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unfortunately all skills in dungeon siege are means to kill & not anything else.


Not quite true. Nature mages have quite a few non-combat skills at their dispoal. Transmute, for example, changes items into gold. They also use several healing spells: healing wind, healing hands. Life balance, mana balance... The combat mages even have a few: harmony, reconsitution.

Anyway, it's not quite the issue at hand but I had to defend DS a little.