What does it do? It makes a sound effect, but nothing seems to happen apart from that. Once, i think, it did damage to a necromancer, but even that is somewhat flakey. >_>

Spirit Lash is one of those spells that never seemed to work when I needed it. I seemed to always find a wand with it, try it once, and then sell it for cash.

With my playstyle in the MM series, I never really used my priest's offensive spells anyway. When the monsters are at range, I used a bow to conserve spell points. When they got close, I switched to mace until someone got hurt.

The exceptions were prismatic light and destroy undead. Those were very useful (especially if I was throwing prismatic light between two infernos from my other casters).

I'm a bit fuzzy on priests in MM8. When the game first came out I used a traditional party. But since then I've only played solo games.

Mhm, interesting. I don't have a priest, so i didn't encounter that spell yet. I wonder just how close enemies have to be for this to work. Seems to be very sensitive.