Blackthorns! yes. . . blackthorns

[Pheten]

Yes I know this is a piddly second circle illusionist spell but it has bugged me since the day I got it, to the best of my testing this spell always seems to do at best half of the damage of one volley of magic missiles/shadow bolts(a low level mob that takes exactly 5 shadow bolts or 1 volley to kill will only go to nasty from blackthorns).

Now I know this isn't horribly important but if someone gets bored they might just want to peek into the damage on the spell.

-pheten!

[Shevarash]

You get blackthorns at level 6, shadow bolt maxes out at level 15 :)

Blackthorns should be doing more damage at level 6 than shadow bolts, but the bolts will eventually catch up and surpass them.

[Nassis]

At lvl 6 thorns take much longer to cast and mem so they're never ever better than bolts as far as I know. But hey, who cares! Magic missile and everything like it kicks ass, 2nd circle mage damage is never worth it (maybe except for vokers).

Simple! :)