MM7 party

[bereciucas]

Hi,
I just found this forum on the net and remembered the old days when I once played a fun setup in mm7.

I Created a 4xsorcerer party and limited myself to ONLY wearing rings, amulets and gloves. No armor, no staff, no cloak or others.
I remember recruiting those starting NPCs on emerald island that give +4 to spells (there also was one giving only + 2) specializing each one of the mages in 1 spell school.
So it was, Fire, water, air and earth, each skilled up to grandmaster on 1 of them while the rest of the points i dumped into dark magic for all 4 chars.
I remember the game was SOOOOO easy with that Shuriken whatever spell from dark magic. Sharpnel i think it was called. Felt almost like playing quake 2 with cheat codes. Even easier then mm8 with 1xtroll and the rest dragons.
I was just spaming the quick cast button while strafing trough anything that moved. My question now:

Did anyone here share the same experience with this setup? Especially early game if you are low lvl and recruir a NPC wich gives +4 to firebolt for the whole party. Is it also a viable setup for mm6?

[Mamma Jamma]

Hi,
I just found this forum on the net and remembered the old days when I once played a fun setup in mm7.

I Created a 4xsorcerer party and limited myself to ONLY wearing rings, amulets and gloves. No armor, no staff, no cloak or others.
I remember recruiting those starting NPCs on emerald island that give +4 to spells (there also was one giving only + 2) specializing each one of the mages in 1 spell school.
So it was, Fire, water, air and earth, each skilled up to grandmaster on 1 of them while the rest of the points i dumped into dark magic for all 4 chars.
I remember the game was SOOOOO easy with that Shuriken whatever spell from dark magic. Sharpnel i think it was called. Felt almost like playing quake 2 with cheat codes. Even easier then mm8 with 1xtroll and the rest dragons.
I was just spaming the quick cast button while strafing trough anything that moved. My question now:

Did anyone here share the same experience with this setup? Especially early game if you are low lvl and recruir a NPC wich gives +4 to firebolt for the whole party. Is it also a viable setup for mm6?

It is even better in MM6! In MM6 a Spell Master gives you +4 to ALL spells, not just Elemental or Self. That is, with a wizard, a Spell Master works for Light and Dark also. I guess that in MM7 they realized that a Spell Master with magic bonus to all spells was too powerful and created NPCs with bonuses for Elemental spells (and only Elemental spells) or Self (Body, Spirit, Mind).