Blood 9 Blessing: Beavis and Butthead for the first time

[tinkthank]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
You are correct. It is not even 1% as good as any of the level-4 blessings=)

Death-9 is very weak, too, unless you go through some strange exploits involving deliberately suiciding your sacred mages to avoid upkeep. I wouldn't mind a completely new Blood-9 and Death-9 blessing effect.

Blood: How about "Blood Vengance -4" ? Meaning opponent makes an MR save versus penetration 7 or gets hurt instead of the blessed unit. Or else, "Blood Poison": Any melee attacker that draws blood is poisoned.

Death: Keep the unit EXACTLY THE SAME after death, just add the "undead" flag, refill its HP, and give it 0 base encumbrance.

OK so I am not totally crazy then.
Great other suggestions so far.

[Taqwus]

Hm, yup. A warning to those thinking of trying the "kill the mages so you no longer have to pay upkeep" idea -- even before any possible afflictions gained during their murder, Soulless have a wonderful MR of 5, have the 'never heals' flag, and are no longer sacred.

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
You are correct. It is not even 1% as good as any of the level-4 blessings=)

Death-9 is very weak, too, unless you go through some strange exploits involving deliberately suiciding your sacred mages to avoid upkeep. I wouldn't mind a completely new Blood-9 and Death-9 blessing effect.

Blood: How about "Blood Vengance -4" ? Meaning opponent makes an MR save versus penetration 7 or gets hurt instead of the blessed unit. Or else, "Blood Poison": Any melee attacker that draws blood is poisoned.

Death: Keep the unit EXACTLY THE SAME after death, just add the "undead" flag, refill its HP, and give it 0 base encumbrance.

Blood vengeance has ben tested at an early stage. It was ridicously (damn language, this is the second time I come across this stupid word. Could someone inform me of the correct spelling) powerful.

The strength effect is rather powerful at high levels and the curse is fun.

Undead is not a flag. It is an intrinsic of a unit and not changable (like stealth). An entirely new stat would have to be introduced. Not impossible, but not quickly made either. Otherwise it's a good idea. It was discarded ages ago in the development of Dom 1, but the current development of Dom2 with easy modding etc might have opened new possibilities, to some extent at least. Hmm, I just got an excellent idea derived from your undead flag. I must ponder this. Thanks!

Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
Blood vengeance has ben tested at an early stage. It was ridicously (damn language, this is the second time I come across this stupid word. Could someone inform me of the correct spelling) powerful.

Ridiculously

[Bowlingballhead]

Hmmmm. I sense secrets that I was not privy to. You say 'blood blessing becomes strong at high levels'. Does this mean that blessings 'scale up' as the god's stat increases? So at blood 8 you dispense more than a 'mere' +2 strength?

This inquiring mind definitely wants to know.

[licker]

Originally posted by Bowlingballhead:
Hmmmm. I sense secrets that I was not privy to. You say 'blood blessing becomes strong at high levels'. Does this mean that blessings 'scale up' as the god's stat increases? So at blood 8 you dispense more than a 'mere' +2 strength?

This inquiring mind definitely wants to know.

Every 2 additional levels you get +1 to the effect, so +3 at 6 and +4 at 8 and even +5 at 10... Its the same for the other blessings, other than air, which is 10% per level? or 5%, I can't remember right now

[Bowlingballhead]

Ooooooooh.