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December 9th, 2007, 07:02 PM
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Mage Thugs vs Meat Thugs
So I've been playing around with various thug and SC combos, and I was wondering what people like to use.
Lanka's Raksharaja's have Air magic, so I've been tossing them into battle with Air Shield, Mirror Image, Mistform, and a Frost Brand with Reinvig equipment and that seems to work well, but I'd be curious to see what other people use.
Are mage thugs so much better than meat thugs like Banelords to be worth the added cost and loss of their spellcasting?
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December 10th, 2007, 04:23 AM
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Re: Mage Thugs vs Meat Thugs
I find when facing enemy thugs I prefer to attack before any buffs to kill your opponent first.
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December 10th, 2007, 10:07 AM
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Re: Mage Thugs vs Meat Thugs
I agree with folket to an extent - I think that 1 or 2 buffs (particularly quickness) are powerful enough to justify spending some time buffing yourself.
This means that I like thugs who have 1 or 2 points of a path with powerful and useful buffs - pretty well anything except death, although with a lot of death you can put up a soul vortex.
It doesn't really matter which path the thug has since I can give him the other buffs through items.
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December 10th, 2007, 10:29 AM
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Re: Mage Thugs vs Meat Thugs
Mage thugs are much better fighting big armies. In SP I empower and give bonus objects to my mages so as to reach 6/7/8/9, levels that allow overkill spells, especially in F/A. I often find that summoning/outfitting some meat thugs is too much for my gem economy.(in addition to mage thugs)
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December 10th, 2007, 03:06 PM
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Re: Mage Thugs vs Meat Thugs
In a similar vein, it can be worthwhile to add no magic paths your pretender. If you've got a Kraken, or Wyrm, or really anything useful without a bunch of expensive equipment, leaving them "bare" of magic paths means its no tragedy if they die. If you're playing a race with powerful priests you effectively make them immortal once you've got several priests. You can compensate for their lack of self buffing by having other mages buff them as appropriate with body ethereal, luck, quickness, iron warriors, etc. 'course, that works for non pretender meat thugs to...
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December 10th, 2007, 11:40 PM
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Re: Mage Thugs vs Meat Thugs
I've heard that a Phoenix Pyre combined with Soul Vortex just takes armies.
Anyone have experience with that?
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