Gunter, the Barbarian Mage

[MongoJerry]

Also, have you considedered the Spectral shard?  It's relativly easy to find and the 50% Faster Cast Rate could be really useful.

Sure. That would've been nice, but I never found one. The idea was to play Gunter untwinked except for the three Trang-Oul pieces that were necessary to make a pure casting character. Actually, I had found some terrific helms, belts, and gloves, so I could've played Gunter totally untwinked. But then I would've had to break character and use weapons against physical immunes (e.g. put a point into Berserk). The extra 50% fast cast would've been nice, but mana was always a problem, so I didn't mind having the large +mana wand I had. Actually, the best would've been a Bahamut's wand of the Magus which would've given Gunter a lot of mana and gotten him to a 9 fps casting speed (70% fast cast). You can buy them in the shop, but after shopping for about 30 minutes without any luck, I gave up. Gunter was killing fast enough for me. With spectral shard, he would've been at 100% fast cast which is still only 9 fps, so he'd still have to find another fast cast item like a good ring or amulet to get to 8 fps. Unfortunately, he didn't have that good fast cast ring and he was dependent on the rings he was wearing for mana.