Eater of the Dead

[quantum_mechani]

dirtywick said:
Curse of Stones is a good spell in conjunction with Flaming Arrows and a bunch of archers. Machaka is probably the best candidate for it. So what if it effects your guys too? If your shooting Flaming Arrows you kind of want everyone to stand around anyway, even your own guys.

It's not awful, not the greatest, but not awful.

You do realize that it doesn't actually stop the units from moving, just adds to encumbrance? Flaming arrows is an extremely potent spell, I would advise trying it without the curse of stones and see how much difference you notice.

[dirtywick]

Each step costs an AP, and I thought that makes them move across the battlefield more slowly. Maybe it's just my imagination though.

[moodgiesanta]

Well as far as useless spells go I think we're all forgetting Raven's Feast. You pratically have to mass-pillage a capital province for it to return more death gems than you could get through alchemy. I guess it could have a use as Ashen Empire Ermor, but I killed around 10,000 people in a capital province and got only like 7 death gems back. And those dead bodies could have been an absolutely massive horde of soulless. It's a shame too because it could really have a lot of use in conjunction with the raiding spells of nature, you know, cast a spell at an undefended province, pillage and kill before the enemy armies can react, and gather up the dead bodies as death gems.

[KissBlade]

moodgiesanta said:
Well as far as useless spells go I think we're all forgetting Raven's Feast. You pratically have to mass-pillage a capital province for it to return more death gems than you could get through alchemy. I guess it could have a use as Ashen Empire Ermor, but I killed literally 25,000 people in a capital province and got only 7 death gems back. And those dead bodies could have been an absolutely massive horde of soulless. It's a shame too because it could really have a lot of use in conjunction with the raiding spells of nature, you know, cast a spell at an undefended province, pillage and kill before the enemy armies can react, and gather up the dead bodies as death gems.

This spell has my vote for worst spell ever. I would actually use Eater of the Dead to taunt someone or something. Plus the Dom III Eater of the Dead got a MR boost in dom III so it's not quite so weak to magic anymore. Not a great spell but heck it does beat Curse of Stone at least.