Improving Treelords

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
I doubt the affinity to nature means anything more than them having a whopping 4 nautre magic. That IS a lot of nature magic in my opinion.

Since it takes at least a 4 nature mage to summon them, you don't really gain anything from it. Pangaea and Man(Crones have 3?) both have easy access to 4 nature, 5 with a thistle mace, so you don't gain much by summoning a treelord instead of going for the enchantments directly.

An addition that I don't feel would be overpowered or in any way effect how the balance of the Treelord is given, while at the same time giving them a reason for nature mages to summon them would be:

Give them a base Nature Gem Income of +~5.

Suddenly they are a Nature Mage with their own source of gems to cast their own spells.

Another Idea would be to have the Province that the Treelord is in, protected by a Forest Dome.

[Leif_-]

An alternative could perhaps be to let them have an ability identical to Faery Trod (but which doesn't cost gems)?

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by Leif_-:
An alternative could perhaps be to let them have an ability identical to Faery Trod (but which doesn't cost gems)?

Actually, I mentioned that in my first post

[NTJedi]

I believe they should be allowed to summon ents which could be stronger and tougher then vinemen but cost 3 gems when being summoned.

Of course that means the devs would have to create a whole new unit... not sure if they're up for that since they have 95% of the money this game will ever earn.

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
I believe they should be allowed to summon ents

Wouldn't Huorns be more appropriate?

[Norfleet]

Well, I think they'd be pretty good if the effectiveness with which they summoned Vinemen was drastically improved: What if they could summon Vinemen as "summon allies" instead of using gems at all, and they would appear in larger quantities?