| The major drawback for magic focused thieves that deal with traps is the high skill requirements to find and disarm traps, skills that are well supplemented with technical marvels. I never could figure why detect unseen is such a high ranked spell in a rarely developed school.
D&D type blaster mages tend to bore me rather quickly so I found myself avoiding the fire and force trees (not counting protective shield) and going with a Stage Magician model, focusing on morph, summons, mind and a little temporal (for hasted demons). With summons at least you can play solo and sneak past fights you don't want to pick. Even easier if you master prowling. It also makes power levelling nigh impossible since you're not racking up mega exp for hitting things.
Morph is a bit powerful though. In the final battle I dropped Kerghan's will power and managed to sheep him. He chewed the edge of my jumper. |