assasination question / blood in the very long run question

[Tuna-Fish]

Also, the benefit of illwinter vs utterdark is simple: Cast utterdark in MP and it WILL go down, simply because of all those clammed astrals people have. But, illwinter has a good chance to stay up.

Why?
1st, blood is by definition more plentiful than gems, and they are compared 1 to 1. In the late game wishing for blood gives lot more blood slaves than you spent gems on.

Second, the blood bonuses from sites are higher than any enchantment bonuses people can find, and also the blood bonus sites are more common. Blood bowl is cheap, and if you blanket 40 provinces with it, you should find at least mount chaining, 40% bonus, and have a good chance for finding a summoning circle, a 60% bonus...

And Last but not least, less people are hurt by Illwinter than Utterdark. Utterdark hurts everyone but dead ermor/pangaea, Illwinter hurts everyone a little, but it hurts water nations, Caelum, Jotunheim, Vanheim and dead Ermor/Pangaea a lot less than the others.