best summonable astral mage

[Xavier]

Looking for opinions on what the best summonable astral mage is. Would prefer to avoid golems, as I can't get astral+earth without empowerment, although I may just take that route anyway....

[Shovah32]

Seraphs. Nowhere near cost effective for an astral mage, but I had to say it.

Spectres(Death), Lamia Queens(Nature and Death iirc) and Tartarians(High Death) can all get astral from randoms. Tartarians are probably the best of the three and theres even a tartarian who only gets sorcery randoms, iirc its the female titan. Other than that all I can think of is Golems and various wished-for things.

There are also various national summons with astral magic, but it doesn't sound like you have access to them.

edit: Oh, and ether gate. 90 gems for, iirc 15 ether warriors(large, ethereal, weapons that kill magic creatures) and an Ether Lord. I think he has S2-3 and maybe D2. Or maybe its slightly random, not sure. Not exactly cost effective just for the mage(or even the whole spell), but its an option(S4D1 and 90 pearls).

edit again: Lamia Queens don't get astral, as Micah pointed out. And as Ylvali said, you can get lucky with Arch/Ice Devils.

[Zenzei]

Do want the mage to be a general summon or can it be nation specific?

I don't know if there's better general summon than golem but for nation specific Contact Couatl (c'tis & mictlan)is pretty good. S3 mage for 40 nature gems and it's very easy to get paths required. Even shaman can do it.

[Xavier]

thanks shovah. I'd forgotten that lamia queens are astral. i know tartarians can get it, but I'm looking for something a little less end-gamish.... I'm thinking of stuff around the same time you could think about summoning the elemental kings/queens.

@zenzei general summon, yeah - although feel free to pipe up with nation specifics also.

[Micah]

WDNB are Lamia queen paths...

[Shovah32]

Micah said:
WDNB are Lamia queen paths...

Thats what I get for not playing any more

[llamabeast]

Are you not playing Shovah?

[Torin]

Ether lords are the best if you cannot recruit strong astral mages. But to be communion slaves, the best may be the lizardman shaman indies if you can find any. Anything summonable is expensive.

[Zenzei]

I don't think ether lords are good for astral needs because they are so expensive. For 90 gems you could empower low level S-mage higher than the lord.

[Aezeal]

yeah that lord with his etherpplz I wanted to mention too.. not very cost effective I think. But if you want the highest astral power (and the put items on him) to cast high level spells he might be it.