So I've been tooling around a lot in the lower ranks of WMs, just to see which spell path seems 'ideal' from a 'getting good bonuses at low levels while also getting the best training options'.
Frankly, air just smashes everything else away, that I've tried. Having zephyr at level 2 for utility, then ES at 3 for warding (then tacking on an ease scroll for augmentation) is great, especially with how useful Zephyr is for low level characters.
The one thing it leaves poorly is debilitation training. I've played with anther's call it never blew my socks off (I'm sure the imobilization effect is cool at higher levels, but in the level 1-20 range, it misses 90% of the time).
I think I'm going to save my slots till I hit 8 for elementalism, and then pick up some other spells. First priority will be a deblilitation spell, second would be a WM aug spell. So far I've got zephyr, ala, es, and ease (scroll), so by 8th I'll have 5 open spell slots.
End goal is to be more of an earth oriented mage, but the other trees have too much potency to ignore. So I thought I'd ask what other people would recommend. I'm not really that interested in grabbing a duplicate entry level TM spell unless you can convince me it's something I 'need' to have.
