Balancing the blesses

[Sir_Dr_D]

Wouldn't a death bless because of the increased infliction chance be deadly against SC's and giants?

[MaxWilson]

I don't know about "deadly." It does increase the amount of protection a given SC needs against his attackers but even a quadrupled chance of afflictions doesn't matter if you can't damage him in melee in the first place, so it's a deterrent but not an absolute one. Except, I haven't played any MP. Do people feel worse about an afflicted SC than they do about a dead one? It might give you a psychological advantage.

-Max

[Sir_Dr_D]

MaxWilson said:
I don't know about "deadly." It does increase the amount of protection a given SC needs against his attackers but even a quadrupled chance of afflictions doesn't matter if you can't damage him in melee in the first place, so it's a deterrent but not an absolute one. Except, I haven't played any MP. Do people feel worse about an afflicted SC than they do about a dead one? It might give you a psychological advantage.

-Max

What I meant was, even with a fire a bless it will take many hits to bring down a giant. With a high death bless most hits would cause an infliction, which means that with every hit the giant gets weaker. And because you usually have so many units ganging up on a giant, the giants defense means less, so the extra attack rating you get from a fire bless doesn't mean as much. I think fire bless is better against human sized troops, and death bless better against giants.

So the death infliction chance even effects spells. I wound't have figured that out, but that certainly makes death blessings a lot more usefull. Thanks for doing that research Max.