Frozen Heart

[PvK]

I would say ideally, say for Dom 3, there might be a new property for which units have and need hearts or not.

Meanwhile, it's not the ultimate SC killer. I tried it as TC with abundant mages who can cast it, and it seemed to me it was being resisted by magic resistance, although occasionally it did some damage. It's an OK counter, but not an ultimate weapon. Ethereal crossbows and massed flame arrows worked better... ... at least without any missile counter-magic.

Frozen Heart is a really strong spell though... in Dom 2, I think it would be best if cold immunity AND magic resistance both offered protection.

PvK

[Graeme Dice]

PvK said:
Frozen Heart is a really strong spell though... in Dom 2, I think it would be best if cold immunity AND magic resistance both offered protection.

It only targets one unit, requires alteration 6, and does less damage than both incinerate and thunderstrike. It's also the most likely spell to be resisted of all three of those, since it does cold damage. Making it also require a MR check would unnecessarily neuter it, since none of the other damaging elemental spells require magic resist rolls.

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Graeme Dice said:

It only targets one unit, requires alteration 6, and does less damage than both incinerate and thunderstrike. It's also the most likely spell to be resisted of all three of those, since it does cold damage. Making it also require a MR check would unnecessarily neuter it, since none of the other damaging elemental spells require magic resist rolls.

Yes but I think Incinerate is affected by FR and TS by SR, or isn't it the case ? (else I'm an idiot, if I had known that I'd performed better against those damned Ice Devils w/Ring of Lightning) ! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

[Cainehill]

Frozen Heart is a really strong spell though... in Dom 2, I think it would be best if cold immunity AND magic resistance both offered protection.

Shouldn't lightning be resisted by lightning immunity and magic resistance then also? After all - it gets researched _much_ earlier in the game, also does armor negating damage, and has a much more useful longer range.

[deccan]

This thread is confusing me. So is Frozen Heart resisted by CR or not?