Mental Magic?

[The Ratt]

From what I understand mental magic is considered one of the most powerful branches of magic, but does do you think it makes the game too easy and/or makes the "best/easiest" classes what they are?

[Taliesin]

As a lifecrafter, I use very little mental magic, but some spells (mental barrier, unlock, dominate/charm) are extremely helpful once in a while. Despite its sheer awesomeness, I have never cast mass madness with any character in any Geneforge game, because you can always find more than enough madness gems for those situations.

[Randomizer]

I've run everything but warrior. Daze/strong daze works great when you only have your character and no creations. The more creations you have, the less need for mental magic.

 

I used mass madness a lot in the end since even when you don't charm, the daze and slowing effects are nice. Area effect spells are great when you have a low dexterity lifecrafter that can't hit with a single target spell.

[Igor]

Having not played GF4 all the way through, is mental magic as absurdly broken as it was in GF2?

[Randomizer]

Jeff fixed most of the problems during beta testing. It doesn't work as well against the major fights with named characters.

[Jeran Korak]

lol. I wonder if Jeff realised the typo he was making when he wrote that.