Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara, Magic User

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Magic User Facts

Default Name	Syous
Primary weapon	Staff of Strength
Preferred weapon	Staff of Wizardy
Common Items	Cure Serious Wounds rings
Character's Cap	Magician's Hat
Weapon / Item limitations	Can only, and is only one who can, use the various magical wands and staffs. No shield, panic move, slash attack, or rising attack Cannot use arrows or hammers Too weak to lift chests, or to push statues in the floating castle
Class Special Attributes	Instead of kick maneuver, has shoulder charge Only character who can score a critical hit (with poison dagger) Back hop maneuver does short teleportation where Mage is temporarily invincible. Necessary to perform the Final Strike move

Magic User Spells

Level 1	Magic Missile
Level 2	None
Level 3	Fireball Lighting Bolt
Level 4	Ice Storm Wall of Fire
Level 5	Conjure Elemental (Fire/Water) (Black Mage) Cloudkill (Green Mage)
Level 6	Flesh to Stone Projected Image
Level 7	Reverse Gravity
Level 8	Meteor Swarm (Black Mage) Power Work Kill (Green Mage)

While the black Magic User is probably the coolest looking character, what with the spiky hair with white streaks and all, he's definitely the most difficult character to play with. Playing as the mage requires a much different style of play as you will not have much to contribute to melee fighting, but spell casting will become critically important.

The mage has very negligible fighting ability and a puny number of hit points. The mage has other liabilities such as not being strong enough to lift chests and lacking standard "rising attack," "slash attack," and "panic moves" that the other characters posess.

Why play the mage then? He can often singlehandedly kill bosses with his plethora of offensive spells. Normally difficult boss encounters, such as the Man Scorpion, the Dark Warrior and Nagpa become trivially simple with a ready mage.