Banish, Destruction, and Clearing Vaults

[Patashu]

Soon the stars will have their own stars surrounding them!

[Zyphyr]

I'd rather have Earthquake and Destruction, than Destruction and *Destruction*. I think stars in names are generally silly. I mean, imagine if we had potions of Cure Wounds, *Cure Wounds*, **Cure Wounds**, etc.

I dream of a day when I can wield ***Weapon*** and wear ******Armor******.

[Wraitheist]

Some response to the initial posters questions: IIRC banishment deals 1d4 damage per banished monster, mass banishment deals 1d3, if you have access to the spells, it will say so in the description, if you have only staffs or scrolls the description is more vague.
This means it is rather unlikely that you will die from using them and especially if you have the spells (for unlimited use) they make clearing out vaults almost trivial. You don't get any xp because you just banished all the monsters but you get all the goodies with very little risk to your char (you can TO the uniques in the vault if you don't want to deal with them).
Destruction on the other hand destroys all the items as well so it is much harder to use for vault clearing.

Thanks very much, that's very helpful!