I hate horrors

[Ranger]

Nick_K said:
5: Your mage does get to cast a spell. The defender acts first. If he is not casting it means that he cannot cast whatever spell you have scripted first for him

This is not what I'm seeing, The horror appears kills my god, end of combat! I've tried settings cast spells and cast specific spells, I didn't see a difference.

I've only seen guards work and my god cast spells at minor horrors!

My god was killed six times, after each kill the god loses one level in each area of magic, my god has de-evolved to a non magic user.

Once your god starts to lose magic levels it can never regain them because of the constant attacks. There is little point in trying to build him/her backup because they will just lose them again in the next attack.

What's the point to keep re-killing a god once they de-evolved to a non-magic user?

I see little point to this and why I think it's unbalanced.
Maybe the horror needs to be rebalanced to some level of the god/magic user that's being attacked.

[Aleph]

If you need your god to be effective in the current game, then stop playing - you've lost. If you can go on without him, don't bother calling him back anymore. He's done, either way. If it's really driving you insane, try playing an imprisoned pretender with a powerful bless - you are 100% safe from horrors while imprisoned.

There are ways to avoid horrors (Returning, for example, should work unless you're hit at home), but the best advice is that which you already got - don't get marked in the first place. Horrors are supposed to be the nastiest things in the game. Insisting they need to be weakened because a spellcasting pretender is getting repeatedly obliterated by them misses the point - they are a counter to the nastiest things in the game (SCs, and especially immortal SCs), and if they were weakened so a moderate pretender could deal with them they couldn't fulfill their main role.

[Wish]

I thought MR negated lifedrain. guess not, well anyway it is armor piercing, but thats only half the armor off, so a high protection will still help. (a lot of HP will help more.)

but a lot of the other attacks are MR negates.

[Edi]

Life drain isn't negtaed by MR. You can find all the weapons MR protects against by looking at the Weapons DB and filtering out everything that doesn't have a value of TRUE in the mres column.

As for how to avoid horrors with a rainbow mage: Make sure you have astral magic and some astral gems and script the spell Returning. That'll get him out of the combat and leave only the possible bodyguards to be slaughtered.

Edi