[Aleph]

Honeybadger - I was more asking about whether people bother empowering someone with earth before an imprisoned pretender wakes up, since it takes some time and in the meantime I'd like to be working some better forging mojo. There's some decent earth/astral mixes, so that's where my mind went.

I'll keep that in mind about the regeneration. Not a huge deal for rank-and-file if you're only pushing 5%, but probably a nice boost for the larger nationals and the affliction prevention can't hurt. While we're on the topic, can you or someone tell me how the game handles fractions? Are they kept, rounded up, or rounded down?

Seriously, man - some part of me wants to play an uber-broken turkey-mage strategy, and if you've any guidance I'd love to hear it.

Mivayan - someone was saying in another post (possibly my newb undead post) that high initial dominion is always stronger than low initial dominion, no matter how templed. I can't verify that for sure, but when I play LA Ermor with Dominion 10 I definitely run roughshod over the dominion of my enemies, even when they have lots of temples.