Blood 9 - Death Curse?

Agrajag · #1 January 24th, 2005, 04:40 PM

I don't know how often this strategy is used, but I'd imagine swarming a SC with blessed units has a high chance of making him cursed, a very unwanted trait for a SC.

Endoperez · #2 January 24th, 2005, 04:49 PM

But curse can also be given to him by any Astral 1 mage, and single Totem Shield can curse dozens of SCs. Going from B8 to B9 costs lots of points, and only gets your units a chance to curse the SC. I don't think curse is worth it. Combination of Horror Mark/Curse and/or Disease might, though...

Zen · #3 January 24th, 2005, 05:17 PM

There is a MR check in it.

NTJedi · #4 January 24th, 2005, 05:18 PM

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Endoperez said:
I don't think curse is worth it. Combination of Horror Mark/Curse and/or Disease might, though...

I like the combination idea!

Agrajag · #5 January 25th, 2005, 03:14 AM

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Endoperez said:
But curse can also be given to him by any Astral 1 mage, and single Totem Shield can curse dozens of SCs. Going from B8 to B9 costs lots of points, and only gets your units a chance to curse the SC. I don't think curse is worth it. Combination of Horror Mark/Curse and/or Disease might, though...

Obviously swarming him with blessed units isnt such an efficient way, but if they are good blessed units you could also get a chance to actually hit him and do some damage (especially with that curse on him).
Im not saying its THE strategy, but it IS a possibility.

Vicious Love · #6 January 25th, 2005, 07:52 PM

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Agrajag said:
Im not saying its THE strategy, but it IS a possibility.

A mind-bogglingly impractical strategy, but a strategy nonetheless. If all blessings were meant to be created equal, I'm afraid blood-9 is a glaring oversight. As I am of the opinion that blessings were not meant to be equal in power, I fail to see the problem with this.

Turin · #7 January 25th, 2005, 08:12 PM

well stick a rune smasher,blood thorn, armor of souls, boots of quickness, a spell focus and a ring of sorcery on your blood 9 VQ pretender and you have the best sc killer/converter possible.

script him to hellbind heart*5 and if the enemys magic resistance is 21 you will have a 50% chance to control him with each casting =) .

The blessing effect is worthless though.

Huzurdaddi · #8 January 25th, 2005, 09:50 PM

Blood Vengence, maybe Blood Vengence ( -1 / -2 ) would be nice. A little more thematic.

Oh, and powerful.

I would start considering Blood-9 blessing to be in the league as Water-9, Fire-9, and Nature-9.

Of course that still leaves Death, Air, Earth, and Astral as less potent blesses. However I don't mind that too much as each of these paths are widely considered excellent magic paths. Note: in some cases Earth-9 can be quite good.

Zooko · #9 January 25th, 2005, 10:17 PM

Astral-9 can be excellent if you're talking about a lot of small sacred troops instead of a sacred supercombatant. I'm playing Marignon with 9-Fire, 9-Astral Baphomet, and the cheapie flagellants benefit a great deal from the astral-9 blessing. It keeps them alive long enough to deliver two solid whacks with their flaming flails, which is all that I ask of them.

johan osterman · #10 January 29th, 2005, 06:51 AM

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Huzurdaddi said:
Blood Vengence, maybe Blood Vengence ( -1 / -2 ) would be nice. A little more thematic.

Oh, and powerful.

I would start considering Blood-9 blessing to be in the league as Water-9, Fire-9, and Nature-9.

Of course that still leaves Death, Air, Earth, and Astral as less potent blesses. However I don't mind that too much as each of these paths are widely considered excellent magic paths. Note: in some cases Earth-9 can be quite good.

Blood9 blessing gave blood vengeance once upon a time, it was ridicously powerfull.