Water Blessing Borked?

[Gateway103]

It didn't have the icon because in dragon form, the pretender loses 2 level of magic. This is something to keep in mind of, if you want to use him as an early land grabber, or just in battle in general.

-Gateway103

[love crime]

Ah, just to clarify: I don't think rb pretenders are useless, I just find their design costs perplexing. Crone costs 25 design points, and once you've spent 10 buying 1 water, she is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the cost 55 frost father, but for 20 fewer points. The frost father has some slight combat advantages on her (..chil...cold immunity) but considering neither are combat worthy, it seems like just meaningless flavor.

I guess frost father has slighty cheaper incremental costs in raising water magic..? but again, he is a rainbow pretender, so it seems quite suspect that one would raise water very high, and still spend the points required to rainbow him (and if you aren't full on rainbowing him, then you may as well buy a pretender that can actually fight... often for cheaper points)

[Taqwus]

The crone, if memory serves, cannot wear armor. Granted, she has something like four misc slots, but still -- elemental immunities, good prot, etherealness, missile protection, magic resistance, luck will be hard to balance.
A lot of effects could be gained from casting spells, but that'll take up slots in your script and in addition may not occur fast enough if the opponent has accurate long-range attacks or can fly. These spells also can't protect against Seeking Arrow, Fires from Afar, etc -- for those you need gear or dome spells.

[Vynd]

I agree that the Frost Father seems rather unattractive. The only good reason I've thought of to take him as opposed to any of the other Rainbow Mage candidates is if you're playing a cold based nation and want the inherent cold resistance. It'd be a pity if you set some Niefel Giants to bodyguard your Arch Mage and then watched their chill effect kill him.

[ April 20, 2004, 16:53: Message edited by: Vynd ]