
July 30th, 2007, 10:10 AM
|
 |
Major General
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 2,435
Thanks: 57
Thanked 662 Times in 142 Posts
|
|
Re: Some notes on MA Mictlan update
Yes, I like the proposed changes, FWIW I think it'd be a better idea to switch the jaguar/eagle being cap only rather than having the ability to recruit both everywhere. This will be a bit of a boost, but I wouldn't worry that this would be overpowering as in practice the eagle warriors have a much higher attrition rate than the jaguar warriors so you're definitely giving something up. I love the idea of of how different this one change would make the nation feel. Also, without the plan to switch to a blood economy fairly early, several of the scale choices are different so in general you're going to have a weaker bless.
To those who are commenting that adding an air priest is too powerful you've got to realize that in comparison to MA/LA they're completely losing extremely strong access to blood magic and by extension access to some of the better national summons in the game. Yes, if you're clever you can do nasty things with the air power but you'll have to work hard to convince me this is more dangerous than the blood they're giving up. The blood magic is what changes Mictlan from being one of the best nations EA/LA into one of the worst in MA...well actually one of the worst in the game.
Now, having said that, it might be more interesting rather than adding an air priest to change the coutail to be 3S 1N 2H +2 N/A. I've always felt that there wasn't really too much interesting to use the coutail for, but having air magic there opens up some interesting possibilities, and also makes air magic rather expensive since it's only a random on a 400gp cap only mage. Only 25% of them would be able to cast auspex, and these would also be the ones highly coveted for combat.
__________________
My guides to Mictlan, MA Atlantis, Eriu, Sauromatia, Marverni, HINNOM, LA Atlantis, Bandar, MA Ulm, Machaka, Helheim, Niefleheim, EA Caelum, MA Oceana, EA Ulm, EA Arco, MA Argatha, LA Pangaea, MA T'ien Ch'i, MA Abysia, EA Atlantis, EA Pangaea, Shinuyama, Communions, Vampires, and Thugs
Baalz good player pledge
|