WoW what an epic battle....but then...

Stormbinder · #1 April 5th, 2004, 12:42 AM

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Originally posted by Pirateiam:
My God had a +20 MR but still was paralyzed after hitting his astral shielded unit about 5 times. How much more magic resistance do you need? I do not have a problem with being paralyzed for say 3-4 turns but not 40+ turns. I think this is a great game and there are a few things that need to be fixed, but to me this is a game killer. Astral shield paralysing effects need to be toned down. The battles would be much more interesting then one SC with astral shield running around yelling hit me hit so you can be paralysed for the rest of combat.

Well, unless his pretender had _very_ high level of astral magic than he is is asking for a lot of troubles in MP, because everybody and thier grandmothers could be hunting his SC to astral-duel him.

Screening him with lots of other astral mages would help of course, but it is still quite risky IMHO.

[ April 04, 2004, 23:43: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]

Graeme Dice · #2 April 5th, 2004, 12:58 AM

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Originally posted by Pirateiam:
Astral shield paralysing effects need to be toned down.

The astral shield paralysis effect is only supposed to Last for one turn, but currently, no paralysis effect ever wears off.

Endoperez · #3 April 5th, 2004, 05:21 AM

Does Communion help against Mind Duels? And even if it doesn't, wouldn't Arco as an astral power be able to duel all those enemy mages down? It has risks, but currently Astral-using Manticore is very powerful... and worth the risks.

DLC · #4 April 5th, 2004, 02:27 PM

2 solutions just came up with

to counter communion(only works if he does not have a staff of storms on a commander or if he casts storm).

one of the costs 30 bloodslaves and 5 fire gems.

the other one costs 5 wind gems and 5 fire gems.

and you need construction 6 and either bloodmagic or conjuration magic research.

guaranteed to kill pretty much anything almost.
(i'm leaving the details for everyone to figure out

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