Most Useful Items

[quantum_mechani]

Valandil said:
Nether darts isnt very short ranged... What do you mean you have no reason to buff soldiers? are you insane? am I insane? aren't buffing spells some of the best in the game? helllp?

and this isn't an insult, just a question. Sorry if it sounds critical.

The confusion is that while buffing spells are very commonly used, most are used for enhancing the caster's combat power. Troop buffs are quite a bit rarer, only body ethereal is used with regularity

[Agrajag]

Quantom_Mechani is right about what I meant with troop-buffing spells.
And as for Nether Darts, they are range 15, not too short, but much shorter than other damaging spells, and I gave those as an example because Nether Darts is a very powerful spammable spell, which could really benefit from Quickness.

[Frostmourne27]

fair enough. quickness is good on mages. I still don't really see its worth on any sort of SC except maybe if your Sc's stratagy is to kill everything in sight before it gets hit (as opposed to something with regen, luck etc).

[thejeff]

Quickness does help mage SCs get their buffs up faster, which can be a life saver.

[Valandil]

And it DOES give bonuses to defence and attack.
(are those really all that usefull?)
I see about the troop buffs. Fog warriors? Just wondering.

Valandil

[quantum_mechani]

Valandil said:
And it DOES give bonuses to defence and attack.
(are those really all that usefull?)
I see about the troop buffs. Fog warriors? Just wondering.

Valandil

Quickness is very useful on almost any SC. The stat boosts by themselves are marginal but noticeable, probably the biggest thing you will notice is that SCs with quickness are much better vs. other SCs.

Fog warriors is definitely one of the best troop buffs out there. Hard to come by, but well worth casting if you are able.

[Frostmourne27]

yes, quickness is worth it on any SC but ithink you can probably do just finbe without it- unless you're fighting other SC's or tooled-up dual blessed hydras or similar i.e. troops that do alot of damge- but vs. chaff or slightly bigger chaff (things like abysians or indy heavy cav.) quickness isn't so great except as thejeff pointed out-for buffing yourself. that sayed, an SC or even almost all mages that have W2 probably should cast it, it only cost one turn and 15? fatigue. One other note: it's much less useful on powerful mages i.e. your astral 8 god is going to cast master enslave. How useful is quikening him first? unless u hav like a crystal heart, amulet of resiliance, boots of callius the druid and seven couatls casting relief theres not much point.