Protecting Human Pretenders

[quantum_mechani]

Taqwus said:

Dome of Solid Air (A5, 20 gems): 80% chance of stopping any (?) spell coming from outside the province, including yours. Goes down if penetrated or if caster dies; permanent otherwise.

Actually, I think it stays up if a spell gets past, but goes down if it stops a spell.

[Ygorl]

Taqwus has it right, according to the manual.

[NTJedi]

I've never seen the air dome go down when stopping a spell. The frost dome does have a 30% chance of stopping spells according to the definition within the game.

[Oversway]

Replacing it with an air shield amulet and then changing the robe for a robe of the shadows will give you better protection from arrows. Also look into getting cold/fire resistance depending who you are facing (flames from the sky, ect.)

To this end, you could swap out the luck pendant for faithful and equip ring of fire/frost. Also, isn't there a shield that gives you missile prot? You could replace the air shield amulet with another elemental prot as well. Or are there are better weapons/shields for protection?

[Tuidjy]

The robe of shadows is a must unless you have enough earth paths to make wind
rides impossible. But generally, a non-stealthy human pretender is a weakness
that is very hard to overcome.

[Taqwus]

Frost dome does stop spells? Hm, I'd thought it was merely the counterpart of the Fiery Death dome. *shrug* Improves it a fair bit, then.

Shield of Valour gives the air shield, as do the robe and (token? amulet?).

Other note: facing astral nations, try to keep at least one or two astral mages co-located (for stopping Mind Hunt... which may still be tried by Arco c/o the priestesses unless you have a dome which kills them). Against all sorts of commander-hunting spells keep numerous scouts.