Sorcerer defensive spell choices

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• semiticgoddess Member Posts: 14,903

  November 2017

  I usually just rely on Spell Immunity for my sorcerers, with a Spell Shield or Spell Turning scroll for major fights. Spell Immunity can be cast even when your aura is clouded, and a mage with the Robe of Vecna and Amulet of Power can cast it instantly.

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• Neverused Member Posts: 803

  November 2017

  From what I remember from other posters (I'm not good at Mage chess myself!)
  The crucial things to keep up are 1) Improved Invisibility, to avoid being targeted, and therefore 2) Spell Immunity: Divination, and 3) Spell Immunity: Abjuration to block Dispel attempts. However, if you're playing with SCS (I'm pretty sure this isn't Vanilla behavior,) mages can target anti-magic attacks (Pierce Magic, Spell Thrust, so on, so forth) THROUGH Improved Invisibility. That's where the other stuff comes in handy: Spell Shield, Spell Turning, Spell Deflections, both regular and minor: they'll eat the anti-magic attacks, keeping your precious SI's safe.
  
  So in Vanilla: Improved Invisibility, SI: Div, SI: Abj, and maybe SI: Necromancy or SI: Enchantment if ADHW or Chaos are worries, respectively. In SCS, toss in Spell Shield, and probably any 1 or 2 of (Minor) Spell Turning or Spell Deflection. This gives you 3 guaranteed rounds of safety from a solo mage's attack before you're in danger of a Dispel, unless Kheldorn's Warding Whip is in play and then that combo only protects you for 2 rounds.

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• semiticgoddess Member Posts: 14,903

  November 2017

  Bear in mind that Minor Spell Deflection only blocks up to level 7 spells and Minor Spell Turning only reflects up to level 4 spells, despite MST being a higher-level spell.

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• lunar Member Posts: 3,460

  November 2017

  I don't find globe of invulnerability spells useful on a sorcerer, unless your whole strategy in bg1 revolves around casting webs/fireballs near yourself. Come bg2, globes are even less useful, the spells they block are not top tier threats, anyway.
  
  Spell immunity, and spell turning are must-haves in the spell-defense category, though. They are always useful all the way up to end game.

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• Pokota Member Posts: 858

  November 2017

  (Wait, isn't it Khelben's Warding Whip? as in Khelben Blackstaff whose cloak Gorion's Ward stole as a child?)

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• Neverused Member Posts: 803

  November 2017

  Err. Yeah. Whoops.
  About globes: 4th level slots are cramped as they are, as are 6th level slots, though a little less so. There is the benefit of the 6th level spell blocking Greater Malison, so it's not completely useless.
  
  A spell selection of pfmw/death spell or fog/contingency/true seeing allows for one more pick, so a GoI isn't impossible to fit in with all the others.

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