I think I now understand Cohen

[Cohen]

Air Queens has usually at least 9 Mirror Images, so on 1 banefire out of 9 will hit the target.

You should need Incinerate, or Soul Slay, or however 100% precision spells that target a single person, not an area even of 1.

[Schmoe]

Cohen said:
Air Queens has usually at least 9 Mirror Images, so on 1 banefire out of 9 will hit the target.

You should need Incinerate, or Soul Slay, or however 100% precision spells that target a single person, not an area even of 1.

Then might I suggest said Black Sorcerers (or normal Sorcerers) with a Skull Staff, Spell Focus Amulet, and scripted to cast Disintegrate?

Incinerate is conceivable, too, for a Black Sorcerer with a Skull of Fire or a random in fire, or even casting Phoenix Power.

[Stormbinder]

Are you sure about it Cohen?

From general logic perspective spells that target single person should be fooled by Mirror Images, reducing chances to hit to 1/n, where n is number of mirror images (2*airschool+1), while area effect spells such as Fireball, etc should completely ignore Mirror Image defense.


At least this is the way it works in D&D, and IMHO it makes sense.

[Schmoe]

Stormbinder said:
Are you sure about it Cohen?

From general logic perspective spells that target single person should be fooled by Mirror Images, reducing chances to hit to 1/n, where n is number of mirror images (2*airschool+1), while area effect spells such as Fireball, etc should completely ignore Mirror Image defense.


At least this is the way it works in D&D, and IMHO it makes sense.

After thinking about it more, I came back to this thread to post this exact same thing. Logically, it doesn't make any sense that Mirror Image would protect against an area effect spell, which should affect everything, images and Air Queen included, in the area.

[Cohen]

Sadly Mirror Images protect from Area spells (and should not).

Indeed 100% prec 1 single target strikes directly the being ignoring the mirrors, and I believe this is right too because the mage could sense what is living and what is magis ... like a Soul Slay seeks the soul ... an Incinerate will seek a body to set aflame, you cannot do that to a ethereal mirror image.

I've killed with Arco Astrologers both Vanheim (in early game) and Caelum AQs