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Zen said:
Quickness + Frozen Heart will rout most PD indescriminately. I don't know what you are thinking, or of you've even tried it. Probably not, or you did against say Jotunheim, which isn't exactly the best choice in the world to try to Frozen Heart. The only ones that ever give you much problems are the ones with fliers (Harpies and such), and those give Seraphs just as many problems.
Re: Seithkona. Guess you've never really felt the effects of a truly devistating wave of Nether Darts.
I've done it quite a few times. Seraphs are not stealthy. Seraphim don't have 1A, so I don't know what your comment about stealth is.
Caelum is not the "PD killer" that you want to make it out to be for it's paths, rather because of it's ability to drop into the back row and take provinces that are not in the direct front line?
I imagine Stormbinder, that you are, once again, putting your vast inexperience to the masses. Otherwise you might be moaning about Theurgs, or any other low air unit, water unit, or death unit. It's amazing the amount of people who cry nerf for any other nation than Pythium, which is by and large an absolute beast.
Maybe you need to extend your nation choices to include other nations than Van and Caelum.
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Ok, retyping my post briefly.
I've played most of the races and themes in Dom2, and I've been playing it very intensively for the Last 6 monthes.
Frozen Heart is water 1 fatique 20 spell. Your Initiate of the deep will be able to cast 1 quickness and 4 Frozen Hearts, before falling to the ground. That would kill 3-4 soldiers out of 20 of 40 soldiers in province with 20 PD. The rest will grind him into dust.
Nether Darts is a good sepell against most PD, but it takes reseach level 7 to cast.
National commanders must have ether
flying or
stealthy ability to be able to strike behind enemy back and escape. None of the commanders you mentioned can do it without items, unlike Caelum's seraphs. And no national commanders at the same cost(100 gp) are as efficient as Caelum's A2 W1 serpahs with False Horror (Air 1 fatique
ten ) in reliable routing high PD.
Finally I never cried "Nerf Caelum!" as some other people wrote in thsi thread. I think Caelum is nice and unique nation. I just think combination of Caelum's 100gm Air2 W1 mage with False Horror spell is a bit too much.
IMHO the best solution would be to slightly nerf "False Gorror" spell. Remove (or strongly reduce) Fear aura of Fasle Horror, or make him Air 2 fatique 20, or whatever. I think it is much better that nerfing entire nation. The problem with False Horror is that it's just too cheap fatique-wise and easy to cast, and in combination with flying quickened 100gp Caelum seraphs is too efficent against PD of any nation. Caelum will still be a great nation even of False horro spell will be more balanced, but it'll not be able to reliably rout 20 PD of all other nation with just 100gp none-capital mage and lvl 6 spell, as it stands now.
Just my two cents.