Silent Seas AAR

[st.patrik]

Folket said:
It seems to me that the quickness do not stack at all. Try casting the celestial music first. My guess it that it would give ordinary quickness which will double ap to 28.

I realised this after my field test of celestial music. The reason I had hoped otherwise is that heroic quickness can get over double your starting AP. However, I guess this is not accomplishable by other means.

This is exactly why I switched out the boots of speed for the birch boots.
also consider the discussion about blessing, where I was exploring the merits of a fire blessing instead of a water blessing, because once you can cast celestial dancers the water blessing becomes somewhat redundant.

so yeah, it doesn't stack

[Nerfix]

Air bless could have been good, very good. Maybe not Air 9. Just Air 4 or 6 to get the Air Shield. Fire, pretty much always useful..hmmm, perhaps I'll try Kailasa with a Naga and 4 Blessings here and there...

[st.patrik]

I thought about air, but I figured I could archer decoy with those Bandar, which mostly worked pretty well, but it would have been easier to just have air shield from bless. If I could get a water9 + fire9 blessing that would be pretty impressive, but difficult to do, especially considering most of the fun summons are astral, and the most powerful national mage in astral magic is the Guru at astral 2. Gettting a water9 + fire9 + astral4 blessing (for example) would be pretty hard, especially considering you want a strong dominion to recruit lots of sacred troops.
Although the one thing I definitely would change in my pretender design if I could go back would be the sloth scale: I took sloth 1, but could easily have gotten away with sloth 3, which would have given me 80 more design points to work with.

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
Air bless could have been good, very good. Maybe not Air 9. Just Air 4 or 6 to get the Air Shield. Fire, pretty much always useful..hmmm, perhaps I'll try Kailasa with a Naga and 4 Blessings here and there...

There are no Naga pretenders any more. There is a race of Nagas, and I really hope you didn't expect to see lots of size 6 monstrosities as recruitable creatures...

Water 8 works well, even with Celestial Music (as I take it bestows the form of quickness that increases defense). Water 8 wouldn't be worth it just for the blessing, but Water 6 might. Patala has Water/Astral pretender, with whom it is easy to get both high Water blessing, and enough Astral in a Dormant form to be able to summon the national summon at higher levels of Conjuration. While Water Blessing mightn't be optimal, it can still be very good. It's also an easy answer to any demon problems you might have.

[Nerfix]

Sadness. I knew the nagas were weak pretenders but I would have prefered to see them fixed rather than being axed. Ah well.

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
Sadness. I knew the nagas were weak pretenders but I would have prefered to see them fixed rather than being axed. Ah well.

As I said, if there are nagas that can be recruited, there can't be divine Size 6 Nagas. I think you'll like what I just posted to the screenshot thread, however. It's one of the new pretenders.

[Daynarr]

Nagas are part of Patala (lete era of Kailasa) nation now.

[Cainehill]

Endoperez said:

As I said, if there are nagas that can be recruited, there can't be divine Size 6 Nagas. I think you'll like what I just posted to the screenshot thread, however. It's one of the new pretenders.

Eh - that's like saying that because there are recruitable humans, there can't be semi-divine human pretenders.

[Nerfix]

Cainehill said:Eh - that's like saying that because there are recruitable humans, there can't be semi-divine human pretenders.

Yes.