[Pocus]

I tested a bit Abysia. Wow... blood slaves everywhere! With several Ice Devils (I dont know there exact stats, what I know is that some are less fit for battle than the doms I incarnations) at your disposal, the super combattant problem appears to concentrate mostly on native blood nations which will abuse the system.

Sure you can counter bet and steal an Ice Devil (or perhaps he is dispelled, I will have to wait for the retail to know that), but who will emerge as winner? Abysia, Jotunheim, Pan, Vanheim. The others will just have to pray that their toned down star fires, or some herald spears will be sufficient to kill them.

The only safeguard to these nations will be to have their pretender as a super combattant.

The toning down of star fires is very detrimental here. Was SF considered overbalanced? I seldomely saw it used in battles where no super combattant was present. I would like to know which spells are new that function somehow as star fire. Those which are elementals, are not armor negating, or ask for a MR check, have few chances of finding a use against a SC.

Anyway, star fire is only part of the issue.