Blood 9 - Death Curse?

Agrajag · #1 January 25th, 2005, 03:14 AM

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Endoperez said:
But curse can also be given to him by any Astral 1 mage, and single Totem Shield can curse dozens of SCs. Going from B8 to B9 costs lots of points, and only gets your units a chance to curse the SC. I don't think curse is worth it. Combination of Horror Mark/Curse and/or Disease might, though...

Obviously swarming him with blessed units isnt such an efficient way, but if they are good blessed units you could also get a chance to actually hit him and do some damage (especially with that curse on him).
Im not saying its THE strategy, but it IS a possibility.

Vicious Love · #2 January 25th, 2005, 07:52 PM

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Agrajag said:
Im not saying its THE strategy, but it IS a possibility.

A mind-bogglingly impractical strategy, but a strategy nonetheless. If all blessings were meant to be created equal, I'm afraid blood-9 is a glaring oversight. As I am of the opinion that blessings were not meant to be equal in power, I fail to see the problem with this.

Turin · #3 January 25th, 2005, 08:12 PM

well stick a rune smasher,blood thorn, armor of souls, boots of quickness, a spell focus and a ring of sorcery on your blood 9 VQ pretender and you have the best sc killer/converter possible.

script him to hellbind heart*5 and if the enemys magic resistance is 21 you will have a 50% chance to control him with each casting =) .

The blessing effect is worthless though.

Huzurdaddi · #4 January 25th, 2005, 09:50 PM

Blood Vengence, maybe Blood Vengence ( -1 / -2 ) would be nice. A little more thematic.

Oh, and powerful.

I would start considering Blood-9 blessing to be in the league as Water-9, Fire-9, and Nature-9.

Of course that still leaves Death, Air, Earth, and Astral as less potent blesses. However I don't mind that too much as each of these paths are widely considered excellent magic paths. Note: in some cases Earth-9 can be quite good.

Zooko · #5 January 25th, 2005, 10:17 PM

Astral-9 can be excellent if you're talking about a lot of small sacred troops instead of a sacred supercombatant. I'm playing Marignon with 9-Fire, 9-Astral Baphomet, and the cheapie flagellants benefit a great deal from the astral-9 blessing. It keeps them alive long enough to deliver two solid whacks with their flaming flails, which is all that I ask of them.

Psitticine · #6 January 25th, 2005, 11:52 PM

Blood Curse and Immortality can be a fun combo. Flagellants also make good "carriers" for Blood Curses since they get killed easily, and thus deliver their "payload" easily. It can be satisfyingly evil to have them do an end run towards the rear units.

johan osterman · #7 January 29th, 2005, 06:51 AM

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Huzurdaddi said:
Blood Vengence, maybe Blood Vengence ( -1 / -2 ) would be nice. A little more thematic.

Oh, and powerful.

I would start considering Blood-9 blessing to be in the league as Water-9, Fire-9, and Nature-9.

Of course that still leaves Death, Air, Earth, and Astral as less potent blesses. However I don't mind that too much as each of these paths are widely considered excellent magic paths. Note: in some cases Earth-9 can be quite good.

Blood9 blessing gave blood vengeance once upon a time, it was ridicously powerfull.

tinkthank · #8 January 29th, 2005, 10:39 AM

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johan osterman said:

Blood9 blessing gave blood vengeance once upon a time, it was ridicously powerfull.

I bet. But do you think that Blood Vengeance (-4) would be good? Or (-5)? Or (-6)? I think that could be feasible, and I think the "flavor" or "thematic" passing would be great.

Zen · #9 January 29th, 2005, 02:46 PM

In Dominions 3 Lifedrain has been seperated Health from Fatigue so, I'm sure in Dom3 that some version of Life Drain would be appropriate to such a high blessing. Though Blessings, in general, need to be reworked.

Also in Dominions 3, with Themes being their own seperate nations there will be many more viable nation/themes with more widespread decent sacreds, to bless.

Boron · #10 January 25th, 2005, 10:17 PM

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Turin said:
well stick a rune smasher,blood thorn, armor of souls, boots of quickness, a spell focus and a ring of sorcery on your blood 9 VQ pretender and you have the best sc killer/converter possible.

script him to hellbind heart*5 and if the enemys magic resistance is 21 you will have a 50% chance to control him with each casting =) .

The blessing effect is worthless though.

You have to carry with you slaves though

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If you would go with nature 10 and spell focus , ring of sorcery , rune smasher and thistle mace you would get a similiar chance with charm and you have a good blessing effect with nature 10 as well

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Maybe S 10 is funny also sure enslave mind is less good but you have then also the possibility to mind duel every other astral magic user

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