[MasterNuke]

Faster or stronger. I can burn out all my spellpoints and it WILL kill someone/something, but I definitely don't live long enough to do that in a serious situation.

And... it's not so much the base effects of spells... but the additional benefits of higher magic levels (and higher spellpoint costs) are too low.

Example... a level 1 icestorm at 6sp cost can deal maybe 7-15 damage total. A level 43 icestorm at 27 sp cost can deal 25-60 damage.

Level 1: 1.16 - 2.5 damage per spellpoint.
At ~3 second cast time, that is .38 - .83 damage per second.

Level 43: .93 - 2.2 damage per spellpoint.
At ~3 second cast time, that is 8.33 - 20 damage per second.

This is considering that there are no interupts and all spells hit.
At level 35 physique and 22 strength, I can swing a regular unprepared sword (not factoring in resistances) at around 15-25 damage per second (only an estimate due to high range of damages).