Reanimation
 

Anyone figured out what qualifies a priest to be a reanimator in Dom3?. It was easy to tell in Dom2, unholy priests could reanimate, but now it appears unholy is no longer in the game. This leaves me scratching my head about who can reanimate and who can't. I got surprised when a Mictlan national hero showed up and he could reanimate.

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Undead priests automatically qualifies as 'unholy' or reanimators. Apart from undead there are a number of nations: MA ermor, Pangaea, C'tis.

I'm not sure of the specifics. If you find anything that seems odd report it. There might be bugs in the mechanic, or forgotten guys thet should or shouldn't be able to reanimate.

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BTW, why did you make Unholy disappear ?
It was a rather simple way to single out those evil, mad undead spawners http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Apart from thematic reasons there were lots of things that were difficult with thet label as well. All living unholy priests were needed a tag in one way or another to be able to perform normal religious activities. So basically the same problem but with other units. The current mechanic is less ad hoc both code wise and theme wise I think.

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So if your prophet dies with twiceborn or the spell ritual of rebirth is used then your undead prophet will now be able to reanimate??

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Interesting, this means that any mage with both death and holy magic is potentially a reanimator now. I suspect several nations will be able to take advantage of that.

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My wight maged oracles suddenly have a new purpose.

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But getting a priest with death magic, researching twiceborn and spending gems on it just to get a single reanimator seems a little pointless to me, although using twiceborn to protect an important mage/priest and using the ability to reanimate only where its really required could work.

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Lets not forget ritual of rebirth... if a prophet is in the hall of fame and dies then the prophet can return with ritual of rebirth.
Now unless its changed with Dominions_3... this mummy can not only do reanimation but has the previous priest levels of your prophet without being your prophet.
Now for the extra bonus... which is you can make him your prophet again and raise the priest level even higher... providing you the ability to reanimate Longdead Horsemen!

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I think the surprise factor of reanimation could be worth the expense of twiceborn. I don't recall the gem cost of twiceborn, but I don't recall it being expensive. A nation able to easily get death priests could have 6 or 7 of them do it to get a little reanimating squad and build up a horde of undead that might be a nasty surprise for someone. Someone not expecting a horde of undead is going to have to shift gears fast to build up undead counters and it puts them in a bad spot if the undead horde is being alternated with a mortal army. They had better guess right about where to send all those priests, or they are going to lose a lot of priests to mortal troops.