cast.

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Mechanically, Geyser is one of the best damage spells in the game, full stop, though upgrading it past Level 2 is a bit eh. The number of Geysers spawned is the maximum number of separate units that can be hit. Level 3 Statistics: Damage: 150-300 Geysers: 8Ī randomly chosen set of enemies are hit for Physical damage, inflicting Freeze on any units whose Fire Resistance is at least 50%. Level 2 Statistics: Damage: 100-200 Geysers: 6 Level 1 Statistics: Damage: 50-100 Geysers: 4 but I'll be getting into that when we get into it. Past this game, it's actually really hard to justify using it at all. Of course, The Legend is actually Ghost Blade's peak. This is what I was getting last post about Magic Poleaxe being largely invalidated by Distortion. At Level 3 it outright costs less: in fact, Magic Poleaxe costs 50% more with only 20% more damage at that point. That said, Ghost Blade very nearly invalidates Magic Poleaxe starting from Level 2, where it costs the same, does nearly the same damage, and ignores most of the target's Physical resistance. Red Dragons and Emerald Green Dragons are worth commentary as Poison is the only damage type they don't resist at all (Aside Astral, but it's not a 'real' damage type at the moment), and Poison Skull is the only Spell for Poison damage at all, with wildly random damage that can easily roll well below Ghost Blade's damage. If they have some Physical resistance, and that's why you're considering Ghost Blade over eg Ice Snake, you can probably hurl a Fireball. Past Level 1, Lightning becomes riskier, less Mana efficient, and doesn't even necessarily do better damage.Īgainst most other targets you might consider Ghost Blade for, there's probably a better answer.

(A Level 1 Lightning will always do as much or more damage than a Ghost Blade, in raw damage, but at Level 3 about 1/4th of Lightning's damage range is below Ghost Blade damage) At Level 1 Lightning probably makes more sense: Ghost Blade will do 85 base damage at Level 1 for 10 Mana, while Lightning will do 100-200 damage for 15 Mana, which is to say that more than 50% of the time Lightning will have outright better Mana efficiency, in addition to definitely having better per-turn/cast damage.

The only on-demand Magic damage Spell that works on Cyclops at all is Lightning, and it's hideously expensive, risks friendly fire above Level 1, and its damage scales poorly.

Level 3 Ghost Blade is thus completely unblockable damage, while Levels 1 and 2 are merely less ineffective.Ĭyclops are the main target Ghost Blade is worth considering breaking out for. To be clear, what this means is that Level 1 Ghost Blade will ignore half of the target's resistance, eg treating a Ghost's 50% Physical resistance as 25% Physical Resistance. Level 3 Statistics: Damage: 300 Ignores 100% ResistanceĪ single enemy unit is attacked for Physical damage, ignoring some portion of the target's Physical resistance if it has any. Level 2 Statistics: Damage: 200 Ignores 75% Resistance Level 1 Statistics: Damage: 100 Ignores 50% Resistance