Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (2024)

So, I've been putting this off for awhile, but now that we've got all the weapons and a few of the magic types, and especially since we just GOT a new magic type, it's time to go over some spells. I'll put up a weapons overview later.

So, without further ado, the Magic of Secret of Mana (So far)

UNDINE

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Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (1) Or, in more recent portrayals Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (2)

In game Sprite Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (3)

Undine is the water and ice themed spirit, offering in part healing, status cures, and a defense debuff in addition to spells to smack enemies around with a water weakness.

Girl's spells

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (4) Remedy: 1 MP to cast, cures all status ailments. Saves out bacon in a big way, especially since I forgot to grab the midge mallet.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (5) Cure Water: 2 MP to cast, and saves our Bacon in the biggest way, since it increases the party's overall durability above and beyond what simple healing items will give us now. The healing only improves with time and the MP NEVER goes up.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (6) Ice Saber: 2 MP, Makes the weapon of whomever you cast it on deal water damage. Most useful for the boy, but until MP reserves start skyrocketing, still a good plan to have on the whole party.

Sprite's Spells

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (7) Freeze: 2 MP, the game's first elemental damage spell. Blocks of ice zoom in and lock up an enemy. You saw this used to good effect on the Fire Gigas.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (8) Acid Storm: 3 MP, this deals small damage and inflicts a damage debuff. I've never found it lasts quite long enough, and prefer using the sprite's MP for additional blasting.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (9) Energy Absorb: 2 MP, drain by another name. It's alright, but you probably want to use the sprite's MP for AOE damage and leave the healing to the specialist.

Gnome

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Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (10) alternately Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (11)

In game Sprite Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (12)

Gnome is an earth spirit, one with an attitude, as he starts out hostile to the party, summoning the fire Gigas on them, but quickly finding rapport with the incorrigible sprite. He has spells to up party speed and defense, lower enemy speed, and whack enemies with earth elemental attacks in various flavors.

Girl's spells

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (13) Defender: 2 MP, Raises target's physical defense, and taking less damage when getting hit is good, but not AS good as...

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (14) Speed Up: 2 MP, Raises the target's accuracy and evasion, which helps you not take any damage at all, plus you whiff less often. Does not affect movement speed.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (15) Earth Saber: 4 MP, This add earth elemental damage to weapons, and can auto-proc a petrify effect on susceptible enemies. Do not rely on this auto-proc.

Sprite's Spells

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (16) Speed Down: 1 MP ,Lowers target's evasion and accuracy, with can help in conjunction with speed up if you have a particularly nasty enemy. Still does not effect movement speed.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (17) Gem Missile: 2 MP Deals earth damage to target. Usually a bit more useful than Earth slide until higher levels.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (18) Earth Slide: 3 MP Deals more earth damage, once you get a few more levels in this and more MP to throw around, this spell really outclasses gem missile. For now though, you want more casts overall, at least in my opinion.

Jinn AKA Sylph

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Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (19), and more recently Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (20)

In game Sprite Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (21)

Jinn, called Sylph in the rest of the series, is a pretty chill dude who hung out with the Sprite's grandpa, and now hangs out with you because grandpa told him to. He's where magic starts to get a bit interesting, since he has spells to scan, stop, and silence enemies, in addition to the standard elemental assault all spirits are capable of dishing out.

Girl's spells

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (22) Analyzer: 1 MP, Shows the target's Hp, mp, and elemental weakness. Works on chests and gate orbs as well. This is always great at the start of a boss fight.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (23) Balloon: 2 MP ,If you're familiar with DnD terminology, this is out first save or suck spell. If it hits, it traps an enemy in place with a balloon. They cannot attack or use magic while under this effect. It lowers wisdom, making said enemy get hit harder by magic.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (24)Thunder Saber: 3 MP, Enchants target's weapon so that it deals wind damage. Nothing new here.

Sprite's Spells

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (25) Silence: 2MP, Prevents target from using magic for a time. Bosses tend not to use spells too much, but when they do, this can be a life saver.

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (26) Thunderbolt: 4MP, Deals heavy wind damage to target with a lightning bolt, fairly effective blasting spell, but again, you want spell levels and MP pools before favoring this strongly over the other option

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (27) Air Blast: 2MP, Attack target with a pair of cyclones, dealing wind damage, nothing too special.

Ryushikaze f*cked around with this message at 19:43 on Dec 16, 2016

Missing the Forest for the Mana Tree, Let's Play Secret of Mana, Blind! (2024)

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