Empowering thugs/SCs in Blood

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by Rookierookie

Compared to gems, slaves are cheap and 30 slaves can be procured easily by even a small blood economy...

It's generally never going to be worth it unless you really are swimming in slaves, and even then you should always have a better use for 50 slaves (it costs 50 to empower to the first level, not 30 as I think you have indicated above).

If you are at the stage of a game where you can realistically empower random SC's in magic just to access new spells, then you must be in such a good position that you may as well just ask the other players for the win. (although as you say, Blood is by far the cheapest for this of course). If it is a SP game, then you are free to do any off the wall strategy and it will always work perfectly

I'm sure someone at some point someone has come up with a strategy based on empowering SC's in blood, but I just don't ever see it being worth it myself. (although this obviously doesn't apply to mages, who you might empower to access spell/items.)



Of course empowering Wraith Lords to S5 so they can Wish for Power is another matter, and always a no-brainer instant win IMO