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[[Image:Wiz-spectral-blade1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Wizard cleaving some [[Zombie]]s.]]
::''Using this skill is almost like using [[Bash]], or [[Cleave]], or some melee [[Barbarian]] attack, if those skills had extra range. Spectral Blade hits enemies at [[melee]] range, but can also nail them a yard or two distant, though it seemed like the multiple hits of damage were more likely to occur if the [[monster]] was right in front of you, where the lines overlapped. The initial temptation is to use this skill against anything that can be hit by it, but after a bit of practice (and a lot of running out of [[mana]]) I realized that it was more effective if I aimed it. So I started letting the monsters get into range, and tried to position myself so that I had several [[zombie]]s in a bunch, where each slash of the Spectral Blade would have a chance to hit all of them more than once. This immediately cut my mana use since I was using the spell less often, and it was more fun to use it that way. It became a bit of a challenge to try to take out zombies or [[skeleton]]s in one Spectral Blade, instead of 2 or 3. Especially when I had a couple of them overlapping.''