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Old October 15th, 2006, 08:55 PM
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Default Re: Yomi - Oni Kings analysis. Developers please r

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Boron said:
But you are nontheless correct i think. The size of the Ku-Oni is more often a problem than an advantage because of other spells.

Mainly Bladewind and Magma eruption devastate the poor Ku-Oni really well.

But Bladewind (and Rain of Stones) shouldn't have much of an effect on the ethereal form, at least if the manual is correct : both spells damage is Mundane, meaning that it isn't considered magical for purposes of hitting.

But one thing I really dislike is that it seems that Yomi/Shinumaya have national spells that they simply can't use via their national mages. (Even LE Jomon has a very difficult time using some of them, considering that Contact Dai Tengu is A2E1, meaning that essentially 1 in 25 Master Shugenja can cast it.) Not only that, Shinuyama having _no_ air mages and no air income means that even with a pretender setup for casting it, it's extremely difficult for them to come up with the air gems to cast it (since the only one who can finding air sites would be the pretender, who probably starts slumbering or imprisoned).

Shades of the one Marignon theme in Dom2 being absolutely unable to use their starting national spells.
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