Originally Posted by Glitchless

For damage dealing casters:

Your best friend is Flare Up Aura available at the second town (Stronhad). It adds 5 damage to the maximum damge of all your direct damage gems. If you can get this gem out in a fight it will greatly increase the effect and efficiency or low level damage spells. One strategy is to purposefully not cast - just put them into play - your spells until you have this aura out. It gets risky as your level increases and you get more gem slots, however.