Warriors of the Five Elements.

[Jazzepi]

Renojustin said:
With F9, they eat thugs, high defense troops, setting things on fire which is always nice... I see the loss of F9 as too much of a maulus to WotFE, who only have 16 damage base.

S9 would help against one arrow volley, help some against MR base resist spells, but you're already talking base 14 MR when blessed. I don't seeing it add as much to their survivability as F9, where they can mow through opposing troops, thus removing a potential source of damage.

So for the bless, W9F9 seems to be THE way to go for these guys.

While S9 can be used to better effect by your pretender on the strategic map, the reverse is true for battle magic in my opinion. So the relative utility there might come down to what you're going to use your pretender for, exactly. A Phoenix going up against an army that's not heat resistant can be hard to watch.

I completely disagree. It's easy enough to give a thug fire immunity through charcoal shield and firebrand. Any experienced player that's seen your bless will have an easy time removing the benefit of the F9 bless against their SCs and thugs. It also gives a bonus to attack, but the defense loss to SCs, thugs, and troops off of the extra attack from the quickness effect is comparable considering that they're already dual wielding.

S9W9 is also a much cheaper bless to get than F9W9 and unlike F9, S9 is much much more useful in the late game. You can get the female statue, and throw her around the map, either leading a master enslave communion, or just tech her out with lots of gear and let her go nuts standing there with astral shield, fire shield, etc.

Jazzepi