The great adventures of Nimlorn

[Pete Mack]

Yeah, at cl 45 Mana Storm really isn't great. I usually keep Wands of Annihilation if I'm playing mage. They do something like 380 damage a shot for a high level mage. Use Mana storm if there's a mob of relatively weak monsters in the way.

[Sky]

i was curious, what is it that you do, aim wand, drain the whole pack, then Greater Recharge? do you use rods of drain life as well?


because .. aside from the fact i thought morgoth was not drainable .. he's not really "living", as in biological, anyway, doesn't this process destroy a few wands here and there?

also, you are carrying 1 more book, a stack of wands, possibly two (drain life + annihilation), maybe rods .. !healing, *healing, restore mana, mapping, heal rods, you don't really have much slots left .. for anything.

[Derakon]

i was curious, what is it that you do, aim wand, drain the whole pack, then Greater Recharge? do you use rods of drain life as well?


because .. aside from the fact i thought morgoth was not drainable .. he's not really "living", as in biological, anyway, doesn't this process destroy a few wands here and there?

also, you are carrying 1 more book, a stack of wands, possibly two (drain life + annihilation), maybe rods .. !healing, *healing, restore mana, mapping, heal rods, you don't really have much slots left .. for anything.

Yep, use wands until they're empty, then recharge 'em. They'll blow up sometimes, so you need a backup, but they're a great source of damage while they last.

And why would you need space for stuff? You're not planning on picking up any loot, are you? It's the final fight!

[Pete Mack]

Yep, use them until there are fewer charges than the number of wands in your stack, and recharge. (You don't have to go to zero.) I don't bother with rods because you rarely get enough to make a significant difference. And Morgoth is neither elemental, demon, golem, nor undead, so he is vulnerable to drain life. (Is Gandalf alive?) You'll usually get a stack of around 5 annihilation, and a dozen or so drain life. The latter's only useful if you are really low level; it only does around 250 dam/turn, which is worse than the average spell damage of Chaos Strike at cl 43.

[Malak Darkhunter]

very fun read!