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Originally posted by SBoy@Mar 23 2006, 08:59 PM
Thanks for your replies to my huge question. One more question, what is a retort used for?

It depends on what the specific retort is. Basicly a 'retort' is like a special skill of your wizard, such as Artificer, Alchemy, Warlord, etc.

Of those 3, Artificer halves the cost of creating artifacts through a spell and starts you off with the artifact creation spell from the begining; Alchemy lets you convert mana to gold at a ratio of 1:1 instead of 2:1, which means you no longer lose half of the resource when you convert from one form to the other; and Warlord makes all your normal (i.e. non-magical) units be 1 level higher than usual, which is very useful (that's why it costs 2 picks).