Paths of Blood

[Salamander8]

Shovah32 said:
Playing Lanka without blood is like typing without hands - possible but why the hell would you want to? Almost all their mages(a 110 gold, non-capitol, 6rp mage being the exception) have blood magic, they have great recruitable and summonable sacreds(earth and nature helps recruitables, summons and mages) and extremely powerful thug/SC national summons(and great recruitable blood hunters).

Aye. Lanka was the 2nd nation I played where I went deep into blood magic (Abysia was my first try at heavy blood use), and they are excellent at it. The national summons can get really nasty (Devatas, Mandahas, etc), and you only need small amounts of death/nature/earth on top of a strong blood magic core for these guys and the standard blood spells (I love Infernal Crusade).

[Shovah32]

Infernal Crusade is a very, very nice spell. Heavy cavalry with good stats, resistances and fear are just too good to pass up in most cases.

[Evilhomer]

Infernal tempest is a rather cute spell as well, in fact i prefer it over crusade spell.

[Salamander8]

Infernal Tempest is great as well. I'm rather partial to the crusade though. I had large contigents of the Demon Knights running all over my enemies as my last game as Lanka. In Dom2 I had Pazuzu(?) (The demon lord of the plague wind) leading a decent core of the Storm Demons as Abysia and they were very handy, but the knights have been more effective for me overall. Admittedly, that's like comparing really awesome to very awesome.

[Shovah32]

I dont play blood that often. I never play vanheim for blood and when i play lanka/mictlan i take a bless(earth and nature/fire, astral, water and minor blood respectively) so i tend not to have a mage on hand to summon demon lords/storm demons(or in lanka's case, my slaves are better spent ) but the few times i have used them they have been nice.

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Shovah32 said:
I dont play blood that often. I never play vanheim for blood and when i play lanka/mictlan i take a bless(earth and nature/fire, astral, water and minor blood respectively) so i tend not to have a mage on hand to summon demon lords/storm demons(or in lanka's case, my slaves are better spent ) but the few times i have used them they have been nice.

An F9B4D4 bless is great for Mictlan. And B4 is all you need to make a Vessel + Armour of Souls + Blood Thorn.

Throw in a Ring of Sorcery and you're set to summon the Demon Lords. It's nice to empower a Moon Priest in Earth to make blood stones, and he can pop out a crystal coin and star cap, so you only need to empower in astral once to make the ring.

The Demon Lords are more interesting than the Ice and Arch Devils, but since they lack slots they are not great as solo SCs (unlike the Ice/Arch Devils, which make pretty good SCs).

[Shovah32]

Arent demon lords B9?