What's your favorite spell combos?

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Here's a poll, what's your favorite spell combos?

 

At lower levels: Minor Sequencer with Web and Stinking Cloud... as long as they're not undead this stops most enemies dead in their tracks.

 

I like to play Mage/Theives, so spells taht help you sneak around/boost stats/lower AC/increase THAC0 and all those come in really handy. Such as Spirit armor, and Mislead, and others like those

Attacking spells, Im quite fond of Flame Arrow, esspecially at higher lvls.
Magic Missle is good, I dont use it that much though. Chromatic Orb is better IMO. Spell Immunity: whatever school comes in quite handy on occasion. I prefer Skull Trap over Fireball, but they both have their uses at times.

 

Fireshield Red&Blue
Protection from Fire + Sunfire
Stoneskin + Tenser's

 

Lower Resistance (if needed), then Skull Trap.

At high levels: Cone of Cold

 

Sanctuary + Blade Barrier

 

Yes, I agree that Sanctuary+Blade Barrier is extremely deadly. I also do not use that combination because it is cheesy. Third edition rules (AD&D) fixes Sanctuary somewhat.

Even allowing you total immunity while you are doing healing (non-offensive) activities is a bit much for a first level spell in my opinion.

 

Can't disagree with you that combo is on the cheesy side... how did 3rd level rules alter the sanctuary spell?

 

How is it cheesy if I may ask?

Blackthorne: you aren't attacking, the blades are.

Well, Blackthorne, the point remains that Sanctuary + Blade Barrier is perfectly legal - the same as Sanctuary + a powerful summon spell. Other things are doing the dirty work for you. Is Sanctuary + Gate cheesy?

[This message has been edited by TheBlackRose (edited June 04, 2002).]

 

Two low level spells I like are Bless and Chant. They're slow to cast (1 round each), but my Cleric/Mage puts them in a minor sequencer.
When we're attacked, she fires the sequencer and immediately:
...friends are bless/chanted (+2 to hit, +1 to damage, +1 to all saves, +1 save vs fear)
...enemies are cursed (-1 to hit, -1 damage, -1 to saves)
The effects last 5-6 rounds. This can give the party a nice little edge for very low cost.

 

Reply to Aldekeuk and those interested:
Change in third edition AD&D to the cheesy second edition Sanctuary spell:
Upon making a will save the attacker may carry through his attack on a person in Sanctuary (spell).

 

3 Flame Arrows in a spell sequencer usually takens out any mage before he can get his defenses up. Well, it takes out just about anyone but it works best on mages .

3 Fireballs is also a classic, great for destroying large groups of enemies very quickly.

Death Spell + Greater Malison + Slow is also a good combo for large groups of enemies, and totally party friendly.

 

Actually it depends on the creatures I am fighting.

-Undead: Sunfire,False Dawn, Fire Seeds (in general fire works well in undead)

-Demons: Bolt of Glory (it does 10d6 dmg to them), and party enhancing spells.

-Dragons: Sequencer with 2 Lower Resistances and a Greater Malison (and a Doom from the Clerics) then Finger of Death and ...

-Other: I love casting Time Stop, Abi Dalzim's and ofcourse the veeeeery powerful Wish and Limited Wish.

 

If i'm playing an Mage/Cleric:

Party Booster: early on in the game you can cast Bless and Chant in a spell sequencer (that's +3 to all party saving throws, and -1 to enemies')

Vulnerability: cast Doom, Doom, Greater Malison and Lower Resistance in a Contingency/Sequencer...works wonders.

 

My combo:

grease+web+slow+cloudkills

 

If you can get to a high enough level in SoA Improved Haste + Time Stop + Black Blade of Disaster is quite a formidable combination.

 

As opposed to the debate above, i think Bioware made a great little system for determing the Offensive use for spells.
Look a the images.
Red: Offensive, see Magic Missile, Flame Arrow, Mord's Sword, Animal Summoning.
Blue: Defensive, see Stoneskin, Protection from Magical Weapons, Armor.
White: In-Between, see Chant, Sequencer (offensive or defensive), and True Sight.

I don't know about Sanctuary, but Gate and Blade Barrier are both red, and therefore offensive.

 

You have to use scrolls to cast 9th level spells in SoA. Just to remind you that this isn't the ToB forum!

Besides, BBoD is IMO a weak 9th level spell.

Would you really use a Time Stop (3 round duration) scroll to enable a mage to do roughly two rounds of melee fighting with BBoD? With Improved Haste - which makes you waste/spend a round casting this spell on a mage - that means about 4 attacks at base THAC0~13 (modified to ~8).
Say you score two hits before the Time Stop ends. This forces target to save twice vs disintegration at +4. A guesstimate is that in 70-80% of the cases the monster will make both saves and your very expensive combo will be all for naught.

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Back to the topic...
A combo that might be useful is Protection from Magic Energy and Skull Traps. Contrary to what the manual says PfME gives 100% protection (not 50%) and also protects against Skull Trap.