Worst Moments!

Tricon · #1 February 16th, 2004, 11:37 PM

I have to admit that I like the fact that you do not know if an item is cursed prior to using. Though there should be a way to scry it. An earth one ritual or something like that, or a show/remove curse spell for items.

Graeme Dice · #2 February 16th, 2004, 11:38 PM

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Originally posted by SurvivalistMerc:
My worse moment: Taking a rainbow master druid with the C'tis Miasma theme only to find that this druid is diseased the following round and will be every time he is called back into the disease dominion since he's not cold-blooded.

Miasma's descriptive text does say that any unit that isn't cold-blooded can be diseased by the dominion.

Norfleet · #3 February 16th, 2004, 11:55 PM

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Miasma's descriptive text does say that any unit that isn't cold-blooded can be diseased by the dominion.

The irony of this being that the Green Dragon, who is certainly a thematically appropriate choice, and has Swamp Survival, can still become diseased and die, despite the fact that it seems like a natural, appropriate environment for a green DRAGON.

Graeme Dice · #4 February 17th, 2004, 12:00 AM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
The irony of this being that the Green Dragon, who is certainly a thematically appropriate choice, and has Swamp Survival, can still become diseased and die, despite the fact that it seems like a natural, appropriate environment for a green DRAGON.

Perhaps units with swamp survival shouldn't be affected as well, since it's supposed to be a swampy morass.

mivayan · #5 February 17th, 2004, 01:29 AM

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Is there a *good* Evo/Fire spell?

Fire darts is great for a fire9 moloch early on. Around 10 darts with precision 4 generelly hurts something.

SurvivalistMerc · #6 February 17th, 2004, 04:42 PM

Graeme Dice,

I agree with you that the documents do say that it can hurt things that aren't cold-blooded.

However...you pick your pretender before you pick special themes...right? So why would that even be available to a warm-blooded pretender if it's going to hurt him?

My reasoning...which I now know to be faulty...was that surely a pretender's own dominion can't kill or harm him. Of course I was dead wrong, but for a new player that isn't totally stupid reasoning.

I just restarted taking another pretender. No harm. And a valuable lesson learned.

Raz 24 · #7 February 17th, 2004, 05:22 PM

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Originally posted by NTJedi:
My worst experience would have to be the first time I was using the Amon Hotep helm. As you all know the details and facts about artifacts/items in this game is shallow. Example: Many items you only find are cursed after equipping them because the description doesn't list the facts.

Anyways I decided to test out the artifact on a telestic animation statue in case it gave a surprise horror mark the way boots of the planes did. Which the boots of the planes said NOTHING about. I slide the helm onto one of the statues... no afflications or bad side effects. Then I discovered it can't be removed... again the description says nothing about that. Then I realized the mummification spell doesn't work underwater where this statue is at ! And guess what no description at all on the mummification spell either.

Items have a nice history but lack listing the facts. Being that this is a TBS game hopefully Dominions_3 will provide the facts first and the history/story second.

I think it is fun and exiting and not like

Sword of the sunslayers booty
Cursed unremovable kills everything and makes you rot!
So I like it like it is and do not want a change.
But only because I like it dosent mean everything