Celtic Heroes

OK I have always avoided ice shards because a single avoid can ruin your whole day. My perfered leveling build spreads the damage across all the fire spells so you are constantly doing damage with every cast.

Having said that I have ice shards maxed right now for one reason. I am a support mage now, put all my points onto Lures and boost, but I saved points for one attack spell, shards. I also went ahead and put points into freeze, without it I cant solo at all. (that and its fun turning people into popsicles in the arena.)

i personally like shards. but i fully admit i have not used a lot of Alteration books - so i have yet to try different builds. right now i have max shards, bolt, and cloak - with 20 in eshield. my ice lure is 15 and fire lure is 10. I mostly sit on my broom and use novelty for auto attacks (mostly cause of the regen) and i have 10 pts in boost. I seem to be able to do some pretty good damage (not quick, cause all that lure and buff casting).

now that i am 140 and done power leveling for a while, i may experiment with a total fire build. But, my main is a ranger, so i get a kick out of doing really massive damage (even if the dps is lower) - rangers don't do any massive hits - but have great dps due to having good hits and rapid fire.

thanks

I am a support mage now, put all my points onto Lures and boost, but I saved points for one attack spell, shards.

*high fives Papi*

Go support mages!!