Talk:Ice Magic/@comment-87.202.166.112-20130804153319/@comment-89.184.152.106-20160119074740

I still think Pyromancy is overall better than Ice for the following reasons:

1) Your Ring of Fire is more potent and efficient than Ring of Ice(For the Hero, it is better to cast Hand of Ice twice, than Ring of Ice. For Pyromancy, you have to cast it hand of flame 3 times to compete with Ring of Fire).

2) You have options to heal allies and buff their Xp with Pyromancy, giving you good "command" potential in horde armies or for races that lack xp boosters. You can further boost your armies combat potential with berserk, fire resistance or a temporary flame breath attack(good for swarm armies during a siege).

3) You have a powerful summon/siege unit. Especially on higher caster levels where you summon 2 with a lot of exp.

Ice magic is useful in terms of denying enemy casters(as someone said, works best if you are plaguelord yourself) and debuffing enemies, but in terms of boosting your own armies or dealing lots of damage to enemies(which is overall a more efficient use of mana points), Pyromancy is much better. And if you want good debuffs with some damage and utility, there are stronger magic spheres IMO(Nature and time magic).