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Saber Cherry said:
... though casters that are adjacent to melee units (like dragonflies or imps) tend to ignore their script in favor of self-preservation, so a single lifelong-protection scout should be able defend an army from a lone Earthquake caster.
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Good observation. I wonder if this rule also applies to SCs such as VQ.
It appears promising but needs testing and/or evidence from MP.
Consider the following battle.
20 theurg acolytes and theurgs are attacked by a VQ.
the VQ casts EarthquakeX2 and retreats.
Is there a way most of the mages make it alive?
stone skin not available.
twist fate will save only from first quake.
So consider this army is led by an earth Arch theurg who casts comm master, then stone skin.
If the rest of the mages cast twist fate then they make it through the first quake but die in the second (since they didn't cast comm slave).
Else if they cast comm slave they die in the first quake.
It seems then that a life long prot. might save the day.
(I have plenty motivation to check every angle of this issue as in my experience it's a major problem for Pythium in MP.)