Bladewind/Gift of Heaven/Falling Frost questions

Endoperez · #1 December 18th, 2006, 07:48 AM

Earthquake, on pg 245, has "Def" listed as a Special feature. There are only perhaps one spell which has the Def tag, and it isn't mentioned in the early descriptions of AP, AN, Mundane and other special properties. Some spells can be avoided with high def, and if Falling Frost's descriptions says defence helps, either the manual or the game should be updated.

Corwin · #2 December 18th, 2006, 08:18 AM

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Endoperez said:
Earthquake, on pg 245, has "Def" listed as a Special feature. There are only perhaps one spell which has the Def tag, and it isn't mentioned in the early descriptions of AP, AN, Mundane and other special properties. Some spells can be avoided with high def, and if Falling Frost's descriptions says defence helps, either the manual or the game should be updated.

Thanks.

Yes, the question is "which one is wrong".

What about Arrow Fend? Does it really give 80% protection against Bladewind?

And talking about errors in manual - I always thought that Mistform is dispelled when the target is hit with the blow that does more than 25% of target's hitpoints or magical weapon. But the manual says it is just 25HP. Was I wrong or is manual wrong?

Endoperez · #3 December 18th, 2006, 08:44 AM

Re: Bladewind - I don't know. See the "Forum and manual interaction" thread.

Re: Mistform - I don't know, but if any creature with less than 25 hp has ever lost Mistform while fighting against normal units, it can't be 25 hp.

Corwin · #4 December 18th, 2006, 08:50 AM

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Re: Bladewind - I don't know. See the "Forum and manual interaction" thread.

Link pls?

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Re: Mistform - I don't know, but if any creature with less than 25 hp has ever lost Mistform while fighting against normal units, it can't be 25 hp.

Actualy it can, since manual also said that mistform has 1% chance per turn of dispelling by itself.

OK, so 2 of my question remains -

1.Does anybody knows if Arrow Fend spell protects against Bladewind? (80% protection due to "air shield" effect I mean)

2. Is manual wrong about "Mistform", where it says that to dispel it damage from a single blow must be higher than 25HP, rather than higher than 25 % of target's HPs?

calmon · #5 December 18th, 2006, 09:24 AM

1. In my test the mage didn't cast a scripted Arrow Fend. Maybe because there are no attacking archers, only the bladewind casters. So i think it doesn't work. In my oppinion it should work. There should be an active counter vs. bladewind, the counter shouldn't be just a good protection.

Agrajag · #6 December 18th, 2006, 10:04 AM

Well, there are protection boosting spells.

Twan · #7 December 18th, 2006, 10:07 AM

Bladewind also cost 80 fatigue, so except if a pretender / very powerful mage cast it any spell increasing fatigue may be seen as a counter.

Corwin · #8 December 18th, 2006, 04:57 PM

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1. In my test the mage didn't cast a scripted Arrow Fend. Maybe because there are no attacking archers, only the bladewind casters. So i think it doesn't work. In my oppinion it should work. There should be an active counter vs. bladewind, the counter shouldn't be just a good protection.

Or maybe the attacking force was not large enough? Arrows Fend costs gems after all, mages may decide to conserve them.

I wonder is somebody could try casting Arrowfend spell while under attack by bladewinds/archers, and let me know the results? (I am away from my Dom computer until tommorow)

As for "arrows" - true, bladewinds is not made from arrows. But "air shield" description said it blocks any "missiles", not just arrows. And based upon what Endo said, Bladewind seems to be a storm of mundane missiles.