Re: With enough arrows, even Death may die...
 

I started with the Warlock, which is a ton of fun.

You can summon elementals of 4 types, bind them (if a single, larger one spawns) or let them fight for you, summon giants or elemental lords. You can also summon elemental beings which give you a chance of summoning a champion that can use items. Your apprentice can do the same but is less efficient (takes more gems).

Binding earth elementals (emeralds) give you more hp (though it's more of a damage shield, as it doesn't heal), and you can keep adding them. Fire (rubies) give you a fire attack, which, like earth, is scalable. Water (emeralds) give you a healing ability and diamonds let you fly.

Cool thing about this class is that the elemental lords you can summon in a creature that is actually more efficient at summoning elementals than you are http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif They can also lead and change the season. Earth can change it to spring, fire to summer, emeralds to autumn and diamonds to winter.

Anyone else try the Warlock? I couldn't figure out if there is any benefit in binding multiple water or air elementals http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif. Also, for some strange reason, sometimes when I summon in an elemental lord, it's just a "critter" that can't lead, summon or change the season. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif Is this a bug or is there some kind of criteria?

Re: With enough arrows, even Death may die...
 

No benefit from binding multiple airs or water. As for critters instead of lords I don't recall that in particular but it isn't a bug, just a bit of randomness.

Re: With enough arrows, even Death may die...
 

Ah I just figured out that there is a cap on the number of leaders you can have. The cap itself could be dynamic, depending on some unknown factors.

When I demoted one of my leaders and summoned one the elemental lord became a leader as normal.

Re: With enough arrows, even Death may die...
 

Well in that case you are correct. I didn't quite understand that what you were getting was a non commander version of the lord. There is a cap on the number of leaders as well as the number of units. The game is old and was originally developed on much much slower computers, so there are a few of those limits like that in the game.

Re: With enough arrows, even Death may die...
 

Ahhh, interesting. I was wondering why my Efreet was a non-commander -- a very, very powerful one, but not a leader.

Re: Nobody expects the Elysian Inquisition!
 

How did you manage to get the flesh heap?

I even raised dead at a place where the necro was "overwhelmed by the level of dead" and only got beasts of disorders.

Does it have to be cast on a particular type of square?

Re: Nobody expects the Elysian Inquisition!
 

Think it's quite random. I've seen it from a Graveyard animation, but not dependably.

Re: Nobody expects the Elysian Inquisition!
 

The beast od disoprder is the Flesh Heap I think.