Why Gift of Reason?

[Vger]

Hi,

Great responses, y'all. Thanks so much, everybody.

My Vastness has fought many battles now (with one of my two main armies, mostly made up of my Void summons, with lots of fodder to soak up missile fire and shoot back. (Longbows, lobbos, and those low level hybrids.)

He/it was in an army with a commander I'd given an Eye of Aiming and Bow of Botuf to and in his Last fight (I had him attacking rear units) he got nailed by the bow. POOF! No more casting for him!

BTW, he's got the toughness heroic, so he now has 138 hit points.

So, woe is me, my poor, poor Vastness. Well, he has another rough battle with a big group of indies and lost an eye.

(Question, shouldn't some creatures be immune from some afflictions? I mean, where IS a Vastness's eye? And does anyone want to get close enough to find out?)

Anyway, I was looking at things to summon for my pretender (Good old Tentacleface) and saw Gift of Health. May heal afflictions? Heck yeah! So, I cast it.

Next turn I'm looking at my guys to see who to give the Chalice to (saw that the same turn and thought I might be able to get rid of a few afflictions that way) and PRESTO! My Vastness was healed of everything!

It is SO good to be able to fix afflictions. THANK you Illwinter!

Anyway, I'm on my way to winning my first ever D2 game. (And D1 demo, too. Kept getting slapped upside the head.)

Funny thing, if y'all hadn't mentioned empowering him, I wouldn't have thought of that because he WAS mindless.

Ciao,
V'ger gone