Dominion effects

[Wick]

"With less gold but lots of points to spend on magic and magic scale, my thought is that players are going to go crazy making super combatant pretenders."

I was wondering about something related. The betas seem to think a 9 and two 4 magic paths are reasonable on a pretender. I've never played a MP end game and most of my pretenders have <7 in all paths combined. What does one do with that much magic!? None of the summonings or items needed over a five, likewise battlefield enchantments and defensive spells. Are globals or better offensive combat casting that important? "That" depending on what else you can use the design points for, of course.

I still want to see a truely horrific 200+pt chassis for an Ermorian combat pretender. The immense creature crawled forward disolving flesh, blood, and even the very stones in its path...