Air 9 bless: useless?

[GavinWheeler]

Originally posted by PvK:
Though, here's an idea - what if it were a chance that the killer sometimes got horror marked instead of cursed? This would fit blood magic, and be somewhat more ominous.

Horror marks are way more powerful than curses, I would think, so this would have to be a rare event. But I agree that it fits the overall feel of blood magic<->Horrors & horror marks.

Or maybe you could make blood slaves into sacred units. So enemy troops who massacre your blood slaves in battle get cursed in the process.

Not that I find blood magic underpowered in single player games, either.

[Daynarr]

Perhaps Air 9 blessing could give +5 in precision (like Aim Spell). It wouldn't do much for melee units but sacred mages would become quite deadly.

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Daynarr:
Perhaps Air 9 blessing could give +5 in precision (like Aim Spell). It wouldn't do much for melee units but sacred mages would become quite deadly.

...And non-sacred. Time to mass-produce Shirts of the Battle Saint.

Am I the only one who really likes the 75% Shock Resistance that Air 9 currently gives and finds it a good bonus?

[Teraswaerto]

Originally posted by GavinWheeler:
Horror marks are way more powerful than curses, I would think, so this would have to be a rare event.

Horror attacks are rare even in magic 3 dominion, so I'd say Curse is nastier. A horror mark isn't a big deal most of the time.

Maybe a good new Blood 9 blessing would be a chance (with an MR save) to receive a random affliction when attacking/hitting the blessed unit?

[archaeolept]

ehh, why not the obvious +4 hit points for blood9?

makes it attractive then both for cheap bless units and expensive, w/out being unbalanced like blood vengeance, and, i'm guessing, life drain - the problem w/ both I'd think would be how they become just too powerful in an SC or mini-SC chassis.

[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:

Am I the only one who really likes the 75% Shock Resistance that Air 9 currently gives and finds it a good bonus?

I like it, but that might be obvious. I also like the curse, although it is more fun than useful.

Originally posted by Daynarr:
Perhaps Air 9 blessing could give +5 in precision (like Aim Spell). It wouldn't do much for melee units but sacred mages would become quite deadly.

That is exactly what I thought was going to happen the first time I ever did blessing effects. Every other stat is covered but Precision, HP, and Encumberance. This would be especially useful for nations like Abyssia, Tien Chi.

Edit: Actually +4 would probably be more appropriate (Like the Earth9 Blessing). +5 HP is alot, I would rather have it be a % so that it can affect both high and low hp's to a decent degree. What the % should be has to be defined as what is reasonable. Testing Flags and Niefel Jarls with %'s to see if point per ability are worth it.

[ March 21, 2004, 01:08: Message edited by: Zen ]