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as for your comment about that rainbow why not use him as one of the main buffers? astral shield+fire shield+body etheral+twist fate+mist form+air shield survivable anyone?
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Because he's too valuable for field work, and fragile enough to be taken out by a handful of Bone Grindings or flying troops. Still, if he does survive, that's one hell of a combo. Though Body Ethereal is area 1, and doesn't transfer to communicants. Also, you forgot Invulnerability, Resist Magic, Personal Luck, Personal Regeneration, Summon Earthpower, Strength of Gaia and so very much more. You can fit more buffs into a single matrix misc slot than you can into an entire equipment loadout, so long as you keep the communion masters alive for a round or two.
Then again, I favor this tactic precisely because you don't have to keep them alive to be cost-effective. You're very likely to lose a communion master or two, but they're usually perfectly expendable, and more than worth the sacrifice if they get their spells off for just a few battles.
Not that expendability is the only way to go: if you've managed to get a Tartarian factory going by the lategame, you'll find few better uses for it than this. Two or three Tartarian masters could endow as many tartarian slaves as they like with pretty much every self-buff in the game, and still survive a pitched battle.
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shovah said:
spread em out (phoenix power brings u back to life neway)
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Yeah, but after the first death or two, random teleportation just might result in a chain reaction. Does Soul Vortex restore exactly as much fatigue as it drains? If so, it might be a semi-workable solution, when combined with Personal Regeneration.
Edit: Right, just in case I haven't properly overstressed this point:
Astral Goddamn Weapon. Perhaps the best SC-killer buff in the game, and a pretty decent everything-else-killer buff, to boot. With no risk at all, save to the astral-1 mage that casts the buff. And you don't even have to get said mage his own matrix.
Ever seen what an armor-negating Herald Lance can do to a demon or Tartarian? It ain't pretty.