The ultimate doomsday spell.

[vagabond1066]

Shards of Stone is my personal WMD. It can take down anything! Fire drakes, trolls, beholders, demons, bosses, athena blockers, ANYTHING! I wiped out the entire fire drake breeding ground (five at once) in under 30 seconds! I LOVE this spell!

[dcinroc]

A lot of people seem to think that Rune Magic sucks (and many of the spells do), but I agree with you about Shards of Stone.

I had a Paladin/Wizard with 20+ ranks in arcane, 10+ ranks in Spellfire, and about 12 or so ranks in Rune Magic...and the Shards of Stone spell outperformed my arcane spells consistently. Indeed, I took down the final boss almost exclusively with Shards of Stone.

Generally, I used Arcane spells for groups, or small critters, then saved my SoS for the bosses or solitay large monsters (like War Trolls).

I am curious about a few things though, it seemed to me that NO creature was resistant to the SoS spell. Also, does Spellfire only affect Arcane spells, or does it work with any spell?

[LupusArgentum]

My best SoS caster is a War Witch/Celestial with level 20 in Rune Magic... she causes average damage increments around 250, and I've seen damages of over 350... as far as i can tell also, it seems NOTHING is resistant to it. I've used it on everything it seems, and they all just drop like flies... I don't know about the Spellfire thing... haven't yet a made a character who's become a wizard...