What's your favorite wall?

[With a box]

There are many wall of _____ spells
What's your favorite one?
1. For building base
2. In battle

[Brookshw]

Gears. It's not the most powerful but I find it thematically cool.

[Rebel7284]

Blockade (http://dndtools.eu/spells/complete-scoundrel--60/blockade--897/) doesn't have the word "wall" in it, but as a first level SWIFT action spell, it's my favorite wall. :)

[Amphetryon]

Hardly the most useful, but I always liked Wall of Smoke for its combination of BFC and Debuff.

[heavyfuel]

Blockade (http://dndtools.eu/spells/complete-scoundrel--60/blockade--897/) doesn't have the word "wall" in it, but as a first level SWIFT action spell, it's my favorite wall. :)

Perfect for setting up your Dungeoncrasher Fighter

[Psyren]

Salt and Iron make you rich, allowing you to buy all the others.

[Dalebert]

Wall of blindness/deafness because I think it might be the only wall (not 3rd party) that witches get and they don't get many crowd control spells.

[Rickshaw]

A simple dazing wall of fire is always fun

[dascarletm]

Answers:
1. Blood
2. Blood

This is achieved by using Grasping Wall as a base, and spell thematics.

[Divide by Zero]

Wall of Iron + Invisible Spell.

[Abd al-Azrad]

No love for the ol' Living Wall?

It's also terribly high level, but a Programmed Illusion of a dude walking through an Illusory Wall, one inch in front of a Prismatic Wall. It only works once, but so fun.

[Feint's End]

Blockade (http://dndtools.eu/spells/complete-scoundrel--60/blockade--897/) doesn't have the word "wall" in it, but as a first level SWIFT action spell, it's my favorite wall. :)

Wow this thing is awesome. Really wanna use this on a caster now.

[nedz]

Illusory Wall — doesn't have to be vertical.

Even better than though this is Mirage Arcana, which lets you build illusory buildings.

Non of these survive True Seeing, but the trick is to not make them think that they need to cast this spell.

[Sian]

Walls of Flesh or Walls of Ooze, both described in Dungeonscape

[Troacctid]

Wall of Incarnum. Will negates, sure, but you're taking Wisdom damage just for touching it. And bonus points for being an obscure spell that nobody ever uses because you can't even cast it without a feat.

[Phelix-Mu]

I'm a druid, so I have to go with wall of stone.

1.) Classic.

2.) Excellent synergy with numerous other spells (transmute rock to x, soften earth and stone, stone shape, greater stone shape, metamorphosis the spell).

3.) Classic.

4.) Much less strain on the economy than wall of iron, which pretty much makes the mining and smelting industries irrelevant when combined with fabricate. Thus, as DM, I like wall of stone.

Wall of water is a close second, mainly because you can flash freeze enemies inside it (I think). Did something like that once.

[nedz]

Wall of water with Water elementals is indeed hilarious — I cast Washing Machine.

Wall of water with sharks is a close second.

Wall of water was a cleric spell in Sandstorm, not so in the SpC though. This is a shame, because Water Devotion.

[Ruethgar]

War Wall of Stone because instant keep(25*CL Walls of Stone). Or a heavily modified Create Water with creative interpretation of water.

[ArqArturo]

I'm a simple-minded soul that enjoys long walks on the beach, and bonfire-lit enemies, so I'm gonna go with Wall of Fire.

[Chronos]

Shadow Conjuration Wall of Stone.

[Kelb_Panthera]

War Wall of Stone because instant keep(25*CL Walls of Stone). Or a heavily modified Create Water with creative interpretation of water.

Where was the war spell thing located, again?

[eggynack]

I'm a druid, so I have to go with wall of stone.

I prefer wall of salt. Does a roughly similar thing, except you're not paying that annoying druid premium on spell level. Same kinda thing applies to spells like dispel magic and greater dispel magic. It is possible that I'm wrong though, making a "feels better" assessment rather than taking an objective measure of power level, given spell level. Wall of stone does have a good amount more defensive utility than salt, after all.

[Phelix-Mu]

Where was the war spell thing located, again?

It appears to be Dragon Magazine #309, according to my source. It's also fairly involved stuff, from what I'm gleaning, including this gem:


WAR MAGIC STUDY [GENERAL]
You have studied war magic and can perform the complex
rituals necessary to utilize it.
Prerequisites: Great Fortitude, Iron Will, spellcaster level
3rd.
Benefit: You may acquire and cast spells with the war
descriptor.
Normal: War magic spells do not appear on any class spell
list for a character without this feat. Such a character cannot
acquire or cast spells with the war descriptor but still can aid
another person who is casting such a spell.

[MesiDoomstalker]

I prefer Wall of Magma. With spells like that one Unicorn Horn something or other that gives you ranged Bull Rush, you can force things into it and watch them burn.

[Phelix-Mu]

I prefer Wall of Magma. With spells like that one Unicorn Horn something or other that gives you ranged Bull Rush, you can force things into it and watch them burn.

Hehe, yeah, this is a good spell. I remember a great scene where the players threw up a wall of magma behind some of the enemies, in an area where there was an ongoing blizzard spell. Had some very amusing unexpected consequences.

[Yael]

Wall of chains. (http://youtu.be/N7s0FPxLhzY?t=50s)

[Dalebert]

Anyone know what happened to Wall of Vermin? It's a third party PF spell that used to come up on searches on the PFSRD and was available to witches (hence my interest). Now I can't find it.

[AnonymousPepper]

No love for the ol' Living Wall?

It's also terribly high level, but a Programmed Illusion of a dude walking through an Illusory Wall, one inch in front of a Prismatic Wall. It only works once, but so fun.

I was going to reply with something else but this just wins.

[Dalebert]

I was going to reply with something else but this just wins.

Oh, I agree. I'm not the right class or high enough level to pull that one off yet but it inspired me. I'm going to cast Wall of blindness/deafness sometime and coordinate with my faerie dragon to throw up a silent image of a wall, then run through it and cast a Wall of Bindness/Deafness. The only thing is, wouldn't they immediately get a saving through to realize it's an illusion, and if so, it becomes ghostly and transparent to them, yes?

[superjudas]

I can not belive anybody has said wall of eyes yet. It is the most awsome wall ever, both for combat, and for building a fortress.

After you cast it you can see through it, even across planes.
If somebody touches it, and fails enough saves the wall consumes that somebody and more eyes are added to the wall.

[Lightlawbliss]

Silent image of a prismatic sphere with the BBEG inside. It's one step shy of the silent image of a ghost greatwyrm dragon and does a better job stopping PCs then any "wall" I have ever seen.

[AnonymousPepper]

The only thing is, wouldn't they immediately get a saving through to realize it's an illusion, and if so, it becomes ghostly and transparent to them, yes?

Chains of Disbelief illusionist variant says hi. I think.

[Dalebert]

Chains of Disbelief illusionist variant says hi. I think.

Even then, they get a +10 to their save from proof it's an illusion but it's still a nice option.

I attempted to disbelieve something (that later turned out to be a nightmare; not an illusion per se) and my DM said "You're convinced it's an illusion!" or something like that so I communicated to the rest of the party that it was an illusion. Then it bit me and did damage. Apparently my DM has house-ruled away the whole "looking ghostly and transparent" part of disbelieving illusions. I'm going to totally exploit this house rule. I don't think he realized how much that will likely benefit me more than hurt me considering that I've taken the shadow patron which includes a lot of shadow magic. I just wish he would inform me of these house rules ahead of time instead of letting me discover them in the middle of my action round.