Fire-9 bless needs rebalancing !

[Wick]

Arralen said:
Balancing Issue

Problem is obvious: Troops with multiple attacks get multiple additional attacks, too. Eg. Mictlan Jaguar Warriors are sacred and have 3 weapons (Bite (20), Claw (29) x 2) in Jaguar form .. they end up with 6 attacks per turn at ATT-15, which makes pretty much sure they hit mundane troops.
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Even if all damage rolls are low one turn and the target is not killed, it still gets -6(!) DEF for the rest of the turn.

Three attacks for -3 DEF. The fire is a weapon effect, no more an attack then a Wraithsword's lifedrain or a Star of Thralldom's false fetters.

[Emelio Lizardo]

Ok, someone explain to me the whole blessing thing, or link to a tome that lists what is what. What is the difference between sacred and non sacred troops?

As far as balance is concerned, I think there is a little too much concern about balance. The world is not fair and some things just work better under some circumstances. You've obviously worked out a goos scheme for fire, but put the right combination togeather with another bless, or combo, and that does something killer too. But I think the whole point of becoming magically wealthy enought to do these weird things is to create an exploitable inbalance.

Or am I wrong?

[Saber Cherry]

Try the FAQ stickied at the top of this forum; it will answer some questions. The game manual answers many questions, and the manual addendum answers some others... the addendum (and other downloads) are here:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/d2/6.htm

The sticky "Dominions II links" thread also has many useful links. Arryn's site, for example, probably contains all of the fan-made resources you might want...

[shovah]

f9 just makes all your attacks do an extra s8 or so ap damage which just rips through plenty of things (and etheral things) like butter and makes all the sacred troops that dont pack much punch (like fans and flagelants) into monsters

[Emelio Lizardo]

Checked as much of the fan sites as I could, nothing that really defined in an understandable way the relationship of Pretender god spell levels and bless effects. An explicit table would be really nice..... Testing for effects in combat is tedious beyond words, and not really effective.

[Graeme Dice]

There is a list in your manual.

[Arralen]

Table 1 on page 5 ...