Poll: What's the coolest type of magic, in your opinion?
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I chose Ice magic, but only because blood magic isn't available. I've always enjoyed blood magic in games I've played as it feels like the magic actually costs you something.
Ice magic is still entertaining though, has a lot of humorous applications as well as dangerous combat abilities. I remember taking down a Minotaur thanks to great teamwork with the cleric creating water on the ground and the sorcerer using cone of cold as well as a 6 storey drop at the end of the corridor. Good times.
Ice magic is still entertaining though, has a lot of humorous applications as well as dangerous combat abilities. I remember taking down a Minotaur thanks to great teamwork with the cleric creating water on the ground and the sorcerer using cone of cold as well as a 6 storey drop at the end of the corridor. Good times.
I was hoping this was going to be a MTG question, so I could just say Blue and be done with.
Screw it, I'm just gona stick with Blue anyway.
Screw it, I'm just gona stick with Blue anyway.
I picked Voodoo but the most important to me is that it's not one of those generic "shooting blank out of my hands" drivel. Magic should be rare, mysterious, hard to do and subtle. It should be like collecting a bunch of random items and doing an obfuscated ritual so you can make a doorway curse the next person who walks through it with a speech impediment. Or cutting off your hand and throwing out the window of your jail cell so you can create a pact with the Elder Gods that they get your hand to strangle the man who betrayed you after you get hanged. Or getting a degree in Necronomiconomics. Or Magicka. I'll excuse lighting out of your hands for Magicka.
Since I see a disturbing lack of Blue Magic on the poll, I'll go with friendship as well.Queen Michael said:Obviously, the best magic of them all is the one that you forgot to include in the poll: FRIENDSHIP!
I'd have to go with Necromancy.
Every game I play, I will invariably play the necromantic class (Necromancer in GW2, Death Knight in WoW, Shadow Knight + Necromancer in EQ2, Necromancer/Poison Mastermind in CoV etc. Heck, I even really like playing some of the undead/zombie/unliving characters in Dota 2 such as Pudge, Lifestealer, Necrolyte, Undying, Clinkz etc)
Necromancy is pretty cool, the stuff you can do with it just really appeal to me:
- Summoning armies of undead minions to unquestioningly following your ever order (Also, can create abominations using mixed parts/slabs of flesh for specific tasks... Such as perhaps a coffee table that will walk alongside you!)
- Drain life from things that disinterest or annoy you... Get rid of pesky weeds and annoying insects without having to spend money on fancy products!
- Enhance your own abilities, either by just siphoning it from someone/something else or by creating temporary boosts for a cost (Not unlike a lot of addictive recreational drugs?)
- Power over life and death? Heck yeah! Though easy to abuse...
- Resistance/immunity to disease and infection? Awesome, being ill is not fun (Bonus points if you can keep making people you don't like sick... Not even some hard-core disease, perhaps just give them a cold at a really annoying time...)
Every game I play, I will invariably play the necromantic class (Necromancer in GW2, Death Knight in WoW, Shadow Knight + Necromancer in EQ2, Necromancer/Poison Mastermind in CoV etc. Heck, I even really like playing some of the undead/zombie/unliving characters in Dota 2 such as Pudge, Lifestealer, Necrolyte, Undying, Clinkz etc)
Necromancy is pretty cool, the stuff you can do with it just really appeal to me:
- Summoning armies of undead minions to unquestioningly following your ever order (Also, can create abominations using mixed parts/slabs of flesh for specific tasks... Such as perhaps a coffee table that will walk alongside you!)
- Drain life from things that disinterest or annoy you... Get rid of pesky weeds and annoying insects without having to spend money on fancy products!
- Enhance your own abilities, either by just siphoning it from someone/something else or by creating temporary boosts for a cost (Not unlike a lot of addictive recreational drugs?)
- Power over life and death? Heck yeah! Though easy to abuse...
- Resistance/immunity to disease and infection? Awesome, being ill is not fun (Bonus points if you can keep making people you don't like sick... Not even some hard-core disease, perhaps just give them a cold at a really annoying time...)
I love fire magic. There is something very appealing about the raw destructive power that a large fire weilds, not to mention the very chaotic nature. Fire can very quickly spiral out of control, meaning a fire mage will have to hold a lot of power to make sure they don't burn down their entire army or village or whatever.
Also it looks pretty.
Also it looks pretty.
Everytime i see something like this... I punch an orphan baby seal. With a metal, spiked glove... Wrapped in barbed wire, covered with sulphuric acid...Moderated said:
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Seriously, it's just enough to mention the word 'magic' anywhere on the internet and watch hordes of crazed lunatics shouting friendshit
Well I didn't have to look far for my suggestion to be ninja'd.blackrave said:
Indeed, Chronomancy is one of the strongest forms of magic if you ask me. The applications are nearly endless. Speed up someone's time to cause instant death, slow down someone's time to make them easily killable, completely stop someone's time to do pretty much anything you want with their time-frozen bodies. Chronomancy is obscenely overpowered.
"Oh, what's that Mr. Necromancer? Going to fire a bolt of insta-killing death at me? TIME FREEZE! Let's just go ahead and switch positions here... TIME RESUME! Oooooo, looks like you done gone and killed yourself."
I mean just think of how overpowered the time manipulation in Dishonored was...then imagine your time manipulation can do even more than that.
no love for psychokinesis, huh? the coolest i can think of. not the strongest by any stretch. just going off pure coolness factor here.
