Originally Posted by
Keledrath
Actually, some of the mystic combats are great steroids. For example, spend a spell point for enlarge person. Can be combined with the alteration sphere.
And buffing is expensive on actions in any system. There's a reason that most buff gish builds are 3.5 and revolve around spamming persisted spells.
I haven't had too much time to look into combat efficient buffs, since I run gestalt and therefore generally combine incanter with an initiator for my gishes, and further the one buff focused boss had enough warning to drop a solid minute of buffs
For enhancement, you need to look at where to get bonuses. For example, enhance your weapon and your str score for combat.