Better Know a Pretender: the Crone

[chrispedersen]

Death 5 will add fear, and drastically lower the chances of developing afflictions with old age.

The 3 misc slots make her a good canidedate for late phase S.
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[Ferrosol]

I always tend to skip over the crone in favour of a Master Lich or Great Enchantress for a rainbow pretender. The Enchantress provides extra astral pearls (which is nice in this post-clam world) is ethereal and starts with E and S two of the paths I usually want anyway. While the Master Lich has excellent survivability and almost as good path access as the crone as well as higher dominon and the always useful D access. So its not that the crone is bad exactly just that there are others that outclass it.

[Gregstrom]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Death 5 will add fear, and drastically lower the chances of developing afflictions with old age.

It helps prevent disease, at least. And IIRC D3 is pretty much complete protection against disease due to old age.