I realized today I've completely forgotten to take anything for utility training. My little WM is only up to 6, so it's not that difficult.

I'm thinking of running him as an earth/fire mage, so probably avoid the air tree, which means no air bubble. What I'm debating is ignite vs. gauge flow.

I know gauge flow will teach from low ranks of utility up through a few hundred ranks, and even if it stops teaching it stays relevant by being the key to research.

Do I give up anything by skipping ignite? Does it stay relevant through an entire career like gaf would? Looking at the spell list, anything ignite gives access to, FS/FB do as well, and I plan on grabbing Fireball anyway.

The drawback here is the need to grind out 60 ranks of arcana to be able to read a gaf scroll, but that's doable eventually.

Are you talking straight casting GAF, or using research?

>I'm thinking of running him as an earth/fire mage, so probably avoid the air tree

This is a kind of scary thought, Air is far and away the biggest spellbook... even if about half the spells in it aren't worth their spell slots. I commend you.

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>Forgive my snark, but welcome to the life of a warrior mage.

>>Ignite is a pretty good source of extra damage due to the way it works (the fire damage is applied equally to all attacks). I don't leave home without it.

I agree with this. On my lil WM I went fire book to start out, which included Ignite for Utility and MoA for Debil. These two work well together for some extra damage when you need it. I would recommend Ignite for any WM for the simple fact that you can put two different elemental damage types (Fire + Cold/Electric) on their elemental weapons.