[Lord Lucien]

Time control is very useful becuase you can use it from a good distance to your enemies, go up close and then cast your offensive spells up close to have a powerful effect while safe or almost safe under the influence of slow time. Also, with good high levels of this (and not too higer levels of said offensive spells), you should be able to get well on your way to casting the spell again before the first one expires.

Raise dead is also very handy (trolls being one shining example) when all the enemies seem to be too much. It acts as a lovely distraction and they often weaken your enemies for you to finish them off.

As for my favourite offensive spell for pure damage, shock. Statistically, shock is in fact the best spell because not only does it do the most damage, it also stuns your opponents. It only costs (I'm going by level 1 here - it may be different in future levels) 12% more experience than inferno to purchase so go for it.

[Cyanide Slushie]

inferno, it was a tough call between it, shock , and time control. but i figure it like this:

1. time control does no actual damage, and sense you want offensive, it cant really compare

2. though shock does more damage than inferno, but inferno has no limit on how many enemies it can hit at once so therefore it has much higher cumulative damage potential.

[R3kt4l Raid3r]

Yeah but there's that retarded thing were Inferno only hits a select few of the enemies that are surrounding you, it doesn't always hit all of them. I still say Chaos, maxed out it always hits and it's fun to watch.

[Xeon]

Vortex, gives me a couple of seconds to use my gun before they come close again

[Ceh913]

Originally Posted by Miekkas

Time Control is probably the most useful for both Strength and Skill users despite it not causing any damage and being useless at times for flit switches.

time control kind of does damage, it multiplies the damage u do by a certain amount, depending on the level u r

[jsnow]

I prefer to keep time control in slot 1 its usefull to buy you some time to charge up or just kick the crap out of people, but mostly i use it directionally, to push through people and hit them from behind or get out of the middle of groups, the other slots i change up depending on the situation and my mood but i tend to keep inferno at the top, its pretty impressive.

[jweaver64]

I use blades mostly, it's easy to kill a weak enemy by targeting, and you can finish off a group of enemies that you've worn down a bit by using an area attack.

[William1193]

Time control to slow things donw to activate any other spells during surprise attacks then use my other favourite raise dead so i have 5 balverines to rip up my enemies or barbarians pure pwnage