Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

There is also several good blood sites. One is giving a 60% discount on all your blood rituals, basically brokenly good for a blood nation.

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

The vast majority of blood sites are Arenas(15 gold and unrest), and even then blood is the rarest blood site type. Searching is almost useless unless you get The Summoning cicle or one of the other Blood reduction sites.


You should have have death and nature on your pretender and then summoned Lamia Queens(which get blood on randoms).

That being said, lets get to my favorite blood(or maybe death) site: the Black Tower. Circle Masters are blood and death and have a dousing bonus. If you don't do blood and death, you now do it in a major way.

PS. Edratmman you are thinking of Sauromatia's capitol (2 blood slaves a turn).

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

The 60% discount blood site and 50% discount conjuration site are insanely good. I think there's also a fairly powerful construction site(better than steel ovens anyway) but I could be wrong.

I absolutely love the ultimate gateway, and unless I was a blood nation or in a very special situation I would take it over almost any other site.
Tartarians for 5 gems, ghost riders for 3, manifestation for 2 and various cheaper mages(lamias, troll/sea kings, fairy queens ect) make the ultimate gateway good.
If a nation with good national summons in conjuration gets the ultimate gateway theres a very high chance they will win the game.
Can you imagine Pythium or Marignon getting 50% off of Seraphs and other angels or the Monkey mages getting summons like Rudras for less than 30 pearls?

This is madness!(waiting for the 300 reference)

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

I was really hoping to be able to recruit some blood mages. Playing Oni, I hoped to cast that demon strengthening spell in addition to strength of giants.

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

High Magus. 3 randoms and 13 research.

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Recruitable blood mage sites are also very uncommon. I always play 75% sites and very seldom get one.

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

Adepts. Silver are best, but the rest very good as well.

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

Lore masters are pretty good for magic diversity to. Plus with 3 full random picks you can bootstrap a blood economy pretty soon as about 1/3 will have a blood pick.

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

I like adepts, but I seem to get the sorceress more often. If you play a nation with nature, the enchantress loses a lot of appeal even though she is a lot more common than any of the ones I am thrilled to get.

Re: Who is your favorite indy mage?
 

I like shadowseers quite a bit, although they don't have the same kind of power as the others mentioned here.

Lore masters are pretty awesome. They get my vote.