Rogue Tips

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Because Chain Lightning might be easier and faster.  It's also a learnable spell.  It's not as visually stylish as Nova, but it can be more efficient.

Well, apocalypse cannot be resisted by anything, whereas Nova will be ineffective against Lightning immune mosters (that's why I said you can still run into trouble ;) ). But with a measy 12 charges or so per staff, and having to cast more than once to kill monsters, it's nowhere near as fast as Nova.

Nova > * in the lightning realm, it just does so much damage you can kill any monster with a single cast (and usually kill them by the dozens in big rooms full of them), no gaping or anything. I used to keep one of these staves in my Rogue and sometimes killed Diablo by teleporting in his room and Nova-ing away while everyone started attacking. Fun :)

Although, for general usage, it's nowhere near as fun as chain lightning, as with CL you have to work a bit to line up the monsters nicely (and when you do, ooooh when you do :D). I used to walk around with level 18 CL when doing the mini-mage (Dreamflange and Thinking Cap) :) You have to work a lot to avoid gaping though.

If you are wondering, yes I kept a lot of rubbish in my Rogue's inventory. Why do you think my bow was always a plain bow of nothing? You can buy them in town or grab one in the church :lol: