Mindcrafter damage on lvl >25

[TheQuest]

Playing as mindcrafter in FrogComposband. Everything was pretty fine up until now. I am now lvl 27 and using pulverize spell to do almost all of my damage that is 14d8 (14-112) now and it seems that this is not quite enough for me to be at Castle lvl 32, especially when unique monsters appear.

So I have 2 questions:

1. What is the most common pattern of damage dealing for mindcrafter? Melee, bows, devices, magic only, some combination of all of them?
2. What increases mindcrafter's abilities damage? From what I understand it mostly Wis and CLVL that affect how much damage I can deal.

Any other hists are welcome as well.

Thank you

[Derakon]

From what I recall, Mindcrafters get amazing utility spells, but their damage is not great. You should not expect to be killing high-value targets solely with spells past...uh, let's say 1500' or so. Just enjoy your cheap detection/enlightenment, targeted teleportation, mass teleport-away, stunning, and SP drain abilities.

[CyclopsSlayer]

Basically, a weaker Warrior with a ton of free inventory space as many scrolls, rods, and wands can be left at home.

[TheQuest]

I am now CLVL 38 and here's what I discovered:

• Pulverize spell stays around the same - average for most of the time. Ok for most cases, rather weak when uniques appear.
• Melee is ok to use once good weapon is obtained, but still it is better (for me) to teleport around and flood enemies with pulverize.
• Magical damage can be increased with items, with rign of wizardy, for example, although gain is quite weak.
• good to have some magical devices what you can smash strong monsters with. Now I carry around wand of mana bolt (130-200 dmg) wand of Dragon frost (160 dmg). Still not enough to take down elites, but still nice to have.
• Always have wand of teleport away when some nasty unique appear
• Usual tactics for me is Pulverize + minor displacement + phychic drain.
• Tactics against uniques sometimes - domination + stay away (let all dirty job be done by pets)

[TheQuest]

staffs of destruction are very good

definitely will use them once good melee weapon will be acquired.

I think staffs of confusing lights

Never seen them before. What do they do?

[wobbly]

Mostly just golems (presumably drolems too) but there may be others. One of the nicer hidden perks for player golems too.