by Wargasm on Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:33 am
I have to agree with several other posters; of the two, WEYTWUT feels underwhelming and GETINDARE rather on the awesome side.
* GETINDARE for lots of non-Wizard classes functions as a partial BURNDAYRAZ substitute; it lets you get a no-retaliation strike in against most monster types. It's already half the cost of BURNDAYRAZ, and further, the dodge chance it offers can save MASSIVE amounts of resources. In fact, it can double as an effective CYDSTEPP against things like Gharbad, where the dodge is equivalent to an extra full health bar - actually outperforming HALPMEH and CYDSTEPP both, since it doesn't leave you at 1hp/require multiple uses to be at full.
* WEYTWUT to me is simply a spell for puzzles/class challenges almost every time. It just costs too much. True, Slow is better than First Strike against things that already have FS or have Retaliate: Fireball. But it's a very rare situation where WEYTWUT does anything another spell doesn't do better; for manoeuvering, ENDISWAL is cheaper and has a fairly solid combat benefit. For combat, the only time WEYTWUT is better than GETINDARE is versus First Strike. Really, this ought to be lowered to 6 or 7 mana, maybe even 5. Outside of things like Thief Silver challenge, or Jehora 2, it's simply not very good.
* While I'm on the topic, WONAFYT is largely terrible. You don't usually want to fight stuff the same level or lower until you're at a point where you one-shot all that stuff anyhow. The Slow debuff has its uses, as above, but that's just about the entire benefit of the spell.
Don't get me wrong - I LOVE LOVE LOVE how much these spells (and PISORF) were improved versus the Alpha, especially the last two which were nothing but conversion bait previously, but I still feel there's room for improvement. I basically measure every spell against GETINDARE, HALPMEH, BURNDAYRAZ, and CYDSTEPP (although moreso the Alpha version, grossly overpowered as it was) because these spells are super efficient and almost always useful.
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Wargasm on Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.