[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by josh_f:
I noticed the old units were still there, and I ignored them. I don't want spoil you, but some of the new ice devils start off with very nice magic items. I've look through the spell list and I see no good way of dealing with an Ice Devil with any spell below level 7. If Ice Devils were a level 6 summons they would still be better than any non-blood summons. It's possible that my dom 1 experience taints my analysis, and when the full game is out it'll be no problem. Looking at the stats, however, I don't see it. I suppose we'll find out soon enough.

Just Mans Cross does 30 armor piercing to undead or demons (for the low low price of 5 fire gems).

Banishment still works on demons.

There's a new low level blood spell, Banish Demon. (I think there should be Control Demon and Demon Mastery, too - at suitable research levels and costs, of course. If you can control magic or undead, why not demons?)

Incinerate should really do a number on fire susceptible creatures (and has 100 PREC and no MR save, IIRC). Depending on how susceptibility interacts with various sources of resistance, it may or may not be possible to get ice devils to be 100 percent fire resistant.

If there isn't already a weapon that instantly slays demons (like Heart Finder Sword/Elf Bane), there should be. For example:

Sword of Righteousness
Fire 1, Astral 1, Construction 4
Damage 8 (x3 vs undead/demons)
Attack 3
Defense 2
Length (whatever the normal length of 1-h swords is)
This sword is forged with spells of righteous fury and deals terrible damage to undead and demons. In addition to its damage, the sword has a chance of instantly destroying any undead or demonic target it strikes. This effect may be resisted by magic resistance (magic penetration 15).

I think that could probably rein in demonic or undead supercombatants (and Molochs and Princes of Death would have cause to fear it - even though their magic resistance is high enough to usually resist the slaying effect, it still does triple damage.)