What's your favourite heroic ability?

Edi · #1 September 22nd, 2005, 05:06 PM

Toughness and awe, hands down. Awe takes a long time to scale up, but the hit points ramp up very quickly. The opening post is also wrong about that ability. Heroic Toughness does scale up based on initial hitpoints, much the same as quickness. I once had an Arco Mystic with toughness and he was even with 25 or 27 hit points quite the wimp combat wise. Then he got killed and Rebirthed him. The resultant mummy has base hit points of 35, and my formerly glass-jawed mystic suddenly had 100+ hit points plus the undead immunities and all his magic. A couple of turns forging later, I had a fully equipped SC that took on whole armies by himself...

Awe is my second favorite, they just can't touch him and when you also put a horror helmet on one of these guys, they really ruin the enemy's day...

Edi

shovah · #2 September 22nd, 2005, 05:14 PM

does the shield of gleaming golds awe stack with awesom presence? if so with helmet he is mega untouchable

Shmonk · #3 September 22nd, 2005, 06:05 PM

Hmmm... I'd have to say Awe, then Quickness, then Toughness. Though I enjoy when I get Precision on a mage or Priest, that's a better bang for my buck (over quickness or toughness), at least for me.

magnate · #4 September 22nd, 2005, 07:07 PM

Ooops. I think maybe I've become to used to SCs that I forgot that 10hp weaklings with heroic toughness turn into ... 27hp weaklings. So I think Awe might well be vying for 2nd place in my list.

There's still a few missing though.

CC

Zooko · #5 September 22nd, 2005, 10:07 PM

I have an immortal Lu Tung-Pin right now who has Heroic Quickness. I think it is +110% or so. That, combined with a few other related power-ups means that he can spew out 3 or 4 spells per combat turn. This is in a 2 vs 2 game with me and my brother vs. Panther and Tauren.

Ygorl · #6 September 23rd, 2005, 02:17 AM

Shovah, it does stack but pretty trivially. Getting Awe +0 is a big deal (it means a dude with a morale of 10 has about a 50/50 chance of being able to attack you; each point of Awe above that raises the 50/50 morale by one). I think the shield gives you +1 or +0 or something... Stacked with heroic awe, it adds a very small amount. You'd be better off with a different shield...

Zooko · #7 September 23rd, 2005, 08:03 AM

One of my favorite Heroic Abilities is Heroic Endurance on a spellcaster.