[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Chris Byler:
(270 gold for a Holy-2 priest - ok, he's also a pretty good mage, but in terms of priest power for your money, awful).

Why do people want priestly power on their mages at all? Why do people want powerful priests at all really? Being sacred is good. Being a priest and a mage is not, since you pay more for abilities you can't use at the same time and less power on the battlefield.

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It's not necessarily that I want priest power on a mage, as that I want it on *something*. A Black Seraphine, or keeping the regular Seraphine, would have been fine, and if it had already existed in the theme I probably wouldn't have messed with priest levels at all. Or I suppose along with making the Raven Guard sacred, I could have added a Raven Champion priest commander (adding new units is a lot more work than changing the stats of existing ones, though - I want to try the present minor tweaks before I jump into adding new units, if it's even possible to add new units that are specific to a theme in the current Dom2 Version). But any nation needs some priests, especially one whose weapons melt in average temperatures.

However, I don't think priest-mages are *that* expensive, in general. Keep in mind that if you buy a priest and a mage separately, you pay full upkeep on the mage; and that you often don't need two priest-mages to do everything you could do with one priest and one mage (because you can't always find a good use for both of them every turn). Of course, some are very expensive - but I will point out that the Grand Master, Arch Theurg, Celestial Master and Harab Elder all cost the same or less upkeep than a Crone or Norn, despite their high recruiting costs. (The Sauromancer and High Seraph are a little less, but they are unusually cheap for their power - a trait not originally shared by the RotR harabs.)