Magicka

[ZtH]

So recently I recieved the game Magicka for my birthday and I've been having a lot of fun with it. I was wondering what everyone else thought of this little gem. Do you play it? Do you like it? What are your favorite spells?

I think mine is 3xIce 2xElectric cast as a projectile which shoots a shotgun blast of electrified icicles. Lots of damage, but isn't very consistent unfortunately.

 

[Proteus214]

I'm a big fan of the flaming boulder of doom (3 earth, 2 fire I think?). Flaming giblets everywhere!

 

[butternut]

I had alot of fun with that game some of the spells you can learn by putting the right combo in are great. Thunderbolt is my favourite. But my favourite random combo is x3 Steam, 1x Fire and 1x Earth. It makes a small but incredibly fast fire boulder that can cut straight through a large group!

 

[ZtH]

Oh wow I'll have to try that one butternut it sounds pretty awesome! When I was playing with my friends I used the good old fireball proteus, but I think they might have noticed that I was only aiming for the enemies half the time

 

[Tohuvabohu]

I don't have it installed at the moment, but I had a blast and a ton of laughs playing with friends.

Friendly fire incidents in other games tend to be frustrating, albeit pretty humorous.

But I can't tell you how many times we've accidentally exploded each other with hilarious misuse of spells. Oh the shield spell is such an excellent tool for griefing.

Wait for a friend to cast a beam spell.
Stand next to him, cast AOE shield.
Laugh.

Personally, I love enchanting the sword with various shield spells.
I believe one of my favs was: 1shield, 2ice, 2lightning. Swing the sword and it creates a spiky icewall that causes horrendous damage to anything nearby. I'd recommend it as a regular cast instead of a sword enchant, but thanks to it's extremely volatile nature, it's a bit easy to accidently take a step forward after casting it, and get caught in it's wrath.

Favorite magick:
Conflagration


Other favs:
Iceball (1 earth, 4ice)
^I think that was the combo. It may not be an exploding fireball, but it does MASSIVE damage especially if charged.

Water beam(1 arcane, 4 water)
^Mainly because I noticed my friends favored some variation of a lightning beam, so I got used to casting this to create that whole opposing-element explosion. Except I would tend to explode myself or my friend casting the beam as often as other monsters.

Volcanoes (1 shield, 1 earth, 3 fire)
^Good as a wall, and as a sword enchant for burning all sorts of nasty things. Can also be mixed with other elements to produce "volcanoes" that spout other things. Such as water volcanoes, frost volcanoes, etc.

Mines (1 shield, 1 arcane, +3 of any element)
^Different kinds of elements for different results.

Earthquake (3 earth, +2 of any element)
^Casting earth as an AOE does a quake that knocks enemies down. Plus an element to cause an extra effect. I like doing a waterquake to soak enemies while knocking them down, then using 5frost aoe to freeze everything around me.

 

[-Torchedini-]

I found Q-F-Q-F-S-A-A a lot of fun.
Basically a massive beam of death

 

[ZtH]

Tohuvabohu that's a point I was thinking about, I really like how teamwork is rewarded in this game. I was kind of dissapointed that you can't do rain followed by lightning bolt for a special effect, but alot of the spell interactions are really cool.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Tohuvabohu that's a point I was thinking about, I really like how teamwork is rewarded in this game.

Teamwork is definitely rewarding. The beam interactions are a great sign of that, but I also like that it requires finesse on players attempting teamwork. You can even mean well and still end up killing your friends.

ex: Friend is injured, and you try to cast a healing beam on him. Then he begins to cast an arcane beam. (Arcane and Life are opposites. Arcane beam + Life beam = KABOOM! Your friend flies off the map, mads and laughs are had.)

I was kind of dissapointed that you can't do rain followed by lightning bolt for a special effect, but alot of the spell interactions are really cool.

You mean the fact that you can't conjure lightning when wet? Actually, you can. This is something I forgot to recommend was not to forget about resistance spells.

1 shield, 1element + selfcast = elemental resistance. (Adding more than 1 element turns it into an aura that effects things around you. Good for helping protect your friends, but also affects enemies as well. For example, fire resistance aura protects you, your allies, and nearby enemies from fire. Rendering everything affected completely immune to fire. Use wisely!)

I was going to say, a fun thing to do is to cast water resistance on yourself then cast rain. The resistance stops you from getting wet, allowing you to conjure and spam lightning spells to your hearts content! It's good to use against those damned druids that flood the screen with water spells as soon as they appear.

If you mean like, casting a lightningbolt magick after casting rain?... well, there's a magick later on called "Thunderstorm"

 

[ZtH]

If you mean like, casting a lightningbolt magick after casting rain?... well, there's a magick later on called "Thunderstorm"

That's exactly what I was looking for As for the life and arcane thing I think that may have been how I accidentally killed one of my friends, whoops.