Air 9 bless: useless?

[archaeolept]

well, I certainly wouldn't want to argue that it is any good, really.

I know I never take it, and I like bless effects.
(Blood 4 is a nice addition sometimes, though. works well w/ W9 battle vestals or serpent dancers).

[ March 19, 2004, 22:19: Message edited by: archaeolept ]

[Saber Cherry]

I mentioned earlier that I thought "Unholy Thirst" would be a good Blood blessing, giving blessed units a life-draining "Bite" attack. But "Hemorrhagic Butchery", the art of striking an opponent to cause profuse bleeding, would be fun, too. It would be something like, "Any opponent wounded by a blood-9 blessed unit has a 25% chance of being affected by 'bleed', meaning they lose 1HP per combat turn until death."

[GavinWheeler]

But Air magic in general is certainly worthwhile - you get great direct damage spells like orb lightning as well as the precision to ensure they hit what you want them to hit. i.e. the 'indirect' effect of the school (improved precision) has a nice synergy with many of the spells of the school.

So it makes some sense that the blessing effect of the school is less powerful than those of some other shools. You don't want one school to have so many advantages as to overpower any other school, and balancing these sorts of issues is what the dynamic duo seem to do best.

[archaeolept]

'bleed'

that's a supercombatant killer, though, as I've experienced to my horror...

but Blood does most definitely need a new level 9 blessing. Why not blood vengeance -2 or some such? (actually, I'm not quite sure how blood vengeance works, or what would be an appropriately balanced modifier).

[Kristoffer O]

Blood vengeance once was the 9-blood-blessing, but it was removed due to severe balance issues.

[archaeolept]

so, got any better suggestions...

As long as the additional Life Drain attack had a certain # of penalties to Att/Damage then Life Drain would be fine.