Re: Are devils worth 7 blood each?
 

If you are found by an Astral mage, can you still attempt to kill one of the commanders, or is the attempt aborted?

Even if you have to avoid Astral mages to ensure a kill, this spell should be useful if you have cheap Astral mages and/or ways of curing the likely feeblemindedness. Even an Astral mage 1 should be able to cast this spell with the Astral boosting equipment, although it would be fairly expensive to forge all of them. But since the mage isn't killed, even after a failure, I guess it may pay out after some successful castings.

Re: Are devils worth 7 blood each?
 

Usually are Pythium and Arco that use that spells.
Sometimes the nations that have 2S mages + a random pick, like Abysyan warlocks.

Usually you need a +1 S item however.

If an Astral Mage is in the targetted provinces, you'll get all your mages feebleminded AND the spellcasting will be aborted, so you can't kill anyone.

Personally I believe it's pretty weak that 1 single 1 S mage could feeblemind mages far better than him and more numberous. (according to description 1 lvl in a path means normal user, 2 lvls mean good mage in that path, 3 or more a very powerful mage of that path).

Re: Are devils worth 7 blood each?
 

You should post it e.g. in patch 2.14 .
Perhaps it is a "bug" like with magic duel the open ended D6 was .
I don't think too that 1 S mage always stops all mindhunters as you described was intended .

Re: Are devils worth 7 blood each?
 

Well, according to the spell description, it's currently working as intended.

Mind Hunt is a very useful spell, the drawback with enemy astral mages just ensures it's not one-for-all solution. Handle with care, use with caution.

And as to who can use it, I've used it playing TC while been on the receiving end by mind hunting Jots and Marignon, so I'd hardly call it "Arco only". You can ensure you aren't getting feebleminded, it's just all about intel. Using it on an army that just attacked should be quite safe since you can check the battle replay for astral mages.

Re: Are devils worth 7 blood each?
 

Not Arco only, but they can do that massively with Astrologers, having access to both Spell Focus and Rune Smasher forging with national mages (and a +1 F ow W item)