Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

Thetis blessing is a sick joke, and in MP I found exactly one use for it.

I cast it and let R'lyeh think I was using it to survive under water (I wasn't, I had enough WB items to keep everyone alive). He wasted some huge number of astral pearls bringing it down after I cast it at minimum strength http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

That was a pretty unusual circumstance, however. The spell is basically a trap for the unwary.

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

Ah! Didnt know that Mind Duel was NOT open ended. Huh, unusual to find something not OE in the dom world.

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

Also - in larger games being able to cast Arcane Nexus and Wish is very, very handy.

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

But you still don't need 9S to cast Arcane Nexus or Wish. That's what boosters are for.

Do people really take 9 in any path for any reason other than the bless?

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

> Do people really take 9 in any path for any reason other than the bless?

Not I. In any case, S5 is the highest I have taken. By the time you can cast Wish
repeatedly, you usually can afford to empower to S6, and making three S boosters
is trivial at that point.

I have also never played a MP game with any path higher than six. High blessings
are a great trick - just not my cup of tea. I always play rainbows, but with my
favorite nations, those rainbows are also titans ;-)

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

Do people really take 9 in any path for any reason other than the bless?

I do! I wanna feel like a God http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Edit: And it has come to my knowledge that a great many people like my ideas http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif So now you'd better boost your pretenders to thematic levels, and not just utility levels!

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

I made a father of winters with a 10 in water (it might have been just a bit overkill). My ridiculous defense served me very well.

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

Yes! Thematic gameplay is what gives me most joy! Please give us more maps like Dawn of Dominions to play on. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I have more demands, but those will have to wait until I calm down... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

Well, part of the rationale here is the "what else do you get" when taking a 9-bless Pretender. A 9-Astral bless is meh, but otoh, you get a powerful late game option that's easy to employ. A 9-Water bless is great, but then your stuck with a magic path that is mediocre.

Re: POLL: Scales, Magic Paths, and Dominion
 

I usually take a bit of W or A on my pretender, so to be able to go underwater easily. I have a very thematic moloch with W6 ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif(playing aby)