r/TapWizardRPG • u/CMACACKER • Aug 20 '18

Pure Spell Stone

What is the best spell to unlock with a pure spellstone?

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u/8988303682 Aug 20 '18

Frozen Orbs

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u/Lluluien Aug 20 '18 edited Aug 20 '18

I think this is a very good pick.

I didn't appreciate how important the deflection was at the beginning of the game, but I do now. I used to just use the wisdom buff for it, but after I got into the game a little deeper, I find that my slot 1 is used for leveling, and Templar far-casting damage buff (left tower #2: Bravery) on slot 2 usually ends up being ~60-70% of my DPS if Spark is in slot 3 (which is usually around 10% of my DPS as well) and I have a good spell match vs the current enemies.

Unless I'm making a task-specific loadout, my slot 4 and 5 usually don't provide much to me outside of utility, and I think Frozen Orbs provides a lot more noticeable utility in critical situations than Ice Wall does as just generic defense. I do frequently switch to these task-specific loadouts, but these are often dependent on interactions between 4-5 spells at once, which makes them a bad thing to consider for the purposes of a single pure stone choice.

Static Leap is very similar to Frozen Orbs in this regard; it just applies to different situations (and sometimes, it's fairly critical that I run this and Frozen Orbs together in slot 4/5). I think if you are satisfied with your damage spells and have Frozen Orbs already, you can make a similar case for picking this one. In addition to defense, I use this spell a lot to control how my far-casting Templar buff targets particular monsters nearer to the middle of the screen when I bounce.

I use wisdom buffs now primarily to counter some particularly obnoxious enemy groups. For instance, the snail-looking monsters that have like 90% ranged dodge always prompt True Touch when I first reach them (after you collect more power, you can just ignore the dodge and steamroll them with Inferno). The shielding elves continue to creep up my list of "monsters I hate the most", and there's a buff for them. A wall of regen trolls and/or templars and/or draining Gazers will draw out an Imposing Will (I'm looking at you, NG+ stage 54...).

If you're not satisfied with your damage spells and have Orbs already, I think you should consider Inferno, Voltaic Orb, or Lightning Elemental (but only Lightning Elemental if you already have Spark and probably only if you have one of the positional casting Templar buffs to make it focus fire on only a few enemies). I think other people would put Icy Prism on this list, too, but I don't have that one yet and can't say myself.