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I see the same dorks are here nitpicking at the use of the word "useless" again. Norfleet is completely correct that save for the use for fire-9 blessing, the moloch is not a strong choice for any pretender role. Even in the fire-9 blessing role, he is arguably superceded by the phoenix, who is a stronger artillery unit and is of course... immortal.

Having to tow around an army with your SC sucks. He's clearly worse than the POD and Virtue in the flying humanoid class, simply because of the presence of the imps. Were the imps removed or repaired, his high attack rating, heat aura, fire resistance and ambidexterity would place him in the upper tier with the POD and Virtue. His combat stats are all equal or higher than the POD, and his path cost and combat abilities are superior to the virtue.

Having said that, even with imp removal... the 70 point paths make building a killing machine extremely expensive. Air and Earth magic are standard for most SC's, and selecting both bring the Moloch's pricetag up to a hefty 247 with FFF/EE/AA. While certianly feasible, I suspect players intending to use him as a SC and not a bless chassis will find other avatars to be superior in most cases.

How come nobody talks about their Shedus anymore? Wait! That pretender is perfect too.