priests spells?

[Nerfix]

But C'tissan won't have the "Wrath of Sepulchre", riiight...?

[Kristoffer O]

Royal Blessing. Similar spell different name.

[Nerfix]

Ah good.

[Pocus]

not quite the subject of the thread, but about game balance, have you not found that caelian weapons traversing etheralness was not a bit too much?

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Pocus:
not quite the subject of the thread, but about game balance, have you not found that caelian weapons traversing etheralness was not a bit too much?

The magic nature of caelian weapons was so powerful largely due to the propensity of experienced players to rely on seasonal spirits. The seasonal spirits are now more expensive and hopefully will not be quite as dominant on the battlefield as they once were. Furthermore elementals of all sizes now costs gems to summo,n so lesser air and fire elementals will be scarcer, once again decreasing the importance of caelian weapons.

[Daynarr]

Hold on, you could summon elementals WITHOUT gems in Dominions I??!!

No wonder I saw tips on some sites telling how fight air elementals.

Now all those Posts I was reading make more sense.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by Daynarr:
Hold on, you could summon elementals WITHOUT gems in Dominions I??!!

No wonder I saw tips on some sites telling how fight air elementals.

Now all those Posts I was reading make more sense.

Yeah, the lesser elementals didnt cost anything and the greater just 1 gem. It used to be popular strategy for caelum to field multiple mages that would cast summon air elemental under the cover of storm, grounding most other fliers and rendering almost all misiile fires ineffective. If you had a dozen or so High seraphs you could churn out massive amounts of air elementals in battles, combined with the storm spell to protect the mages you had a very mobile and very effective strike force that was very hard to counter. Played well you could handle most battles without suffering any losses. Of course there were some counters and enemies that would require a greater concentration of forces or a modification of the tactics, but the basic strategy was both very powerful and cost effective.

Another previously popular tactic whose power is somewhat reduced is the so called supercombatants, powerfull commanders equipped with shields or spells that would cause an attack on anybody that struck them, such as the charcoal shield or the spells astral shield or fireshield. A powerful commander equipped with the right items could reap hundreds of kills in a single battle, they still can but due to changes in the strikeback spells it should be a bit riskier to the supercombatant to just wade into hordes of enemies.