[Meglobob]

I played Man in MP once and after 60 turns still had no crones with A4.

Also, no one would trade a A4 item,why should they? When it would have made me far more powerful.

Fog warriors alone is worth it to put A4 on your pretender and there are lots of other air spells which are extremely useful.

You can have your cake and eat it however. You can have a dormant E9 A4 Cyclops, with Order 3 Misfortune 2, dom 5-6.

So after a year you get a SC god, A4 for boosters and the E9 and A4 bless for your sacreds. Plus you can cast gargoyle + gift of reason for tough thugs and your SC god can drop in on anyone with cloud trapze and cast multiple earthquakes/rain of stones to destroy entire armies. Also the Forge/Earth Deep Blood Well is available to you.

You can use transformation on your important crones or cast gift of health.