Celtic Heroes

who needs a spell they can only use on lvl 10-20 mobs???

Come on. In any high end areas, we just can't afford to dump points into this. I'm 115 and can't justify it at all. Even though I am honestly not seeing HUGE value in siginificant points added to lures, those are still better value for a group. Lure of Ass, Lure of Solders and of course, your own ice (maybe fire too).
-Sertain

I guess it depends on wether you want to be a support mage or go solo... If you go solo alot, dumping points into another attack skill is prob better then putting the points into a lure that doesn't benefit you...

I have most of the new spell except for Lure of Assasians, Lure of Giants, and Lure of Magic. The two spells that I wouldn't invest any points in are freeze and firestorm. Freeze requires way to many skill points to be effective at high levels.

Firestorm hasn't impressed me one bit. I even tried a straight fire build with fire bolt, cloak, firestorm, incincerate, and lure of fire. I did this hoping that the damage that the firestrom would do would be close to ice shards. I was mistaken and thus have taken it out of my arsenal completly.

The only new spells that are worth any points or consideration are sacrifice, incinerate, and the new lures. With that being said, I am finding more sucsess with the old school spells, cloak, lure of fire & ice, shards, bolt and shield than with the newer spells.

I have a clanie two nice firestorm rings along with the skill book. I'm pretty sure good rings are a must to make this skill do any real damage. Actually, I didn't learn the skill myself when I had the chance. Our clan is trying to specialize it's mages. We have found this to be the most effective way to to it. "Jack of all trades, master of none" doesn't work for mages now that have access to 15 skills or so.

Tog

Ya, and it seems the only good specialty is fire build.

I guess another good setup would be 2 mages:

One has maxed lure of assasins, lure of giants, lure of fire, lure of ice, and energy boost.

The other has maxed incinerate, firebolt, shards, fire cloak, and firestorm. (firestorm optional since it isn't good)

The first mage casts all the lures and keeps energy boost on the other mage.

The only useful new offensive spell seems to be incinerate. Even that is worse than firebolt relativley speaking. See my post "incinerate info"