Blink

[Illuminated One]

What is this spell good for?

I always see my communion slaves cast this spell when I go to easy on them. They end up next to the enemy archers and get killed.

Are there any non-suicidial uses for this spell?

[Zeldor]

No, rather not.

[Tifone]

If you've an almost untouchable SC and a battlefield damaging enchantment cast (even through item) - it can be useful to give him the sandals of the crone (correct name?) which spam blink so your SC goes around making a little harder for the enemy hordes to swarm him while they get damaged.

Well, that's absolutely "niche" but it was the only thing that was in my experience ^^

[lch]

Originally Posted by Tifone

If you've an almost untouchable SC and a battlefield damaging enchantment cast (even through item) - it can be useful to give him the sandals of the crone (correct name?) which spam blink so your SC goes around making a little harder for the enemy hordes to swarm him while they get damaged.

In my experience that only means him always running around to get to the enemy troops and racking up more fatigue while doing so. If it's a SC, it doesn't need to blink, it needs to hit stuff.

[sum1lost]

Originally Posted by lch

In my experience that only means him always running around to get to the enemy troops and racking up more fatigue while doing so. If it's a SC, it doesn't need to blink, it needs to hit stuff.

Unless it is an SC that is relying on a battlefield enchantment, like he said. In which case surviving is the name of the game.

[lch]

Originally Posted by sum1lost

Unless it is an SC that is relying on a battlefield enchantment, like he said. In which case surviving is the name of the game.

Fatigue is one of the enemies of SCs, so running around and attacking which I think gives more fatigue than just attacking is not that much of a help.

[DonCorazon]

I actually have been experimenting with sandals of the crane, which autocast blink - and find it can be useful on a strong thug with lots of action points as there are a number of times when i have blinked in to the rear flanks and taken out key magi. It also can cause infantry to run around without getting any attacks in and mess up enemy formations. Best used with some other form of offensive units as well so you don't blink around endlessly causing an auto-route and also can target the enemy combatants chasing the blinker.

[Sombre]

Well there are fun uses for the sandals, that's for sure.

But for the spell blink? I can't think of any.

[thejeff]

It's a shame. It would be a really cool spell if the AI was smart enough to use it well.

Imagine a mage fighting infantry who would blink randomly away whenever they got too close to him. Or an SC who would blink whenever he wasn't close enough to fight an enemy (OK flight works better there)

But as it is? Yeah it's a waste. And usually a suicide if the AI decides to cast it.

[Poopsi]

Indeed. Most of my communions dont die of fatigue. They die because the slaves start casting blink.

One workaround I found is giving them a crossbow and having them on a script of "Comm slave, hold, hold, hold, hold, fire closest". This gives you 28 spell turns after the comm slave spell, before they start blinking.